Carbon suits are one of the many scams pulled on gullable hunters everyday. we have to be one of.......if not the biggest group of suckers walking the earth.

Guys will buy ANYTHING if they think it will better their chances in the woods.

The hunters market is an absolute DREAM for product pushers. The greatest thing about scent elimination is it can never be proven true or false. A guy who sits in the woods all day and sees nothing can easily think to himself "maybe I am getting winded and they are avoiding me"............maybe..........maybe not. In the same vein......a guy wearing scent lock everything may see a bunch of deer or a nice buck and love his suit to death even though he has no way of knowing if he would have seen the same deer if he smelled like a dead carp. It's like when Homer wanted to buy Lisa's rock that kept bears away..........there were no bears around.........the rock must work right??

It's just the nature of hunters. I know guys that have hunted and dropped estrous scent for 10 years trying to lure a buck to their stand........if one deer in 10 years even looks like he might have sniffed that trail they are hooked for life........forget the 99.9% of the time it did nothing or actually hurt their chances..........any sign of success and it's hook, line and sinker!!!

I saw a very interesting show on Mossy Oak Classics the other day on TV. A guy arrowed a big beautiful buck from a stand on the corner of a food plot. What was he wearing?? A full blaze orange vest. The guy looked like a pumpkin in his tree and arrowed a big mature buck that anyone would love a shot at. Makes you think sometimes about all these guys trying to become invisible by painting their faces and buying up the latest and greatest patterns.


Back on topic. Scent wise I will give scent eliminating sprays the benefit of the doubt because I had a rain suit last year that stunk to high heaven of rubber. I sprayed it down and instantly could not even get a hint of that smell that was very strong to start. Does that mean a deer couldn't smell it??.......doubtful......but it's better then it was.

I wash all my stuff in scent free soaps and store them in a large bag with earth wafers in it. I spray all my stuff with scent elimination spray and then earth scent or Kischell's golden rod (same thing). I will gather up some folliage from my usual spot shortly before the season starts and place it in with my stuff.........I figure it is what they smell every day so how can it hurt?? I shower with scent free wash and get dressed in the field.......gloves stay on until I am seated in stand. I don't see that as excessive but it is also not careless.......takes little effort on my part and I have never felt like scent was something holding me back............the vast majority of my gun kills are within 40 yards and many are well within bow range and I use no scent precautions during gun season........and wear orange from head to toe.

I guess the deer suddenly lose their eyesight and smell when the guns come out because guys seem a lot less concerned when they lock and load then when they grab their bows.


One last thing before I go...........I think the funniest/saddest thing I have ever wittnessed about scent is when I bought my bowtech the guy at the shop showed me something I bet most guys would never know. He had the limbs off a Mathews and let me smell the grease in the limb pockets......WOW!!! Talk about a stiff chemical smell. The bowtech grease stunk like crazy too. I wonder how many guys out there are freaking out about scent elimination down to the most obsessive details.............and then toting a bow in the woods with grease on it that smells like a chemistry lab??


I have to go now............my Deer View Mirror came in from Cabela's today and I just know it is gonna help me get a nice buck this year........can't wait to try it!!