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re: Ozonics (and scent control in general)
Posted on 11/8/19 at 9:25 am to Outdoorreb
Posted on 11/8/19 at 9:25 am to Outdoorreb
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That doesn’t mean that Ozonics don’t work or aren’t worth using.
How much money is needed to be spent in order to see a monster buck? Not counting getting a shot at it? All those gimmicks cost. Instead you could literally pay to kill a monster in a high fence just to hang it on the wall and probably save money. Spend the time scouting and use the wind. Im 100% positive that works better than anything you can buy in a store.
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Posted on 11/8/19 at 9:39 am to saintsfan1977
I have had the same ozonics since 2016. It’s not like you have to buy one every year.
Posted on 11/8/19 at 1:01 pm to saintsfan1977
I think the misunderstanding is that those of us who use ozone or carbon clothing don’t think we are fooling a deers nose with a magic product. (At least I don’t). What I do believe is that correct use of certain technologies may increase my odds of going undetected by some small amount, maybe 5-10%. And maybe that one time it does make a difference I get a chance to harvest a mature deer. I have limited time to spend in the woods every year, and it’s my favorite thing in the whole world. So whatever advantage I can give myself, no matter how small, is worth my money. And sure, I could probably save my money and go on a paid hunt in a high fence and shoot a stud, but that’s not why I am hunting. I enjoy the hunt and the fair chase and harvesting a deer just wouldn’t be as rewarding if I didn’t put in the work for it. So to each his own. Decide what works for you and go for it. You can think I’m an idiot for falling for these gimmicks, and that’s fine by me. I’ll keep repeating the process that I have seen results from and happily spend my money to do it. Happy hunting!
Posted on 11/8/19 at 1:17 pm to djs017
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You can think I’m an idiot for falling for these gimmicks, and that’s fine by me. I’ll keep repeating the process that I have seen results from and happily spend my money to do it. Happy hunting!
Not at all. Its your money. I also have limited time to hunt so I put myself in my stand and hope for the best. I wear rubber boots and shower with the cheapest scent free soap there is. Ivory or Dove. I dont wash my clothes in scent free detergent anymore. They are only worn during the hunt. I put them on and take off at my car. At home they go back in the bag. I have the money to spend on anything they sell that would possibly work but Im of the belief that as long as Im in my stand, Im in the best position to kill a deer. Good luck this year.
Posted on 11/8/19 at 9:54 pm to way_south
In rural, backwoods Mississippi I’ve come to learn that a wood burning fire is one of the best cover scents I can have. Deer smell it constantly (on top of cover scent and no other human odors). That said I don’t hang my clothes on top of a fire and wouldn’t do it in a more rural location.
Posted on 11/8/19 at 11:22 pm to Hunter6868
Smoke kills scent as long as they don’t associate it with people
Posted on 11/8/19 at 11:48 pm to TutHillTiger
Well according to most of these post just climb 30 feet and you are fine. But that’s bulllshit too, I have been picked off by bucks 40 and even 50 feet up. It all depends on the wind, and thermodynamic properties. And yes they can smell you 5 miles away etc. You can’t hide all your scent. Did you clean out the wax in your ears, did you sweat even a bit climbing up, you took off your watch right? are you planning on breathing? You are just trying to get odds a little bit better. Where I hunt now probably complete waste of time as 95% of deer are killed during the rut. All you can do is try to mask it.
I don’t buy those $400 ozone unfits but the little personal ones for $100-150. I have 5 of them. I always use 3 now to surround me.
I know they work because I was in a trophy camp in Mississippi For a decade and where you could sometimes see 100s of deer a day. I sat on a ridge and had some decent activity but nothing within 30 yards.
I tried it 3 days later with personal ozone devices doing everything else the same and had animals all over me including about two dozen pigs and bunch of young bucks. They were “on me” for over 45 minutes.
Repeated this same exercise on two other locations, one being an very old 8 foot wooden tree stand. I had over a dozen deer on me for over an hour, which really tested my ability to stay perfectly still. Several got within 8 feet. I could not believe that they couldn’t see me, or smell me. Third time was safe deal, a freakin squirrel actually ran right across my arm, not on it but close enough I felt him. These were open stands on cold arse days with wind under 10 knots.
You obviously don’t have to use them, but they don’t hurt
I don’t buy those $400 ozone unfits but the little personal ones for $100-150. I have 5 of them. I always use 3 now to surround me.
