Today is the opening day of deer hunting season in Minnesota. Driving around rural Minnesota yesterday you would have seen a lot of blaze orange clothing sitting outside in an attempt to minimize the human scent before going afield today.

Perhaps the team could do some testing to see if this is effective, how effective it is after wearing the clothing for a day and as the season progresses.

The best way to eliminate human odor as a factor in hunting is to use the wind to your advantage as has been done for centuries.

Depending on where you hunt, scent elimination and/or cover scent may not even be needed.

When hunting in the backwoods where humans typically only tread during the hunt, scent is important, but your main concern should be keeping your visible movements and outline as minimal as possible and making use of non UV reflective clothing/detergents greatly helps.

When hunting in areas frequented buy humans such as farmlands, WMA's etc., scent isn't as important as human scent is part of the normal things that wildlife smell. So here, visibility of you is also more important than smell and you need to take precautions against being seen more than being smelled.