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Scent Control with Scent Thief
Scent control is the main issue when it comes to deer hunting and outsmarting those mature deer. Scent control product are also one of the most saturated products in the hunting market with multiple different brands on all the shelves. Every brand has a different formula of how their products work and what they do. Let’s discuss the different ways these brands have created scent control and what brand is also the game changer in the scent control market.
First why is scent control so important? A deer's sense of smell, like a dog's, can be anywhere from 500 to 1,000 times more acute than a human's. Scientists say that whitetails have thousands of sensitive receptors in their nostrils, which they use to sort out up to six smells at one time. Scent control is what it takes to get up close and personal, fooling a deer’s sense of smell is the key to shooting mature deer on a regular basis.
What causes scent, odor, and smells however you want to phrase it. The molecules perceived as smells are called odorants. Odorant molecules stimulate sensory nerve cells (neurons) at the top of the nasal cavity and these respond by sending impulses to the brain, but the setup gives odors a power to unlock hidden memories, in the case of deer that means odors are stored in categories such as food, danger, reproduction, and communication. Any odor deer smell that they can’t put in one of those categories they will investigate because deer are naturally curios, hints the use of curiosity scents. Body odor for example is bacteria that live on the skin that break down sweat or proteins into certain acids. When food goes bad and starts to become pungent, it is most often due to the growth of spoilage microbes such as bacteria, yeasts and mold. Odors can come from two sources: chemicals that are released from the food as the microbes decompose it, or chemicals produced directly by the microbes themselves. Anti-bacterial soap as these are designed and proven to remove odor-causing bacteria but they don’t prevent it from returning.
Now let’s talk about some of the brands and what they have done to make their brand of scent control items. (I won’t be using brand names other than one that I have permission to use.) Brand A uses chemicals that are man-made to consume the bacteria and odorant molecules. The issue with brand A is the chemicals are harmful to your skin. The same chemicals brand A uses in their product line is also in embalming fluid. It specifically says not to spray on your skin or face and isn’t effective until it’s dry. From personal use of brand A it dry’s your skin out and isn’t as effective due to the fact that it doesn’t affect all of the spectrum odorant molecules. The chemicals in brand A will also breakdown the material in clothing creating more wear and tear.
Brand B has created using all natural ingredients to consume a broader range of bacteria and odorants. Brand B isn’t dangerous to your skin of clothing and you don’t have to call poison control if ingested. Brand B can also be use wet or dry effectively. The issue both brand A and brand B present is deer will still smell you because neither product is eliminating you scent. What it does is attaches to the bacteria and odorants and will make the deer think you are further away than what you actually are. That in turn means if a deer categorizes the smell as dangerous they may and most likely will be more cautious or will just flee.
Now we will talk about Brand C or Scent Thief. Scent Thief is like none of the other products and is completely different, Scent Thief doesn’t use chemicals or ingredients to cover or consume bacteria and odorants. Scent Thief temporarily relaxes the olfactory epithelium in both humans and animals. The olfactory epithelium is a specialized epithelial tissue inside the nasal cavity that is involved in smell. It lies on the roof of the nasal cavity above and behind the nostrils. The olfactory epithelium is the part of the olfactory system directly responsible for detecting odors. With the olfactory epithelium relaxed, an animal can no longer detect odors of any kind. Scent Thief is an innovative, all-natural product that works by temporarily blocking an animal’s ability to smell. It has been field tested and studied by two major universities. The science is proven: when an animal smells Scent Thief, they can’t smell anything else. Scent Thief amazingly lulls an animal into a relaxed state, by creating a natural calming reaction in the olfactory area of the nose. Once they get Scent Thief in their nose, they’ll be a totally different animal than anything you’ve seen before.
Scent Thief is the only product that keeps and prevents deer from smelling you or anything when they are in the scent stream. Using Scent Thief you don’t have to worry about the wind or where you hunt, unlike any other product on the market your concern of deer catching your scent is gone. Using Scent Thief you want the deer to catch your scent stream and walk into your scent cone so they will be lulled into being calm. Don’t risk your chance at a once in a lifetime buck and don’t chance it using any other product. Go order Scent Thief at www.ScentThief.com and change the way you hunt by using the game changer of whitetail deer hunting in Scent Thief you won’t be disappointed.
First why is scent control so important? A deer's sense of smell, like a dog's, can be anywhere from 500 to 1,000 times more acute than a human's. Scientists say that whitetails have thousands of sensitive receptors in their nostrils, which they use to sort out up to six smells at one time. Scent control is what it takes to get up close and personal, fooling a deer’s sense of smell is the key to shooting mature deer on a regular basis.
