Scentlok/scent blocker
 

what is with everybody saying this stuff doesnt work? i mean im uneducated to the subject but why does it not work? im just curous as to WHY people think it doesnt work?

Apparently, to actually "re-activate" the the scent locking properties, you'd have to heat it to a temperature that would incinerate the garment.

I don't know for sure if it works I'm no expert in the field, I do own a few garments. If I think it works thats good enough for me

i heard there getting suid for false advert. somebody is going to get paid

I have no Scent Lock hunting gear at all so I can't speak for or against it. But I can share about 3 close encounters with Deer last year which may give some insight that will help. My first close up encounter with a Buck was at 12 yards,eyeball to eyeball. The wind was in my favor what little there was and the morning thermals had not kicked in yet due to the coldness not to mention the heavy frost on the ground December the 5th of last year.The Buck was looking right at me the whole time and never bolted off. Why? How could I get so close to an animal with such a great sense of smell? I had no Scent Lock on at all but I had the weather in my favor,wind ,thermals,frost etc. Also I do use scent cover and scent eliminator products. I wash my hunting cloths everytime I come out of the field,I take a shower before going out,I leave all my hunting cloths outside along with my rubber boots.I use every product I can and when at my hunting spot I spray the cover scent eliminator on me and my gear. The most important thing in all of this is the Wind then the scent issue is a close second.The second Buck and Doe encounter 1/2 an hour later was at the same distance.Six Does and the Buck I took once again came in upwind of me and they came right up to me and never sensed I was there,the Buck died that hour. Once again I credit the Wind and decent scent control for leting me get so close on the ground,I was not in a tree stand but on the ground between 2 brush piles with logs on both sides. The 3rd. encounter was with a Buck only 10 yards away on January the 2nd. and He was down wind of me on the coldest day of my hunting season. He scented me but not until he was at 10 yards distance and once again I was on the ground. I believe in scent control products because I got real close 3 times, but having the wind is the key in all this to me. Sorry it took so long to explain but I hope my encounters shed some light on the issue.

Big thread about it here: http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/poli...k-lawsuit.html

Play the wind! That will always work, however any additional help you can get, is welcomed in my book. :biggrin:

Well I will give you my opinion on SL clothing. First off they are real good quality made products with nice camo patterns. However, if you are buying this to hide your scent your crazy. Many people have been victims of some good ol fashioned "advertising". Plain and simple. People are willing to pay whatever price to get a chance at a buck pictured on many products these days. Hunt the wind like your supposed too and you can hunt in your cow poop covered boots. Just makes me laugh sometimes when I see what people will spend their money on. Once again, not saying their products are junk quality wise, just that they are not going to eliminate scent like they claim.

Agree completely
 

I have nothing against either of the companies and I currently still have a Scent Shield blaze orange coat (required by state for gun season). I do think they invested millions in advertising and it paid off for a very long time. We have also used the silver lined clothes with good luck, but if anybody thinks they are going to just throw on these types of clothes and the scent will be gone, then you will be sadly mistaken and probably very upset. These type of products greatly when used as part of a system. Just my thoughts, Good luck

well i personally do not have the money to buy scentlok suits or anything like that. i mean i have the facemask but thats it. but ive found brands like medalist and rocky as well as field and stream that are just as good as my friends scentlok that ive worn for half the price. but i, just like all of you have said, play the wind and do everything else i can do to reduce scent, store my clothes and boots in scent safe bags and wash my clothes in scent killer as well as spray down throughly before entering the woods and when i get to my stand.

I am qualified to tell my personal fact that ScentLok definitely works. Ever since it first came out, I was using it religiously in the field bowhunting whitetails. I use to have at least 4 garments at once. The close encounters I had with whitetails at such a close distance when the deer were straight down wind of me or crossed my scent stream as they were walking... and to not EVER have a whitetail smell me to the point where they were alarmed in the least, shows me that it does work... absolutely. However, I did not treat it like the magic pill. I did have a clean regimen. If you look above at doetrain's cleaning regimen, then step it up a tad more, plus wear ScentLok with a customized DOUBLE breath shield, you'll start to realize why it worked so well with me. I have had way too many close encounters with downwind whitetails to think it does not work. One year from Sept. to Dec. 31, I missed about 21 days of hunting. Do the math; I'm out there quite a bit enjoying nature's beauty... up close and personal.

I do not believe I need ScentLok to be successful. I downed many a deer even before ScentLok was heard of, like many here. Using scent killer products do work and if you couple that with good ol' hunting prowess and working with the wind, you're bound to get what you are after, period.

iSnipe

The theory versus the actuality just doesn't work, and that is why Scent Lok lost the lawsuit, and I wouldn't be surprised if other so called scent blocker sprays/clothing are successfully sued as well. A deer's nose, as well as most other wildlife, has an incredible ability to detect minute parts per million scent molecules. I understand that a deer's nose is as good or better than a bloodhounds. When these type products are proven by independent testing to work fooling a bloodhounds nose I may believe in them.
The products don't fool the animals nose, they fool the hunter.

Scent Lok has 8 class action lwsiuts against it, in different states. In the first case in Minnesota, a Federal Court judge , just recently found them guilty of "fraud"s for false advertising, because their product can neither "eliminate"" human odors, nor can it be re-activated in a household dryer, because it takes over 500, and some say 1500 degrees to reactivate activated carbon of the 40+ compounds found in homan perspiration.

Scent Lok also lost it's patents, because the technology to reduce odors in clothing was already patented. Right now anyopne can make and produce odor reducing clothihg, becauae Scent Lok lost the patents. I'd look for new, innovatve products (that actually do wrrk) to be on the market within the year.

what got sscent lok , ws thei8r outlansidh claims, which they could not prove. I guesyou should not lie to the US Government.

God bless,

T.R.

The whole story is on the internet.

The only other company that could he, is Robinson/Scent BLocker, and they already settled their case in all 8 states, but now they are being sued by Scent Lok. I hear they shelled out over $3 million dollars, but it may not be right.

The companies other thn Scent Lok, named in the lawsuits, are Cabela's, Gander Mountain and Browning, They all paid royalties to use products from Scent Lok to put into their clothing. They are all liable- along with Scent Lok. If the Scent Lok patent was no good, I wonder if those companeis will sue Scent Lok to get back all of the royalties they have paid over the years,

God bless,

T.R.

I too, have used both Scent blocker and Scent lok. I love them both, its sad people are suing everyone in this world for anything and everything thay can...If you dont like the product, get a refund and dont buy it again...I use many products out there to help me be a better hunter, some work some dont, But you dont see me suing...It's crazy!!!! My opinion...So are they gonna sue the toilet paper business , because it claims its soft, and it feels like sand paper or the shoe company, because the shoes dont make you a faster runner, or fabric softner you use, smells bad ... or the diet products out there , because you didnt lose the weight. so many things .....come on now...Get over it! I will continue to use these products....Bowhunter from Mo.

Star witnesses!!!!
 

I heard that Hank and Larry of Tinks 69 commercial fame, were called in as expert witnesses for the Plaintive!!!:busted:

One thing about Scentlok, it can"t hurt. Does it work? This may be a little indelicate, but try wearing your Scentlok suit after a good soup bean dinner, I guaruntee it doesn't block that scent.

Like iSnipe said, if you use it to enhance everything else you doing to be and stay as scent free as posiable it can't hurt. I light of all the sueing going on with those companies, I think it works. I have had to many experiances to prove to me that it does.