I know they work because I was in a trophy camp in Mississippi For a decade and where you could sometimes see 100s of deer a day. I sat on a ridge and had some decent activity but nothing within 30 yards.
I tried it 3 days later with personal ozone devices doing everything else the same and had animals all over me including about two dozen pigs and bunch of young bucks. They were “on me” for over 45 minutes.
Repeated this same exercise on two other locations, one being an very old 8 foot wooden tree stand. I had over a dozen deer on me for over an hour, which really tested my ability to stay perfectly still. Several got within 8 feet. I could not believe that they couldn’t see me, or smell me. Third time was safe deal, a freakin squirrel actually ran right across my arm, not on it but close enough I felt him. These were open stands on cold arse days with wind under 10 knots.
You obviously don’t have to use them, but they don’t hurt
Posted on 11/9/19 at 7:14 am to TutHillTiger
quote:
40 and even 50 feet up
Posted on 11/9/19 at 8:10 am to TutHillTiger
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40 and even 50 feet up.
Im guessing you either hunting on the edge of a cutover or hunting in the only tree on the property because where I hunt if you were able to climb 40-50ft, your visibility would be limited to the base of the tree you climbed.
Posted on 11/9/19 at 8:25 am to saintsfan1977
I see this thread brought some strongly opinionated singulair view folks.
Let me see if I can emulate:
That expensive stuff doesn't work you are all fools
Just like scent control BS, no point in wearing camo deer, dont see color anyway.
Really nothing you do is gonna make a difference in getting detected.
Gandpappy used to shoot em off his combine with a 357 revolver in the corn fields, dont know why you idiots are worried about all this stuff.
Why dont you just drive your truck into the food plot and hit one with the bumper
More deer die on roadways than by hunters annually so you need to just play the odds
Oh and the wind. Only drive into the wind
Let me see if I can emulate:
That expensive stuff doesn't work you are all fools
Just like scent control BS, no point in wearing camo deer, dont see color anyway.
Really nothing you do is gonna make a difference in getting detected.
Gandpappy used to shoot em off his combine with a 357 revolver in the corn fields, dont know why you idiots are worried about all this stuff.
Why dont you just drive your truck into the food plot and hit one with the bumper
More deer die on roadways than by hunters annually so you need to just play the odds
Oh and the wind. Only drive into the wind
This post was edited on 11/9/19 at 8:56 am
Posted on 11/9/19 at 4:07 pm to Bleeding purple
I've got 30+ years of hunting experience in Iowa and Missouri and a couple of walls full of proof that there are better things to spend $300 on than an ozone machine.
This post was edited on 11/9/19 at 4:11 pm
Posted on 11/9/19 at 6:50 pm to navynuke
What is the $300 being spent on?
Posted on 11/9/19 at 7:05 pm to navynuke
quote:
couple of walls full of proof
Pics?
Posted on 11/9/19 at 8:50 pm to SoFla Tideroller
This post was edited on 11/9/19 at 8:52 pm
Posted on 11/9/19 at 9:30 pm to navynuke
You mount that stuff up there where you are from? All I see are a bunch a rattling horns.
Nice deer for real, though.
Nice deer for real, though.
Posted on 11/9/19 at 10:21 pm to navynuke
Awesome. Any cool stories attached to any of those hunts?
Posted on 11/10/19 at 10:07 am to SoFla Tideroller
The smallest one was my first bow kill and I got him after messing with a bobcat for about 15 minutes with my grunt call. That cat was very confused. He caught the buck on my wall slipping in behind my tree and cleared datum. The buck walked in and stood right under my stand looking for the "buck" he heard. He finally moved out enough to give me a good shooting angle. I have bigger bow kills but that one will always be special.
Posted on 11/10/19 at 11:05 am to Outdoorreb
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What is the $300 being spent on?
You can put it towards another mount after you climb higher in your tree.
Posted on 11/10/19 at 11:08 am to navynuke
Very cool
All these years later, I still remember the hunt I killed my first buck way more vividly than a lot of the bigger bucks that came later.
I guess we derailed the thread from Ozonics/scent control. Sorry.
All these years later, I still remember the hunt I killed my first buck way more vividly than a lot of the bigger bucks that came later.
I guess we derailed the thread from Ozonics/scent control. Sorry.
Posted on 11/10/19 at 11:22 am to SoFla Tideroller
I wouldn't call it derailing. 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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