I guess I have to fall on the sceptical side of the fence when it comes to carbon activated suits. I don' t think it is any secret that I have felt that way for sometime. Anyway since I had a chance to " play" with one. It is possible that in some cases they may help but it is very difficult to scientifically document. Even the old " onion test" that I have seen performed with them has flaws in my opinion.

Like so many of you I have bow hunted for a long time and in the course of a season had many animals downwind of me. Many times they pass by unalarmed. I have oftened made the comment that if I were wearing a carbon activated suit in those instances I would " think" that was the reason they went by and I was undetected. But the facts are, I wasn' t wearing " a suit" and the animal didn' t detect me for any of a hundred reasons.

I can' t think of a single product that has generated the kind of revenue these carbon activated suits have, with no solid, irrefuteable evidence to back up the claims. They have become a major player in the hunting industry without question. The problem with that is they become sponsors of many people we look up to and trust, i.e. Bob Foulkrod, Will Primos, the Drury Brothers, Gary Clancy, etc. When was the last time you heard one of these guys say anything bad about one of their sponsors products? It ain' t going to happen either! It cracks me up when Mark Drury lays his bow over they buck they have just recovered and announces it is a Hoyt Havoc. As if to imply that he wouldn' t have got the deer unless he was using that product. But if you are in their shoes what is a guy going to do? Sponsors are part of the infrastructure of their business. It is however a lot easier for me to believe in a product when that product is contributing to my lively hood, especially in a case like this where it is popular and cannot really be proven not to work.

Almost any other product has tangible boundaries we can test. We can check the draw weight of a bow and chrono it' s speed to make a comparison of what was advertised versus what we bought. We test everything we use, broadheads, arrows, releases, sights, quivers, stabilizes, silencers, and on and on it goes. But all of these have tangible boundaries which makes it easy to decide what works and what doesn' t. But with these suits we are in a gray area.

I' m sure I won' t hurt the scent industry with my opinion. Obviously most people are sold on their ability to work. But you know a lot of people show marked improvement in their health when they are fed nothing more than a placebo. That is kind of how I look on the carbon suit. It is definitely an expensive plecebo.