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finelyshedded

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What do you do to minimize the smell of solvent or oil so’s it doesn’t reach the deers noses on your next hunt?
 

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What do you do to minimize the smell of solvent or oil so’s it doesn’t reach the deers noses on your next hunt?

I'll set my rifle feet away from my woodstove for a few days to help dry-up solvent and any excess oil after cleaning.

If it's freezing outside, which is what I prefer when doing any kind of deer-gun hunting, my rifle will go inside my 'Body Heater Suit' right along with me to help minimize any foreign orders and human scent within my hunting area, otherwise it'll hang or rest in the warmer temps.
 

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Lol Jesse. Thanks for the responses. I was just wondering if anyone else worried about this issue. We don’t always shoot a deer we see and they may and usually work to your downwind side I was wondering if there is something a hunter could do to cut down on the odor.
 

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I wouldn't worry about that at all. If a deer can smell your gun it has already smelled you not matter what cover or scent elimination process you use.

I get all of the excitement and marketing hype about cover scents, ozone, special suits, soaps, smoke etc, but the FACT remains that a deer has more smell receptors than a bloodhound and way, way more than the drug sniffing dogs that find minute traces through the best efforts to conceal them. Sorry, science doesn't change because we want it to. Scent elimination attempts certainly can't hurt and if it makes the hunter feel better then it is a good thing.
 

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Lol Jesse. Thanks for the responses. I was just wondering if anyone else worried about this issue. We don’t always shoot a deer we see and they may and usually work to your downwind side I was wondering if there is something a hunter could do to cut down on the odor.
Frankly my biggest concern over the years was condensation over the few days of muzzy. 40 years of flintlock and black powder and if temps were “cold” I’d never bring the gun back in the warm house. It stayed secure in the unheated garage. Many a year I hunted all 3-4 days with the original load, wondering at the end of shooting light if it would still go off on the last day. (I did empty the frizen each day and replaced in the morning.
I treat my in-line the same way too, removing the 209 primer when leaving the field at night.

Dident intend to derail the thread. I just started typing...lol
 

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Frankly my biggest concern over the years was condensation over the few days of muzzy. 40 years of flintlock and black powder and if temps were “cold” I’d never bring the gun back in the warm house. It stayed secure in the unheated garage. Many a year I hunted all 3-4 days with the original load, wondering at the end of shooting light if it would still go off on the last day. (I did empty the frizen each day and replaced in the morning.
I treat my in-line the same way too, removing the 209 primer when leaving the field at night.

Dident intend to derail the thread. I just started typing...lol

I do the same. Set it out the night before, load it in the morning, and it doesn't come back inside until gun seasons over.
 

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I’d say if you are that worried, just carry your bow. I don’t worry about it. The game has been lost if a deer has caught he smell of my gun.
 

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I just normally clean my shotgun/muzzleloader in summer time to get it out of the way so I wouldn't have to worry about the smell in time for gun season.
 
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Sgt Fury

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I never worry about the smell after cleaning my guns because as stated earlier, they’ll probably smell you before the solvent. Probably would be more curious than alarmed if they did smell it. What I do worry about is intense cold....when I go to Canada where it typically gets below zero (45 below on one trip) I make sure to clean the gun with a Teflon spray. It dries like a powder and you won’t have to worry about your gun not going off when the oil freezes up your firing pin.
 

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Like I said earlier, not every deer that pops out at 50-200 yards DW first is my target animal. More times than not I could have killed piles of deer long before they would get DW from my smell or solvent or oil smells. I was just wondering if anyone else used less smelly products that did a great job cleaning and lubing parts and finish on their weapon of choice.
Great practice and pointers on the condensation issues with powder and such and I’ve done the same for years myself.
If I’m out in bad weather though and my shotgun or Muzzy gets wet I always try to clean it up and set it back in the cold garage to keep it ready but in good working condition.
I do wipe off the excess the best I can but just wondered if there was other products others used that were better. Thanks everyone for their ideas and responses.😎👍🏻
 
Some of the new CLP products do a great job cleaning with very little to no odor. Originally bought it for the AR and handgun cleaning but I quickly started using it (still use boiling water for main barrel cleaning) to clean the muzzleloaders and won't ever go back to the old solvents.