Spray mine with scent killer every time I put them on to walk in to stand. They are never on my feet until I am outside. I will wear them driving my buggy but not in my truck.

They help on ground scent

Farmers land I hunt on wears leather or rubber boots all day. grease ,fluids, fuel, poisons, feeding cows. I’m sure he spits his Levi Garrett where ever he is sitting. Hunts in the same boots and has killed 2 good deer this year and kills several every year. I know he could care less about wind direction. Deer coming to a green field, hot doe or feed their going to come on in.

Well, last day of season, I wore my Mucks. Walked through water to my blind. Deer I saw that morning crossed my path. They were super relaxed. I’m thinking of something like a Schnee’s pac boot for my next hunting boot.

They help, that's all

One of our guys lîkes to hunt an area on our property. He has a feeder on a road in some 10yr old pines. He walks right by the feeder to get to the stand. He wears rubber boots to the stand and he claims he’s never had a deer spook from his ground scent.

Yes but put them on when I get out of Jeep. Cuts way down on ground scent which is a big deal. Probably the biggest reason sightings go down for a lot of people each sit is ground scent they pick up on at night.IMO

I only hunt in moccasins. It’s easier to ambush them. Unless I’m piddlin around in the spring. Then I wear my tennis shoes.

I knew there was a reason I’ve had so much success hunting in crocs.

Rubber boots. Keep them clean. Tuck your pants inside. Don’t touch anything on your way to your stand. Do this and they’ll never scent where you walked in. Now if they get downwind that’s another story.

I don’t wear my deer hunting boots anywhere but in the woods. Keep them in a bag and put them on when I get to the woods. I’ve had deer cross my path many times it’s rare if they check up.

Same here, don't put them on until I get to the woods.....

100%!

A little fox pee goes a long way…

It’s about the scent your leaving on the ground not while your hunting. When that buck comes thru at midnight and smells where you walked in and out kills daytime movement in that area.

Deer have been known in gps studies to come across a hunters path, back out, and take months before revisiting that area. It’s vitally important you take every precaution while walking through the woods or on how you approach/leave a stand.

That's why the first time a stand is hunted has such a high success rate . After two days in a row , the rate drops quickly. Over hunting stands is a sure way not to kill a mature buck.

This. I have used rubber bottom boots for years and only wear them in the woods, never in town or even driving. That being said, even then I have occasionally had a deer scent my trail but not spook. This season had a nice buck cross my trail in the snow and he was cruising for does with his nose to the ground. Hit my tracks which were about an hour old and he did a quick snort and threw his head up but kept right on cruising. Have had other deer come right across my trail and never know. Like RS said, the scent you leave will be there a while and may spook deer even in the middle of the night and ruin a spot.

I figure unless you are hunting very large tracts with no humans for miles or middle of nowhere with no houses around, deer are bombarded with human scent constantly. I know they are at my property so unless you go in their home they don’t pay much attention to it on roads, logging trails, etc. Now let one get downwind of you physically and different story. Hunt the wind, have good access, wear what you want and go hunt.

I put mine on in the house and have watched deer walk right over where I walked a few hours prior with no observed alarm. No observations from that vs hiking boots yet.