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A few years ago, I purchased a shirt from a thrift store. I tried several things to get the odor out and it just wouldn't leave. Finally, I left it outside for a day. When I brought it in the scent was gone. Anyone else use this method for preparing your clothes for the hunt? Is it effective?
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I hang my hunt clothes on the line a week or so before i plan to hunt. If a rain is in the forecast, even better.
That usually works for me too!
I used that method with a vest and it worked well.
i always do when i wash my hunting clothes it seems to get rid of any oders that might still be on them
after the wash.
Not only does it work for hunting clothes my wife will do it for the baby clothes too. After washing baby clothes stained by an over full diaper several times and them still not being clean (don't want to know what the baby was eating) She found out that an outfit stained like that could be left in the sun for an hour and it would come out without a spot.... tha AZ sun is better than bleach
I think it works great. wellit smells like the great outdoors n that wont spoke anything
Sunlight and moving air...used to be that was the only way to get clean clothes. Now we think chemicals and electicity are an improvement. Sunlight (UV, specifically) kills microbes and moving air strips away odors. There's ozone, and other reactive gasses, in good clean fresh air.
I agree with everyone here. In fact when I used to bow hunt after I line dried my hunting clothes I would bag them up with a few leaves and twigs taken from the area I was going to hunt. If a deer smells something he has lived with all year he's not going to spook. Did you read the post last deer season from Phil Bourjaily. It was the article and picture of a farmer who had finished working for the day but didn't have time to shower and change clothes, so he just grabbed his bow and went out for the last hour of daylight. He ended up shooting a humongous buck that could have cared less of the diesel fuel and other farm smells on this man. The deer had obviously grown up around it. It was natural to the deer. If you go back to Nov.'08 and start checking day by day you'll find Phil's post.
nothing smells more natural than nature itself
Well i know where i will be keeping my camo from now on.
Air drying works fine, just remember to turn the cloths inside out and not to leave in direct sunlight so the suns does not bleach the camo.
I've done this and it makes sense that it would work all your doing is airing it out and getting those natural odors in there and getting rid of the rest of them.
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I used that method with a vest and it worked well.
I hang my hunt clothes on the line a week or so before i plan to hunt. If a rain is in the forecast, even better.
That usually works for me too!
Not only does it work for hunting clothes my wife will do it for the baby clothes too. After washing baby clothes stained by an over full diaper several times and them still not being clean (don't want to know what the baby was eating) She found out that an outfit stained like that could be left in the sun for an hour and it would come out without a spot.... tha AZ sun is better than bleach
I think it works great. wellit smells like the great outdoors n that wont spoke anything
Sunlight and moving air...used to be that was the only way to get clean clothes. Now we think chemicals and electicity are an improvement. Sunlight (UV, specifically) kills microbes and moving air strips away odors. There's ozone, and other reactive gasses, in good clean fresh air.
I agree with everyone here. In fact when I used to bow hunt after I line dried my hunting clothes I would bag them up with a few leaves and twigs taken from the area I was going to hunt. If a deer smells something he has lived with all year he's not going to spook. Did you read the post last deer season from Phil Bourjaily. It was the article and picture of a farmer who had finished working for the day but didn't have time to shower and change clothes, so he just grabbed his bow and went out for the last hour of daylight. He ended up shooting a humongous buck that could have cared less of the diesel fuel and other farm smells on this man. The deer had obviously grown up around it. It was natural to the deer. If you go back to Nov.'08 and start checking day by day you'll find Phil's post.
nothing smells more natural than nature itself
Well i know where i will be keeping my camo from now on.
i always do when i wash my hunting clothes it seems to get rid of any oders that might still be on them
after the wash.
Air drying works fine, just remember to turn the cloths inside out and not to leave in direct sunlight so the suns does not bleach the camo.
I've done this and it makes sense that it would work all your doing is airing it out and getting those natural odors in there and getting rid of the rest of them.
Post an Answer