Hmmm.... Lets follow the logic here..... Bought Scent-Loc that sat out in the store for weeks (at 4X the price of the regular camo.) Shot the buck of a lifetime the first time I used it!
MUST be the Scent-Loc!
Same as:
1) "Shot a buck right under me, right after lighting a cig.)
So.... Now I don't hunt without chain-smoking!

2) Trampled through the woods like a lost Elephant, stumbled on a great buck!
So..... Now, I make as much noise as I can, to attract deer!

3) Hunted all day, didn't see anything. Walked back to my truck and jumped Ol' Mossy Horns, bedded next to my bumper.
So..... Now I just pull up in da woods and sit on my tailgate!

It's easy to deny facts and science, when ou have invested so much time, faith, and money in the other direction.

(That's also why I no longer attend church). (Organized churches that is).

Opinion = WOM

Opportunity? You know nothing about me. I have hunted 9 different states, and all over those states, 90 % of the tim on public land. I shot mst of my bucks the 1st time I ever hunted a spot... It ain't luck, and it ain't "Opportunity"...
My skill comes from studyng buck behavior and noticing what they do and how they react... Scent stream touches them they smell you. I don't care how much you paid for your pants, they smell you...
I have watched crime dogs follow 3 day old human scent across concrete that hundreds of other humans have crossed since and find the exact trail of the exact person they sought. Deer smell 27% better than dogs... You can't beat a dog, you can't beat a deer.
I use milkweed to check air currents when hunting and scouting. Bottom line is people "think" there scent is blowing straight at the deer but it might not be... Thermal currents and terrain can carry the scent right over the deer or around it... When the deer hits the scent stream he smells you. Ain't nothing you can do to prevent that.
If you have ever been busted even once by a deer downwind while wearing your magc suit, it don't work...
The magic pixie suit won't hurt you, but the mind set that you can get away with something will...
People need to get away from buying "magic" products and focus on hunting skills. I kill my bucks on land where most people have a tough time killing dinks and does by hunting where they move in daylight and making sure they on't see, smell, or hear me... Pretty simple, yet most people don't get it. They want something they can just buy so they don't have to scout or work at it.

I'm with the hunting skills crowd. Scent deterrents are great if your using a stand or very slowly still hunting a small patch of woods. But when your archery elk hunt takes you over the top of one mountain and down into the next canyon you can forget scent loc protecting you from smell. Maybe for stand hunting. But spot and stalk hunting movement is the number one key to success. I have been busted by smell before but not as often as movement. I use what I can to try and cover scent but I don't buy scent clothing. Hunting over weeks at a time using spot and stalk method. Changing clothes often is more important. I hang all my bowhunting clothes after being washed in bags with pine brows a week before the season starts. It has seem to help more than anything. Hunt the wind and when you can't learn to shoot farther or let it go.

I don't need to know you to know if it wasn't for opportuity you wouldn't have shot any deer.

9 differnt states and it wasn't due to opportunity? I don't think you know what the word means. You clearly have had many opportunities.

Yep, movement is a killer and so is noise. My SL is very quiet and one of the reasons I bought it and like it. I'd wear what worked out west and I'd probably still wear my SL if it worked camo wise which I think it would in the Mountains. Just part of the approach and all most all my SL I picked up for better than half price, to insulated bibs, one for 22.50 and the other for 50. Cabela's MT50 parka with scentlok for 22.50, pants for 50, couple jackets for under 90, various gloves and head gear. Many seasons of use now so averaged out, aint to bad. Paid more for my bow than all my clothes including 4 pairs of boots and one pair of moc I use for spot and stalk.

I seem to do pretty well in a $40 set of BDUs... they must have carbon and silencers sewed right into them.

Yes, people can shoot deer without taking any scent
Precautions but I'm willing to bet that hunters that
Consistently shoot really big deer/elk etc. are doing
Something consistently to reduce the amount of
Scent they are spreading about.

I would guess that anything a hunter could do to mask his external scent could be outdone by a simple fart or the odor of his breath, perspiration, etc.