I am planing on hunting after work most day that I work I am off at 4:00 then to the woods by 4:30, I hung a sweated up t-shirt from my stand awhile ago , because I go right out there from work, will the deer get used to my scent , there is an awful lot of human scent on the public land I hunt on , will it work?? It is just my scent from my body! Just a thought
No, i farm and the deer encounter me a lot, my house is at the edge of the woods and they still don't seem to like my smell.
Thats a great idea.
I learned this from a bear hunter up in sascatchawan, he doese it all then time , they hang them up before season and leave it there , it works for bears so , I think it may for deer? They are used to human scent where I hunt at , so...
I tried something similar last year. I went out a couple times a week during the summer and hung a rag with my scent on it above a small pile of apples and corn. I did this right up until the season. I had several deer come straight to me from down wind without spooking.
The last thing I would ever do is put stinky human scent at my stand.
I hunted (and worked) a very popular public hunting area in its hay day --Kingsbury FW Area in NW Indiana. This WMA was heavily used and the deer encountered human scent (workers, watchers, and hunters)daily during many days of the year. However, the deer retained their aversion to the hunter's scent the same as deer I hunt these days that encounter far fewer people.
In fact, on one hunt at Kingsbury the deer had several trail choices for coming out of a no-hunting area into the zone I was hunting. At the suggestion of a friend I put very stinky socks, one each on two trails that were out of range from my stand. It worked perfectly. Two different deer approached the furthest trail/sock, winded it and "bounced" to the next trail/sock. The deer smelled it and bounced to the trail I was on. Then I missed both deer! I've never used the strategy since but it sure worked the opposite of what you're after.
Could your idea work? Sure it could, there are few absolutes among whitetail deer. However, it is too much of a gamble for me -- it might work great for some deer and those you may see. However, I'd always wonder, did it scare the boogers out of a nice mature buck I would like to have seen?
I used to use skunk scent as a mask. One day I walked to my stand across a small winter wheat field. I watched three deer encounter my trail. The first two deer ignored crossing my trail. The third got so bent out of shape you would have thought I had shot it. I stopped using skunk scent that very day -- I use no masking scents these days, just as clean a me as I can.
If I were to do that, I'd hang it where I don't want them to go. :nono:
In CO several years ago we hung our stinky sweaty clothes around camp...in order to keep the bears away from the llamas...but never to attract anything...
Constant suttle scent is one thing but major sources (i.e. stinky sweaty clothing) I would think to be something else entirely...Good luck though.
You are doing a good job of training them of where to be on high alert IMO.
I'd be suspicious, but hope it works for you. i think they can tell the difference between old and fresh scent. Think of scent hounds. they 'know' direction of travel from their noses in just a few feet from where they pick up the trail and the fresher the trail the quicker they discern it.
If they can 'smell' the difference between a couple seconds of 'age' on a scent trail. Do you think deer's noses are much worse? Do bucks ever trail does backwards?
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Do bucks ever trail does backwards?
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OK I just imaginged a big knarly buck walking backwards through the woods.
I mean in the opposite direction.