Wear your leather boots..............After enough years of hunting I'm convinced that the difference between rubber boots and your regular hunting boots isn't enough to make a difference. Any deer over 2 years of age is going to be able to tell where you walked in. JMO
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I had a conversation with a buddy about this just yesterday. He was saying that he read a study where researchers had someone wear rubber boots and walk through a specific area and then had the same person wear their regular work boots. Two hours later they then let a trained bloodhound (similar nose to a whitetails nose?) try to track the scent trail. The bloodhound tracked both scent trails (rubber and reg. boots) in a similar time. Maybe wearing rubber boots really doesn't help much?
Oh man, now I find out deer are afraid of the smell of rubber. No wonder I haven't been shooting any big bucks lately. I have been driving to hunt in a truck with rubber tires. Stupid me.