Homemade Deer Scent

Tip 1 - How to Make Homemade Cover Scents for Deer Hunting | eHow

While you can try to camouflage yourself and stay quiet, your efforts will be fruitless if the deer can smell you coming. Deer rely heavily on their sense of smell to detect and avoid predators, so covering your odor is crucial. While innumerable commercial scent-covering products exist, you can make your own cover scent with a few common household...

Tip 2 - Homemade Scent Killer That Actually Works - Wide Open Spaces

Finally, a homemade scent killer that actually works. Now you can make your own at home and save some money at the hunting goods store. Buy some extra ammo!

Tip 3 - Do It Yourself: The Best Homemade Cover Scent Spray For Deer Hunting [Video] - Whitetail Overload

Save money using this proven method to make your own cover scent!

Tip 4 - Deer Hunting Tip: Use Baking Soda to Cover Your Scent

“Baking soda, the same stuff that deodorizes the fridge, is the key to my scent-control system,” says Wisconsin’s Tom VanDoorn, who’s taken more than a dozen Pope and Young bucks. Here’s his routine: Take a soda shower. “The stuff can rub your skin raw if you use it straight,” cautions VanDoorn. “So mix a few tablespoons with some liquid no-scent soap. When I used to shower with straight unscented soap, I could always smell a little odor when I was finished. I can’t smell a thing when I mix in baking soda.” Make a soda-and-clothes lasagna. “Use baking soda like any other powdered detergent to wash your clothes. Dry them, lay a few items in a plastic tote, sprinkle a layer of soda on that, put in another layer of clothing, sprinkle more soda, and so on until the tote is full. Then place an open box of baking soda in with the clothes and seal the tote up.”
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