I've used it all. Scentblocker is by far the best. Yiu spray down with tinks btech and forget the wind and just kill stuff. Very effective. Even better than the ozonics. Tyler Rector BHOD prostaff
Lots of stuff goes into scent free/scent blocker/scent lok. Like said here a dozen times, wind is a big deal. So is airing out your clothing, not smelling like a gas pump, and making sure you don't eat at McDonalds in your camo. Does it help?? Maybe a little, but since none of us are deer and can report back, it's just a guess. The best camo I've ever used is the stuff that made me more confident. That's, IMO, the biggest part of this. My Grandparents were the best hunters I've ever seen, and they kind of taught me that. They used black paint on jeans and sweatshirts in branch patterns to try and break up their silhouette. They did graduate to camo later in life because they could afford it, but they killed stuff at all points in their lives. Ultimately they were good hunters, not just good camo wearers.
I wash all my clothes including socks and underwear in plain scent free laundry detergent. They get hung outside to dry and then put in totes or bags. I spray everything down with Scent-Away by HS including my bow, boots, hat (inside and out) every hunt. I have a few sets of very light weight camo that I usually use in the late spring for turkey hunting but also works well for warm fall hunts and put a light jacked in my pack for late evening. To be honest, for the last 10 years, I have seldom hunted prior to the last 5 days of October. I just dont go mess around my spots early. I normally just keep moving cameras around to boundary scrapes and travel corridors until I start getting a target buck on camera during the daylight. Then I go straight in after him. The bottom line is watching the wind like others have said. You will never completely beat their nose. The same principles of wind currents that the elk hunters know all about apply to midwest deer hunting in even slightly rolling country. I really try to pay attention to thermal activity and have certain stands that are awesome on a good sunny morning. As the air warms and the thermals rise, if you are sitting on the top of a ridge in the right spot, the wind direction becomes a lot less critical because your scent is being carried up and away. Some stands I never hunt in the evening because the air is falling and will tend to swirl more in the timber and settle your scent along the ground. A good evening stand requires a fairly steady breeze blowing away from the direction of deer activity.
Gonna beat the dead horse... Does it completely eliminate everything? No. Does it help? I'll give it the benefit of the doubt. Do they make quality hunting jackets? absolutely
for early season, spend the money on thin breathable under armour gear. The scent control stuff is BS but i love how well if keeps you cool. less sweat the better
Maybe you should ask that mature buck I smoked at 20 yards dead downwind of me last year...oh wait he's dead! Funny everyone who says it doesn't work also says "always hunt the wind". There are at least a few of us on here who have not hunted the wind or had a mature deer come from the wrong way and have been successful. Before I started a scent reduction plan, I got busted all the time. I haven't been busted by a deer's nose in 5 years.
I shoot bucks in Hawiian t-shirts early in the season. Paying for expensive camo is a huge waste of resources. I do own a Scentblocker suit that I wear once the temps drop, but I don't put any stock in its scent blocking abilities. And TBH, it's not even very comfortable.
If you're going for the carbon-based clothing, I wonder if you wouldn't want to try a product like Carbon Synergy instead. Not trying to plug it but I bought a bottle for $8 this year and am going to try it out on my ghillie suit. You basically stir up the powder with some water in a bucket and then dip your clothes in it and let them drip dry. If it were to work, or help, you could in theory "regenerate" your clothes each time you did this. Not sure that would be worth it or that this will even work. But giving it a try this year for $8.
Here's the way I see it. Could scent blocking clothing work? Maybe, but I would venture to say that you are putting off 50 times more odor out of your mouth as you breath in the stand that would alert a deer to your presence. I feel that a cover scent is way more effective than trying to eliminate your scent. I use a product called Final Step, it's basically real smells from real parts of nature. I use the cedar scent. I'm pretty sure it is basically extract from cedar branches. I'm more confident in this method than I am in relying on my clothing. Either option, however still doesn't help from the scent you are putting of from breathing, so hunting the wind is still very important.
I think that's a stretch. They lost their original lawsuit because their marketing used words like "completely" and "100%" in regards to odor elimination. It was a technicality more than an outright lie. Scientifically there is no denying that activated carbon adsorbs odors. That's a fact. And that lawsuit was actually overturned sometime later on but most folks don't like to talk about that. You can read the dismissal here if you want - http://www.scentlok.com/pres/stipulation.pdf In any case, I do believe in scent controlling apparel and have for some time. I also believe that it's much more important to watch the wind and plan your stand locations and hunts accordingly than it is to wear this clothing in hopes of covering up your sloppy hunting. However even the best laid plans can and will go awry as you never really know where the deer are going to come from or go to. When that happens I prefer to have some sort of protection to help cover my scent. As the old saying goes, I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it. Personally I'm excited to give the new Trinity from ScentBlocker a try this year. Apparently they've engineered a synthetic alternative to activated carbon which has more surface area to adsorb and hold odors and will recharge at lower temps (household dryer). These are the two main issues everyone always had with carbon which appear to have been resolved with Trinity. I for one will be putting it to the test this weekend. There isn't a single product in the hunting world that is a "silver bullet" and will help you kill more, bigger or better deer. However I do believe there are plenty of great products that when used together and used properly will help improve your chances. In my personal opinion, odor eliminating clothing is one of them.
They don't lie? Hunt 365? Recharge in a dryer? Never mind the wind? .... what part of that is true? Now you say in the same post that Scentloc/blocker don't lie, yet state the new stuff can be recharged in a dryer..... didn't they say the old stuff was rechargeable in a dryer? You can believe these carbon clothing pushers all you want, they feed off the uninformed hunter and love people like you.
Well you got 1 out of 3 correct anyways. Forget the Wind, Just Hunt was ScentBlocker. It was proven in a court of law that activated carbon can be recharged (to an extent) in a household dryer. No, it can't be recharged 100% but that wasn't debated. The claim is that regeneration is better with the new synthetic material than it was with carbon. Not that carbon couldn't be regenerated, just that more of the odor is released from Trinity at lower temps. Seems reasonable to me. Ah yes, the uninformed hunter. I've often prided myself on my lack of knowledge. It's one of my stronger points.
I have all lost, and love it. I have an extra pair of pants that I bought, but decided Im not going to wear, if your interested Ill sell them to you on the cheap, they are these. Mathews Grid Lock Fleece Hunting Pant
I label you uninformed due to your knowledge of carbon, which is obvious. Do a little research on your own instead of listening to these carbon clothing companies. Read up on articles from 3rd party scientists that have no reason to lie and no bias, just the truth and proven facts concerning activated carbon.
I agree with zarr since he pretty much a computer nerd and knows his stuff. I don't know who this guy is but I use scentblocker not scentlok and ihave had amazing success with it. Proof is on my wall. Good luck with the fighting. Lol Tyler Rector BHOD prostaff
Your incorrect that's my research. But I'm just a dumb farmer that shoots big deer wearing scentblocker. Tyler Rector BHOD prostaff
