Is Scent Lok a gimmick??

[Bill Carlsen]

After watching many of the TV hunting shows it occured to me that even though guys like the Drury Bros. who have all the bells and whistles when it comes to scent control still do not hunt stands where the wind is not right. That tell me a lot about the stuff. However, I do have some of the clothing. I got it through Sierra Trading post and it is very well made clothing and STP prices are pretty good if they have your sizes. Up here in NE the slightly heavier weight of the clothing is like wearing a sweater and that helps on cool days. Another benefit to the scent lok stuff is that it makes a very quiet wind breaker. As for scent control, it seems to work the first few times I've used it but it looses its effectiveness quickly. I like washing my clothes in scent free detergent, shower with a commercial scent free soap and take my chlorophyll. Drying clothing in the fresh air seems to work better than the drier as well. My wife and I also wash our towels along with our hunting clothes...why take a scent free shower and then dry off with a towel that smells of laundry detergent....even the odorless stuff.

[Bjorn]

Scentlock claims are way overblown! Wind is everything.

[Dave Lay]

yes, it is a gimmick, and they market it well, but common sense needs to prevail.......

[Tom Mussatto]

Why go to all the trouble and effort to bend over and pick up a handful of mud to smear on your clothes when you can purchase nice clean "dirt scent" from H.S. at your local sporting good store?

Yep. Walleye fishermen and bowhunters, ya can selle'm about anything.  

[rg176bnc]

I personally would rather hunt w/ it and no shower upwind of all the deer than down wind without it and a shower.  I hunted big deer really hard for 5 years w/o one and alerted about 30% of the deer I encountered .  The 6th sense some guys talk about is switching wind and nothing more.
Ive wore a scent suit now for over 10 years and have spooked literally about a handful of deer since.  Here in the midwest if we waited for a consistant wind to hunt we could probably start around Thanksgiving.
Deer have a pretty good nose, but you cant convince me its near as good as a dogs and certainly not as good as a pigs.
Coyotes have the best nose in the woods and I have fooled plenty of them that were upwind in bow range as well.