Scent
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It all true if tou set it up wrong... you still gotta play the wind. I descent myself many times, at least a spray down.. but the attractant scents i dont put where im sitting.... i forget what it is exactly i have... coyote piss or estrus or something... then i got something for bobcats too. How they bottle it from the animals i donno... but the stuff is really strong so it will reach down wind when something circles you
I spray myself down with one of the many deodorizers out there, but if I am using an electronic caller I will also be using a motion decoy of some kind by the caller. Here I will spray rabbit urine on the moving decoy. Just a quick spritz on the decoy and let that work in the wind. I only use it with electronics, I don't feel it has hurt me with the yotes. I get asked all the time, so here's the place I use. http://www.inheatscents.net/rabbit.html
AckleymanII
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We hunted Mexico for 12 years, down the Baja to the South line, then on the mainland to Hermisillo. We used two different attractants, Sardines in Oil placed in Socks, and rabbit urine in a spray bottle. The trick is to give the coyote more parts per million of something other than your scent, not a mind set where you are trying to hide your scent.
So, walking out making stands, I always carried a coffee can with two dark socks with each sock having two cans of sardines in them. I hung out one of these socks within 10' of me, and another sock near my hunting partner. Just before we started to call, I would spray rabbit urine in the air to check the wind, so would my pard.
By doing this, you hedge your bets when the coyote works his way down wind, and they do work their way down wind. You can't always see 250-300 yards down wind, but we have watched coyotes circling 250+ yards out, then come across the fish scent. They often will stop with their noses up in the air and suck in all that good smell just like they were drinking it up. Then all of a sudden, they come in...hard charging.
Trappers have many lures that work the same way. We always carry and use sardines, eat them also. When I carried novices, I like to give them a lifetime experience. I have them wipe some of the sardine juice right on the bottom of their boots, and/or drag a sardine sock on a string behind them. The coyotes will be in their lap hard charging, and this is something that they never forget. I have seen many shoot every buckshot in the shotgun and never cut a hair they get so excited.
Sardines in Oil, and check the Trapping supplies....take that world class nose of theirs and use it against them! Right now is a great time to get out there and put the Smack Down on them!
So, walking out making stands, I always carried a coffee can with two dark socks with each sock having two cans of sardines in them. I hung out one of these socks within 10' of me, and another sock near my hunting partner. Just before we started to call, I would spray rabbit urine in the air to check the wind, so would my pard.
By doing this, you hedge your bets when the coyote works his way down wind, and they do work their way down wind. You can't always see 250-300 yards down wind, but we have watched coyotes circling 250+ yards out, then come across the fish scent. They often will stop with their noses up in the air and suck in all that good smell just like they were drinking it up. Then all of a sudden, they come in...hard charging.
Trappers have many lures that work the same way. We always carry and use sardines, eat them also. When I carried novices, I like to give them a lifetime experience. I have them wipe some of the sardine juice right on the bottom of their boots, and/or drag a sardine sock on a string behind them. The coyotes will be in their lap hard charging, and this is something that they never forget. I have seen many shoot every buckshot in the shotgun and never cut a hair they get so excited.
Sardines in Oil, and check the Trapping supplies....take that world class nose of theirs and use it against them! Right now is a great time to get out there and put the Smack Down on them!
nmkid
Gold $$ Contributor
While hunting coyotes I always kept my camo pants, hat and jacket in a x-large pillow case along with fresh small clumps of sage. When I got to my calling area I would also spray a small amount of sage in the immediate area. Used for more years then I can remember. Never had a problem.
AckleymanII
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Deer, elk, bear, and predator hunters
This guy sells a product that eats the bacteria of Human scent, it works, been using it for 10 years, had does lay down at the base of my ladder stand, had elk all over me while I was in a brush pile, had 6 bucks in one day circle my tree without getting spooked after being rattled in
George Edwards
Byogeorge@aol.com
405-843-3431
Fax: 405-843-3528
you can cut an onion in half, spray this stuff on the onion, you will NOt smell the onion
My wife used all of mine on real sweaty dirty laundry where I had been out working
Got diesel on your hands, spray it with this stuff, you will not smell the diesel
Coyotes nose is hard to trick, and this stuff cuts the parts per million on your smell.
