Scent control

[Harmon]

Whats a good brand of clothing thats not expensive? Do you use the wash and spray in conjunction with the clothes.

[ACEarcher]

All carbon activated scent clothes recomend that you reactivate the carbon by washing it in a carbon wash. I'm not sure of to many cheaper carbon activated clothes. I think you can find a few maybe a lil cheaper at a army/navy store. I'm not to sure on the info of these brands and I'm not sure how good they are. You do still have to spray the exterier of the clothing. Carbon clothes any stop scent from getting out of the clothes. The carbon absorbs the odor. Their can still be unwanted scents on the outside of the clothes. Thus taking care of the outside of your hunting clothing is very important to being scent free.

[ub1243]

i have never bought into the carbon stuff.
i use regular hunting clothes. i do wash with scent free soap(that i make) every day, use scent free D.O. and spray(which i make).
i wash my clothes about every four hunts. i have everything by three's. wash and hang outside to dry.

[Mossy Oak]

i have never bought into the carbon stuff.
i use regular hunting clothes. i do wash with scent free soap(that i make) every day, use scent free D.O. and spray(which i make).
i wash my clothes about every four hunts. i have everything by three's. wash and hang outside to dry.


You can wash all you want in scent control hair and body soap ....If you are hunting now and at the start of the season you will sweat walking to your stand...Then you are screwed! I wash my undergarment clothes that I wear under my scentlok suit in scent free laundry detergent along with my towel...I then wash in scent free hair and body wash...Then use my towel that was washed in scent free laundry detergent to dry off.....(Never understood why people go thru the trouble of using scent free laundry detergent and clothes but then dry off after the shower with a towel that was washed in Downy with fabric softener!) Then I drive to my location spray down my clothes that I wore as I drove to my stand and then put on my scentlok clothes all the while spraying my rubber boots and exterior of my scentlok suit before walking in...Its sometime a pain but it beats getting busted by a bigg'n before full draw!

[ub1243]

If you are hunting now and at the start of the season you will sweat walking to your stand...Then you are screwed!

agreed. if i break a sweat that is the only time those clothes are worn. they get washed.
i just don't believe in the carbon, silver or any of those "forget the wind" products.
i don't use cover scents. and only used a estros drag once last year.
don't want to talk numbers, but with my system i have killed tons of deer, bow, muzzy and gun.
i use the "homebrew" sccent killer, this works great.
and make my own soap, but them together with scent free clothes, thats all thats needed. i have a problem paying for scent blocker clothes when i kill mature deer with a walmart sweat shirt. just me.
now i don't sweat going in. two weeks ago yes. i dress light then add clothes there.
when it's cold or when i hunt pa. i carry everything in then dress. in pa i wear dickies and a long sleave tee shirt.walk three miles, take off everything, then put on dry, scent free clothes. you have to to sit dark to dark.

[PhilCVG]

I use the cheaper camo stuff from Field and Stream and Mossy Oak. I wash it almost everytime out in scent free detergant and shower is scent free soap.

I also keep my clothes outside my vehicle in a bin.

Don't get gas on my way hunting

Don't eat/drink anything on my way

Carry in my heavier stuff and dress at tree

Wear rubber boots

[Harmon]

You know this is comming, you peaked my curiosity. If I give you my email, could you send me some recipes for the scent free stuff you make? jfanok3@yahoo.com

[Joe D.]

Care to post your recipes for your scent free soap, etc......

[Treude1]

Normally do all the scent free recomended, Friday had a chance to get out right after work, sweated all day also had a can of WD-40 explode in my toolbag, Got changed at my truck into hunting clothes forgot scent spray. So I smelled like sweat and WD-40 and got my first deer of the season. They walked within 10yards and never noticed I was there.

[ub1243]

Care to post your recipes for your scent free soap, etc......


without getting into trouble with ron. i will only say i sell my soap.

the spray i will post tonight.

[ub1243]

homebrew spray.

