Upwind

It's mid winter, darned cold and there's really not much interesting going on.  I've been tinkering with the program I'm giving next month on becoming a first time deer hunter in retirement years.  The occasional masked up trip to the sporting goods aisle is of course necessary.  On one such trip I came across this curiosity:

It is not surprising that there are products made to mask the scent of hunters.  Deer have excellent eyes, ears and noses.  That by the way is why hunting garb is often left outside in the weeks preceding the season.  If even I can smell bacon a ways off you can be sure that the odor would scream "MEAT EATER" to every whitetail in a one mile radius.

No, what surprised me was that this stuff is sold in these large 24 ounce spray bottles.  One wonders....are the spouses of deer hunters purchasing this in bulk as a year round option for deodorant?  

This opened up other lines of inquiry, so I stopped in at DEADDOWNWIND in search of answers.  And much did I learn....

Man they make a wide array of products.  All designed to make you and your clothing less stinky. Laundry Bombs!

 

  

 

Breath spray.  Perhaps useful for the backwoodsman going out on a date?  Hey, I hear lumberjacks are popular on dating apps. And haven't we all been down wind of someone whose breath is deadly a few times?

They even make some electronic gizmos.  Here's a little thing you plug into your car, or let's be honest your pickup truck, to reduce stinky odors there.  Just in case, you know, that whole dating app thing went well and you're driving her home!  It even has USB ports on it.   Why?

And on and on.  An entire business enterprise devoted to making manly men temporarily smell less manly.  Ain't capitalism grand!