Do you guys have any thoughts on acclimating the deer to human scent? The thought is that I can spend all sorts of effort making sure I use cover scent, washing my clothes, etc… and they might still smell me and get spooked. On the other hand, I can take an old shirt, get nasty and sweaty in it, and put it out in the woods near where I want to hang my stand… then just leave it there.

I see two potential outcomes… the first is that they smell that smell every time they come through and get used to it… no big deal. The other option is they get freaked out and never come back. I would compare it to putting a dummy up in a tree stand… I could swear I read about that somewhere on here!