16oz brown bottle peroxide
16oz distilled water
1/2 cup baking soda
1/2 teaspoon scent free shampoo


now for the hints.
water, i get it from work, but dehumidifier water, condensate pump from your ac unit, or if you have to, well water.

the water brings the peroxide down to 1.5%

heat the water in a glass bowl in the microwave, this disolves the powder better, then add the peroxide.

add just a little shampoo, this breaks the surface tension(surfactant) it will keep the water from beading up on waterproof clothes.

go buy a gallon jug of spring water from wawa to store it in. it has no smell, you can use the water and the most important thing.

let the mix gass for at least 4 days, shake the jug everyday. with the gallon jug the cap will pop off before a rupture.

if you put into a 2 liter the cap will blow through your sheetrock ceiling.



after you make your batch tell me if it doesn't look just like white lightning. you will have a slight peroxide smell if it's a fresh batch, but it will evaporate before you make it to your stand.
you can buy the pool peroxide but it is 27%, it will burn your skin if you don't get it down to 1.5% and it's costly.

don't get it on raw aluminum. being a oxidizer, it will speed up corossion.

have fun master brewers.

[ACEarcher]

lol we got a chemist!!! I gotta try that. Since you mention it that does sound a lot like white lightning.

[Harmon]

Can I ask where you came up with that concotion? and does it work well? Are you a chemist for real?

[Joe D.]

I'm guessing you use the peroxide to kill any residual bacteria on your clothing after washing.

[LUCKY7]

I came across this recipe this year and so far so good. After much deliberation on the peroxide selection issue I went with the 27% pool stuff and cut it down. It was about $15 for the gallon, you can pay that for 16oz of Dead Down Wind, but when cutting it, it should yield roughly 20 gallons of homebrew. And it is completely odorless. I heard that the peroxide in the brown bottles in addition to having a slight odor, has stabilizers in it as well. Field & Stream posted a recipe that did call for the brown bottled stuff. I learned the hard way that you must heat the distilled water to completley dissolve the baking soda, otherwise it settles out pretty quickly. The peroxide kills and the baking soda absorbs odors. I also figured out now I'm paying well under $3 for 32oz of homebrew. And as far as scent lock clothing I don't have any. I wear regular gear and try my best to keep it and myself scent free.

[wreckless]

I wash my cloths with scent free soap and take a scent free soap shower. I store the cloths in a plastic bag in a tub. I use no cover or attractor scents. I have tried attractor, but never with any luck.

[ub1243]

I came across this recipe this year and so far so good. After much deliberation on the peroxide selection issue I went with the 27% pool stuff and cut it down. It was about $15 for the gallon, you can pay that for 16oz of Dead Down Wind, but when cutting it, it should yield roughly 20 gallons of homebrew. And it is completely odorless. I heard that the peroxide in the brown bottles in addition to having a slight odor, has stabilizers in it as well. Field & Stream posted a recipe that did call for the brown bottled stuff. I learned the hard way that you must heat the distilled water to completley dissolve the baking soda, otherwise it settles out pretty quickly. The peroxide kills and the baking soda absorbs odors. I also figured out now I'm paying well under $3 for 32oz of homebrew. And as far as scent lock clothing I don't have any. I wear regular gear and try my best to keep it and myself scent free.


you got it!
it saves big money over the corse of the season. and you also use more now that it cheaper.
i wanted to try the pool peroxide, but had trouble finding it down here. i was told every body went back to clorine.
field and stream printed it and it was on archery talk as a sticky for the last few years.
i'm no chemist, just a cheap pipe fitter.:thup:

[ACEarcher]

LOL! Kool UB. When in doubt do it yourself.

[Harmon]

Appreciate the recipe, I tried it and got mixed results. Two things, i got alot of silt at bottom that won't disolve now, and how do you stote it? fridge?

[LUCKY7]

You've got to heat the distilled to a slow simmer when adding the baking soda. I store mine in the garage, I think anywhere cool and dark is ok.

[ub1243]

i store it in the basement.
i always get a little sediment. i keep about 3 batches in a 1 gallon jug, and always have a little soda on the bottom. as long as you don't pour it in the spray bottle your fine, it will clog the nozzle.
my jug has no peroxide smell now. it just takes a little time to lose the smell. but never had a problem with using fresh batches right away.

[Harmon]

Thanks for the feed back, I was just wondering what it suppose to look like and where to store.