Ozonics Scent Eliminators

I wouldnt spend the money. Get on downwind side of the deer.

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never hurts to kill your scent

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This is impossible.

Myth busters dressed in a rubber suit and a gas mask and in less than 5 minutes a blood hound found him. A deer smells much better than a dog.

Spending 100s on a gimmick won't get you any closer to killing the deer you're after. Time in the woods will along with luck.

You could be upwind of the biggest buck of a lifetime and even though he smells you, something compels him to walk right up to you. Spend time, not money.

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The stand I’m hunting has the wrong wind and it’s blowing straight into the cornfield I’m overlooking and straight at where I saw the big buck.

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The only thing money can buy that would prevent the deer winding you in that scenario is another stand on the other side of the field.

Folks commenting about using another stand or just getting downwind are missing the point.

Frequently on easterly winds, they will back up on themselves and blow in the opposite direction for a few seconds at a time.

An Ozonics unit combined with using one to clean your clothing most definelty helps in those situations.

BTW, I’ve been here for two weeks in White County. Worst rut weather I’ve seen in 20 years.

In a ground blind I'd say it would work ok. But it's putting out a scent the deer don't know. It can spook them or they walk on by. But in the outside air with wind it's just not possible to hide all of your scent.

You can use it to kill the scent on your clothes but as soon as you put them on, your scent has permeated the clothing. It's common scents.

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I do fully believe though that deer can be conditioned to human scent, or be so rutted up they don’t care. Likely why folks believe this product or that works.

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100% agree. But the deer have to not associate danger with human scent. You can leave your scent every day in Sherburne but I don't know if it would make a difference. Private property it most likely would.

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Deer just don’t smell you, they have the ability to gauge how for you are away.

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This is what most people miss.

Ozonics or not, the whole scent elimination game is really just minimizing your scent as much as possible, especially in areas where they are hunted by seeveral individuals. That buck coming down the trail that pulls up at 80-100 yds leaves a bowhunter screwed.
With maximum effort at scent control with/without Ozonics, the same buck may not pull up until 20-40 yds out, thus presenting an opportunity for a shot.

What’s more important much of the time is playing the thermal shifts in a spot regarding temp rise/fall in morning or evening. Some spots are just better morning stands than evening , simply because of the timing of thermals to deer movement.

Zipped a 140 P&Y in Ga a few years back that came in trailing a doe from dead downwind. Sun still out and my scent still rising due to the afternoon thermals in that bottom still rising.
If that buck/doe came by 30 minutes later my scent would have been dropping and guaranteed to have caused them to stop/change their route.

Just my dos centavos

The ozone smell can spook deer. I have had to turn off my ozone to calm them down. I don't use it while hunting anymore. Ozone is best used in the truck and/or closet to deodorize your clothes and gear.

You are better off investing heavily in Scentlok than an ozonics. Follow the John Eberhart method as best you can. It works. Scentlok isn't magic and shouldn't be thought of as such. However, it will get you busted less and you will have more shot opportunities.