{"id":167,"date":"2018-06-07T03:36:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T03:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survivaljar.com\/?p=167"},"modified":"2018-06-07T03:36:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T03:36:48","slug":"make-homemade-cover-scents-for-deer-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/survivaljar.com\/make-homemade-cover-scents-for-deer-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make homemade cover scents for deer hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"
Blending in with your environment is your number one priority when hunting deer or other large game. But being unseen is not enough we need to be scent free or smell like our environment.<\/p>\n
There are ready-made products but I like the DIY angle so that I can smell like my natural environment. This usually means evergreens like balsam fir, spruce, pine, and cedar, though you can use deciduous leaves or forbs like sassafras, sage, or goldenrod.<\/p>\n
Hunting season is a short window, for the rest of the time your hunting gear is boxed up in your storage shed or garaged. Keeping them sealed and scent free<\/a> away from harsh fumes like paint, petrol, grease, and other chemicals means\u00a0you will have a fighting chance next season.<\/p>\n After storage, we need to make sure that our clothes and our body are scent free. This means we need to mask our human smell to that like our natural environment. Making our\u00a0homemade cover scents for deer hunting is easy and cheap so let’s look at whats involved.<\/p>\n Hogs and deer have excellent noses to pick up food for themselves and also detect other animals nearby.<\/p>\n Materials we will need to make our\u00a0homemade cover scents for deer and hog hunting are:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Take 2 cups of the distilled water and add it to your mixing container. A bucket or drinking bottle works well. Measure 1\/4 cup of the baking soda powder and pour it into the container.<\/p>\n Next, add 16 ounces of the Hydrogen Peroxide solution to your container. And mix well or a few minutes. This will make a neutral\u00a0smell solution. If you want a mild natural smell you can always add in some bark chips, pine cone chips or natural flowers to bring out the aromas. Some of my hunting buddies go as far as blending down the pine chips in a blender and then straining them out of the solution after a few days.<\/p>\n Remove the cap slowly and pour the filtered solution into a spray bottle. Never leave the solution in a drinking container\u00a0for safety reasons.<\/p>\n These ratios will scale as well so if you want to make a larger batch just double or triple the ingredients.<\/p>\nHomemade cover scents for deer hunting<\/h2>\n
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Mixing ratios for the ingredients.<\/h3>\n