Never used it but I’ve heard of it. A guy I hunted with in Kansas Some has started rep’n it some. He’s a pretty good Whitetail guide and I tend to think he knows what he’s talking about but money makes a lot of people act funny

 

I am a big scent control/reduction guy, and I am also a big whatever works for you guy. I was into sent reduction way before it became mainstream, and I can say for certain nothing is 100%, you will never totally get past a deers nose, we come into contact with too many things to be completely scent free. You cannot base how effective a product is on one hunt, your scent stream may have been above the deer, I have had deer walk close to my stand down wind and not react, but get a little further out and blow the woods down.

Many on here will call BS on scent reduction and just say hunt the wind, well, any good hunter will hunt the wind, and I always choose a stand based on wind every single time, but being clean adds to that. I read on here some people swear by smoke in their clothes, when I use to stand around the camp fire in my hunting clothes I was blown out way more than I am now, but if it is working for others they need to stick with it.

Thanks for the tip, and keep doing what works for you, but be open minded and realistic, it only really works if it works every time.

 

I am going to continue experimenting with it, the first deer encounter showed good enough results to try it again

 

I'm gonna use Scent Killler Gold this year.

 

Checked out the site and i dont buy it. If it actually works then at what level of concentration is necessary? How many ppm to be effective? If a deer is 20 yrds away and a slight breeze blows in the direction of the deer the particles of said product would disspate and dilute. If would have to be some very powerful stuff to work as described at that level.

 

The big question in your encounter is did the deer approach you from a distance directly downwind and end up at 20 yds or closer or come in cross-wind or upwind ?
Smoke bomb tests from decades ago show that, in the absence of back-pooling or shifting wind, if you are 15-20 feet or higher with a steady wind your scent stream will not settle down to the ground for about 60-80 yds so will stay above any deer inside this distance.
I have seen a ton of treads about deer being 10 yds downwind and not getting busted. This is the reason, not a magic scent killer.

 

The big question in your encounter is did the deer approach you from a distance directly downwind and end up at 20 yds or closer or come in cross-wind or upwind ?
Smoke bomb tests from decades ago show that, in the absence of back-pooling or shifting wind, if you are 15-20 feet or higher with a steady wind your scent stream will not settle down to the ground for about 60-80 yds so will stay above any deer inside this distance.
I have seen a ton of treads about deer being 10 yds downwind and not getting busted. This is the reason, not a magic scent killer.

All three of the deer came from downwind at a distance and ended at a point blank range. That is what got my attention-normally if deer spend that much time down wind I would be busted. I did have a doe an fawn cross my path where I walked to the stand and had no reaction at all, usually they would at least sniff around a bit. They were upwind. I don't think this stuff is magic but I am going to experiment some more. The strange thing is this stuff has a pretty good odor so I didn't want it on my clothes. I had it on a pad-I could easily smell it.

 

Alaska at heart I should have expanded my post. I am an avid scent control hunter. I use scent body scent control, carbon clothing, and cover scents.
With all of this said I still play the wind as my #1 tactic as , even when I do all the scent control, they sometimes still detect me.
Another reason for scent control is so you don’t leave hard scent in the area you were hunting.
I may check Scent Thief out as I’m always looking to improve

 

Just wanted to update a couple more encounters using scent thief, next encounter had deer on two sides of me and they had no reaction. Third encounter had deer out in front of me at about 70 yards with a swirling wind, the doe snorted and cleared all of the rest from the field. Fourth encounter had deer directly down wind and had one of the walk between the ladder and the tree, again no response. Fifth encounter had a deer blow from about 75 yards away, deer was upwind as best I could tell. Sixth encounter had a doe and fawns directly down wind and came within 10 yards, no response. The only conclusion so far seems to be that Scent thief seems to work better when the deer are closer and the encounters where deer reacted was several hours into the hunt.

 

L...O...L
I’m that guy, Alaska speaks of.
I’ll bet any of you $100-
Go squirt your dog in the face, toss a hotdog out in the grass, watch how fast the dog finds the dog lol.


Scent Thief’s revolutionary formula is the first and only hunting scent blocker product to completely eliminate an animal’s sense of threatening odors. Our patented No Smell Technologyrelaxes the olfactory epithelium, temporarily shutting down an animal’s sense of smell. When an animal gets Scent Thief Field Spray in their nose, they won’t be able to smell anything else. Guaranteed. The wind can now act in your favor

 

L...O...L
I’m that guy, Alaska speaks of.
I’ll bet any of you $100-
Go squirt your dog in the face, toss a hotdog out in the grass, watch how fast the dog finds the dog lol.

