Ozonics.....worth it?

[mrb985]

Hey all,

I have been on the fence about ozonics for a few years, mostly because it is 500 bucks. does anyone have experience with this unit? good or bad. just looking for opinions.

Thanks!

[beaver hunter]

I think it merely gives you a few extra seconds as they still know something is awry. I have also seen nosejammer work in a similar fashion, you eventually get winded but not right away.

[3blade]

If you hunt the same blinds or stands day after day, it might help minimize the contamination of the area. Might. As in you maybe get a couple extra days before they figure you out, or a couple extra seconds if a target animal ends up down wind. I don't think you can hide the scent coming directly from a human. Decide for yourself if that's worth the cost. I don't use one. I do spray my boots if stand hunting.

[CanadianEh]

Nope. All marketing hype.

Just think of the number of animals that have been dispatched all over the world over the last 100 years.. ( let alone the last 1000.) with little more than time and effort.

If someone hundreds of years ago could do it half naked only wearing a loin cloth with a premative bow and arrow... Pretty sure ozonics aren't required.

Just my. 02

[3blade]

Originally Posted by CanadianEh

Nope. All marketing hype.

Just think of the number of animals that have been dispatched all over the world over the last 100 years.. ( let alone the last 1000.) with little more than time and effort.

If someone hundreds of years ago could do it half naked only wearing a loin cloth with a premative bow and arrow... Pretty sure ozonics aren't required.

Just my. 02

True, but they weren't stuck on a few acres

[Dubious]

ozonics work great at draining your wallet...

[reddeerhunter]

If it can fool a drug dog and Dean Partridge hammers bigguns with it, I say use the shat out of it!!!!!!!!!

[Skoaltender]

save the $$ and play the wind.

[Weedy1]

Pure BS.

http://huntingunderground.com/ozonics/

[58thecat]

Originally Posted by Skoaltender

save the $$ and play the wind.

Yup, a gimmick like lots of other hunting crap or accessories out there.

[Skoaltender]

Rumour has it ozonics working on a new cloak app for your iPhone that makes you 99.9% invisible.

[cutthroat666]

I use an Ozonics unit when I am in my treestand and have done so for three years.

I have no proof that it works but I never get busted when in my stand - regardless of wind direction. I have had a number of deer - downwind - indicate that they know something isn't right but they keep coming in and each time I am surprised.

With that said, I also shower with anti-scent soap and all of my clothes I wear in the stand are washed with ant-scent detergent. I am careful not to move when a deer could see me and I am quiet in my stand at all times. I wear camo face paint and I never look a deer in the eyes. I think every bit I do to not tip off a deer that I am there helps my cause.

If you think ozone generators are just gimmicks, that's fine, but I feel that anything I can do legally and ethically to help my chances of harvesting an animal is worth looking at.

I believe that my Ozonics unit gives me one more slight advantage over the animals and I'll stick with it.

cutthroat

[wcbarker]

Originally Posted by Skoaltender

save the $$ and play the wind.

Survey says yup do this

[Skoaltender]

Originally Posted by cutthroat666

I use an Ozonics unit when I am in my treestand and have done so for three years.

I have no proof that it works but I never get busted when in my stand - regardless of wind direction. I have had a number of deer - downwind - indicate that they know something isn't right but they keep coming in and each time I am surprised.

With that said, I also shower with anti-scent soap and all of my clothes I wear in the stand are washed with ant-scent detergent. I am careful not to move when a deer could see me and I am quiet in my stand at all times. I wear camo face paint and I never look a deer in the eyes. I think every bit I do to not tip off a deer that I am there helps my cause.

If you think ozone generators are just gimmicks, that's fine, but I feel that anything I can do legally and ethically to help my chances of harvesting an animal is worth looking at.

I believe that my Ozonics unit gives me one more slight advantage over the animals and I'll stick with it.

cutthroat

Even though I am a sceptic of the ozonic product, I am a user of scent free soap, laundry detergent and clothing sprays. With that being said I also don't buy the overpriced stuff they sell at outdoors stores(scent blocker, scent away).
There are several arm and hammer scent free products that I feel work just as good and are less than 1/4 the price.

[muzzy]

Bowhunter magazine had interesting article on ozonics last winter. They were given a few units to try when first came out around 7 yrs ago The editor said the writers were all really skeptical but after using it sure changed there minds, They had such good success that the editor said they had to let the rest of the writing and TV industry know about them even though they were competition. The writer of article made it clear they werent given the units for free they had to return them or purchase them which they all did. You will note that practically every show these days they are using them and the professional writers are all using them. Wonder why they would all lug these around if all you AO professionals ( who have obviously never used one) say they are useless.
I own and have used the scentloc smaller unit in my groundblind with great results on downwind animals. Yes I place blinds and treestands to take advantage of predominant wind patterns but animals dont always read the script.

[Skoaltender]

I would like to see a truely unbiased test on the product before I fork up the $$ for a product that is so heavily pushed onto the consumer by nearly every hunting show out there. I'm not coming out to say bowhunters test on the product was a load of crap but Ozonics pays big $$ for their advertisements in that magazine. I highly doubt they are gonna say this product is junk. $$ can make people say anything.

