A lot of really good coyote men have told me, "a coyote knows you've been there."

You aint hiding anything.

I don't know that I believe all that 100 percent. I have never met the 100's of canines running around or made contact so they don't know me. I believe they know when you go in their area and start digging and disrupting their daily routines,leave odor and they get cautious but can't say they know I was there. Maybe it was Joe Bob.

I read a where back in the old days, that hunters carried pure skunk essence in a bottle. They would dip a twig in the bottle and set near where they hunted. Skunk was suplosed to lure in the deer and confuse the the nose of the deer that a human was around.

I can't tell you if the spray works or not, fact is no one else here knows either. But I can tell you with absolute certainty that every single one of those videos where they use dogs to disprove scent elimination products are fake. Every one of them.

Deer are dumb.

I can fool and confuse a deers nose. Can’t do that with a coyote.

Scent killer ages your scent that's all. Better to keep youself and your gear clean and free of foreign odors. Coyotes know... When I remake a fox or coyote set I make sure to rub some of the dirt from the circle on my pants.

All I can say Is go out and buy some and give It a shot. There Is a huge market for the stuff so It must work.

If it gives you confidence go for it. Never used it always been a little skeptical of the claims...or else wouldn't every criminal in world want to use it to avoid dogs too? Not likely able to fool canines.
Jim

Only use I have found it for is to keep a spray bottle in the back seat so when you get some lure or other smelly stuff, give them a good misting and they dont stink so bad.

I don't know if everyone understands what the scent sprays are meant to do. They do NOT eliminate all of a persons scent simply by spraying a mist on themselves. It's not possible and they aren't intended to do that. As mentioned, scent will still come out from under your clothes and such, so any talk about fooling a tracking dogs nose doesn't apply here. What they are supposed to do is eliminate odors from items it touches. That could be your hands, face, or the ground where you walked. So there is a possibility that it could help, if those products work. And I think there have been enough studies to determine they do work in some way. I can't say for sure how much they help, but it wouldn't hurt anything to try either.

So a canine will invade a chicken coop that has been sweated on,touched,etc. or a deer carcass that was handled with bare hands but is afraid of human scent?

You can't take odor away 100%, you can only create a illusion that the human odor is not as strong. If a animal is calm with other things on their mind you can make the animal maybe not pay attention to the human odor because it appears to be older meaning not a treat. If a animal becomes alerted and their senses go on, or if that dog is told to track that human then no odor reducer or cover is going to work. I have had fox and deer follow me right into my stand 10 mins after I went in right on my tracks and never gave a care. and I have had coyote walk down my path an hour after I was there, then again, I have had deer and coyotes coming into a call and hit my track and freeze then back out. The reason is simple coming to the call all senses are on, they are looking for anything and everything. The best I can hope for in that situation is that they get confuse for just a 10 second time frame for me to get the shot. I know deer can smell where I have stood for 5 days, I have seen it many times testing deer scents, but they was not spooked. That fox or coyote is going to know you was at the spot but as the odor weakens or the person can make another odor appear stronger, then the human odor will appear older. I have deer hunters in tx that use my scents and cover and have told me that they will have coyote walk right down their trail they walked an hour before with no cares, but if they lip squeak the coyote will most likely find them.


Do I feel odor reducers at the set are magic nope!!!!!! but may not hurt if the animal is calm coming in. If that k9 just had dirt thrown in its face or toe pinched at another set theres not a snow balls chance in you know where it is working the set if any human odor is there.

Well, I have to say I got a lot of interesting feed back from my original post. I guess since a lot of you boys up north are snow'd In I figured I'd give yall something to think about ! I gave the scent killer spray to my neighbor, he is still deer hunting. We have one more weekend down here. I went to pre-bait some dirt holes this afternoon and almost stepped on a moccasin ! Several days of weather in the 70's and snakes are out! Instead of wearing scent killer to set traps I think I will opt for my .22 pistol ! Yall take care, Bayou

Yes

I guess you would be better off wearing scent block clothing then spraying some atomized scent on you.
So If you use this stuff are you going to have to spray It on your person at every set? After every set your getting back In your truck and be contaminated all over again.

There was once a well known lure maker and trapper who carried a box full dirt In the back of his truck. This was where he kept his setting boots. He changed boots from his driving boots to his setting boots at each set.

Beav, some of the pros on here down played his tips, but everyone read em.
Once at that time I gave my brake/clutch pedal and bottom of boots the sniff test, it wasn't pretty.
New boots smell like, well, new boots.

I assumed the idea would be to just spray down the set area after you're done and walking away from it. You'll never keep from leaving scent at a set, the only hope would be to "kill" some of it.

I know for a fact that my dog can and has trailed me right to my stand in the past . I know of other people that have had similar experiences. I’ve seen both Wayne Derrick and Casey Payne talk about having to have someone come in and make a set for them because they had coyotes that would avoid any sets they made. Wayne talked about having another G man make a set using the same lure he had been using and caught the coyote. If I remember right Casey had his nephew make the set for him !

My point is they ( coyotes ) not only know you are there , they know if it’s YOU if you get my meaning!

I should point out that I’ve not only used most of the sent sprays on the market for deer hunting but have also used it in the past for trapping ! I still receive bottles of the stuff for gifts, the new stuff called nose jammer ? Is supposed to have a calming affect , not sure about calming , may confuse them long enough to help get a shot like tbn said . I don’t want anyone to think I’m one of those guys that tried it once and said it didn’t work . I just completed my 44th year of bow hunting, believe me I’ve tried it !

Golf Ball, be a doer not a follower.

Never followed anyone in my life ! But would like an explanation!