I hunt a lot from the ground and always "smoke up" before hitting the woods. I keep a metal pan in my truck bed, start a little fire with Fritos corn chips (will burn for about 3 minutes and is a good cheap fire starter), put on some leaves and twigs to get a little blaze, stand around the smoke for a few minutes, then head stright to the woods.
I try to hunt the wind but when it is swirling then that just doesn't work. It is impossible to be scent free and impossible to completely mask your scent, but it is possible to cover up your scent with smoke just enough as not to completely spook deer downwind. Lost count of the times I've had deer downwind and close and had no idea I was there hunting on the ground. No other scent control but for the smoke.
It is not foolproof and not 100%, but it helps better than anything else I've ever tried. Been doing this since I was a kid and was taught by some old timers that it works. From my years of hunting I can see a difference in getting busted when I haven't used smoke.
Last edited by straycat; 11/11/11 12:21 PM.
