Washing Hunting Clothes

[CorbLand]

Generally Dead Down Wind. I wash them and hang dry them. Every 3 or 4 washes I use Techwash from Nikwax.

 

[cbeck36]

I am also a huge fan of Sport-Wash. Gets out everything. Restores DWR. Miracle product.

How does it do on the funky smell that nylon products get from repeated use in sweaty conditions? It's like the odor molecules cling to nylon. I haven't found a detergent that will get it out.

 

[JPHuntingAUS]

Normal wash, my theory is if they can smell my clothes they can smell me anyway.

As soon as you put them on you're contaminating them with scent, be they scent free or not at that point. But each to their own

 

[Matt Cashell]

How does it do on the funky smell that nylon products get from repeated use in sweaty conditions? It's like the odor molecules cling to nylon. I haven't found a detergent that will get it out.

It's the best I've used for smells too.

 

[bourbon]

Cheap. Available in big jugs on amazon. No UV brighteners. One of my kids has very sensitive skin/eczema outbreaks so we wash his clothes in this too and since doing so his skin has gotten 100000 times better.

 

[Molon Labe]

Whitetails...I haven't used anything but RO/DI water since 2009. Hand wash before and after season and hang dry.
My clothes/equipment hang outside under a porch out of the sun all season long. Our bow season for whitetails is roughly 60 days for early season. My clothes never come in the house or truck until after season. Stripping down to your underwear and putting on clothes that are freezing cold is not fun but worth it...plus seems like it keeps my body temp down on the walk in!
If I am driving to a spot to hunt or storing for the winter then they go in a sealed bag or tote.

Just don't really believe in any of the carbon/scent killer soap/spray etc. Just doesn't seem to have any scientific proof?

Elk-stinky clothes need to be washed with some sort of soap and then let mother nature get that odor out.

 

[Gr8bawana]

Just don't really believe in any of the carbon/scent killer soap/spray etc. Just doesn't seem to have any scientific proof?

They don't need any proof. They just have it featured on a few hunting shows and get some gullible people to fall for it. Then if they happen to bag an animal it surely must be the miracle spray or wash they used.
I'm sure humans are so stinky to animals it doesn't matter whay we do to our clothes.