Thread: what say ya'll on this ?

I am more likely to buy the camo chewing gum so they can't smell my breath or the gadget that sounds like corn hitting the feeder legs . Hunt the wind and stay still . lol jmo .

into the wind is the ticket , wind at the back and you won't see jack , wind the face and game all over the place .....just saying

The Indians that hunted this land for survival wirh stone and stick certainly didn't have any buckskins that masked their signals.

Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

The Indians that hunted this land for survival wirh stone and stick certainly didn't have any buckskins that masked their signals.

They used animal hides to hide underneath. Yeah, sure did. They also were very keen to smells. Ahead of a big hunt they would stop eating meat. Then they would cease emitting the molecules of a meat eater. This allowed them to get close enough to make a kill. Deer can distinguish meat eaters from vegetarians by those molecules. I suspect it would take a month of eating vegetables to smell differently.

Very interesting facts

Originally Posted by Micanopy

They used animal hides to hide underneath. Yeah, sure did. They also were very keen to smells. Ahead of a big hunt they would stop eating meat. Then they would cease emitting the molecules of a meat eater. This allowed them to get close enough to make a kill. Deer can distinguish meat eaters from vegetarians by those molecules. I suspect it would take a month of eating vegetables to smell differently.

some folks and myself practiced these scenarios closely back when we hunted in the thick stuff down in them cypress swamps , we ate chlorophyl pills for weeks in advance of the opener and for sure it will make your scent change dramatically
some years later there was place in Florida I think that started bottling chlorophyl for hunting specifically and it was sold under the name of "ghost scent" , for sure chlorophyl works quite well in odor reduction .

8 to 10 feet was an average bow kill range from what I read on the American native bowhunters

They had a lot more skin in the game. No kill no meat.