Scentlok Products are a rip-off!!

[Sir Buckwheat]

Or at least thats what I had a guy tell me this weekend. My wife is 8 months and 3 weeks Prego and the 2 kids we already have were driving her crazy so I took them camping/hunting this weekend. Those with kids know that bowhunting with a 5 & 6 year old is about as easy as herding cats. We always have a good time and have lucked into shots in the past, but overall its just a fun outing with the kids.

 

Anyway Sunday night we were out getting firewood when we saw a small bunch of deer. I pulled off and was trying to put antlers on one of them when an SUV pulled up. The plates were from a highly populated West Coast state with lots of nice beaches but so as not to stereo type I won't mention the name of that state. The two guys were trying to see what I was looking at. I thought it was a bit rude, but there wasn't much I could do about it. I asked if I could help them and they asked if I was looking at elk? They'd been hunting for over a week and still hadn't seen one. Said they'd been up high and low and everywhere in between and had driven over 200 miles.

 

As we were talking I noticed the driver wearing his Scentlok suit with a cigarette in his left hand and an overflowing ash tray. There were obvious food stains on the front and I couldn't help but ask how he liked his Scentlok.

 

"Biggest bunch of BS there is! Its such a rip-off! I can't get anywhere close to a deer or elk in this thing, they always smell me!"

 

I supressed a grin and wished them luck.

 

So if anyone is wondering about purchasing Scentlok products and are a chain-smoking road hunter don't waste your money on them...or any other scent killing product. You'll be wasting your money. Also don't waste your money on a Utah Archery Elk permit either....

[BASS]

Who'd a thought that a product like that wouldn't deliver. I guess it *could* be possible to not let any smell out, but wearing a giant trash bag would get rather hot I think.

[WadeNAZ]

LMAO...Yes Trash bags do get hot...

 

Maybe these guys from that Sunny Beach of a state should jump on the bandwagon. And file suit there?

 

http://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/big-buck-...nt-lok-showdown

[.270]

scent eliminator clothes are a hoax, if you smoke or not. only thing that works is keeping the wind in your favor. even if you're a californicator. Lark.

[azslim]

Myself and friends have had luck with it sitting water when you can control the wind & game direction. I have them close enough that a doe blew snot on my boot when she finally decided I was a booger. A friend from Wisconsin had a big buck walk up to 15 yds of him one morning, then turn around and sneak up to 15 ft of him in the afternoon. These are wearing Scent Lok and a ghillie suit sitting under a tree.

[200"mulie]

well i don't need it come to find out this past weekend walked up to 4 elk monday mourning 40 yards and been camping for three days now . . . so you can say i smelt great without taking a shower for couple days . . . atleast to the cows

[25-06]

I have been 20 feet from 6 does waterin with a lit cigarett in hand and never once got busted.

Like Lark says "keeping the wind in your favor" is what works.

[Sir Buckwheat]

I like to use the Scent Killer spray and a wafer or two to help mask my scent. I would never dream of a deer not smelling me if it was down wind though. I think it has helped me a few times when the wind has swirled and I was in close. There have been times they didn't act like they smelled anything and other times when I could tell they smelled me but for whatever reason didn't seem alarmed. I figured between the scent spray and the cover scent it masked it enough they figured I was further away than I was....it proved a fatal mistake for a couple of them!

[.270]

i read a story about kodiak bear guides once. a lot of the old timers died from lung cancer because they "always" had a lit cigarette when they were after a bear, so they could watch the smoke and stay downwind. when they were stalking, the would light one with another. pretty ingenious really. most animals ain't too scared o' smoke and it gave the guide a visual. but not to healthy. fancy camo, stink free boots, anti stink spray, anti stink clothes, uv eliminators, etc, etc, are a waste of time and money and it's been proven in several tests by multiple universities. to the point that there have been a couple lawsuits over it because of deceptive advertising and flat out lieing. in order for charcoal to cover your scent, you have to be covered in it. putting a little bit in the fiber of cloth does nothing. cover sprays don't do anything. they can't. you still sweat and make body odors after you apply it. get other smells on you. deer's noses are so much more advanced than ours that there really isn't a way to measure it. dark clothes, staying in the shadows, knowing how to work the wind and being sneaky is what works. if a deer sees you move, it doesn't matter what kinda fancy camo you have one, you're busted. camo is made to please the eye of the hunter. you can't ask deer for their opinion. this color color co-ordinated stuff that has limbs and trees and leaves died into it cracks me up. you're trying to keep a deer from seeing you, not another hunter. haven't they pretty much proved they're color blind? i use woodland camo, when i can find it. blends in well everywhere. or black clothes. if you stop and kneel down, you look like a shadow, even if you're in the sun. if you have on ever kinda deer hai karate, uv spray and anti stink them actors sell on their 30 minute commercials, and don't keep the wind in your favor, you're busted. plain and simple. if you wanna spend a fortune on that stuff, that's fine. it's good for the general economy, but you're wasting your money. Lark.

[oz31p]

And I always thought my smoking was a liabilaty while hunt.....next trip 2 cartons.