My opinion is that all the these scent control products on the market are useless. They are just another way to get hunters to pull out there wallets. I have never used them and a long line of hunters before now had a lot of success without them.

First let me say I'm not a bow hunter. I've hunted the mountains out west for over 30 years and never found it to be something I needed. I always hunt into the wind. Everytime I choose an area for the day the wind direction is a large part of that decision. If the wind direction changes like it often does then my approach changes also. Just my .02 Later Baker

I've had a doe walk right up to within 3 feet of me, stare at me for a few minutes and turn and walked straight away without being spooked while using scent-away so I believe it works and use it myself!!!

I have used it but never seems to make a difference when i dont. But I do make a conscious effort not to smoke in or around my hunting clothes. Bathe with mild soaps and launder with "no fragrance" detergents. The worst is probably sitting around a mesquite camp fire in my camo. Heck even I notice that smell.

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for the most part yes. I am a believer in scent away spray(came in real handy when i left my deodorant at home on a week long trip)but i still think deer can smell you.

i put my trust in the wind, not in gimmicks

Me too but I do wash my clothes in unscented detergent. Nothing you do can fool a mature whitetails nose if he/she is paying attention when they get down wind.

I don't believe in it, but if you think it gives you an edge or more confidence by all means buy all the worthless stuff you want.

My main scent control is marlboro and coffee, with cattle on the property I might step in a cow patty, if it has cedars I sit near a cedar tree.

I have always showered every day and played the wind. There are times when that gets tough, but it has alwasy worked for me, bowhunting or rifle.

A few years ago I had a bow stand that required a West or NW wind to hunt. I told my boss if he came to the yard and my truck was gone, check the wind and if it was W - NW, I was in the stand. He didnt have a problem with it.

Don't use any gimmicks at all, use the wind to my advantage all the time.

Smoke is a fairly natural smell. I have never seen wood smoke alert a deer at all, either on me or in the air. I have talked with outfitter friends that feel the same way.

I agree the smoke smell is natural but I would think it would alert a deer it was a smell they hadnt smelled the day before at that location

The general opinion I have gotten is smoke is in the air off and thru out a deer's life. One location to another doesnt really matter.

Scent control will work as long as you hunt into the wind.

A few weeks ago on a squirell hunt I saw a buddy about 120 yards away moving south through the trees and I was moving east. About ten minutes later as I intesected the point where I saw him I caught a wiff of his pipe smoke. He had to have been at least 100-120 yards from me to the south still moving and the wind was still. That gave me an appreciation of how well game out in the woods must be able to smell.

That said, I believe a good hot shower with no soap or shampoo and no deodorant before a hunt and washing hunting clothes with no detergent and a bit of baking soda is fine.

If you all want something that really works, this is the Gods Honest Truth, use Horse Urine. A little splash here and there oh the body parts, and you are set for hours! I sell pint bottles of it for $10.00 I can hook you up.

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I know it works because I read it on the internet!!!!

I think it helps, I think it even helps. But that being said, I agree that a bunch of pretty stinky folks came close to wiping out the whitetails

When you are getting close to them, yes, you do need it in my opinion.

I've had deer walk so close to my blind and not know I was there more times than I can count. All of them have been doe, spikes, and other young deer that are not smart enough to know how to use their noses.

You take a 5 year old deer with a nice rack that's been shot at a few times and been around long enough to know that something's fishy when you are in the bow blind 30 yards away, that's a different story.

Scent lock is pretty cheap, and as much money as I put into hunting with lease cost, corn, feeders, batteries, cameras, and blinds....I don't want my buck of a lifetime to not come close enough to stick an arrow in him.

If I'm bow hunting, I cover my scent all I can. Rifle hunting from a blind 120 yards away, I don't use anything other than a spray.

It works because after filling my truck up with diesel I spray my hands and smell gone. I have also bathed a dog in it after being sprayed by a skunk and it also killed the odor. S I am a big believer it. I'm not sure about all the new brands because I always stuck with the original stuff.

I've been doing the Texas whitetail thing for 36 years now. I was taught by a grandfather who starting hunting in the 1940's. His Grandfather in the 1800's. Point being, my grandpa smoked Kents, drank coffee, and told jokes with his old buddies while in the stand. Every season he ended up w/the biggest buck. In central, south, and west Texas using the wind os all that is needed. In the piney woods of East Texas where the air is thock and the breeze doesn't penetrate the forest, ypu need a hazmet suit to keep the deer from finding you.

It's a BS marketing ploy.

I got out of the stand this evening and was looking around one last time and noticed a 8pt in the oat field was headed my way. I stood about 4ft from the stand in plain view of him as he walked from about 150yds away to about 15 before I moved and he noticed me. I was in a field with nothing between him and me wearing blue jeans, a carhartt, no scent products except old spice deo. Camo and scent products are overrated marketing ploys.

P.s. I was drinking coffee in the stand this morning in North Texas, no shpwer, clothes washed on scented detergent, wearing regular cologne, etc. And a doe comes within 10 feet oc me and keeps on cruisong as if I am invisible. Not saying it doesn't work. Simply don't need it unless your hunting East Texas imho.

I prefer using common sense as opposed to scent away. I don't go in my blind wearing Polo Double Black.smoking cigarettes,etc. My hunting clothes are washed in scent free detergent and stored seperately from other clothes.