RE: Scent Lok Vs. Bloodhound Video
 

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RE: Scent Lok Vs. Bloodhound Video
 

The Scentlok "does it work, does it not work" debate will continue on and on as long as it being made and bought by hunters. The purpose of these debates should not be to force ones opinion on someone else, but to provide enough information to persons interested in purchasing Scent Lok that he makes an intelligent decision about it, instead of the poor sap being duped into believing "Forget the Wind, Just Hunt." If someone weighs all the information available, then decides that Scent Lok may give him even the slightest edge, and it's within his budget, by all means he should purchase it and not be chastised for doing so. I've used Scent Lok, from head to toe, and found it didn't make any difference, so I quit using it. I've found much more effective methods of controlling my scent since then.

RE: Scent Lok Vs. Bloodhound Video
 

about the thing in the box, different dogs are trained for different things...the box demonstration sounds like an air scenting dog. different from a tracking dog.

DM is right as well...compairing their noses to a whitetails is like comparing OUR noses to a whitetails....

yep, it doesnt make you 100% scent free...it MIGHT contain your scent if you could be 100% wrapped and sealed in the stuff...but thats where some of the problem lies...

i never paid a dime for the stuff...dont work for them..not affiliated with them in any way shape or form....but i still believe that it helps....

heck, maybe the only reason all us idgits think it works is because it IS expensive and we DO take special care with it and when wearing it and storing it and washing it etc...anyone that GETS the concept knows the outside has to be as scent free as possible before it can help contain scent...i know i take much better care of my SL than i ever did my regular ole camo....


HEY!!!! congrats racewayking for starting another SL war!!! ;)

RE: Scent Lok Vs. Bloodhound Video
 

Duke,

Can you verify that bloodhounds have more olfactory cells than whitetail deer? I've seen it referenced that whitetails have 220 million but cannot find that data now. I'm curious as to how the two truly compared as documented by science.

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I did a quick google search and found this, which I'm not saying is credible, but.......

To examine the olfactory epithelium of the roe by the light microscope, the respective nasal region was prepared on the spot right on shooting, stained with a solution of Trypan-Blue, fixed in "Susa" thereafter, and was finally embedded in paraffin by the usual process. Macroscopically already a luxuriant development both of the endo- and ectoturbinalia was to be observed, filling the entire olfactory region of the nasal cavity with numerous folds, convolutions and ramifications. For the purpose of microscopic examination sections from 6 to 10 mum in thickness were made. The border between regio respiratoria and regio olfactoria runs irregularly. Again and again there are patches bare of receptors respectively glandular ones even in the olfactory region. The thickness of the olfactory mucous membrane varies from 140 to 400 mum, the height of the epithelium from 35 to 90 mum. The olfactory area was determined to total approx. 90 cm2 by means of two methods. The distribution of olfactory cells within the epithelium is a very irregular one, their number ranging from 4 to 62 cells per 1000 mum2. Most commonly a density of 24 to 42 cells was encountered. Taking a mean density of 33/1000 mum2 and an overall olfactory area of 90 cm2, the total number of olfactory cells was calculated to run up to 297 million.

RE: Scent Lok Vs. Bloodhound Video
 

That's the thing DC. I have looked up this answer 100 times over the years and not only found no credible data. But have also found answers ranging from 1,000 times better than a human (which is the dumbest thing I've ever heard) to the best animal in the WORLD with the sense of smell.

Unfortunately over the years the greatest truths about hunting I've ever learned have been the exaggeration of it's 'professional' authors and sometimes even it's biologists.

Believe me.. I wish there was more credible data. But the hunters of the world and there authors have twisted it completely. How many times have anyone of else heard or read a whitetail can smell 100 times better than us. This you can look up anyday and find it's false.

Some might say this was semantics. But it's not. The difference between 30 times and 100 times is HUGE.

But the bloodhound truths are factual since I can find you much more than 1 credible study. And all the numbers range within this realm. No one hunts bloodhounds.. so there's no profit to be made by couch biologists.:)

But the point I was trying to make was with that 1 or 2 skin cells that a bloodhound can track. It's considered like NO other in the world from what I've read. Something that differentiates the bloodhound from all other animals that science can claim. (At this point). Something to do with their saliva and ears that lay down funny enough.

Sorry DC. I wish I knew too as to what the number of olfactory cells a whitetail has.[&o]

RE: Scent Lok Vs. Bloodhound Video
 

Thanks Duke, it would be interesting to see how a wild animal's nose,whose life depended onit, compared to what is considered the greatest nose on earth.

RE: Scent Lok Vs. Bloodhound Video
 

I don't think the bloodhound is considered the greatest nose on earth.

I think that title belongs to the shark actually. But I could be wrong. I seem to remember reading this fact a few times before.

The astounding thing about a bloodhounds nose is in it's ability to track 1 or 2 skin cells.

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You know what I meant :D

RE: Scent Lok Vs. Bloodhound Video
 

You also have to remember that those bloodhounds are doing what they are trained to do. Deer just happen to be down wind of something when they smell you. bloodhounds find the trail and go untill they find the source and deer happen to find the scent. but that is just how i see topic. they both have an increadible abillity to sniff things out.