Scentblocker or Scent lok really needed?
05-04-2008 | 11:09 AM
#61
Giant Nontypical
Joined: Dec 2004
Posts: 7,876
Likes: 0
From: Ohio
RE: Scentblocker or Scent lok really needed?
ORIGINAL: valor10
I sprayed the bottom of the boots ONLY to try to eliminate any scent being on the ground from my footsteps.Here's a standing offer to the makers or believes of scent "control" clothing. I'll bet a dog that can smell narcotics and expolsives through practically any fabric or material, ain't going to have a hard time smelling YOUeven if you are completely incased in scent lok.Who wants to go up against my my dog? Any takers? Scent control has nothing to do with Scent Loc or Scentblocker.
Ya.. ummmmmm.... aaaaaaauugh.... you can't do that with Scent-Lok or ScentBlocker. The whole idea when you use them.. is not to have any scent.
As far as following a trail a lot of people can and they aint smelling nothing.
You should give some thought to training some deer and see how well they do at tracking things down. Now that would be a test.
05-04-2008 | 11:16 AM
#62
Giant Nontypical
Joined: Dec 2004
Posts: 7,876
Likes: 0
From: Ohio
RE: Scentblocker or Scent lok really needed?
ORIGINAL: racewayking
Here is what has always baffled me. A guy spends a couple hundred or so on a scentblocking outfit, sprays down the boots and pack etc but does nothing for bad breath?
Here is what has always baffled me. A guy spends a couple hundred or so on a scentblocking outfit, sprays down the boots and pack etc but does nothing for bad breath?
I also use one of the few products on the market that is safe to use on clothes, skin and in your mouth as a wash, Hawg's vanishing hunter. Stuff works! I'd hunt in street clothes if I had a bottle of this stuff. They claim it has no shelf life, but I'm convinced it does, that or freezing effects it.
05-04-2008 | 11:33 AM
#64
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 1,435
Likes: 0
From: Where the big deer are from, seminole county FL
RE: Scentblocker of Scent lok really needed?
No, of course you dont need it, i use the scent stuff but i am not crazy about it, i pretty much wash it in the detergent and stick it in a bag of some sort, scentblocker and scent lok dont mean anything to me excpet i like there quality of clohthing.
05-04-2008 | 11:55 AM
#65
Nontypical Buck
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 1,204
Likes: 0
From: Pingree Grove, IL
RE: Scentblocker or Scent lok really needed?
ORIGINAL: valor10
I sprayed the bottom of the boots ONLY to try to eliminate any scent being on the ground from my footsteps.Here's a standing offer to the makers or believes of scent "control" clothing. I'll bet a dog that can smell narcotics and expolsives through practically any fabric or material, ain't going to have a hard time smelling YOUeven if you are completely incased in scent lok.Who wants to go up against my my dog? Any takers? Scent control has nothing to do with Scent Loc or Scentblocker.
Ya.. ummmmmm.... aaaaaaauugh.... you can't do that with Scent-Lok or ScentBlocker. The whole idea when you use them.. is not to have any scent.
I use the facemasks and have some pants I like with it built in but always make sure I look beyond the Scentlok and agree with others in that it can be a tool in minimizing scent but not a solution to scent control.
05-04-2008 | 12:20 PM
#66
Giant Nontypical
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 9,679
Likes: 0
From: Wisconsin/Michigan
RE: Scentblocker or Scent lok really needed?
ORIGINAL: dukemichaels
Ya.. ummmmmm.... aaaaaaauugh.... you can't do that with Scent-Lok or ScentBlocker. The whole idea when you use them.. is not to have any scent.
I won't say you need any sort of Scent-Lok or ScentBlocker... that's like saying you need to have a bow that shoots 320 FPS. It's just an advantage.. nothing more. But it definately will not work when used improperly.. which seems to be its major fault.. hunters who don't read directions or research how to care and use the product.
Oh.. and for those of you court room junkies.. Scent-Lok is being sued not over the effectiveness of the product but rather the arrogance of their slogan.."forget the wind, just hunt". Last I checked a Chevy wasn't really "Like a Rock".. but hey.. this is America and we can sue for just about anything.
And yes.. the product will add more minutes to your normal pre-woods ready time.. but not hours.. more like minutes. And wouldn't you want that extra advantage if it only took just a few minutes? After all we all know whitetail are most proficient with their (100 times better than human) sense of smell.
I know many on here can take a whitetail without the use of this product.. and I understand why one could. If you play the wind.. understand thermals.. and have lower educated whitetail.. you can be effective without the Scent-Lok or the 320 FPS bow.
But I guarantee anyone.. If you use the product correctly.. you will see a much much different change while in the woods this fall. Particularly with the predator population who smell 100 times better than the deer. It's an advantage.. nothing more.
I wore my Scent lok suit and rubber boots, sprayed them down with earth scent.
