Do you use Scent blocking clothing/sprays? (poll)
02-04-2009, 08:44 AM
#11
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 437
RE: Do you use Scent blocking clothing/sprays? (poll)
I have the whole works, dream season suit, the boots, gloves, hat, you name it, all from scent blocker!! I shot 2 of the 4 deer this year down wind of me... You people that say it is a joke, better think again. I know it is hard to get 100% scent free, but scent blocker or any other scent eliminating products will give you RESULTS.
02-04-2009, 09:45 AM
#13
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: YewNork
Posts: 1,794
RE: Do you use Scent blocking clothing/sprays? (poll)
When i first bought my scent lok clothes i was not sure if it worked, so i waited for really good sales and got scent lok clothes that i would ware wether or not its scent lok, so even if it dont work i still use it for the right weather conditions. For example i got Cabela's MT050® GORE-TEX® Scent-Lok®/pants for 100 bucks including tax!(normally costs 220) I would of bought them for that price even without the scent lok...
02-04-2009, 09:55 AM
#14
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: CT, USA
Posts: 3,058
RE: Do you use Scent blocking clothing/sprays? (poll)
I posted a similar poll not long ago. I use and will continue to use sprays- I do believe they help (somewhat)
I purchased an original Scent-Lok suit wayyyy back before most people knew about them- back when they had to hock the suits at local hunting shows. I used it for a few years. I came to the conclusion that I still had to play the wind, however if the wind varied a bit or swirled for whatever reason, like the sprays, it helped .
As an example (and anecdotal evidence- certainly not scientific) I remember one extremely warm 80 something degree day in October bowhunting and I was sweating like a pig- going in and on my stand. The wind changed/ (top of a hollow) not long after I got in there, so I was continulously testing the wind with powder and it kept falling down to the ground and drifting into this one particular area before becoming so fine I could no longer see it it. I really didnt have time to move anywhere else and hunt for the evening so I stuck it out.
About 30 minutes later after running a doe around my area for awhile and giving up on her, I had a nice 6 pt buck come back to my doe grunts and walk right down the path I came in nose to the ground, and then where my wind powder had been falling to the forest floor. He caught me move a little, relaxed after looking through me. and then milled around in the area for a bit. Finally presented me a good shot and I centerpunched his lungs. After watching him do a giant semi-circle around my stand back up into the field and then cartwheeling to the ground , I tested the wind again and the powder drifted right into that area I had shot him. I don't know how he did not get my wind that day I have to honestly say the suit (WITH MASK!) is the only logical explanation I can give. Overall I think the mask is very important for whatever added effectiveness the suits give you.
On a side note-It was so hot that day and he had been running like a mad man that it looked like an axe murder scene following the bloodtrail.
Will I buy more scent clothes this year? I don't know- I'f I'm able to procure some property to hunt again, I may invest in one of those silvermax suits or whatever, or some other kind of "base" layer- and then rely on my normal "scent free as possible "regimen (how the clothes are stored, putting them on in the field, , proper washing etc).
I purchased an original Scent-Lok suit wayyyy back before most people knew about them- back when they had to hock the suits at local hunting shows. I used it for a few years. I came to the conclusion that I still had to play the wind, however if the wind varied a bit or swirled for whatever reason, like the sprays, it helped .
As an example (and anecdotal evidence- certainly not scientific) I remember one extremely warm 80 something degree day in October bowhunting and I was sweating like a pig- going in and on my stand. The wind changed/ (top of a hollow) not long after I got in there, so I was continulously testing the wind with powder and it kept falling down to the ground and drifting into this one particular area before becoming so fine I could no longer see it it. I really didnt have time to move anywhere else and hunt for the evening so I stuck it out.
About 30 minutes later after running a doe around my area for awhile and giving up on her, I had a nice 6 pt buck come back to my doe grunts and walk right down the path I came in nose to the ground, and then where my wind powder had been falling to the forest floor. He caught me move a little, relaxed after looking through me. and then milled around in the area for a bit. Finally presented me a good shot and I centerpunched his lungs. After watching him do a giant semi-circle around my stand back up into the field and then cartwheeling to the ground , I tested the wind again and the powder drifted right into that area I had shot him. I don't know how he did not get my wind that day I have to honestly say the suit (WITH MASK!) is the only logical explanation I can give. Overall I think the mask is very important for whatever added effectiveness the suits give you.
On a side note-It was so hot that day and he had been running like a mad man that it looked like an axe murder scene following the bloodtrail.
Will I buy more scent clothes this year? I don't know- I'f I'm able to procure some property to hunt again, I may invest in one of those silvermax suits or whatever, or some other kind of "base" layer- and then rely on my normal "scent free as possible "regimen (how the clothes are stored, putting them on in the field, , proper washing etc).
02-04-2009, 10:18 AM
#15
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Kodiak, AK
Posts: 2,877
RE: Do you use Scent blocking clothing/sprays? (poll)
I use them when hunting whitetails in woodlots where I can drive from home. If I'm hunting anything else it's on multi-day hunts and you can forget the Scent control clothing. You've just got to pay attention to the wind and know when to go or stay.
