Scent control.... OZONATOR!!! do they work ????

for those of you with scent lok clothing. go eat the gassiest stuff you know of. then let a few blast in your pants, sniff the seat, tell me if it works :)

i sprayed our cats litter box with scent killer spray and other sprays....Didnt work

maybe....maybe these sprays eliminate enough of your scent that it makes a deer think you were there awhile ago but not right now ?
 
SkullValleyHunter said:
I hunt with my brother once in a while, we are both BIG on scent control!! He has this fancy ozonator that's supposed to kill all the bacteria on your clothes. I tried it once and my clothes smelled like ozone kinda like hottub. He swears it works. I like to wash my clothes with baking soda or scent eliminating detergent, then hang to dry outside with the wind. Sometimes iv even put my clothes in a tote with lots of sagebrush iv collected. I feel like there's less of a smell with this method. Anyone out there using these devices? Thoughts and opinions PLEASE !!!
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Read through the first page of replies and wanted to weigh in. Are you just talking about for coyote hunting? I wouldn't really bother with it if just for that. As stated, you are never going to beat a dog's nose. You have to play the wind, end of story. No scent control regimen will ever change that. If the coyote gets your wind, it's game over.

My take on this for whitetails is different. I've been running an Ozonics since they came out and have been putting my clothes in a ScentCrusher bag for about 5-6 years now. I think these products do give you a slight edge. Nothing will ever make you scent free. If a deer is down wind of you, it will smell you regardless of what scent control options you use. I know for a fact that the Ozonics has saved me a few times in a tree stand (works great in blinds but I agree is questionable in a stand). I've had deer clearly get my scent, but their reaction to it was different. It's almost like they think what they smell is further away than it really is, not as threatening as a nose full they might get without using it. Anyone who has deer hunted has been winded before. Some of those old does will really get under your skin with their persistence when they sense danger. If you can stay still, I've had them go back to feeding or just walk away when using the Ozonics. Without it they stomp their feet and continuously blow/snort at you pretty much ruining your hunt. Those that think an Ozonics is supposed to be set up so you can hunt any wind is dead wrong. The thing with deer hunting is more times than not, what comes in upwind will eventually get down wind of you at some point. There's also the question of "how many deer didn't you see before using the Ozonics?" I know it sounds a lot like a used car salesman pitch, but it's a question that you can't answer. A mature buck winding you will be gone before you ever knew it was there. Just something to think about. I'm serious enough about it that I'm willing to pay for it just for the little bit of an advantage it gives me. It's definitely not for everyone, but I have to respond when I hear anyone say they don't work at all.

Yes, the Scent crusher bag leaves an ozone smell on your clothes for a bit. Again, I don't personally feel like it's overly alarming to a deer when compared to just a nose full of my human scent. It's simple to just put my clothes in the scent bag each night rather than putting them through a wash cycle every once in a while. Yes, the ozone can break down some of your gear. I've had some elastic waist bands ruined by it. I definitely won't put my safety harness in the bag. Yes, the ozone from an Ozonics can lead to nausea and/or headaches if you don't vent your blind. I leave a window open and don't have issues. Stand or blind, if you're sitting there continuously breathing in the ozone then you don't have it set up correctly. I did just buy a Wildlife Innovation Zero Trace to try out. This is a similar product but doesn't use ozone for scent elimination.

Sorry for rambling. Just wanted to share my experience with it.
 
Dead Down Wind said:
Grab the 3 best scent killers you can find on the market, take a flight over to Colombia or South America, grab a few grams of cocaine or heroin. Spray the shit out of it with your top $$$ scent killers, throw it in your suitcase, then fly back to the US. Let me know how it works out for you.
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You're not wrong, but what makes this even funnier is the screen name you chose :ROFLMAO:
 
bohunr said:
for those of you with scent lok clothing. go eat the gassiest stuff you know of. then let a few blast in your pants, sniff the seat, tell me if it works :)

i sprayed our cats litter box with scent killer spray and other sprays....Didnt work

maybe....maybe these sprays eliminate enough of your scent that it makes a deer think you were there awhile ago but not right now ?
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I would love to know the number of ScentLok owners that have never activated their suit in the dryer. I bet the number would be shocking! :LOL:
 
wolverines said:
Read through the first page of replies and wanted to weigh in. Are you just talking about for coyote hunting? I wouldn't really bother with it if just for that. As stated, you are never going to beat a dog's nose. You have to play the wind, end of story. No scent control regimen will ever change that. If the coyote gets your wind, it's game over.

My take on this for whitetails is different. I've been running an Ozonics since they came out and have been putting my clothes in a ScentCrusher bag for about 5-6 years now. I think these products do give you a slight edge. Nothing will ever make you scent free. If a deer is down wind of you, it will smell you regardless of what scent control options you use. I know for a fact that the Ozonics has saved me a few times in a tree stand (works great in blinds but I agree is questionable in a stand). I've had deer clearly get my scent, but their reaction to it was different. It's almost like they think what they smell is further away than it really is, not as threatening as a nose full they might get without using it. Anyone who has deer hunted has been winded before. Some of those old does will really get under your skin with their persistence when they sense danger. If you can stay still, I've had them go back to feeding or just walk away when using the Ozonics. Without it they stomp their feet and continuously blow/snort at you pretty much ruining your hunt. Those that think an Ozonics is supposed to be set up so you can hunt any wind is dead wrong. The thing with deer hunting is more times than not, what comes in upwind will eventually get down wind of you at some point. There's also the question of "how many deer didn't you see before using the Ozonics?" I know it sounds a lot like a used car salesman pitch, but it's a question that you can't answer. A mature buck winding you will be gone before you ever knew it was there. Just something to think about. I'm serious enough about it that I'm willing to pay for it just for the little bit of an advantage it gives me. It's definitely not for everyone, but I have to respond when I hear anyone say they don't work at all.