What causes scent, odor, and smells however you want to phrase it. The molecules perceived as smells are called odorants. Odorant molecules stimulate sensory nerve cells (neurons) at the top of the nasal cavity and these respond by sending impulses to the brain, but the setup gives odors a power to unlock hidden memories, in the case of deer that means odors are stored in categories such as food, danger, reproduction, and communication. Any odor deer smell that they can’t put in one of those categories they will investigate because deer are naturally curios, hints the use of curiosity scents. Body odor for example is bacteria that live on the skin that break down sweat or proteins into certain acids. When food goes bad and starts to become pungent, it is most often due to the growth of spoilage microbes such as bacteria, yeasts and mold. Odors can come from two sources: chemicals that are released from the food as the microbes decompose it, or chemicals produced directly by the microbes themselves. Anti-bacterial soap as these are designed and proven to remove odor-causing bacteria but they don’t prevent it from returning.
Now let’s talk about some of the brands and what they have done to make their brand of scent control items. (I won’t be using brand names other than one that I have permission to use.) Brand A uses chemicals that are man-made to consume the bacteria and odorant molecules. The issue with brand A is the chemicals are harmful to your skin. The same chemicals brand A uses in their product line is also in embalming fluid. It specifically says not to spray on your skin or face and isn’t effective until it’s dry. From personal use of brand A it dry’s your skin out and isn’t as effective due to the fact that it doesn’t affect all of the spectrum odorant molecules. The chemicals in brand A will also breakdown the material in clothing creating more wear and tear.
Brand B has created using all natural ingredients to consume a broader range of bacteria and odorants. Brand B isn’t dangerous to your skin of clothing and you don’t have to call poison control if ingested. Brand B can also be use wet or dry effectively. The issue both brand A and brand B present is deer will still smell you because neither product is eliminating you scent. What it does is attaches to the bacteria and odorants and will make the deer think you are further away than what you actually are. That in turn means if a deer categorizes the smell as dangerous they may and most likely will be more cautious or will just flee.
Now we will talk about Brand C or Scent Thief. Scent Thief is like none of the other products and is completely different, Scent Thief doesn’t use chemicals or ingredients to cover or consume bacteria and odorants. Scent Thief temporarily relaxes the olfactory epithelium in both humans and animals. The olfactory epithelium is a specialized epithelial tissue inside the nasal cavity that is involved in smell. It lies on the roof of the nasal cavity above and behind the nostrils. The olfactory epithelium is the part of the olfactory system directly responsible for detecting odors. With the olfactory epithelium relaxed, an animal can no longer detect odors of any kind. Scent Thief is an innovative, all-natural product that works by temporarily blocking an animal’s ability to smell. It has been field tested and studied by two major universities. The science is proven: when an animal smells Scent Thief, they can’t smell anything else. Scent Thief amazingly lulls an animal into a relaxed state, by creating a natural calming reaction in the olfactory area of the nose. Once they get Scent Thief in their nose, they’ll be a totally different animal than anything you’ve seen before.
Scent Thief is the only product that keeps and prevents deer from smelling you or anything when they are in the scent stream. Using Scent Thief you don’t have to worry about the wind or where you hunt, unlike any other product on the market your concern of deer catching your scent is gone. Using Scent Thief you want the deer to catch your scent stream and walk into your scent cone so they will be lulled into being calm. Don’t risk your chance at a once in a lifetime buck and don’t chance it using any other product. Go order Scent Thief at www.ScentThief.com and change the way you hunt by using the game changer of whitetail deer hunting in Scent Thief you won’t be disappointed.
Planning and Predicting
I have spent over 20 years hunting whitetail deer in Missouri countless hours in the stand in every weather condition wet, dry, hot, cold, clear and cloudy. Some days seeing more deer activity than I expected or hoped for and others not seeing anything. As my career and family life demanded more time I had to figure out when and where the best opportunities are and what days to head to the woods all while balancing my love for hunting, family, and work. Over the years I tried different things and monitored everything I could I had more trail cameras out and more notes wrote so I could compare what I was seeing to what some of the professionals and experts say. I have gotten pretty good at predicting deer activity and by no means do I consider myself an expert but what I do works very well for me and maybe it’s the old verbiage that you can’t see deer if you aren’t in the woods. I don’t know but on multiple occasions I have predicted having a buck during a small window of time and it happens maybe I’m just lucky. –The Hillbilly
I’m going to discuss some of what I use to determine when I hunt and try explaining why and I really hope this helps fill your freezer this season. Remember every area is a little different when it comes to how deer react to weather and temperature due to the average temperature being different so let’s get with it.
