Storing Hunting Clothes

[30-06 type of guy]

I hunt public so 99% of the time I don't play the wind so I'm anal about scent. I run an empty load first with All brand detergent. I spray my dryer down and throw in All scent free dryer sheets. Toss em in a tub with either wafers or cedar. I can honestly say I've only saw one deer catch my scent and couldn't figure me but turned around and left in a 15mph wind.

 

[JCDEERMAN]

Those two things right there.

I've mentioned this in the past several times, but I'll bring it up again here. I often read where hunters go to extremes to keep intrusion in their hunting grounds to an absolute minimum year-round. But I have to wonder, are they doing more harm than good? I'm beginning to believe it is possible to acclimate deer to your personal scent. I say that because I have watched deer, time and again, react far less negatively to my scent than my hunting buddies' scent. We all take the same scent-reduction precautions, but I am the one on the property year-round, doing work, scouting, working the food plots, checking stands, checking cameras, etc. When on the property outside of deer season, I take no scent reduction precautions.

I really think this holds water. It is the same with me. I am the primary individual on the property constantly doing most all the work, scouting, running traps, stand maintenance, etc…

Deer seem to be a lot less disturbed in my presence in comparison to others describing their encounters on the property.

Whether it's walking to your stand touching and stepping on things, to sitting on stand with the wind and thermals pushing your scent all around, I'm in the camp of minimizing scent as much as possible.

Do they smell you? Absolutely! BUT can you make them think you are much farther away than you really are? Can you make them think your boot print smell is much older than when you walked in an hour ago? I firmly believe YES on both accounts. And by doing this, from what I've seen, deer will not bolt or even run away. Simply walk off looking around with some alert. If that gives you a little extra time to get a shot off on a target deer, I'll take that.

 

[Specializedjon]

Plastic totes. I keep a cedar branch in them.

Great idea

 

[deerhunter10]

Used to have a closet. And going to build a house soon and will have another, but the big plastic tubs I cut cedars in put in them. Works well just plan ahead and try to put what I am going to wear on top that day before.