Yes, the Scent crusher bag leaves an ozone smell on your clothes for a bit. Again, I don't personally feel like it's overly alarming to a deer when compared to just a nose full of my human scent. It's simple to just put my clothes in the scent bag each night rather than putting them through a wash cycle every once in a while. Yes, the ozone can break down some of your gear. I've had some elastic waist bands ruined by it. I definitely won't put my safety harness in the bag. Yes, the ozone from an Ozonics can lead to nausea and/or headaches if you don't vent your blind. I leave a window open and don't have issues. Stand or blind, if you're sitting there continuously breathing in the ozone then you don't have it set up correctly. I did just buy a Wildlife Innovation Zero Trace to try out. This is a similar product but doesn't use ozone for scent elimination.

Sorry for rambling. Just wanted to share my experience with it.
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I've used an Orion for quite a few years and this has been my experience as well. This is what I tell people.

The deer will eventually still smell you, but they don't act quite as alarmed. It's like it waters it down.


As for ozone. It works. They have used it for years in the housing and used car business.

I've never tried it for coyotes.
 
Murl B said:
We kill around 400-450 Whitetail Deer every year and there's no one here that uses any kind of scent control other than the wind, Murl B.
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Sounds like a lot of fun. And if I was invited down there to partake in the fun, I'd still hang the ozonics in my tree or blind. :ROFLMAO:
 
Murl B said:
wolverines, You are like a lot of Modern Hunters your making hunting a lot more complicated than it really is. what ever floats your boat is ok. Murl B.
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I've been hunting whitetails for 33 years now. I wouldn't really consider myself a modern hunter, but if using an ozonics puts me in that category, so be it. I remember rotary phones and thinking cell phones were stupid. Heck, even you are out there using the internet on a computer! Nothing wrong with trying new things. What seems like making it more complicated to one, might not to someone else. It's just part of the process for me.
 
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bohunr, We give all our ranch hands and their family's all they can use and then we give a about a 100 dressed deer to each Church in town and then we give deer to the town Constable for people he knows that need the meat.
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2 day's culling Does there may be a buck or 2 in this Pic. Murl B.
 
As much as I would love to "just hunt the wind", here in South Carolina that can be pretty dang hard to do.

I can walk a piece of property with a wind indicator (cig, cotton, powders, ect.) and get a different wind direction every time I turn the corner. You can check the current weather report and it may show that the "prevailing" wind is coming out of the North, but you get into some planted pines or a fire break and it could be coming from any direction on the compass.

I set up my stands with the "prevailing" wind in mind. I even take marking tape and place it all around the area I am hunting to watch the wind. 20ft in the air (my stand) could be one direction while the wind 40 yards away on the ground level is blowing in a completely different direction.

To me that's where the Ozonics comes in handy. I can be 15-20ft in a tree and have 15 deer 10 yards from me eating corn or acorns. That's a lot of noses. I've watched the wind blow my scent down to the deer and they all take off blowing. Then I've watched the wind blow my scent down to the deer with the Ozonics lined up to "wash" my scent and the same deer pick up their heads and start to look around, maybe even stomp, but not take off running and blowing.
 
Coyotes... There are two ways to deal with backdoor coyotes. Put a barrier at your back that won't allow a coyote to circle you. Steep bluff, good-sized river, wide open field, some physical terrain or cover that a coyote can't swing around you or really doesn't want to expose himself in a place such as a short grass cattle pasture in daylight. You get the idea.

The other way is to have another shooter strung out behind you watching the backdoor. This tail gunner can be 25 - 40 yards back in tight cover to a longer distance like 100 yards in more open cover. They will kill a few coyotes that the caller would never see.
 
DoubleLungRag, I have been hunting Deer a long time in a lot of different places, but I have never been up a tree, Different strokes for different folks and places. Murl B.
 
DoubleLungRage said:
As much as I would love to "just hunt the wind", here in South Carolina that can be pretty dang hard to do.

I can walk a piece of property with a wind indicator (cig, cotton, powders, ect.) and get a different wind direction every time I turn the corner. You can check the current weather report and it may show that the "prevailing" wind is coming out of the North, but you get into some planted pines or a fire break and it could be coming from any direction on the compass.

I set up my stands with the "prevailing" wind in mind. I even take marking tape and place it all around the area I am hunting to watch the wind. 20ft in the air (my stand) could be one direction while the wind 40 yards away on the ground level is blowing in a completely different direction.

To me that's where the Ozonics comes in handy. I can be 15-20ft in a tree and have 15 deer 10 yards from me eating corn or acorns. That's a lot of noses. I've watched the wind blow my scent down to the deer and they all take off blowing. Then I've watched the wind blow my scent down to the deer with the Ozonics lined up to "wash" my scent and the same deer pick up their heads and start to look around, maybe even stomp, but not take off running and blowing.
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I hear ya man. I used to hunt MO a lot. We'd hunt public big woods with ridges. The wind would swirl a lot. Can be tuff to deal with at times. Not as bad in MI, but the wind isn't always exactly what the weather forecast says in certain areas. Anything can happen in a tree stand.

Do SC deer look up much? When I hunted in MO it didn't seem like the deer ever looked up unless they saw movement. I swear deer in MI are trained to look up. It's like they're constantly looking for a hunter.
 
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