In a word, you do not need to wash your deer hunting clothes if you use the right scent cover! Washing your clothes to eliminate your human scent is a complete waste of time. Your clothes are only one of your scent carriers. What about your boots, your breath, your skin, and your hair?
Remember this: Deer have up to 297 million olfactory (scent) receptors in their nose. In comparison, dogs have 220 million and humans have just 5 million olfactory receptors. Not only do deer have a huge number of olfactory receptors in their nose, they also have a secondary scent gland called the vomeronasal organ that is located in their mouth.
The Ole Time Woodsman 1800’s Scent Cover Story:
The myth that back in the 1800’s wild game was so plentiful that one just had to go into the woods and shoot their winter’s supply of meat before becoming trampled by them is just that, a myth. In fact, at that time game was more scarce than it is today due to over hunting for profit. A Wall Street Journal article reports that “The U.S. now has 30 million deer, a hundred times more than a century ago" You do the math!
So, if you had to provide for your family or hunt for the woods camp, success was not a given. If we take into consideration the accuracy and reliability of the weapons that were available at the time, hunters had to give themselves every advantage to be successful. was critical to a successful kill.
Using only the natural oils and fragrances available to them at the time, hunters developed a formula for covering their scent while becoming seamless with the environment in which they were hunting. We resurrected the original formula for your use today.
Coincidently, this is the same formula that led to the development of our Ole Time Woodsman Fly Dope.
Here’s to a successful hunt!