stinky wool

[tiur]

HI,
after washing my wool jacket/pant they smelled like  gasoline to me, but wife insisted they stunk like  horse ****. After they dried smell gone, now being out hunting and maybe wet I would think they start to stink again, any suggestions how to get rid of this smell?
Thew make is colombia ( made in India ) it was cheap
and needed a lot of restitching.
Thanks

[ti-guy]

Harm&Hammer Baking soda is the only thing I can think of, good luck  

[Gordon Jabben]

Most of us just live with the smell of wet wool.

[meathead]

Use Charlies soap.  It will take care of it.

[Alexander Traditional]

I got snowed on pretty heavy hunting in Colorado and my coat got to stinking when the snow that was on it thawed out and the coat got wet. I washed some pants I had also and they stunk a little. That might be just something to contend with having wool clothing.

[longrifle]

It must be the cheap wool, my KOM or Filson or Silent Predator wool, they don't smell at all.

[ti-guy]

Originally posted by longrifle:
It must be the cheap wool, my KOM or Filson or Silent Predator wool, they don't smell at all.

I have Sleeping Indian,LLBean and Woolrich wool and never had smell issue either...would give a try with baking soda  

[Roger Norris]

I just brought a thread up for you called "Washing Wool".

[jjwaldman]

Never had a problem with my wool stinking...

[Montanawidower]

Anybody ever heard of treating wool with ozone.   Not the hunting"ozonics" crap, but the professional generators for fire damage?    I read a thread on another site about an ozone "closet" to treat wool and other clothes.   It was the first I had heard of such a beast?  Not to hijack the thread but it may be a solution to stinky wool.

[stevewills]

i used ozone generators in new orleans after katrina and it will absolutly kill any smell or bacteria,or mold that exsist.....

[Keefer]

Originally posted by meathead:
Use Charlies soap.  It will take care of it.

x2 on Charlies soap....I got a few samples when 1/4 away Fred sent me a Asbell vest and I tryed it as directions indicated and even though it had a smell when wet I air dryed outside and as they were drying I would spray them down with earthscent coverup..Mine Actally smell good now kind of like if you just raked some leaves away from the ground...

[Pheonixarcher]

My asbel wool jacket does not have any 'stink' to it when wet, and I've been out in some miserable weather. But I do have a pair of green army surplus wool pants that smell so bad when they get wet, I will not even wear them! They are terrible. I tried washing them with a scent killing detergent, and they made the entire basement smell something fierce when I hung them to dry. I can't explain it. When they're dry, you can't smell anything, but if they get even a little wet, you might as well forget about hunting. It must have something to do with the dye or some kind of chemical treatment. I have a pair of grey Swedish military surplus pants that have no smell when wet.

[Otto]

If your wool stinks when it gets wet, take a look at the inside....there may still be some sheep stuck to it.......

[Gordon Jabben]

All my wool stinks when it's wet.  I own four Asbell pull-overs and a filson vest and coat.  Makes me wonder if maybe I stink and the wool is fine.

[njloco]

I Ozonate, my wool clothes when I take them out of storage for hunting, and during the season, it gets rid of the Mothball smell, and that is what ozone does, it kills and purifies, just smell your laundry if you hang it outside, thats ozone.

[chanumpa]

Hand wash with "sportswash" unscented clothing soap,after its not dripping wet,put on ,flex your muscles afew times ,then drape over a chair and dry preferably outside.The good ol Arm+Hammer Method one fellow here mentioned is good too.

[huntnmuleys]

ive never noticed any smell when the wool i was wearing got wet, but really, maybe smelling like a wet sheep instead of a person is a good thing...