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Just returned from a Black Bear hunt in Maine. Guide told me not to use my ThermaCell. He asked can you smell it when in use? Said I " YES ", in which case he said, "If you can smell it don't you think the Bears can"? Back to using my mosquito net. What's your thoughts? smoker1 The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. --Thomas Jefferson | ||
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If the bear smells your thermocell can't he also smell you? Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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I use them extensively here in FL. When it is wet, like it is now, mosquitoes are a nightmare. If a critter is downwind, they are going to smell you anyway. I would rather give that up than be swatting mosquitoes all the time. | |||
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My opinion is the sure animals can smell the thermacell, but it's not a smell they associate with danger so it not affecting the hunt in a negative way, and as Larry says you are not flinging your arms about and having your movements give away your position. So yes I suggest using them. Thanks! Brian Clark Blue Skies Hunting Adventures www.blueskieshunting.com Email at: info@blueskieshunting.com African Cape Trophy Safaris www.africancapesafaris.com Email at: brian@africancapesafaris.com 1-402-689-2024 | |||
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I usually go hog hunting in Florida in the summer with a group of friends. They all swear by Thermacells. In all the years I have gone, I have never used mine. Instead, I take a vitamin B1 tablet every morning, use the mosquito patch from Cabelas and am usually good to go. Mosquitos hate the B1 leaving the body as you sweat. If I think it is going to be really bad I just add an OFF Clip-on while on stand. I only had a couple bites in the last few years I have been doing it. Nothing works better when you might be moving than the B1 and patch. I do keep a ThermaCell in the backpack just in case, but have never used it. I might add that I am mildly alergic to mosquitos. Each bite swells from quarter to half dollar size. Larry "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading" -- Thomas Jefferson | |||
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Tons of spring bear hunters use Thermacells with great success each year. I'd use it. | |||
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OK guy's, thanks for all your input. I use extensive odor eliminating Laundry soap, body soap, hair shampoo, etc,etc. The advice at the time seemed to make sense, as the guide who baits the site brings into it the scent of the bait but sprays down his boots with a scent free product.....who knows, but I do know that Bear have a terrific sense of smell. The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. --Thomas Jefferson | |||
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I've killed a bear, hogs, and observed numerous whitetails while running a Thermacell. As stated, if the wind is such that your quarry can smell the unit, it's going to smell your stinky human odor anyway. _____________________ A successful man is one who earns more money than his wife can spend. | |||
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It makes no difference as along as the wind is in your favor....use it. If the wind is not in your favor all the "scent eliminators" in the world wont do you any good. DRSS | |||
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So what you're saying is that the human scent elimination products don't work.....right? The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. --Thomas Jefferson | |||
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Maybe "don't work" is an overstatement. Let's just say "don't count on them working all the time and under all circumstances." The simple fact is that we, as humans, don't know for sure exactly what it is that the animals are smelling. We might think that game animals are tipped off by the same odors that we find offensive such as armpit stench, sweaty feet and crotch rot. But who knows, they might be picking up scent from the invisible skin particles that we constantly shed or maybe there's some undetectable (to us) odor in our breath that no tootbrush or mouthwash can mask. Some vegans claim that normal people [omnivours] have a distinct and easily detectable odor. Animals are individuals and react in accordance to their life experiences. A certain odor (for example, the thermaCELL) might send one deer, bear etc. running for its life and attract another out of curiousity. Keeping the wind to your face has worked for thousands of years. No longer Bigasanelk | |||
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I find them perfect for bear hunting and early season deer hunting, I have killed both numerous time with the Themocell turned on. First, I am convinced they work. Secondly, many evenings there is no way I could have stayed in the stand without it. I am a no-scent freak... no scent laundry, sprays, shower every time before heading to stand and hunting down wind. I tried to keep the Thermocell and me downwind and while not an absolute, I think the heat that makes it work, causes the scent go up for at least a bit. I recommend them. | |||
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I use one all the time hunting and does not seem to provide ill effects. But them, I pay attention to wind direction. | |||
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I have been in a ground blind & had deer within 5 feet of me with the termocell going full blast.. | |||
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Well done folks....I'll tell my guide. smoker1 The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. --Thomas Jefferson | |||
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ThermaCell repels mosquitos.Is not a scent cover. | |||
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Used mine in tree and ground blinds for Deer and Bear.No problems. | |||
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I'd not be without it during turkey season down here in the south. For other hunting where you are trying to beat their nose, if you hunt the wind, you're giving up downwind anyway. Thermacell or not. | |||
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I read an article in Varmint Xtreme magazine two or three years ago written by an out-of-work Dr. of materials science and chemistry I believe. (Bob from Texas knew him, they both wrote for the magazine) He held a dual doctorate anyway. He wrote a series of articles on how a coyotes hearing, sight and smell capabilities function. He said essentially the same thing. The skin cells we shed (like a couple bazillion a day) are enough by themselves to alert an educated animal even when using hunting soap, detergent, scent elimination, cover scents, etc. Some cover scents work, some animals simply aren’t spooked by some scents, and with some animals, they just didn’t know why they did what they did. This works most of the time… | |||
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I have used Thermacells for years and have never had any issues. You still need to play the wind. I think that all of the products designed to mask your smell just help us stack the deck a little in our favor -- but you still need to play the wind. "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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