Tip of the Day: Cover Your Scent with Tea Made from Leaves

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February 17, 2009

Tip of the Day: Cover Your Scent with Tea Made from Leaves

By Jerome B. Robinson

An excellent cover scent to mask odors that emanate from your hunting clothes can be made by boiling a few handfuls of leaves, bark, and coniferous needles gathered from your hunting region in a gallon of water. Let the mixture boil until the water volume is reduced by half. Wet your hunting clothes with the resulting concentrated “tea,” then let them dry before going hunting. Your clothes will now give off the scent of foliage that occurs naturally in your area.--Jerome B. Robinson

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from peter wrote 3 years 14 weeks ago

that s pretty cool

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from sayerbefiddlin wrote 3 years 14 weeks ago

I read this a couple years ago in the magazine and I tried it. Pines and some leaves from the area and it worked well, but more importantly the house smelled great!

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from Carney wrote 3 years 14 weeks ago

I'm going to give this a try! Whenever we setup in the woods we always rub our clothes with humus and pine needles. Nothing like smelling earthy!

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from TheEasternShore... wrote 3 years 14 weeks ago

that sounds a lot cheaper then buying scent killer type products

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from Jim in Mo wrote 3 years 14 weeks ago

The only scent killer I ever bought smelled like dirt. Sort of like if you pulled a sunflower out of the ground and had that smell hit your nose.

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from kolbster wrote 3 years 14 weeks ago

will it work if you use it as a spray, like scent killer.

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from dwaynez wrote 3 years 14 weeks ago

That is a really neat tip,

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from senkoman12 wrote 3 years 13 weeks ago

i dont buy that dead down wind crap making my scent killer is a ll i use ive done this for years and it works great

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from steve182 wrote 3 years 13 weeks ago

I may have to try that recipe. I store my hunt clothes with pine boughs, cedar and oak chips in a rubbermaid. Also i'll dig into a fresh scrape and rub it on my clothes.

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from bowhunter352 wrote 3 years 12 weeks ago

I've only done this for the past 2 years, and it works great! I only use it for when we go to GA. to hunt. We get as many dog fennels and pine needles we can get and boil them. What we do is wet our cloths and put them in a rubber tub [with lid]. and take the remaining "tea" pr whatever you want to call it and put it in ols scent spray bottles. It works great but watch out what you mix together. We put just random stuff like vines and plamettos and all kinds of stuff. The trick is to not go over board. Use just one or two plants that give off strong smells. But yea this is a great thing to do.

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from sayerbefiddlin wrote 3 years 14 weeks ago

I read this a couple years ago in the magazine and I tried it. Pines and some leaves from the area and it worked well, but more importantly the house smelled great!

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from kolbster wrote 3 years 14 weeks ago

will it work if you use it as a spray, like scent killer.

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from dwaynez wrote 3 years 14 weeks ago

That is a really neat tip,

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from peter wrote 3 years 14 weeks ago

that s pretty cool

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from Carney wrote 3 years 14 weeks ago

I'm going to give this a try! Whenever we setup in the woods we always rub our clothes with humus and pine needles. Nothing like smelling earthy!

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from TheEasternShore... wrote 3 years 14 weeks ago

that sounds a lot cheaper then buying scent killer type products

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from Jim in Mo wrote 3 years 14 weeks ago

The only scent killer I ever bought smelled like dirt. Sort of like if you pulled a sunflower out of the ground and had that smell hit your nose.

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from senkoman12 wrote 3 years 13 weeks ago

i dont buy that dead down wind crap making my scent killer is a ll i use ive done this for years and it works great

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from steve182 wrote 3 years 13 weeks ago

I may have to try that recipe. I store my hunt clothes with pine boughs, cedar and oak chips in a rubbermaid. Also i'll dig into a fresh scrape and rub it on my clothes.

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from bowhunter352 wrote 3 years 12 weeks ago

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