[muzzy]

google some of the tests I believe sports afield ran a test using search and rescue dogs. I know I have had whitetails come out directly downwind from me at 20 yds when in ground blind and they had no reaction at all with my enforcer ozonics on. same this summer in wyoming with antelope in a blind that was over 40 c sweating like crazy and no reaction at water hole. But i'll leave it up to the AO expert team to tell me

[Skoaltender]

Originally Posted by muzzy

google some of the tests I believe sports afield ran a test using search and rescue dogs. I know I have had whitetails come out directly downwind from me at 20 yds when in ground blind and they had no reaction at all with my enforcer ozonics on. same this summer in wyoming with antelope in a blind that was over 40 c sweating like crazy and no reaction at water hole. But i'll leave it up to the AO expert team to tell me

I'm not doubting you, I just have yet to see a unbiased test which is why I had my doubts.

[Full Curl Earl]

I just love the amount of armchair critics! Never seen or used the product the OP asked about, but it's a Junky Gimmick. That's awesome. I'm a skeptic as well and was hoping for useful info but ended up mostly with History lessons on loin cloth hunters. Geez!
Lets hear some "I have used one and its junk" story before judging.

[antler1]

I decided to take the plunge last year and try an Ozonics unit. After 37 years of bowhunting I realized that I may not have all that many hunts left, and therefore I want to make the most out of every time I get out. I was a skeptic too to but you don't know until you give it a try.
Ya- they are expensive, but I can afford it so why not? I do all the pre-hunt precautions with showering, clothes washing, changing into hunting clothes beside the truck, play the wind on stand approach etc etc. My experience with the unit has been all positive. I never got snorted out once last season. I shot a dandy whitetail which slipped in on me from upwind while two other bucks had come in downwind of my stand. I should have been busted but I wasn't.
I happen to know a couple bowhunting outfitters that use Ozonics on every stand they put a client in. That is a significant investment on their part and one they wouldn't do unless it proved beneficial.
Maybe one of them will step up and relate their experiences with the Ozonics.

[kujoseto]

Originally Posted by Full Curl Earl

I just love the amount of armchair critics! Never seen or used the product the OP asked about, but it's a Junky Gimmick. That's awesome. I'm a skeptic as well and was hoping for useful info but ended up mostly with History lessons on loin cloth hunters. Geez!
Lets hear some "I have used one and its junk" story before judging.

A loin cloth works better than any camo I've used. Never tried it? Do so on your next trip out. Once you go loin cloth, you never go back

[Weedy1]

Originally Posted by muzzy

google some of the tests I believe sports afield ran a test using search and rescue dogs. I know I have had whitetails come out directly downwind from me at 20 yds when in ground blind and they had no reaction at all with my enforcer ozonics on. same this summer in wyoming with antelope in a blind that was over 40 c sweating like crazy and no reaction at water hole. But i'll leave it up to the AO expert team to tell me

You should read this:

https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quali...d-air-cleaners

[Dubious]

If ozonics are such a good product at removing odors and helping air quality why dont they have them in any building hvac systems? Can't tell me all those businesses like paying for activated charcoal filters and the service contracts to have them regularly swapped.

[Weedy1]

Originally Posted by Dubious

If ozonics are such a good product at removing odors and helping air quality why dont they have them in any building hvac systems? Can't tell me all those businesses like paying for activated charcoal filters and the service contracts to have them regularly swapped.

Because ozone will kill you if you breath too much. Rule of thumb is if you can smell ozone it is doing damage to your lungs.

Whens the last time you heard of a hunter dying from breathing in what his Ozonics device puts out?

[mrb985]

Well everyone, I picked one up today so we will see how it works. I was winded by a doe yesterday at 30 yards so we will see if it works or not. Thank you to the few helpful posts on my question.

Happy hunting,

Matt

[mrb985]

Originally Posted by antler1

I decided to take the plunge last year and try an Ozonics unit. After 37 years of bowhunting I realized that I may not have all that many hunts left, and therefore I want to make the most out of every time I get out. I was a skeptic too to but you don't know until you give it a try.
Ya- they are expensive, but I can afford it so why not? I do all the pre-hunt precautions with showering, clothes washing, changing into hunting clothes beside the truck, play the wind on stand approach etc etc. My experience with the unit has been all positive. I never got snorted out once last season. I shot a dandy whitetail which slipped in on me from upwind while two other bucks had come in downwind of my stand. I should have been busted but I wasn't.
I happen to know a couple bowhunting outfitters that use Ozonics on every stand they put a client in. That is a significant investment on their part and one they wouldn't do unless it proved beneficial.
Maybe one of them will step up and relate their experiences with the Ozonics.

Thank you, very helpful post.

[CanadianEh]

Will it work, Maybe in the perfect lab situation yes.

Will it be effective in the real world, with many many changing variables, who knows. Any story about a device like this is purely anecdotal at best. There is no way to prove the exact same scenario wouldn't have played out the same way without it.

IE: If you use it and get to harvest a good animal, you might swear by it and tell people it is the best thing since sliced bread. Even though it may not have actually done anything at all, and you would have harvested the animal anyways on that day in those conditions without it.

I am not saying there is NO chance in hell it would work, but the upside is likely pretty darn small for the amount invested.