scent

[Boro Pup]

What do you guy do to try to mask your smell ? do you use cover scents or mist ? If you do what do you think has been the most sucessfull for you?

[TFC2223]

Kill them before they smell you has worked best for me.  I learned many years ago not to go against their nose.  Make your sets properly to take their nose out of the equation is what I do be most successful

[uncle buck]

I agree with TFC223...Taking the scent vents off and on after each stand gets to be a real pain...Forget to take it off your person and you get in your vehicle... Just say your seatbelt gets some on it.. Then your wife or girlfriend drives the car the next day...They use the red fox urine laced seatbelt and now your in big trouble..

Best to learn three things...First most predator will come into the wind..  Second they will get in line with the loudest part of the sound be  it speaker on electronics or the mouth calling... Third they will use the route of the least resistance too...  Now take all of these into consideration and set up accordingly..  Shot them before they smell you... Do things like set up cross wind  of the main sound beam and crosswind of the wind direction...Aim the speaker at a trail coming out of the woods. Post cross wind say 30 yards off to the side of the trail coming out of the woods.. make sure that trail does not weave back and forth in the woods and the predator smells you as it takes a bend in the woods.

[scott]

i use a misting spray and i have shot them directly downwind of me. 

[bigben]

Kill them before they smell you has worked best for me.  I learned many years ago not to go against their nose.  Make your sets properly to take their nose out of the equation is what I do be most successful

+1

[Boro Pup]

Shot them before they smell you... Do things like set up cross wind  of the main sound beam and crosswind of the wind direction...Aim the speaker at a trail coming out of the woods. Post cross wind say 30 yards off to the side of the trail coming out of the woods.. make sure that trail does not weave back and forth in the woods and the predator smells you as it takes a bend in the woods.

UB I don't have an electronic call that I can place away from me right now. All I have is one of them hand held jobs and some mouth calls, so right now I am not able to get away from the sound. So what is the best course of action for me to take.

Thanks for all the help form you guys so far, hopfully it will pay of soon.

[22hornet]

One book this guy claims essence of skunk. Really stops em.(probably everyone & everything else).

[uncle buck]

See those hand held have to be activated  all the time by pushing a button on the electronic callers are riflemen predator calling tools..
You need one of the type that once you turn it on it keeps playing and you walk down wind with your shotgun. the predator comes from the down wind  gets in direct line with the loudest part of the speaker and comes to the call.  Your waiting down wind but set up cross wind with your red light to act as a shield and when the predator passes your position en route to the caller you shoot it...

When I use mouth calls.. Most times that is when I use the rifle and shoot them farther down wind as they make their arc..  
Also as the wind picks up more velocity the scent will not reach the predators.. So just say past 15 MPH scent is not a problem.
Now you have to compensate and use louder sounds too carry in the wind..The Jack Rabbit and Canine sounds..Gray Fox Pup, red Fox Pup, Coyote Pup, Gray Fox with rabbit, Red Fox with Rabbit, Coon with bird,   Not field mice, quail, voles, etc etc...

you need to read Dennis Kirk book "Everything You Want To Know About Fox Hunting!"  
www.huntsmart.com
 It gives good set up info for the new caller...

If you just can remember what I said: They come into the wind.. They will always get in line with the loudest part of the sound, and they will use paths of least resistance.. So set up when your using your mouth calls that when they come into view they will start to make an arc and head for the down wind sound and then come into the wind and get in direct line with the loudest part of the sound...Now the rifle person then shoots them before they get int line with you the caller.