I think most reasonable hunters understand there is no magical potion that can make you completely invisible to a deers nose, I know I will never be "scent free" but I do try to be scent small. What can you smell further away, a sewer plant or a single fart, I am trying to be the fart, if being the sewer plant works for you, stick with it, stinky. 😂

 

Here is my latest and last post... I have not been busted once in the last 3 1/2 weeks. Have had multiple close encounters with one being a 4 1/2 year old buck. On two hunts I saw three bucks each--all bucks came from different directions and spent considerable time at close range. Last nights experience was an eye opener, I walked in, hung a camera over a scrape and climbed my tree about 20 yards away. The 3rd buck I saw fed his way along the same path that I walked in on. He went to the scrape, put on a show, then started to really sniff around. He finally worked his way to the base of my tree. I had a Scent Thief "bomb" hanging on a twig-- he stuck his nose right in it several times. He finally got bored and worked his way to my pond, drank, then hung around for about 25 minutes. I could feel the wind shift several times and he never responded at all. Conclusion, Scent Thief doesn't appear to alarm deer at all and does seem to work. I did not spray anything on my gloves or clothes, so I would have expected that deer to smell where I touched my ladder.

 

I use scent gold hang clothes outside, place them in a tote and dress in the field, then I'll take a fir branch and crunch it up in my hands and wipe it all over me, been effective for me but not full proof but it helps...

 

Any update on this stuff guys. I know the post is older, but figured it could hurt to ask
Thanks

 

Stuff works for me I’ve had deer walk in my tracks

 

Any others out there have experience with Scent Thief?

 

A very trusted friend swears by Scent Thief products so I've been doing a little playing around with it this off season. I took three old hunting shirts (converted into shop rags) and hung them on the edge of food plots. Each food plot is a few hundred yards away from each other (as the crow flies). Each shirt was hung on major trails entering the food plots on the north (south-facing) side of the food plots. This area has a predominantly south (SE or SW) wind so a lot of the deer enter from the north side. One shirt wasn't treated and/or sprayed with anything. One shirt was sprayed with Dead Down Wind (DDW) and the last shirt was sprayed with Scent Thief. On the food plots with the untreated shirt and the DDW, the deer actually altered their entrance point into those food plots for the first week and then went back to using the main trail after about 8 days. For the food plot with the shirt sprayed with Scent Thief, the deer did not alter their travel route at all.

Yes, I know there are many other variables that could've contributed to this "experiment." I am very familiar with this property so I am very familiar with how and where deer travel on this property. The food plots used are destination food plots that we rarely, if ever, hunt over. They are bordered by a large sanctuary area that we don't hunt in or around and stay out of at all costs, if possible, so this area is largely left alone aside from food plot maintenance.

I'm not trying to sell anyone anything and I'm certainly not a "paid spokesperson." I'm well aware that the "it's a gimmick" crowd that hates everything will try to pick apart everything I said here but in the end, I've seen enough to make me plan to give it a go during the season this year... which starts in 9 days for me.

 

Ok, here i go! Everyone knows i hate scent control darn near as much as i hate cell cams. 2yrs ago my son was gifted a bottle of scent theif, the first eve he hunted, he sprayed down, then hung one of scent theifs wafers out. Said deer everywhere not smell him. Idk if he showered or not. Probably not. I laughed at him. This kept happening, i thought he was kidding around. He used all of it during our bow season. The nxt year around October 15, i ask why he hadnt hunted yet. He says " im outa scent theif, can you order some, im not going w out it" so, just to get him out there i ordered 2 bottles and some wafers. I was told about an experiment to do with it. So i did it. My little dog took her normal morning sh.....t, i put the sh...t in a sandwich bag, i rubbed scent theif on my nostrils open the bag, i coudnt smell it!!! I tried to smell the sh...t for an hour, no luck! I couldn't even smell or hardly taste my chilli an hr after that! Sooooo, im just saying this is our story, and id swear to it

 

Really interesting thread. Thanks for the updates.

 

Hey guys just an update I was able to go out for the first day of Maryland’s bow season on state land. My first night out I saw seven bucks and six does and all of them came in straight down Wind anywhere from 150 yards to 10 yards away and never got winded. All the deer eventually walked within 20 yards or less. I went out the second night and had the same scenario with a three-year-old buck and six those all of them came straight into me from directly down wind and never caught my scent. I’m not saying for sure the stuff is bulletproof, but I’ve had great success so far. I’ll keep you posted

 

I sprayed the baby's dirty diaper down with this stuff because I didn't want to change it during the big game, still stunk up the whole house. I'm on the fence about it, baby poop is the king of stank so maybe this stuff didn't have the chance from the word go. I'll give it another go next time hunting.

