Reddit reviews WHITETAIL'R ScentPURGE 50
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Kills odors for huntingUses ozone to eliminate odorsCovers up to 80 sq ftAttack and destroy odors at a molecular level with the science of Ozone!Both A/C and 12 volt D/C power cords for fast and easy power access.ScentPURGE produces odor eating ozone at levels that are below EPA and OSHA standards.With no filters to change or clean, our ScentPURGE products will give you years of odor killing service at a great price.Ozone seeks out odors and neutralizes them and the odor is gone!
I bought a small ozone generator last year ($40 unit for the truck/in a bag) to test out. I generally wash my outer garments every 3-4 hunts and my under clothes after every trip. I wanted to cut down on how many washes I had to do so I bought the small unit to test to see if it does indeed help with the odors. I do not have a separate washer/dryer for hunting clothes and I NEVER run a clean out cycle to remove any residual soap from my normal washes so I think my actual clothes washing technique is mediocre at best. That's why I wanted an ozone unit, plus it was cheap to try.
Here are my unscientific results:
The toughest test that I could try was my boots. My feet sweat bad which makes my boots stink. I've tried hundreds of sock combos and drying techniques to keep my feet and boots dry. I've rubbed antiperspirant on my feet the night before a hunt. I can literally wring my socks out after a hunt. This moisture has always made my boots smell.
I purchased a large bin to mount the ozone unit in. Its large enough to hold all my clothes that I use for deer hunting plus pack and boots. The ozone unit was mounted in the lid. I placed my Muck Arctic Pros which stunk to high heaven in the bin after they sat for a night on a boot dryer (normal procedure for me). Half hour "soak" and I could still smell my foot funk but only slightly. It was reduced enough that I encouraged my wife to take a smell. She is unbiased and know what my feet smell like, so I couldn't convince her to take a full on whiff of the boots before. She could smell my odor but also noted it was greatly reduced. After an hour total I could not smell any foot odor. But after 5 min of being in fresh air the foot odor was back but only ever so slightly. I then placed my boots in the bin, alone over night. The next morning I shut off the unit and left the boots alone while I was at school. I came home and smelled the boots later in the day and there was no odor. I will note that even though the unit was off for 8 + hours I still smelled ozone in the bin. I left the boots out and I smelled them every now and then. No smell. After a full day of sitting out they still had no human detectable odor to them anymore.
My conclusion on the boots:
I was impressed enough to "wash" my clothes in the ozone. It seemed to have worked to eliminate odors in my clothes as well. In between hunts or over night I plug my unit into my truck and leave my clothes out to "wash" in there. Sometimes I just toss the unit into my boots for a bit. I believe that it kills odor enough that I am going to build a small closet in a closet and mount a home ozone unit in there to be able to wash a bulk amount of clothes at once.
I also think that MAYBE a unit can help in a ground blind but I don't see how it will work in a treestand. Also this is not something that will fool a deers nose like many advertisements say. Its certainly another tool in the toolbox of hunters but if you want to fool a deer play the wind.
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link to my generator. Not the best unit and there are others that put out more ozone per minute/hour but it was a cheap thing to try.
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Supposedly it works, but I wouldn't rely on it, and I think paying $400 for one is a bit ridiculous. Especially since it adds one more thing you have to carry into the field. Play the wind and apply a cover scent. I'm thinking about buying this unit, as it is almost as effective as Ozonics without the need to carry it into the field, and only costs $50: http://www.amazon.com/WHITETAILR-401-WhitetailR-ScentPURGE-50/dp/B0058WEWGS
Last year Field and Stream did a test with drug sniffing dogs to see if they could follow a scent while wearing carbon activated clothing, spray scent neutralizer, and cover scent. The only thing that significantly reduced the dog's time in finding the hunter was cover scent. So during deer season (and probably a month or so before), use only scentfree soap and shampoo, scent free detergent, and make some cover scent from local leaves, sticks, acorns, apples and conifer needles.
People will swear by carbon activated scent control clothing, ozonics, and all sorts of scent control methods, saying "I had a deer approach me from upwind." But you almost never see a deer that smells you first. The only scent control I trust 100% is playing the wind.