does anyone make there own cover scent. i got the bright ideal earlier to boil some hickories and sticks and apple. it seems to work well plus the house smells great

Cedar Branches in your totes or garbage bags or whatever you use to store your garments. This is the only cover scent I've used in years. My Uncle and hunting mentor would go pick up leaves from the wood floor and mix in with his baking soda washed laundry, about a week before season.(This was before the "Hunting Industry") I used this cover scent for many years but then thought, correctly I might add, that cedar branches would be an improvement. The only thing about using cedar branches is that I've found it takes them 2-3 weeks after you collect them to really start putting off a scent into your laundry. Also.....store inner garments separate from everything else. Nothing worse than a bunch of cedar foliage in your thermals.

cedar smells nice!

I use walnuts

white acorn. check out 3D Hunting Supply. its great stuff

I will boil cedar branches an put the water in a spray bottle.

Evergreen branches and smashed fresh walnuts in a big waterproof northface bag. Outer garments and backpack all inside. Hang the climber in an evergreen tree all season. Works awesome and all I gotta do is walk out in the yard for more!

Cedar and walnuts for me. I picked up a bunch of walnuts(green) last year, placed them in a sealed bucket of water for a couple of weeks. Great idea..... until I sprayed my clothes with tem and saw my camo get a shade or two darker! If only I knew how to remove the dye they produce!

Also have just wrapped the walnuts and cedar in grocery bags before and let scent leech out in clothing storage tote. As noted above the branches dry out and become brittle and the hulls on the walnuts begin to rot fairly quickly....... but the cover scent is still there.

I do the same as Joe suggests above except the hunting clothes have been laying on the ground, in the dirt, outside for the last three weeks. I do pick them up when it rains and put them in a plastic container and then back into the dirt as soon as the rain stopped. Now, they'll be in walnut and cedar containers.

Best cover scent Ive ever used is rubber boots and hunt the wind. h.h.

Exactly right! There is no better advise!

Since everywhere I hunt has cattle roaming around, I just roll around in the cow pies like a dog before I go to the stand!!!! Deer don't know cows can't climb trees!!!! :p Keeps my wife out the truck during the fall and winter months too!!!

I heard cow pies are good for chapped lips too........????? h.h.

To many secrets. Let us know bout lip balm tho!

You heard wrong!!!! in all the years of pulling calves, preg checking cows, and pushing those fatties through the chute twice a year, I've had my share of it the face.........Did nothing for the chapped lips!!! :rolleyes: However, I can send you some if you want ot try it out for yourself!!!

I think it keeps a person from licking their lips, thus reducing the chances of them being chapped.

Yep, that's the way I heard it......h.h.

I bet you didnt lick your lips either....????? h.h.