 

Scent Thief isn't intended to be used as a a scent eliminator/neutralizer. It shuts down the ability to smell by relaxing the olfactory epithelium so instead of masking scent or neutralizing scent, it temporarily shuts down the mechanism used to detect smells/scents. It doesn't make the stink go away. It keeps your nose from being able to detect the stink. You would've been better off spraying your own nose as opposed to the diaper. The diaper would've still stank but you wouldn't have been able to smell it.

 

I'm using it for my Urban Hunts. So far I haven't been busted! Deer can come in at any time from any direction. I was busted so many times last year until I started using Nosejammer. I hate that stuff. I tried scent thief this past hunt and I didn't have a chance to shower down between the morning and afternoon hunts as I was refilling feeders and checking cams. I had deer all around me and never got busted. I can live with this. I really believe it works.

 

are you spraying it every hour like it says > or just once on way in using wafers or pads just intrigued thanks

 

Thanks for the updates.

 

i bought some smells like vicks vapor rub and fall earth scent this has to be waste of my money! i bet i get busted bigger than chit first time out! wont know till oct 31st vacation time i will let everyone know but i think i know what's gonna happen

 

People’s Pharmacy: Using Vicks to block nauseating smells
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People's Pharmacy: Using Vicks to block nauseating smells; taking a heartburn medicine to combat warts; and sharing pill-swallowing tricks.
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Q: I’m a paramedic and also work in an OB (obstetrics) unit. A little Vicks under the nostrils helps a lot. I’ve never had a new dad get sick or faint when he’s used it.
I believe more people get sick due to smells than sights, and Vicks very effectively blocks the odors. We carry it on our ambulance for crew use, and it really helps keep the crew from getting motion sick (especially during calls with really bad smells).

A: You are not the first person to share this unusual use for Vicks VapoRub. A forensic crime-scene detective reported that a dab of Vicks under his nose helped block noxious odors. Horse trainers tell us that a dab of Vicks under the nostrils can keep a stallion focused despite the presence of mares.
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This past weekend was the first time I used Scent Thief while hunting where I felt it actually came into play during my hunt. To clarify, I've been using it all season so far but up until this past weekend, I've been blessed with perfect winds for the stands I've hunted. Well, Friday evening and Saturday evening, the weatherman got it wrong (shocking, I know).Both evenings, the wind was the complete opposite wind direction forecasted and 180 degrees dead wrong for the stands I hunted. Not wanting to make a last minute stand change and get to that stand late, I decided to hunt those stands anyway and see if Scent Thief could deliver.

Both stands were on travel corridors (pinch points) between bedding and food. Both called for a NE wind, which was forecasted, but I had a SW wind. I sprayed myself down with Scent Thief before heading to the stand and then I sprayed myself and surrounding limbs/leaves when I got up into the stand. To make a long story short, on both evening hunts (with my Thermacell running as I watched the smoke from it blowing directly from me to the deer), I had deer (multiple does each time) at ranges from 16 yards to 40 yards directly down wind of me and I never got busted. I believe it was 100% because of the Scent Thief and here's why. Multiple does would, at times, throw their noses up in the air like they were trying to smell something. They were constantly licking their noses and continuing to scent check the air but never got skittish or alert to my presence. I don't know what else to attribute that to. Hell, the second night, not only was the wind dead wrong but given I was higher up a ridge and the does came in through a bottom below me, my thermals were also carrying my scent right down to them.

If anyone else can tell me what may have attributed to this, I'm all ears. All I know is I've been busted (more than I care to admit) in similar situations using other scent control/"scent elimination" products. This is my first season trying Scent Thief and so far, I have zero complaints and I'm beginning to build confidence in this product. I may try to the wafers next but as far as the field spray and laundry detergent, they're staying in the arsenal for the time being. I'm going to continue using it throughout the season. Right now, it's archery season and we don't have many people hunting around me but muzzeloader comes in on 10/1 and then rifle season opens 10/11. There will be a bunch more people in the woods then so we'll see how things go then.

 

thanks for input i will post up my results as well

 

ok going to order spray, wafers and laundry detergent Friday and test this out myself ...
on your recommendations .....

 

i bought some too and when i got my first whiff i was thinking this cant work the smell is strong lol i was thinking i wasted my money but - i will give it a shot post my results to be honest . after i smelled it i wasn't gonna try it good luck

 

Weve used it for 2 yrs without the detergent. Well, my son has used it for 2yrs, ive tried it 4-5 times never busted. Im telling you it works. I bought my son the wafers, but i think an old rag soaked in it would work. Keep it in a zip lock.

 

smelt like Vicks vapor rub and fall earth scent to me-- its really strong smell i try it out on some old does see what happens i have a good thing going already with ozone and I'm freak about cleaning everything I'm scared lol i have tried so many gimmicks over the years and wasted lot money on stuff that flat out scares hell out of deer whats another few bucks - good luck