My Wool hunting clothes smell....

[Allan Hundeby]

If your wool clothing has an existing smell, that's different from the 'natural' wool smell.

I bought some wool that had an AWFUL mothball/napthalene smell.  I'll list the link below for more details, but basically the only thing that worked was...

...throwing them in the pond for a few days to let natural bacteria eat away at them.

 http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=038034

Originally posted by lodestar:
More important is the base layer and tucking pants into the knee high boots so that dead skin cells that are shed continueously are contained and not spilled out on the ground to and from our stand locations.

Interesting point, lodestar.  I'd never thought about that.

[Gordy]

Allan - Considering how much I just spent on a pair of pants and vest .... maybe I'll just stick with the leaves and keep my face in the wind  

[Roadkill]

We had this same conversation on this site a couple years ago and the guy from SC that shoots a lot stated he didn't have any sheep from his parts and said he wouldn't use wool.  I have hunted from VA to TX to WI to AK using the same Swedish surplus wool pants and Pendleton wool jacket.  Rifle and bow and I believe the natural wool smell doesn't seem to bother animals-the human scent from hands and faces seem to be the killer.  I'd hunt with the cleanest body I could get, air the wool out daily.  Worked for me.

[lodestar]

Hey guys, Bloodhounds used for tracking purposes pick up scent left on the ground and moving in the air. What they are smelling is the skin cells shed with normal movement that are deposited upon the ground and in the air. My theory is like this. Seal off as much of your body to the open air by buttoning up shirts to the top button a tight fitting under layerwith everything overlapping. This starts with base layer bottoms into socks, base layer top into wasteband of bottoms and again the same with outer layers. Of course we should always start with a clean body which is cleaned with scent free soaps and deodarant. Body odor is controlable but the shedding of old skin goes on constantly in our daily activities.   This system has always worked for me weather I'm wearing wool or some synthetic material. Of course this is only in theory