Scent Control (not “elimination”)

October 19, 2009 by Ron · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Bow Hunting, Deer Hunting, Hunting, Scent, Scent Control 

First thing to understand and accept is that human scent cannot be eliminated.  We breathe, have moist eyes and ear canals and other "openings" in our bodies that constantly exude scent.  The best we can do, therefore, is try to control or mask our "smell" to fool this number one whitetail sense.  A whitetail can differentiate scent particles as few as 2 or 3 parts per million.  To illustrate:  if a gallon of pure, 100% deer urine were poured into an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a deer smelling the water could determine the sex, age, general physical condition, probable date of a doe's onset of...

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