re: Ozonics (and scent control in general)

New to hunting, but how important is scent lock when hunting a box stand? I can see where it would have an impact when hunting a ladder or tripod stand, but does your scent as big of an issue when hunting a box stand?

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But ozone works

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There is absolutely no scientific proof of that. Your scent is at the bottom of the tree you climb or the stand you get in. If they are underneath you the ozone thingy isn't working at all.

I used to wear scentloc and spray myself down. It's all BS gimmicks and a money racket.

Myth busters has a guy dressed in a gas mask and plastic suit, rubber boots, head to toe with "no way" of his scent getting out. He went hide a few hundred yards away.

A tracking dog found him in minutes. A deer smells much better than a dog. You can't fool them with some electronics BS, spray, scentless soap, dirt wafers etc. Every time you walk you have scent particles leaving your body and falling to the ground.

Just because you see deer doesn't mean they don't smell you.

Dogs have roughly 220 million olfactory receptors. A whitetail deer has over 290 million. Humans have about 5 million.

Save your money. Climb higher.

I've never used one, but a buddy bought one to try and increase his chances on killing a monster buck he had on camera. The buck would never come into bow range for almost a month, so I told him to leave it at home. He killed the buck on the next hunt. Like my Dad and many others have said, bucks don't get that big by being stupid.

If non of that stuff works like advertised, why isn’t there any lawsuits?

Scent control? Ha. My uncle just smokes grape cigarillos. Kills more than anyone I know.

I think a lot of folks underestimate the ability of a deer's nose. If you could smell as well as a deer, you could come home when your wife was cooking dinner and tell her every ingredient and how much in every dish she had on the stove.

Cover scents have to be the biggest gimmick out there and probably do more harm than good. Once a deer has smelled the cover scent and you, then it becomes a red flag every time the deer smells it. I'd bet my left nut that most deer associate nose jammer with danger. I bet that ozone has a smell that deer can pick up also.

What a deer does when he smells you really comes down to that deer's tolerance for human presence. At Clear Creek, those deer have a zero tolerance policy. One molecule and they are gone. Where i hunt in Oklahoma, deer don't seem near as alarmed by human scent, likely due to light hunting pressure and the large amount of daily interaction with the rancher and family.

I try to keep myself and my clothes clean and use the "hunting" soap and detergent, because I worry much more about the scent I leave walking in than the scent coming off me in the tree. Save your money and hunt the wind.

In a box they may work with scent going out of window.

But, hanging in a tree? No way. There is no way all of your scent is mixing with the ozonics. A deer can smell extremely good.

Plus, I don't want to breath that stuff.

Humans can’t fathom how well dogs can smell.A narcotics officer told me about drug sniffing dogs.Guys put marijuana in 2” pvc pipe with ends glued,put that in 4” pvc pipe with moth balls and end caps glued.Dogs can still smell the marijuana.
Consider that deer has more scent receptors than a dog,virtually impossible to beat a deers nose.
I’ve had beagles that could trail a rabbit across gravel and blacktop roads.Not fast but they could do it.A rabbit has about the least scent of any game animal I’ve ever sniffed.