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Ozone on saddle, ropes and bow string

You guys trust it with you rap ropes, tethers and stick straps? Generally the items that get that mildew smell to them after being on a damp white oak. Ive got an old log6 machine that's collecting dust.
 
I've convinced myself into buying one now for two reasons hunting the obvious and last week I spilled a pan of roasted pork tenderloin in my truck seat i can't even describe how bad the smell has become ....so I'm hoping this will help get rid of it


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I have used mine on some nasty odors and it does knock it down noticeably, I just didn't know how the scent guys on the site were doing it for ropes etc. I am glad to hear I'm on the right track.
 
Last year ozone took out basically all the rubber on my bow. My boots took a beating. Anything elastic now is no longer elastic on my gloves, hats, jackets socks or pants. I over ozoned my gear I Built a 4x8x8 closet in my building and ran a commercial 4,000 square foot generator.
 
Last year ozone took out basically all the rubber on my bow. My boots took a beating. Anything elastic now is no longer elastic on my gloves, hats, jackets socks or pants. I over ozoned my gear I Built a 4x8x8 closet in my building and ran a commercial 4,000 square foot generator.
I like it lol. Go big or go home.

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For what it's worth I would never use an ozone machine for anything because it leaves an ozone odor which is foreign in the deer woods. ScentLok is actually coming out with one for your vehicle or whatever in 2018 and there's no way I'd use it.

An ozone machine company a couple years ago sent me 3 ozone machines to test and I put a pair of stinky sneakers in an air tight container with an ozone hose hooked up to it and without question it got rid of the human stench, but the ozone odor it left was obvious to me and when hunting mature bucks 3 1/2 years old and older in pressured areas, any foreign odor is a negative as it can alter the mindset of the buck when he's coming in to a destination location. Scent free with no foreign odors, cover scents or attractant scents has always been my preference as I want my locations to work on the merits I chose them for.
 
For what it's worth I would never use an ozone machine for anything because it leaves an ozone odor which is foreign in the deer woods. ScentLok is actually coming out with one for your vehicle or whatever in 2018 and there's no way I'd use it.

An ozone machine company a couple years ago sent me 3 ozone machines to test and I put a pair of stinky sneakers in an air tight container with an ozone hose hooked up to it and without question it got rid of the human stench, but the ozone odor it left was obvious to me and when hunting mature bucks 3 1/2 years old and older in pressured areas, any foreign odor is a negative as it can alter the mindset of the buck when he's coming in to a destination location. Scent free with no foreign odors, cover scents or attractant scents has always been my preference as I want my locations to work on the merits I chose them for.

Lightning will produce Ozone through electrical excitation of Oxygen molecules. This Is not a foreign odor but an odor found regularly In nature!
I have never had a negative reaction to Ozone from deer. Including mature Bucks and Does alike. To say It's foreign would not be correct.
 
It's the same smell you get after a thunderstorm.


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I think Ive read that the ozone molecule is unstable and loses the extra O molecule to become oxygen or it just breaks apart(I forget which) very quickly. This ozone smell doesn't linger, so long as you don't have one of the machines bolted above your head in the tree
 
The ozone smell does and can linger for quite some time. Granted I went way over board with mine but I could still smell it for over an hour after being in a tree. It does disperse eventually to where I can't smell it. What I would do is 15 minutes in my closet. Open up the building and closet and let it air out for 30 minutes. Pull out my hunting clothes and hang them outside while I gathered my gear dress and head out. Once in the stand I could still smell it from the inside of my jacket for at least an hour depending on how windy it was. I'm personally not planning on using it this year on my hunting gear.
 
Ozone is a health hazard. It's great for disinfection and killing things....all forms of life.

I worked in an aquaculture facility that had an ozone generator for use in the hatchery. Every morning you'd open the garage doors to let it air out before you entered cause honestly, it'd kill you.
 
The ozone smell does and can linger for quite some time. Granted I went way over board with mine but I could still smell it for over an hour after being in a tree. It does disperse eventually to where I can't smell it. What I would do is 15 minutes in my closet. Open up the building and closet and let it air out for 30 minutes. Pull out my hunting clothes and hang them outside while I gathered my gear dress and head out. Once in the stand I could still smell it from the inside of my jacket for at least an hour depending on how windy it was. I'm personally not planning on using it this year on my hunting gear.
Yeah I tend to do mine in a bin the night before for 30 minutes(most the timer on my machine goes to), by morning there is no smell.

I sometimes question it anyways. Ozone should kill mold/mildew yeah? So after a rainy hunt where I forget to dry out a strap I should be able to ozone it and the mildew smell go away. Never seems to
 
Make sure the strap is dry. Then try it.


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My bow doesn't fit in my ozone container. Plus it doesn't come into contact with my skin during hunting season so I haven't worried about it. Also after seeing what it did to my boots I didn't want to take a change on it damaging anything on the bow.

Your string doesn't touch your face when you practice shooting?


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For what it's worth I would never use an ozone machine for anything because it leaves an ozone odor which is foreign in the deer woods. ScentLok is actually coming out with one for your vehicle or whatever in 2018 and there's no way I'd use it.

An ozone machine company a couple years ago sent me 3 ozone machines to test and I put a pair of stinky sneakers in an air tight container with an ozone hose hooked up to it and without question it got rid of the human stench, but the ozone odor it left was obvious to me and when hunting mature bucks 3 1/2 years old and older in pressured areas, any foreign odor is a negative as it can alter the mindset of the buck when he's coming in to a destination location. Scent free with no foreign odors, cover scents or attractant scents has always been my preference as I want my locations to work on the merits I chose them for.
But doesn't ozone dissipate after a short time once the ozone generator is shut off?
 
I have two ozone units. Sent crusher for the car and a small unit from Boneview that goes in my bag with my clothes. I read on ozone and it does deteriorate rubber and elastic. So be careful how long you leave the unit on.
 
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