hey everybody Brandon Mason here along with my buddy Dan Pickar and we're going to be looking
in in this review at the new Ozonics unit uh that is really turned out to be more of
a game changer than we thought for bow hunting and don't forget to subscribe to our youtube
channel for more helpful reviews just like this ozone which i never knew that it killed scent
and i'm a bow hunter i always thought if you just play the wind you don't have this problem
right but actually testing and understanding what ozone does to scent molecules or to scent
made me a believer what ozone is is a it's o3 it's so oxygen that you breathe is o2 ozone's o3
it comes in contact with whatever scent molecule is out there and it attaches to it neutralizes it
and oxidizes it and that's why the smell goes away and there's so many uses for ozone it's incredible
Ozonics has had units similar to this but this one actually has a lot of improvements compared
to their other units but before i even get into that i mean i came into your office after
my spring bear hunt and i'm like dude i the guy who's letting me sit in his tree stand over the
bear bait that he had up in idaho basically said you cannot sit in that stand unless you're using
these Ozonics units i'm not gonna let you because you're gonna screw everything up and i watched it
work i watched bears coming in behind me downwind of course and uh as the Ozonics line says you
chase the wind so you get that um that 03 blowing downwind because you want it to cut all your scent
out and i saw bear sniff in the air being very cautious coming and checking you know the bait
site what it does is it creates that blanket over your scent emission yeah and so your scent comes
off whatever that might be it comes in contact with that blanket of ozone neutralizes it yep
right and in it and you'll see right here we have with this is the the hr 500 this is the new piece
from Ozonics it has a lot of improvements not just to the device itself but to the accessories that
are available with it and one of which so i was hunting out of a tree stand for spring bear and uh
they had one of these which is basically you loosen this up and you can configure this
i'll show you how to attach this to the bottom of this here in a second but
and this goes in the tree they also have ground blind mounts but i wasn't using that of course
and it's really easy to to attach to the tree and but it was really hard to get out of the bracket
of this well they made improvements to that so everything's been improved and it's really easy
to use really easy to set up they made some really important improvements so they had a lot of demand
from their customers i guess from they wanted the fan to be quieter and so they quieted that fan
down especially when they're on the boost or their hyper boost mode you know every little
thing counts in that moment of truth especially when you're in a in a tree stand because whether
it's some guy set up tree stands over wallows for elk some do it for black bears of course
white-tailed deer i mean on and on there's a lot of uses for that or even in a ground blind you're
in tight quarters you're expecting tight shots you're in the animal's living room basically and
you have to safeguard against everything noise scent you know all that stuff and a lot of times
with us hunting out west and hunting in warmer weather maybe and hiking in you kind of sweat up
one of the other things is movement of course when you're hunting in close proximity especially for
archery is movement is critical and if there's one thing that animals pick up on quickly is movement
in an area that they're not used to seeing movement because you're in their living room
normally you mount this 6 to 12 inches above your standing height
in the tree um you don't want to have to reach up and adjust settings or turn it on and off or
whatever when the moment of truth is coming in so there's an this is app enabled now and so you can
control everything really easy to connect you know i kind of geek out a lot of the new technology
that is is there from optics companies trail cam companies you know whatever's just fun to use and
this was extremely easy to connect really easy to use they kept it simple and we'll go through those
features a second and or you can use the remote control obviously i take this noisy carabiner off
but and it's got a velcro wrist strap or you can strap it onto your tree stand or whatever
and you just hold this button in for a few seconds it automatically connects to the device and then
you can adjust the the standard boost hyper boost modes while you're sitting there especially if
you know there's a lot of animals coming in different directions in those low light hours
which they usually do you can boost that ozone up just a little bit to help you out yep you
told me too with this unit you can put it into a bag with clothes right there's a dry wash mode
and i was kind of curious what that meant and what this is when you push that dry wash mode or enable
it through the app it the unit will run for 10 minutes and then shut off automatically and the
reason why you would do that is Ozonics has scent free gear bags or lockers that you can put this in
there turn it on through the app so you're not even around it really you know you close up the
the storage unit whatever you're using and it will just drench basically your gear with ozone
and eat all that scent away in 10 minutes it shuts off you're good to go for the next trip
yep and and i use that all the time and i don't i don't know about you but i don't like washing
my gear if i don't have to and like my wife would cringe at this but like if i i pull stuff out of
the plastic right like brand new stuff and it kind of some of the stuff will smell like polyester
it has that like a warehouse-y i put it into a bag and i run ozone on it and it takes my new clothes
from that smell to scentless and then i don't have to wash my clothes so i mean think about it we're
all paying so much for our hunting gear now too that not just because it's a pain in the butt or
loses its efficiency uh to wash it but uh it wears it out faster wears it out plain and simple yep
make it last as long as you can use Ozonics yep exactly so real quick here i'm just going to
do a little tutorial on the app and so downloaded it from the play store i've got an android based
phone they have it for iphones also you turn it on and it instantly wants to connect and so if you
go to your settings you can say scan for devices and it's got this device right here if you want to
rename the device you can do that and i named this one Eastman's Ozonics just so we could remember
submit and you can also check for updates and this is brand new unit so of course there's no
updates and then you go to the information tab and there's a contact us full customer service email
and phone number i hit the home button and you can see on here you can turn it on you can hyper
boost it boost it dry wash put it in the locker whatever you're going to do and then at the bottom
they have they're getting data from the national weather service and it tells you what the
temperature of your area is with your location enabled the wind direction the wind speed sunrise
time sunset times humidity pressure elevation and lat long so pretty cool a little feature and it's
and it's pretty simple that's all it is it's not menu after menu after menu it's just really easy
to use and i i think that's ingenious it's kind of fun to geek out over the stuff and and to be
moving as little as possible when you understand in case you have to make adjustments i i have to
admit i'm eating my words because i i thought initially when some of this stuff came out that
maybe is a little gimmicky or whatever but it works i've witnessed it we've got friends that
witnessed it you've got tons of you know firsthand use and it flat works for any style of hunting
and there's different purposes so maybe you're an ounce counting back country hunter yeah maybe
you're not going to pack this unit you know 20 miles in the backcountry or something but
um but there's tons of other uses for it like you said there's the truck um usage and then
the lockers and all that but this hr 500 is the newest piece from Ozonics it's brand new
and it's just exciting to see some of the things they're doing you know what to bring in the market
because if they did this and the products we've already used what's next exactly should be cool yup