The ancient farmhouse was a testament to a history of determination of the prior occupants who had been agricultural stewards of the land situated squarely in the Flint Hills of Kansas. Although it lacked the modernization of a Holiday Inn Express, its quaint character and above all, location, were ideal to launch daily hunts on the known trophy whitetails to inhabit the rugged canyons surrounding the farm.
As I unpacked, I took careful precautions to ensure all my totes, duffels and gear bags were closed after an initial inspection. Unfortunately, despite my safeguards back at my home, the old farmhouse likely held scents from before World War II. To ensure every closet and room I utilized for gear layout and dressing was also helping my whitetail attack, I sprayed a liberal layer of Scent Killer No Zone throughout.
You can be as careful as possible with scent elimination at home on clothes, gear and footwear, but hunting camp, vehicles and borrowed containers could be the weak point in your whitetail game plan.
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Regardless of if you are hunting whitetails, elk or predators, they have some of the top schnozzes in the business. Utilizing scent elimination products, such as Scent Killer Gold and washing your clothing layers in Scent Killer Gold 2X Laundry Detergent, are great, but you encounter dozens of foreign odors as your hunt occurs. Many of these odors are simply hanging in the air and space of your surroundings.
Take your hunting vehicle as a prime example. You likely use that vehicle throughout the year for everything from work to family. Odors you cannot even identify linger in the space of the compartment. The same analogy can be used with your camper that sees summer family activity before fall hunting season. That old farmhouse I was staying in had years of accumulated odors in the mud room, bedrooms and hallways.
Situations like this call for a strong air and space deodorizer like Wildlife Research Center’s Scent Killer No Zone. Sold in 16- and 32-ounce bottles, the No Zone technology focuses on attacking and destroying odors that contaminate air and space. The convenient sprayer dispenses an unscented, odor-fighting formula to ensure your hunting areas are as invisible as you, and a new Forest Edge woodland scent version is ideal for before and after the hunt. For small-space odor-fighting abilities, turn to the No Zone Tote Tamers. Their small size is spot-on for boots, backpacks, totes and inside a duffel bag. Use all No Zone products to strike at odors in your hunting room at home, motel closets, duffle bags, backpacks, the hunting camp and even in your hunting UTV. They are ozone free and an economically sound solution to take the extra step in scent elimination.
As for my hunt in the Flint Hills, my target buck played hide-n-seek for nearly a week before a slipup one foggy morning. Watching some does feed in front of my stand, I was shocked when without a sound, the mature 5×5 buck appeared right below me oblivious to my presence. My scent elimination strategy paid off as the buck offered me an 18-yard shot to end my Kansas pursuit. Staying in the old farmhouse paid off, especially after a bit of air and space cleanup with the help of Scent Killer No Zone products. Visit www.wildlife.com.
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