Originally Posted by
Blackelk
I'm with the hunting skills crowd. Scent deterrents are great if your using a stand or very slowly still hunting a small patch of woods. But when your archery elk hunt takes you over the top of one mountain and down into the next canyon you can forget scent loc protecting you from smell. Maybe for stand hunting. But spot and stalk hunting movement is the number one key to success. I have been busted by smell before but not as often as movement. I use what I can to try and cover scent but I don't buy scent clothing. Hunting over weeks at a time using spot and stalk method. Changing clothes often is more important. I hang all my bowhunting clothes after being washed in bags with pine brows a week before the season starts. It has seem to help more than anything. Hunt the wind and when you can't learn to shoot farther or let it go.
Yep, movement is a killer and so is noise. My SL is very quiet and one of the reasons I bought it and like it. I'd wear what worked out west and I'd probably still wear my SL if it worked camo wise which I think it would in the Mountains. Just part of the approach and all most all my SL I picked up for better than half price, to insulated bibs, one for 22.50 and the other for 50. Cabela's MT50 parka with scentlok for 22.50, pants for 50, couple jackets for under 90, various gloves and head gear. Many seasons of use now so averaged out, aint to bad. Paid more for my bow than all my clothes including 4 pairs of boots and one pair of moc I use for spot and stalk.