First I want to talk about barometric pressure some of you may be asking what is that. Well when you hear the weather man talk about high and low pressure that means that a storm is coming in or going and it’s on the front end or back end of a front. Now you are asking yourself what does high and low pressure have to do with a deer? The inner ear of a whitetail works like a barometer and a barometer is the device that measures barometric pressure. Air molecules above the earth’s surface change and become more or less dense changing the pressure. Low or less dense air molecules (low-pressure system) brings clouds, rain or snow. High or denser air molecules (high- pressure system) tend to be clear or very few clouds, low humidity and good weather.
With all that being said you are asking yourself so how does this tie into deer movement and how can I use it to predict it? I will help you with that to, barometric pressure above 30.00in is the highest buck movement or most often (when setting up parameters use 30.00-30.40in and the most movement will be on the higher end of the spectrum.) rapidly rising and falling barometric pressure that comes before or after a weather front shows the most movement. Anytime the pressure is rising or falling seems to get deer moving more than a stable pressure.
The issue with high-pressure fronts is that the come with high winds, the good thing is if you can stand it mature bucks tend to be on their feet and moving after sustained high winds have died down. Pressure change is telling a deer and other animals that they me laid up for a while and need to feed beforehand.
Now don’t head for the woods when you see that the pressure is moving you are already too late you have to learn to predict the pressure change so that you can be in your stand when the barometer starts moving.
Next let’s talk about temperature and the easiest ways to use it. You want to look at the historical average for the area you hunt then look at the forecast and if the temperature is 5 to 10 degrees below the average deer activity will increase. Now there are two types of temperatures dry and wet. Deer seem to like the humidity at 40 to 50 percent. If the humidity is high and its warm deer won’t be moving much until the temperature or humidity start to drop.
Scrape activity will begin or increase when the temperature is 40 degrees or less for 3 or more days and days with two or more consecutive hard frosts or when the temperature is less than 27 degrees will have more deer up feeding. If you are watching the forecast and see a 10 degree temperature increase from one day to the next you want to hunt the evening before the temperature rise.
On warm days hunt cover, bedding and areas near water. On cool days hunt food sources, scrapes and rub lines.
I have referenced wind a few times so far but not many so I’m going to talk about it now. Wind direction affects where a deer might move and their direction of travel but wind speed has the biggest effect on deer. Wind speeds here in Missouri over 20 mph will get those deer bedded down in a draw or cover taking shelter from the wind, but on the other hand they don’t want a dead calm day either. Between 5 and 10 mph deer seem to move about normally unless its gusting winds that are switching directions.
Surprisingly we are now to the point that many hunters talk about and some do and don’t believe in but for me moon phase and major and miner periods are what I watch most and will plan birthdays and family events around. The moons gravitational pull is responsible for ocean tides as it orbits the earth, not just the position of the moon but the moon phase effects the ocean tides. When the moon is full or new the earth sun and moon are lined up and the gravitational pull of the moon and sun create higher high and lower low tides. On the opposite side when the moon and sun are perpendicular to each other there is a less tidal effect.
Animals are 50 to 75 percent water and like anything else gravity effects them and other animals as well as humans. Now that I explained the moon I will explain the major and minor times.
Major times are for 2 hours and its 1 hour before and 1 hour after the moon is directly overhead and underfoot. Minor times are 1 hour or 30 minutes before and 30 minutes after the moon rises and sets. Now with that being said most activity is at dawn and dusk with deer so if a major or minor period falls during sunrise or set the deer activity will be greater.
When it comes to a dark and bright moon I consider everything below 50 percent dark and above 50 percent bright. The less percentage of moon visibility the better because of the light reflected from the moon. The brighter the moon the less deer activity will be at dawn and you will want to hunt between 11am and 2pm. On the other side of the coin when the moon is dark you are going to have more activity at dawn and dusk than normal.
I use all of these factors in conjunction with the multiple trail cameras and thousands of trail camera pictures to create predictions and put a science behind deer movement because I have asked myself why so many times. There are other factors such as hunting pressure that will change your finding and I encourage everyone to start keeping a log of deer activity and find the tendencies in your neck of the woods. For me those are what I use and some bucks will throw you for a loop because they go against the grain and move during different times so use trail camera pictures to figure out what specific deer like and it will help you plan your hunts. Don’t forget to check out your topographical and aerial maps to determine the best locations to hunt during those times as well as placing trail cameras to get the information you are looking for. Good luck this season and if you have any questions send them in we would love to hear them and try to answer them with what we do.
I’m going to discuss some of what I use to determine when I hunt and try explaining why and I really hope this helps fill your freezer this season. Remember every area is a little different when it comes to how deer react to weather and temperature due to the average temperature being different so let’s get with it.
