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Scent Elimination for a long range hunt?
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<blockquote data-quote="Caveman0101" data-source="post: 1637742" data-attributes="member: 10852"><p>Scent blocker is next to useless for elk. Unlike white-tail that live near humans and really almost always have some kind of human odors around them, elk have the harshest reaction to any smell out of the ordinary I've ever seen. While a deer will smell you and blow and maybe run a bit or just choose a different path to avoid you but ultimately continue on to where they were headed anyway. An elk will most often leave the drainage or maybe even the area. And they will do this at great distances, 400+ yards. My brother and I set out one archery season elk hunting with 2 sets of scent control clothing each, we changed each day and went to town every 3rd day to bath in scent blocker and wash the clothes. Multiple times a day we sprayed and wiped our bodies and clothes with scent control, it was a lot of work but the results were undeniable, every elk that got downwind smelled us around the 100-yard mark. After the first week, we swapped back to regular hunting clothes and hunted the wind and that's all I've done since. There is no doubt scent control helps with deer, but with elk, I think there are too many noses and they don't take chances. To tell you the truth if you're in elk country and the wind is not in your favor, go at it from a different point, or start shooting them ridge to ridge, haven't had one smell me yet from across a drainage.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Caveman0101, post: 1637742, member: 10852"] Scent blocker is next to useless for elk. Unlike white-tail that live near humans and really almost always have some kind of human odors around them, elk have the harshest reaction to any smell out of the ordinary I've ever seen. While a deer will smell you and blow and maybe run a bit or just choose a different path to avoid you but ultimately continue on to where they were headed anyway. An elk will most often leave the drainage or maybe even the area. And they will do this at great distances, 400+ yards. My brother and I set out one archery season elk hunting with 2 sets of scent control clothing each, we changed each day and went to town every 3rd day to bath in scent blocker and wash the clothes. Multiple times a day we sprayed and wiped our bodies and clothes with scent control, it was a lot of work but the results were undeniable, every elk that got downwind smelled us around the 100-yard mark. After the first week, we swapped back to regular hunting clothes and hunted the wind and that's all I've done since. There is no doubt scent control helps with deer, but with elk, I think there are too many noses and they don't take chances. To tell you the truth if you're in elk country and the wind is not in your favor, go at it from a different point, or start shooting them ridge to ridge, haven't had one smell me yet from across a drainage.:D [/QUOTE]
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