Last time I was deer hunting in Kansas, 6 coyotes came down the trail I walked in on. I had sprayed my boots with the stuff, none of the coyotes smelled my tracks from 30 minutes prior, and they walked within 20 feet of the ladder stand I was up, my back pack laying on the ground, it had been sprayed also.
We had one ladder stand about 30 yards from the edge of a pasture. 300 yds out in the pasture, there was an old house place, with a water tank for the cows. Deer bedded down in the old house place. I stated rattling with horns, and grunting making a few grunting sounds. Within a couple of minutes a pretty nice 200 lb 8 pointer came from out of sight from the old house place, and stood within 10 feet of me. He was about a 120 class deer and I wanted a larger buck, so he was a pass. The buck started a Snort Wheeze, and it sounded like a freight train was coming through the River Bottom as another 120 class 10 pointer showed up. Those two bucks went at it, they came so close to pushing my ladder stand over I actually thought that I may have to shoot one in self defense. As the bucks fought, the area became filled with does and smaller bucks. I was hoping that the Dominant Buck in that are would show up, never did. Needless to say, I had 16 deer within 50 yards of my ladder stand that was only 8' off the ground, they were 360* around me. One 140-160 lb doe stood at the base of my ladder stand with eyes glued to the two bucks fighting. The bucks continued fighting for over an hour, finally moving up the River bed out of sight. I stayed on my stand to well after dark, not wanting to spook all the deer that was milling around for the next mornings hunt.
These are the kinds of things that you will never experience if you don't do some kind of scent control, and the whole idea that you can not dilute your scent is an ill informed opinion, but it does take work.
I am not related to or affiliated with George Edwards in any way, I just buy his product.
We also use this product in conjunction with some kind of attractant for predators(sardines)...hedge your bets.
This guy sells a product that eats the bacteria of Human scent, it works, been using it for 10 years, had does lay down at the base of my ladder stand, had elk all over me while I was in a brush pile, had 6 bucks in one day circle my tree without getting spooked after being rattled in
George Edwards
Byogeorge@aol.com
405-843-3431
Fax: 405-843-3528
you can cut an onion in half, spray this stuff on the onion, you will NOt smell the onion
My wife used all of mine on real sweaty dirty laundry where I had been out working
Got diesel on your hands, spray it with this stuff, you will not smell the diesel
Coyotes nose is hard to trick, and this stuff cuts the parts per million on your smell.
Last time I was deer hunting in Kansas, 6 coyotes came down the trail I walked in on. I had sprayed my boots with the stuff, none of the coyotes smelled my tracks from 30 minutes prior, and they walked within 20 feet of the ladder stand I was up, my back pack laying on the ground, it had been sprayed also.
We had one ladder stand about 30 yards from the edge of a pasture. 300 yds out in the pasture, there was an old house place, with a water tank for the cows. Deer bedded down in the old house place. I stated rattling with horns, and grunting making a few grunting sounds. Within a couple of minutes a pretty nice 200 lb 8 pointer came from out of sight from the old house place, and stood within 10 feet of me. He was about a 120 class deer and I wanted a larger buck, so he was a pass. The buck started a Snort Wheeze, and it sounded like a freight train was coming through the River Bottom as another 120 class 10 pointer showed up. Those two bucks went at it, they came so close to pushing my ladder stand over I actually thought that I may have to shoot one in self defense. As the bucks fought, the area became filled with does and smaller bucks. I was hoping that the Dominant Buck in that are would show up, never did. Needless to say, I had 16 deer within 50 yards of my ladder stand that was only 8' off the ground, they were 360* around me. One 140-160 lb doe stood at the base of my ladder stand with eyes glued to the two bucks fighting. The bucks continued fighting for over an hour, finally moving up the River bed out of sight. I stayed on my stand to well after dark, not wanting to spook all the deer that was milling around for the next mornings hunt.
These are the kinds of things that you will never experience if you don't do some kind of scent control, and the whole idea that you can not dilute your scent is an ill informed opinion, but it does take work.
I am not related to or affiliated with George Edwards in any way, I just buy his product.
We also use this product in conjunction with some kind of attractant for predators(sardines)...hedge your bets.
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