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

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SkullValleyHunter

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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 !!!
 
Haven't done the clothing treatment but have many years of use with the Ozonics HR300 bow hunting. I've come to the conclusion it is absolutely worthless. I can't think of one single instance it kept a deer from detecting me, even by a step or two.

I've monitored this in the field very closely and all my experiences actually have lead me to wondering if I get busted more using it. They advertise deer not reacting as dramaticlly in a worse case scenario, i also have never felt this is true.

Two things I can attest to based on my experience:
- deer (and coyotes) will smell you the same or maybe even sooner using it
- you will eventually make yourself feel sick using it in a blind

Hope this helps
 
I know of guys who smoke like freight trains and roll out early morning every season and get to their deer stand and kill big deer every year. Same thing when they have hunted coyotes. They pay attention to the weather and the wind when they set up.

Years ago I tried the “scent eliminating detergent” on my hunting clothes when it first came out on the market. I decided it didn’t really make much difference if I used this new product or just threw ‘em in with the rest of the laundry and washed with the wife’s Gain laundry soap. To me, it was a waste of money. I learned that sometimes all those products that companies advertise and want us to buy, are nothing special at all. Just my 2 cents.
 
Guess you could call me a nature boy, I never wash my Camies or any of my outer wear, i hang them out side and air them out when they get to ripe,I hunt the Wind and Shadows. YMMV
 
My camo coveralls and camo hat and hoodie stay in the back seat of my truck November through February.
The coyotes that are on the upwind side of me and my e-caller can't smell me, my camo or my e-caller.
Coyotes that get within 4 feet of my e-caller on the upwind side can't smell me or my e-caller.
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I have had many coyotes get within 4 feet of my e-caller and they can't smell it.

When I call coyotes I do everything I can to drive or walk towards my calling stands against the wind and then call against the wind. Some of the big flat areas I call coyotes in I can enter those areas from 2 or 3 different spots so I enter them from the downwind side so the sounds and smell of me and my truck are blowing back behind me, not blowing out in the direction I am calling into.
 
Great pics, as usual, Bob. That last one is really a dark one; blacker than the darkest one I've ever seen.
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Thanks for all the replies!! Very helpful! I always use the wind to my advantage, I'm worried about scent more so for back door coyotes, even though that doesn't happen much. I guess I'm trying to do everything I can to put the odds in my favor. You all are probably right, it's just a marketing thing to get us to spend more money. I just wanted some expert opinions:)
 
I had another thread I posted about wax dirt for trapping coyotes but no replies yet. I made some wax dirt and handled it before and after with my hands , should I be concerned about a coyote smelling me or other un natural things on the wax dirt made, thoughts ???
 
Gotta weigh in. For 24 years I have worked in an occupation that uses canines. Bottom line, nothing fools them. I have seen people hide things in ways you can only imagine. Still, nothing fools them. Coyotes are canines. They rely on their sense of smell for a living. I used to use a lot of scent control products. Now I strictly and I mean STRICTLY play the wind with everything I hunt. I am twice as successful as I was back in those days. I can also tell you that I have not called in a coyote in the last fifteen years with the wind at my back. Now can I definitely say those products don’t work. No but based on what I have seen with dogs at work, I think it’s very unlikely. Go easy on the responses. I am just relaying what I have seen.
 
I’m not saying scent control doesn’t work, but I tried everything except that when I first started trapping and you just can’t fool a nose.
I know longer worry about scent control in hunting or trapping. Now I still keep my clothes smelling as much like nature as I can, but hunting and setting traps in 90 degree temps with 70% humidity means you’re going to sweat. Heck I’ve sweated so much it cleaned off the pan on my trap, yet I still catch.
A coyote or deer is gonna smell you regardless of what you do.
 
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.
 
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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:ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: Almost weekly news on TV of drug dogs busting a stash in some clown's gas tank here on the border.
 
Reminds me of a joke I heard when I was a kid.
A janitor pushed his cart onto an elevator and felt a sudden gas pain. Since he was alone, he let one rip. It was bad. He grabbed his "ever green scented spray" and blasted the elevator. A few floors up a beautiful woman got on and commented that it smelled like someone "chit a xmas tree".
 
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