Scent control ideas for masking your breath?

Eat an apple and stay downwind.  Apples are yummy and deer will smell you - bad breath or not - if you are upwind.

What do I win?

 

An apple.  :D

If a deer smells my breath its too close.....

I brush my teeth with baking soda toothpaste and I chew apple flavored gum and I am gonna try the new gums being made for breath control, best bet though is too stay downwind! Shawn

When I saw "breath control", I thought you were referring to marksmanship and "respiratory pause"

I read a quote credited to Fred Bear. Fred was being made fun of for chain smoking cigarettes while deer hunting. When asked how he expected to arrow a deer when he stank up the place with his cigarette smoke; he replied something to the effect, "If the deer can smell my smoke, I aint huntin' them right."

I think that to be sage advice and would apply to breath odors, body odors, clothing odors, etc. I know that I've arrowed my share of deer after spending a week in the bush sleeping on the ground with only one change of underwear and socks. I can guarantee you could smell me from downwind by day four:)

later,
Daddy Bear

I need gum or toothpaste that smells like smashed mosquitos!
Otherwise, I don't worry about it.
Hunt into the wind.
John

An apple a day    No wate thar won't work!
O well  

I shot a bunch of deer last year, but never got busted so many times.  This was despite washing clothes in scent free soap and storing in plastic, rubber boots, scent blocking spray, playing the wind, using special gum with choraphyll and being as careful as possible.  This year I may take up smoking, bathe in diesel fuel, and eat chilli everyday for a week before going hunting.

I tried some of that " gum o flage" and just about threw up. It was the alfalfa flavor....mabey the apple is better.

Ask a state trooper - they've seen all the tricks!

Didnt Ishi, and or other Indians stop eating meat for a time before hunting? Something to do with animals smelling  the meat and knowing that they were carnivores? Just curious, unfortunately i do know that 150 class bucks that are coming right to you dont like the smell of Halls cough drops!! I hunt a hillside and the deer are completely unpredictable in there patterns. Lots of acorn ridges, bedding areas, crab-apples, pines, thickets, etc... and constant swirling winds. Always see and kill my share just like different ideas. I have been so close to shooting 5 or 6 mature big bucks the last 5 years, and they all at the last second have winded me.

Get some Jolly Rancher candies. I dropped one once from a treestand, and within fifteen minutes a chipmunk found it. I could hear his lips smacking from fifteen feet up.

Ha!!

Redman will do it.  Deer love the stuff.

Breath bad enough to scare a deer? Hmm. Sounds like an add for a new type of sure fire scent killer hunter catcher product. Breath through you nose.

Yes, make an apple your snack.

QuoteOriginally posted by Bonebuster:
Get some Jolly Rancher candies. I dropped one once from a treestand, and within fifteen minutes a chipmunk found it. I could hear his lips smacking from fifteen feet up.

LOL!!! I use Apple Jolly Ranchers! Hard candy has always worked for me combined with good hygine

Chew on a pine needle...

breath/scent control... Chorophyll tablets. You do not "smell" like a meat eating predator.  As far as breath control I dip snuff and have for over twenty years. spitting in the woods seems to have no effect on the deer, either does peaing off the side of a treestand. I know peaing in a scrape works well...

Other than the chorophyll pills I only really try to be clean and stay upwind.

JDS III