Now that it is raining....

[whitetail007]

i should have hunted tonight. rain stopped at 2pm when i walked out the door to go watch the pack.

[dan]

I went and scouted some new public land but it quit raining before I got there...
I like to have the rain wash my scent away.

After last weekend I question how much rain it takes to wash human scent away. On Sunday I knew a heavy brief rain shower was coming so I headed to one of my best spots for a SE wind on a island in the cattails hoping that if I got in my stand early enough most of my scent would be washed away. I wore a rain suit and hip boots and walked through 2 feet of water for a good 1/4 mile. After I got set up in my tree the heavy rain started and lasted for about 1 hour. About an hour after the heavy rain a mature doe and a nub buck came up on the island to eat acorns. As the doe left the island on the side where I walked on she came near the spot I walked. Immediately she went on alert when she hit my trail. I could not believe she picked up my scent that easy after all of the rain that came down especially considering I had hip boots and a rain suit on. It was still raining lightly at the time as well!! A whitetails nose truly is unbelievable!!

Wow... I gotta say rain must help. But I wonder what it takes to really remove the scent...

[Stanley]

Got the day off from picking seed corn but deer season is not open yet.