re: Ozonics (and scent control in general)

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Play the wind....

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What do you do when the wind swirls? I like to hunt every chance I get. Not going because Of the wind isn’t an option.

Ozone works. That’s why commercial cleaners use the units after a fire to rid the building of the smell of smoke.

There’s absolutely zero arguing with that.

Edge of cleaning and monster pine trees typically, I climb as high as I can go. But I am in good climber and rifle hunting not bow. I tie my gun rope at 50 feet and try to climb until I get to the end. It all depends. Bow hunters there were always over 30. A lot of old growth and good climbing trees. Crazy shite that high up to see a group of deer suddenly smell you 100s if yards away, but it happens.

Whitetail deer are skittish? Tell me more!

Did you use it in a tree? Is it quiet enough to do so?

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Proper stand location and height are what have netted all of my bow kills. Early season I like the to hunt over isolated water sources after using multiple cameras to establish ingress and egress patterns. From there it's finding my tree to take advantage of the terrain and my path in and out.

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This is a fantastic way to approach it.

On the few times I had full access in Kansas and MO to hunt I did very well despite limited scouting because ingress and egress patters are so well defined along draws, ridges, and tree lines between CRP, thickets, and dense woods to the multiple wheat, corn, and other crops fields.

I mean in Kansas the trees run along the creeks which are like veins in the landscape funneling down to valleys where the plentiful crops are.

And along all of those areas BIG mature relatively straight trees grow that are perfect for getting higher in.






Where I hunt sweet gum, crooked white oak, multi trunked and limbed water oak, paper shell pecan, cedar elm, mountain cedar, and red oak trees grow in dense thickets on relatively flat ground surrounded by large open cattle pastures of costal bremuda. The land is divided into irregularly parcels and perimeter and cross fenced extensively. The property itself is overlaid with a network of oil and gas access roads of wonderfully loud caliche rock. The overall property is scattered with multiple cattle tanks and ponds along with some smaller creeks. The individual properties have all been broken in large sections for each hunter nearing 15 to 20 square acres each.

Establishing a "pattern of ingress and egress" is nearly impossible. Big mature bucks may stay within their same 2-3 acre dense wooded area because they have water, food, and protection there. When the land is large and flat and all woods have preferred mast, the deer simply wander where ever they please. Patterns when established don't last long and are subject to change due to the cattle rancher moving cattle, the neighbor deciding to operate a shooting range, the gas guys installing a new pump, another hunter putting in a feeder, or simply perceived pressure from me scouting or hunting. During the rut of course they move but there pattern is wherever the doe in heat happens to lead them.

When I am able establish a pattern, finding a funnel or choke point with a good tree, in bow range, that will allow me to get above 20', much less 2 trees (so I can hunt either a S or N wind) is next to impossible. In many cases the thickness of the still green throughout hunting season canopy prevents getting higher because it is impossible to shoot through. Finding all of that with quiet undetectable path in and out is the diamond in the rough.

Like many, I assume, I get to hunt when I get to hunt. I can plan to hunt specific weeks or moon phases but I certainly cant just take off because the wind is right. So, always hunting the correct wind may leave me never hunting the buck I have seen on camera.

So, yes, you make some good points but I don't think your process or suggestions will always work for every situation.

I'll post a google maps photo when back at a computer. Maybe you can teach em something.

I may learn something too. Your available area sounds like some places I hunted when I was stationed in Georgia and South Carolina. I assume you are hunting in Texas?

I just ordered one of these. I’ll report back.

Hunt only favorable winds