Anyone using cover sents?

[BozoWise]

Just read a great article and was wanting to know who all was using them.

www.wcp-nm.com/coyotes/scents.htm

[jdickey]

::)I found a fella in Arkansas that packages cow urine! It's good for yotes if your on a lease with cattle. I even use it on the wheels of my atv when I leave it to go set up! And when you set up, pour a small circle around your area!

[Sabre2th]

The author of this article it appears likes to use skunk.
If any of you hunt Javalina the scent sack on their backs might be a useful thing to recycle, don't you think? I'm a totally inexperienced predator hunter but it sounds good to me.

[kellyg]

It'd be a brave man to handle that scent! WHEW!!!

[jdickey]

;DDo you ever wonder why your friends always stand up wind from you?

[slammy]

Hey BW,

We always use a cover scent. We use Tex Isbell Skunk scent. It comes in two separate bottles. It doesn't stink until you mix it together. She (the scent master) mixes it together on cotton balls that we then carry in film cannisters. We set the cotton balls out on limbs in front of and behind where we sit. This stuff is very aromatic and potent, but does not stick with you later. It also washes off easy. Also we spray down with "no scent". It seems to work. We have done it enough both ways to tell a positive difference.

P.S. Always try to enter an area and set up with the wind in your favor.

Works for us anyway. This scent is available from Burnham Bros.

[BozoWise]

I talked with a friend that uses screw top pill bottles. He tapes a bent piece of hanger on each bottle and hangs them from bushes. Seems like the same info as the film cases except he says the pill bottles don't snap open as easy in his pack.

[BozoWise]

Anyone tried this. I can get 12 tubes of it for 30.00 shipped

[Byron South]

I don't use cover scents at all any more. I used them for several years, but in the last few I've done with out. I believe a coyotes nose can easily detect your scent along with your cover scent. I have a close friend that trains drug dogs. He gave me a couple of demonstrations on how fast dogs proccess different odors. They smell the different scents much like we see colors. If they or conditioned to be aware of certain odors they can detect out of place scents within milliseconds. I believe a coyotes nose is every bit as good as a dogs. I know lots of people that swear by cover scent's. My belief is that when a coyote goes downwind of you, he smells you, the oil on your gun, the cover scent, and everything else and is able to proccess it in a matter of milliseconds. My aproach for the last few years is to try and set up where he has a hard time getting downwind without getting shot.

All that being said I'm a firm believer in scents as atractants. Especially for deer. When a buck smells a doe in heat, he lets the mood take over his better judgement. I'll bet some of you guys know excactly what I'm talking about ;D.

Good Hunting

Byron

[BozoWise]

Byron,

You really got me thinking. Did some searching and I think we might have a new can of worms to talk about. More in the lines of do cover scents actually cover your scent or just add to another scent.

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How does a dog get the neighborhood news? Through its nose! Of all a dog's senses, its sense of smell is the most highly developed. Dogs have about 25 times more olfactory (smell) receptors than humans do. These receptors occur in special sniffing cells deep in a dog's snout and are what allow a dog to "out-smell" humans.

Dogs can sense odors at concentrations nearly 100 million times lower than humans can. They can detect one drop of blood in five quarts of water! Sniffing the bare sidewalk may seem crazy, but it yields a wealth of information to your dog, whether it's the scent of the poodle next door or a whiff of the bacon sandwich someone dropped last week.

When a dog breathes normally, air doesn't pass directly over the smell receptors. But when the dog takes a deep sniff, the air travels all the way to the smell receptors, near the back of the dog's snout. So for a dog, sniffing is a big part of smelling.

In the wild

Wild canines rely on smell for hunting. They also use smell to decode scent messages left by other animals -- friend or foe, predator or prey. A wild canine's sense of smell is especially important in habitats where seeing prey is difficult such as the thick underbrush of forests.

So by this information it could mean that a coyote is more apt to "try" and smell out dinner when in thick cover then in open areas. Thus the more dense of an area you are hunting the more you would need to be concerned about your own scent. I would also think that not only a decoy but maybe a freshly killed animal such as a rabbit would help your chance of bringing in a coyote since they should be able to smell the blood from an injured or dead animal.

[kellyg]

Good info BW!

[stinkfinger]

WOW ! A lot of good info here ! With such a fantastic nose, I figure anything I can do to confuse that nose for an extra second or two for me to get that shot off I'll do. I use skunk sent. They don't call me stinkfinger for nothing! HeHeHe

[varmithunter]

Bozo, I use a cover scent made up of 3/4 Rabbit urine, And !/4 Coyote urine. Fill a bottle half full with this. Then the rest of the way with water. It works best when used from a mister bottle. You wont a very fine mist coming out so it can be carried by the wind.

A word of caution. This concoction nearly got me killed last year. I had mixed up a large quantity, And put it in a STP SON of a Gun bottle. It had rode in a bag on the back of my Honda all season.

The first pretty spring day. My Wife wonted to go for a four wheeler ride. She jumped on the pack. Every time we stopped the most horrible stink you can imagine drifted my way. The wind was from our backs. About the fourth time I stopped. I gave her the WRONG look. She slapped me into the next full Moon. I was told in no uncertain terms that she had showered that morning, And no smell like that had ever come from her.

When I got my vision back. I discovered the bottle cracked when she set on it, And the contents were slowly dripping on the exhaust pipe.

It only took three hours of washing, And the Honda and me sleeping in the barn for three nights for me to get a hot meal again.

Ronnie

[BozoWise]

Great story... I too sleep in the "dog house" most of the time.

[jdickey]

>:(Had something similiar... I had a bottle of TINKS bust in my ditty bag that I keep along with my grunt call, and some other stuff. After a few days in my SUV, I began to wonder what had died! Finally removed the bag.... bought a new grunt call and drove around with the windows down for a few days!