How You Should Store Your Hunting Clothing

by Bill Winke • October 17, 2011 • 5 comments

You definitely want to keep your activated carbon scent-absorbing hunting clothing and traditional hunting clothing separate.

Activated charcoal will absorb (technically adsorb) odors and once their “filter” is filled with odor molecules, you need to reactivate it. So, the idea is to store it (and wear it) as far from foreign odors as possible to keep the filter from filling up rapidly.

Ideally, you store both your undergarments and your outerwear in separate, scent-proof containers. Another key point is how you wash them. The perfumes found in most detergents and fabric softeners may have tainted your family washer and dryer. While it seems extreme, it is also ideal to wash and dry your hunting garments in separate machines from those that receive regular use with perfumed products.

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  • Dave

    Where would one find these washers and dryers you speak of??

  • brett

    The Whirlpool appliance store, do you really think people sell special washing machines just to wash clothes with for hunting?

  • Guest

    You could always hand wash with odor eliminating laundry detergent in a tub, then line dry outside, followed by spraying with a scent eliminator and stuffing everything into a scent proof bag until hunt day. The only thing this would create a problem with is carbon activation… Perhaps an electric hair dryer with a hot setting that is never used for anything but hunting? I don't know I am grasping at straws here.

  • scott

    I have a separate closet for my hunting clothes, and they have a stink to them.is there anything that I can put in the closet.buy the way my closet is made out of thou's cheap kit's that you put together.

  • Dave

    Go to a tropical fish store and buy a 1# box of activated carbon for a filtering system. At the end of my season I put my clothes in an air tight bag with the 1# box opened, of course, until next season. Any washing and drying is done outside by hand in nonsent wash, before I store for the season. Works for me.