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Ozone on saddle, ropes and bow string

I have had very good experiences with ozone washing my clothing before wearing.
I have noticed deer don’t quite know what the smell is, but don’t alert. They can still track your ground scent. I had a doe follow my entry trail in reverse, but she never went on alert. She is an old nanny doe I know very well for her insistence on blowing continuously when she thinks anything wrong. I don’t get winded NEAR as much as I used to.

As far as ozone on my load bearing gear... I am okay with low levels, but won’t shock treat it like I do the rest of my clothing.


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I had a small room where I left it running for most of the season one year. All my gear was in the room and it made all the fletching on my arrows become brittle and break when touched or shot during practice.

With the new OZ line coming out from Scentlok I'd like to think the OZ bag approach would be good for short term treatment of gear (Backpack, ropes, saddle, ect) and non Scentlok clothes. Maybe 40 minutes in the bag? Just like recharging scentlok in the dryer?

I've been mixing my non-scentlock clothes in with my Scentlok stuff in 4 airtight IRIS tubs with the hope that any scent is pulled out of them into the scentlok stuff.

I also throw my backpack in one of these tubs hoping the same thing happens. But I'm not sure how much scent may be pulled out overnight before I'm in the woods again....

I like the idea of quickly treating the clothes & equipment I used in the field that day and the storing them in the airtight tubs.

However, I won't be buying OZ or Scentcrusher gear until I hear more about the residual ozone smell.
 
Tek said:
I had a small room where I left it running for most of the season one year. All my gear was in the room and it made all the fletching on my arrows become brittle and break when touched or shot during practice.

With the new OZ line coming out from Scentlok I'd like to think the OZ bag approach would be good for short term treatment of gear (Backpack, ropes, saddle, ect) and non Scentlok clothes. Maybe 40 minutes in the bag? Just like recharging scentlok in the dryer?

I've been mixing my non-scentlock clothes in with my Scentlok stuff in 4 airtight IRIS tubs with the hope that any scent is pulled out of them into the scentlok stuff.

I also throw my backpack in one of these tubs hoping the same thing happens. But I'm not sure how much scent may be pulled out overnight before I'm in the woods again....

I like the idea of quickly treating the clothes & equipment I used in the field that day and the storing them in the airtight tubs.

However, I won't be buying OZ or Scentcrusher gear until I hear more about the residual ozone smell.
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I have never had the smell bother a deer I would not use it more than 30 minutes in a bag and I only use it 30 minutes in my vehicle.
 
Tek said:
I had a small room where I left it running for most of the season one year. All my gear was in the room and it made all the fletching on my arrows become brittle and break when touched or shot during practice.

With the new OZ line coming out from Scentlok I'd like to think the OZ bag approach would be good for short term treatment of gear (Backpack, ropes, saddle, ect) and non Scentlok clothes. Maybe 40 minutes in the bag? Just like recharging scentlok in the dryer?

I've been mixing my non-scentlock clothes in with my Scentlok stuff in 4 airtight IRIS tubs with the hope that any scent is pulled out of them into the scentlok stuff.

I also throw my backpack in one of these tubs hoping the same thing happens. But I'm not sure how much scent may be pulled out overnight before I'm in the woods again....

I like the idea of quickly treating the clothes & equipment I used in the field that day and the storing them in the airtight tubs.

However, I won't be buying OZ or Scentcrusher gear until I hear more about the residual ozone smell.
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You only need 10-15 minutes usually. After a hunt I put all my non Scent Loc clothes in an Ozone closet and set the timer for 10 minutes. The next time I go hunt the cotton clothes smell like cotton.
I washed some of my next to skin clothes even though they didn't have any odor. I could see they were getting sweat stains. Still couldn't smell them at all. Couldn't believe how nasty the water was when I washed them. Still a good idea to wash stuff regularly even though you can't smell them.


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John Eberhart said:
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.
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I have to agree with John here. I follow his very strict scent program and had no issues with being winded all year. To experiment with I bought a small ozone generator to rid my gear of odors, which it did really well actually. The issue is my next two hunts I got winded by more than one doe, after not being winded all year and the only change was using the ozone generator. Ill keep it simple and stick with what has worked for me the last couple years... btw I have an ozone generator if anyone wants it.... $50 all yours.
 
g2outdoors said:
I just listened to a Podcast with the owner of ScentCrusher on Wired to Hunt. His rubber boots have hundreds of hours in their ozone box with no signs of wear. Ozone is only harmful to natural rubbers. Hunting boots are made using rubber compounds and shouldn't be harmed by ozone. YMMV.
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Any chance you can post a link to that podcast? I love Wired to hunt but I’ve never heard that one.
 
John Eberhart said:
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.
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I got the biggest Ozone generator off of amazon. It was for whole house treatment. I bought a grow hut. My thinking was to ozone all my clothes and crap.
I did not have any of the destructiveness with any of my gear that you guys have talked about. What I had was an Ozone scent that everyone could smell. Oh and BTW it made me cough like hell.
So yes did it get rid of odors..you bet, but I had a different odor, a strong ozone odor.
Now my machine was way too big, and I am still intruiged by ozone, but John Eberhart is right...the stuff stinks.
 
Not all rubber is created equal with Ozone. Some can hang OK for quite a while.

Also, manufacturers are now considering ozone exposure in their clothing design to avoid non conforming costs associated with quality issues. Many are ozone resistant. Not ozone proof. A good metaphor for those familiar with water claims.

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I use the Ozonics Dri Wash bag and have had zero problems with gear. The HR 300 cycles the ozone through with air flushing through the baffles. Ozone is naturally occurring and will not spook game.
 
Root said:
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.
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Pull the whole truck, gear and all right in the box - I LOVE IT!
 
fawnzy said:
Ozone is tough on rubber. So boots, neoprene, elastic cuffs and the foam rubber seal in the back of your truck.
Otherwise it shouldn't affect your gear.


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I had a pair of La Crosse 4X Alpha Snake Boots a couple years ago and I would use OZONE to "clean" them. They lasted less than 4 months before they were cracking and no longer waterproof. To be fair LaCrosse took them back, but I've never treated rubber boots in Ozone since that.

Just my $.02
 
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