Never tried snake oil myself, but chicken fried rattlesnake is pretty darn tasty.
Its beginning to look like this site needs a "Carbon Bashing/Groupie" forum.
Or a maybe Carbon True Believers forum where blind faith automatically overrules any scientific fact. [8D]
My personal opinion from what I've taken in on all these scent block threads and from what I've researched... All scent block has going for it is anecdotal stories. No independent scientific studies or lab tests. Just a bunch of guys who believe they see more deer when wearing it than they did when they didn't.
Doesn't occur to them that maybe they just learned to hunt better; or that they might be taking more care with their personal hygiene than before; that there might be a strong updraft in the wind currents between him and the unalarmed deer that appears to be directly downwind of him, or maybe they just got on a roll of good luck and managed to wind up in the right place at the right time. Not a single thing about ANY of their stories proves that they wouldn't have seen just as many deer without the stuff as they did with it, given the same circumstances.
That's not bashing. It's just the way it is. It can't be proved one way or the other.
Really though, if that kind of anecdotal evidence is all that's needed for definitive proof, we'd have long ago been forced to believe that flying saucers, Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster are real.
