I was once at a whitetail hunting camp where an interesting sign hung in the kitchen. The sign was intended for the cooks and it read, "Feed beans to our hunters and they will fart. If the hunters fart, the deer will smell them and we will be unsuccessful. No Beans!" This was posted in a kitchen in about 1985…before most hunters really understood scent suppression. Today we are a lot smarter. It's not farts but human odor in general that deer avoid…although farts and bad breath are both bad players. And yes, I do have a friend who routinely makes convincing buck grunts after eating beans. More on buck grunts latter.
Nullo relies on solid medical science plus the magic of the Chlorophyllin Copper Complex. Serious whitetailers from north to south have relied on Nullo for over a decade.
In 1985 cutting edge scent suppression involved using a non-scented Ivory soap during your shower and baking soda in the washing machine. Today we have real scientific products to rely on like ATSKO's Sport-Wash and Body and Hair Wash and N-O-DOR spray that oxidizes body odor. But is there an advanced system that could actually control odor from the inside-out?
THE INSIDE OUT STRATEGY
The answer is absolutely yes! Again it is based on science and not fancy marketing. The little green pills that make this inside-out odor control are called NULLO. It is distributed by Monticello Drug Company. NULLO is not a drug containing controlled substances or some scary concoction. It is tried and tested therapy that has been medically trusted for over 50 years. Approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, Nullo has been shown to be both safe and effective. Nullo is considered a dietary supplement…just like vitamin C.
Nullo has been used by the medical and Rest Home industry for decades to reduce body odor in patients that are not able to bathe regularly. It is also used to reduce breath odor and odor's associated with bowel function. It is an internal deodorant. The active ingredients are a proprietary blend of Chorophyllin Copper Complex. A few years ago a number of US companies approached Monticello and tried to purchase Nullo or have it bottled in their bottles. Monticello didn't agree to the idea. Those same companies went on to rebottle alfalfa pills from a health food store, calling them a scent suppressor. Fact is that every living green plant has chlorophyll. Unlike "look-alikes" that boast chlorophyll from alfalfa. NULLO uses a unique chlorophyll cooper complex that is scientifically designed to reduce body odor.
THE PROOF ON THE GROUND
Does it really make a difference? I say yes! We have been using Nullo as prescribed this fall and we have had some incredible close encounters with the wind working against us. It was November 11th in Southern Illinois. The rut was moving into the breeding phase and we had observed a buck tending a doe adjacent to the road the night before. Some of the breeding bucks were not traveling now as they were often tending or standing over estrus does. I decided to try a change in strategy and left my treestand prior to noon in favor of still hunting a thicket.
The leased property was long and narrow with a 1/2 mile cliff face bordering one side. Along the cliff was some of the densest cover in Southern Illinois…it was real dog-hair! The wind moved along, paralleling the cliff face at 3-5 miles per hour. To still hunt with the wind in my face I would have to loop along a boundary fence in the relatively open park like hillside and circle to the cliff face. Then I would have the wind in my face as I moved through the bedding cover. I moved slowly knowing that the wind had to be in my favor to still hunt the bedding area.
I spent more time standing adjacent to big trees studying the woods ahead than I did slipping along. I had looped only 300 yards when I stopped behind a big maple trunk and carefully studied the next 60 yards or so of park like woods. With only half of my face peering past the maple I got a real shot of adrenalin. I made out the outline of a dandy 150-class buck staring to my right through some wrist size second growth. He was at 60 yards. The buck had seen or heard something but he didn't have me pegged.
A mature whitetail buck has the best nose in the business. Fooling this nose requires a strategy that solves the human scent problem from the inside out.
The buck was rock still and facing me dead on. He moved his head slightly to better his view and I could see that his wide typical 10 point frame supported a cluster of non-typical points on his right side. Without moving my feet, my face melted back behind the maple at a snails pace. I nocked and arrow in to my Code and slowly leaned to the right for another look. I watched him with my right eye. Although this was great fun I knew this wasn't going to work because the wind was brushing the back of my neck and blowing directly into his face. No mature whitetail buck puts up with that.
But he was still there. So I played a card. Using my mouth I swallowed some Illinois air and burped. I have found that a man burping sounds more like a buck grunt than most grunt calls. I had discovered this fact while listening to my teen age boy's burp at the dinner table. It was soft science… but try it yourself…right now... See, I was right. It does sound like a buck grunt.
At my burp/grunt he jumped my way and closed the distance between us to nearly 50 yards!
Now my heart was pounding big time. I waited while the wind blew directly at him. This couldn't be real. Then a mature doe stood up just behind him. He looked back at her and turned around to walk her way and I made my other favorite buck sound with my mouth…a snort wheeze. Fffft, Fffft, Fffft…tttttttttt. Again he wheeled into the wind and made 3 jumps my way…now he was under 50 and heading my way but still in the saplings. He took a few slow steps and I drew. I figured he would eventually turn and maybe he would offer a shot if I was prepared. I eased back out at full draw. He had stopped. The buck was now looking back over his shoulder at the doe. She slowly began to wander away when he wheeled and paced her. I let down and smiled.
I had just confirmed what I had been told. I don't believe in carbon clothing and I wasn't wearing any. I do practice scent suppression but this was unreal. Two mature whitetails, ground level, under fifty yards with the wind blowing directly in their face and I wasn't detected by their noses. I had fooled the two best noses in the business…a mature buck and doe. I attribute the scent stealth to NULLO. I had noticed that my body odor had been reduced and my wife noticed that my breath had improved this fall. I have read the science but this was the field testing.
The little green pills had made a difference. I had a great day in the whitetail woods. It is possible to neutralize human odor from the inside out. You can't fool the best nose in the woods...unless you do everything right. And even though Nullo can handle it…take it easy on those beans in whitetail camp.
Go to: www.nullo.com for your bottle of internal deodorant and to www.whitetailu for more solid whitetail strategies.
