Just to re affirm.... I cant disagree with much else. I think the world of hunting has gone gadget wild. I have killed so many deer in a set of blue jeans, Nam era jump boots, shiny walnut stocked gun, red woolrich coat, with a marlboro hanging out of my mouth it would make most anyone stop and consider my methods successful.

IMO these gadgets are hope builders and confidence makers. Picture this a guy puts in his best effort at a hunt for a season and comes up empty handed. Obviously his woodsmanship skills have fallen short. How nice is it to think this year I will just buy some scent, buy some stuff to cover my scent and everything will come to head when that big buck walks out? It is a flat out attack on a hunters personal failure and it is SMART marketing. Hence why it is such a huge industry backed by a half dozen major tv networks. They are selling a dream to men that cant find it of their own means.

The woodsmen of the world have always known scent loc doesnt work. Any human scent in a deers nose is too much. The woodsmen of the world have always known that sitting still was equally as effective as any camo pattern ( in regards to deer at least). The woodsmen of the world have always known it was better to hunt an active breeding area than try to stink up the woods with product and create a fake one. The woodsmen of the world would never consider 450 bucks a great investment for a blind when you can simply sit still behind a brush pile and achieve the same result if not better.

Trouble is.......there are far more hunters out there than woodsmen. Save yourself the headache and stop worrying about what the hopefuls have to buy to give them enough false confidence to hunt in the first place.