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

wolverines said:
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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Our gun season runs from August 15 to January 1. By time the rut kicks in good in my area the deer have already been hunted for almost two months. By November our deer are so skittish they look like a heroin addict going through DT's. Most of the people I know from SC that go deer hunting in the Midwest say that the deer out here never look up. Here in SC, our deer never look down. Another thing that I am big on is open camo. With open camo the deer look through you instead of at you. And yes, I've killed countless deer in nothing but, shorts and flip flops too.
 
Swirly winds, if the wind doesn't stay on the back of my neck for long, I just stay out. More than likely the next direction change will will blow your scent out of there especially if you can see for any distance.

Here on the desert we can start the morning with and east wind and as the desert warms it change 180 degrees, using cross wind stands it just changes the downwind side of the stand. If it stays steady on the back of my neck I'll move on.
 
Murl B said:
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.
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That's a good thing about a forum like this, you get to learn about the way people in other areas hunt. Here in SC you cannot "stalk hunt". It's too thick and you'd piss off a lot of people. It's just not a way of hunting here.

I have a coworker that struggles with it. He is from VA or WV (Can't remember) and all he is used to is walking through the woods, sitting on the ground. He has issues with every club he joins so he just sticks to public land for the most part.
 
DoubleLungRage said:
That's a good thing about a forum like this, you get to learn about the way people in other areas hunt. Here in SC you cannot "stalk hunt". It's too thick and you'd piss off a lot of people. It's just not a way of hunting here.
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Almost any tree big enough to climb down here has thorns šŸ˜
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I know a guy that owns a little 2500 acre place about 12 miles East of our South Gate, but he lives in town, he called me last year about dark his truck wouldn't start needed help, it was cold and raining he had a heater in his deer blind so he wanted me to pick him up there and bring him to the hi-way were his wife was going to pick him up in her car car couldn't make it in to muddy, i took my Jeep and went to get him when i got to his blind he opened the door and it was like walking into a Honky Tonk Bar Beer Cans all over the floor and Ash tray full of Butts that place stunk, he was about half drunk, said he was deer hunting got his gate and his wife was there to pick him up, no big deal. you would be surprised how many people hunt and drink and smoke and kill critters Scares the Hell out of me. Murl B.
 
I don't own a pair of shorts or flip flops, here you wouldn't make 10 yards off the road wearing that stuff, this is not a friendly environment, every thing here will stab, stick, scratch, sting, or bite ya. Murl B.
 
I think thatā€™s a South thing. I can be walking to my stand and have a perfect wind. Climb up and itā€™s the complete opposite. I wonā€™t hunt deer unless I have a steady 5mph or more wind, thatā€™s about the only time itā€™ll stay consistent.
 
Haha, when I hunted turkeys in Texas I was looking for roost areas to give me an idea of where the birds might be the next morning. Walked the property I had access to and couldnā€™t find a tree over 10-15ft tall, lol. The tower stands on the property were taller than the trees!!
 
-Spurchaser, Speaking of Texas Turkeys, this morning I picked up a dozer operator on the South Ranch, and on the way back we ran into the biggest flock of Turkeys I have ever seen 70 or more birds in the hay field we mowed yesterday, we have Turkeys all over the Ranch's but usually flocks of 6 to 10 Surprised me. Murl B.
 
Murl B said:
-Spurchaser, Speaking of Texas Turkeys, this morning I picked up a dozer operator on the South Ranch, and on the way back we ran into the biggest flock of Turkeys I have ever seen 70 or more birds in the hay field we mowed yesterday, we have Turkeys all over the Ranch's but usually flocks of 6 to 10 Surprised me. Murl B.
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Getting those crickets and other bugs.
 
Yeah, walking through the brush here will get the big ole GA thumpers up and if you look down youā€™ll see thousands of small grasshoppers.
During burn season those jokers will look like a cloud getting away from the approaching fire.
 
Ozone generators will neutralize bacteria/viruses and organic odors. The extra oxygen molecule doesn't bind with human scent molecules but the ozone will be a cover scent. It is not good for you to breathe concentrated ozone. I use an ozone generator to reduce odor transfer in my vehicle (on when not using vehicle, open windows for a short period before driving). But I don't believe it can completely mask human odor from canines, for deer I believe reducing bacteria/masking human odor can make it difficult for deer to accurately determine your location(distance from them). I wouldn't intentionally position myself upwind of animals and expect ozone to prevent my being smelled. Keep the wind from the animal to you and never be smelled, is always the best scent control.
 
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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I was thinking almost the same thing, lol
 
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