I won't say you need any sort of Scent-Lok or ScentBlocker... that's like saying you need to have a bow that shoots 320 FPS. It's just an advantage.. nothing more. But it definately will not work when used improperly.. which seems to be its major fault.. hunters who don't read directions or research how to care and use the product.
Oh.. and for those of you court room junkies.. Scent-Lok is being sued not over the effectiveness of the product but rather the arrogance of their slogan.."forget the wind, just hunt". Last I checked a Chevy wasn't really "Like a Rock".. but hey.. this is America and we can sue for just about anything.
And yes.. the product will add more minutes to your normal pre-woods ready time.. but not hours.. more like minutes. And wouldn't you want that extra advantage if it only took just a few minutes? After all we all know whitetail are most proficient with their (100 times better than human) sense of smell.
I know many on here can take a whitetail without the use of this product.. and I understand why one could. If you play the wind.. understand thermals.. and have lower educated whitetail.. you can be effective without the Scent-Lok or the 320 FPS bow.
But I guarantee anyone.. If you use the product correctly.. you will see a much much different change while in the woods this fall. Particularly with the predator population who smell 100 times better than the deer. It's an advantage.. nothing more.
Thanks but no thanks!
05-04-2008 | 12:30 PM
#67
Nontypical Buck
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 1,933
Likes: 0
RE: Scentblocker or Scent lok really needed?
If you are buying Scent-Lok garments for quality - fit - or whatever (outside of scent absorbtion), I would urge you to look around. Gray Wolf Woolens makes the best stuff you can buy - right in Wisconsin. Best fabrics I've ever used - best camo patterns, etc...
Not cheap - but neigther is gas!
www.graywolfwoolens.com
Not cheap - but neigther is gas!
www.graywolfwoolens.com
05-04-2008 | 12:36 PM
#68
Giant Nontypical
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 7,367
Likes: 0
From:
RE: Scentblocker or Scent lok really needed?
ORIGINAL: WKP Todd
If you are buying Scent-Lok garments for quality - fit - or whatever (outside of scent absorbtion), I would urge you to look around. Gray Wolf Woolens makes the best stuff you can buy - right in Wisconsin. Best fabrics I've ever used - best camo patterns, etc...
Not cheap - but neigther is gas!
www.graywolfwoolens.com
If you are buying Scent-Lok garments for quality - fit - or whatever (outside of scent absorbtion), I would urge you to look around. Gray Wolf Woolens makes the best stuff you can buy - right in Wisconsin. Best fabrics I've ever used - best camo patterns, etc...
Not cheap - but neigther is gas!
www.graywolfwoolens.com
Gray Wolf Woolens Rocks!!
Dan
05-04-2008 | 02:52 PM
#69
Nontypical Buck
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 1,482
Likes: 0
From: IA/WI/IL
RE: Scentblocker or Scent lok really needed?
ORIGINAL: racewayking
Hahaha, then my breath would smell like crap!
ORIGINAL: magicman54494
Just chew deer droppings
ORIGINAL: racewayking
Here is what has always baffled me. A guy spends a couple hundred or so on a scentblocking outfit, sprays down the boots and pack etc but does nothing for bad breath? I have been around a few hunters that have all the right gear yet you can smell their rotten breath when they talk or breath if they are within a few feet of you. Why isn't there more emphasis on that? The clothing market is a multimillion dollar deal yet there is a genuaine lack of breath control out there, haha.
Here is what has always baffled me. A guy spends a couple hundred or so on a scentblocking outfit, sprays down the boots and pack etc but does nothing for bad breath? I have been around a few hunters that have all the right gear yet you can smell their rotten breath when they talk or breath if they are within a few feet of you. Why isn't there more emphasis on that? The clothing market is a multimillion dollar deal yet there is a genuaine lack of breath control out there, haha.
GAC works...does scent lok?...About this much, maybe a little more
.Is scent lok needed?
Scent-Lok® definately needs it
.
05-04-2008 | 07:40 PM
#70
Typical Buck
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 509
Likes: 0
From:
RE: Scentblocker or Scent lok really needed?
If this stuff was cheap, then I'd buy the "another scent control tool" angle. But it ain't. If you play the wind when you hunt, you'll be successful. If not, you're BUSTED! I don't know anybody personnally that bow hunts that doesn't practice sound scent control. Sound scent control has nothing to do with Scent Lok or Scentblocker. Does it provide some benefit? Maybe. But a deers sense of smell is 10 times greater than that of a dog. Human scent is all over the woods. My experience, deer use two of their three senses to bust you. Trigger one sense, they'll try to verify with another. I'm not talking about obvious stuff like a stand creeking, or moving fast. How many times have you had deer circle you to get down wind of you? How many times have you seen them put their nose up and start brousing the trees, listening for the slightest sound. Deer aren't neccessarily spooked by sight, sound, or smell. The minute they connect it to a human being present, busted.
