Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game Your Scent Lok suit may be worthless!

Check this out. Seems like the Scent Lok folks have been sued in court over the overall effectiveness of their product.

http://trmichels.com/ActivatedCarbonScience.htm

Testimony has been sealed...all sorts of gossip about their product. Entertaining reading.

Wow your going to ruin someones "Dream Season"

I remember JJHack voicing some serious doubts about it's effectiveness some time back. Like a number of years back.
I've never even considered it because I won't wear anyhting that does not pass moisture readily. One of the fastest ways I know to get either heat exhaustion or to suffer from hypothermia is to wear clothing that does not pass moisture quickly. E

This came to light a few years back. Several independent tests proved them worthless, while costing hunters an arm and a leg.

Better idea....play the wind, hunt smart and save your $. And for God's sake, don't wear any blue tape.......

that stuff is like a sponge once its saturated with scent it just starts leaking scent out.you would have to get it so hot to reactivate it that it would destroy the garment

I farted in mine once......the odor escaped up through the neck area.

Last year ,there were several threads on the subject and that they were being sued. It kinda died out and I never heard anymore about it.

So much for locking in the scent.

The TV ads say "Forget the Wind" --- any ,any hunter worth their salt would only laugh at that statement. I also Camo paint my projectiles and spray them with No Scent. The deer never see or smell them coming. --Web

Somewhere in the testimony they basically found out that they didn't last longer than 30 days no matter what....

I always knew it was a fraud...A few years back I had the chance to watch a couple of K9 teams find some soldiers who were wearing far higher quality NBC (chemical warefare) suits...The two dogs were worked into the wind and were not following a ground track, but simply air scented the hidden soldiers with no problems at all..

The whole concept always cracked me up! I would love for my grandfather to be alive so he could read about that, I bet he would just grin and shake his head...

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Scent lock, cover sprays and scent eliminators are pure snake oil... All of them.

How did our forefathers ever manage to bag deer by only using smoothbore Flintlocks and no scentlok clothing? I'm sure they had to be within 100yards to hit a deer in the vitals. Also how did the Native Indians hunt without scentlok? They had to get up close to a deer to make a kill shot with a primative bow. I'm going back to the old tried and true methods.All this junk they sell us hunters is only out there to take money from hunters.

heck i don't even wear camo most of the time. just jeans and a t shirt

Cool...more camo at slashed prices.

I just bought 2 pair of pants marked down 85%. I can't get scent-lok or any other pants at that price.

Always wondered about this no scent stuff- I train K9 Narcotics- so just to see what happens.....we took a new scent lok suit that had been stored separate from all other clothing, wrapped it around a gram of dope,and had a dog search for it. He went through it like there was nothing wrapped around the dope. Tried the same with this baking soda based scent "eliminator". Same result. If you know your mammalian olfactory physiology, dogs aren't abundantly different in that respect than deer or elk, and not quite as good as a bear...
Ingwe

What really cracks me up is that one of the best bowhunters I've ever met in my life smoked 2 packs of Marlboros a day. He's also a longbow shooter that uses nothing but Chundoo shafting and Wensal Woodsmans. He's never killed a Bull Elk outside of 15 yards, and he's the most careful guy I know when it comes to playing the wind game.

I'm a lot more careful about leaving a scent, but I refuse to buy Scentlok stuff, or cover scents, etc. They're a gimmick that has seperated many a gadget oriented hunter from his hard earned money.

Dan; did you also notice ( not to take anything away from the guy..) that Chuck Adams never sprayed anything on himself but Right Guard and never wore anything but green plain flannel shirts to hunt in till he got famous.....
Ingwe