I agree with your statement about ‘almost no sound’, but find it very difficult to understand the advantage of your scent being dispersed in rainy weather. When I hunted over dogs I always found their ability to pick up scent in dry weather was greatly diminished or almost non existent, while in damp or rainy weather their ability to pick up scent was phenomenal compared to dry weather. Hard to believe wild animals scenting abilities are opposite of or that much different from domestic dogs. My experience says that damp air will carry scent a lot farther and longer that dry air. Don’t play the wind and those critters will know you are there, no matter how quiet the woods are.
AH, but there are different "scents" involved.
Some animals smell the other animal. When a bird dog scents a stationary bird and then visually spots it and goes "on point" ..., that's the animal scent. This works even at hunting preserves where the area has been crisscrossed by several "guides" causing many "trails" from the soil, and who have placed birds for the dogs to find and the hunters to shoot (the bird didn't walk nor fly there, it rode in a burlap sack
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Some animals primarily track the scent of the animal having
moved over the ground and disturbed the soil. Most police dogs are scenting this way when they perform a track, and only alert on the person they are tracking when they get very close. This is why a person crossing a hard surface like pavement or rocks are not tracked by scent..., no soil is disturbed. Some animals smell both, and they can combine the presence of freshly disturbed soil and a specific scent, and avoid being deceived by other scents trails crossing the path that they are following..., which is what bloodhounds can do, for example.
In very dry conditions, the disturbance of the soil does not raise much scent, but in damp conditions the soil is softer so deer or people will often form a track that goes through the leaf layer and into the loam of the soil, making a very obvious scent for a dog.
Rain scrubs the air of wafting scent from an animal, be it wild or domestic or human. When there is a high pollen count, and then it rains, the pollen count drops because the falling rain has hit the floating pollen and carried it to the ground. The same is true for any molecules in the air, that we would call scent.
Also air pressure from an incoming storm, or a storm that just passed, will force air downwards, and an animal scent is sometimes concentrated in a layer low to the ground, instead of normal dispersal. Think about the smoke from a campfire or chimney and it oddly doesn't go "up" but seems to curve down toward the ground and you get the picture. That smoke is reacting to a sudden increase in air pressure in a layer only a short distance from the ground.
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4Fg does not absorb moisture any more than other granulations. It is the burned residue in a pan that absorbs moisture and turns it all to mud. When hunting I used my rifle only clean and never shot before trying to murder Bambi. I know all the arguments for using different granulations for priming but I am a 4Fg guy and always will be.
