ontario farmer wrote:As far as I know military carbon suits are not available and if they have twice the carbon obviously they would be better if they were quiet and not a solid color ie camo.
Yes and I have thought about how high John hunts and I know that would help prevent a deer from picking up your movement and disperse your scent better.
I expect for most but not all deer the level of scent it detects is important - the more pressured deer are, the more scent the more cautious a deer will be.
I don’t think camo matters in most instances. Maybe if you’re hunting open hardwoods in a treestand it does. Or somewhere without cover but ive been busted in an open pattern using ASAT, and haven’t been busted in solid stuff. Look at deer, they’re brown but if they’re still you can’t hardly spot them. I think being still is one of the best things for concealment
As for height and scent I think being high just gets your scent above the deer and gets you in a more predictable air current. I’ve ground hunted a bunch and believe that sitting on the ground keeps your scent dispersal smaller. Of course it can all depend on the terrain. I have areas that no way could I ground hunt.
As for pressure again I’ve hunted off the ground mostly on our highly pressured public land. I’ve been amazed at how deer have smelled me (I could see them detect my scent) but not spook. The buck I killed this year I did so at 10 yards. I’ve had multiple deer around at 10 yards or less. I even witnessed a buck last year that smelled my thermals, jump out of his bed, move upwind of me then circled back down smelling my ground scent. Now why didn’t this buck bust tail out of the country? He just looked around for me eventually walking off casually. I could have shot him 10 times. My point is, I could say all of this was due to scent control and scent control products. But I think it’s all individually based on the deer. I’ve had young deer catch scent and blow and stomp and run off like the world was ending.