First I want to talk about barometric pressure some of you may be asking what is that. Well when you hear the weather man talk about high and low pressure that means that a storm is coming in or going and it’s on the front end or back end of a front. Now you are asking yourself what does high and low pressure have to do with a deer? The inner ear of a whitetail works like a barometer and a barometer is the device that measures barometric pressure. Air molecules above the earth’s surface change and become more or less dense changing the pressure. Low or less dense air molecules (low-pressure system) brings clouds, rain or snow. High or denser air molecules (high- pressure system) tend to be clear or very few clouds, low humidity and good weather.
With all that being said you are asking yourself so how does this tie into deer movement and how can I use it to predict it? I will help you with that to, barometric pressure above 30.00in is the highest buck movement or most often (when setting up parameters use 30.00-30.40in and the most movement will be on the higher end of the spectrum.) rapidly rising and falling barometric pressure that comes before or after a weather front shows the most movement. Anytime the pressure is rising or falling seems to get deer moving more than a stable pressure.
The issue with high-pressure fronts is that the come with high winds, the good thing is if you can stand it mature bucks tend to be on their feet and moving after sustained high winds have died down. Pressure change is telling a deer and other animals that they me laid up for a while and need to feed beforehand.
Now don’t head for the woods when you see that the pressure is moving you are already too late you have to learn to predict the pressure change so that you can be in your stand when the barometer starts moving.
Next let’s talk about temperature and the easiest ways to use it. You want to look at the historical average for the area you hunt then look at the forecast and if the temperature is 5 to 10 degrees below the average deer activity will increase. Now there are two types of temperatures dry and wet. Deer seem to like the humidity at 40 to 50 percent. If the humidity is high and its warm deer won’t be moving much until the temperature or humidity start to drop.
Scrape activity will begin or increase when the temperature is 40 degrees or less for 3 or more days and days with two or more consecutive hard frosts or when the temperature is less than 27 degrees will have more deer up feeding. If you are watching the forecast and see a 10 degree temperature increase from one day to the next you want to hunt the evening before the temperature rise.
On warm days hunt cover, bedding and areas near water. On cool days hunt food sources, scrapes and rub lines.
I have referenced wind a few times so far but not many so I’m going to talk about it now. Wind direction affects where a deer might move and their direction of travel but wind speed has the biggest effect on deer. Wind speeds here in Missouri over 20 mph will get those deer bedded down in a draw or cover taking shelter from the wind, but on the other hand they don’t want a dead calm day either. Between 5 and 10 mph deer seem to move about normally unless its gusting winds that are switching directions.
Surprisingly we are now to the point that many hunters talk about and some do and don’t believe in but for me moon phase and major and miner periods are what I watch most and will plan birthdays and family events around. The moons gravitational pull is responsible for ocean tides as it orbits the earth, not just the position of the moon but the moon phase effects the ocean tides. When the moon is full or new the earth sun and moon are lined up and the gravitational pull of the moon and sun create higher high and lower low tides. On the opposite side when the moon and sun are perpendicular to each other there is a less tidal effect.
Animals are 50 to 75 percent water and like anything else gravity effects them and other animals as well as humans. Now that I explained the moon I will explain the major and minor times.
Major times are for 2 hours and its 1 hour before and 1 hour after the moon is directly overhead and underfoot. Minor times are 1 hour or 30 minutes before and 30 minutes after the moon rises and sets. Now with that being said most activity is at dawn and dusk with deer so if a major or minor period falls during sunrise or set the deer activity will be greater.
When it comes to a dark and bright moon I consider everything below 50 percent dark and above 50 percent bright. The less percentage of moon visibility the better because of the light reflected from the moon. The brighter the moon the less deer activity will be at dawn and you will want to hunt between 11am and 2pm. On the other side of the coin when the moon is dark you are going to have more activity at dawn and dusk than normal.
I use all of these factors in conjunction with the multiple trail cameras and thousands of trail camera pictures to create predictions and put a science behind deer movement because I have asked myself why so many times. There are other factors such as hunting pressure that will change your finding and I encourage everyone to start keeping a log of deer activity and find the tendencies in your neck of the woods. For me those are what I use and some bucks will throw you for a loop because they go against the grain and move during different times so use trail camera pictures to figure out what specific deer like and it will help you plan your hunts. Don’t forget to check out your topographical and aerial maps to determine the best locations to hunt during those times as well as placing trail cameras to get the information you are looking for. Good luck this season and if you have any questions send them in we would love to hear them and try to answer them with what we do.
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