Anyone here tried these out or know if these systems actually work? The big claim is that the clothes block your body's bioelectric signature and make your body seem invisible to animals. Tons of reviews online but I was wondering if anyone on here has experience and noticed a difference between normal hunting camo.

https://hecshunting.com/

Thanks for any help.
Gig em

Scam

By scam I mean marketing.

By marketing I mean it's camo pajamas that don't do diddly

I have no input other than one of their infomercials showed an armadillo walking up to a person in the suit. I've never needed a hecs suit to have an armadillo bump into my foot, or have deer walk very close to me if the wind is right.

It's really good marketing at best, and snake oil at worst.

They have been around for a long time, always the same schtick. I have had the privilege of knowing and spending considerable time with some amazing hunters- many whose livelihoods depend upon their success. None of them use or brags about HECS. If it was as easy as they advertise, I guarantee those guides would be using it.

Just go out early, hammer a long piece of rebar into the ground. Hook up a long run of 10ga wire to the rebar and then stick the other end of the wire up your…. well, you get it, you will be grounded and no electrical bio signals or whatever.

From the HECS website:

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Muscle movements, and even your beating heart produce electrical energy which is emitted from our bodies. Animals are capable of detecting these electrical energy emissions, which confirms living beings and movement.

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With what sensory organ do animals detect this energy?
If they are so good detecting energy, how do predators manage to ever kill anything?
And here I thought animals used their eyes to confirm movement.

My guess is this is marketing talk for that feeling you get when you feel like someone is watching you or following you.

It's nothing scientific it's just that hunch you get when you feel like you're not alone.

Apache said:

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From the HECS website:

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Muscle movements, and even your beating heart produce electrical energy which is emitted from our bodies. Animals are capable of detecting these electrical energy emissions, which confirms living beings and movement.

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With what sensory organ do animals detect this energy?
If they are so good detecting energy, how do predators manage to ever kill anything?
And here I thought animals used their eyes to confirm movement.

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Sharks. So watch out for those land sharks, doncha know

Walmart has stuff that probably works as good as that stuff for much cheaper…. Mainly blue jeans, grew up on a ranch shot many deer growing up, didn't matter if I was in camo or my workout clothes or blue jeans, my gun shot the same way out of a blind ….

I used to go on these hunts in west Texas w a group of friends they would all be cammoed out, I would be in blue jeans work out shoes and under armor shirt…. Killed as many deer or animals as any of them… I mostly worried about snakes and would change into snake boots if I was walking through high grass or thick brush..

That Hek stuff looks nice

TikkaShooter said:

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Scam

By scam I mean marketing.

By marketing I mean it's camo pajamas that don't do diddly

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He's got Joe Rogan on his page, guaranteed followers. I love listening to Joe on a lot of topics/guests etc.....However, he has a lot of nube hunters that follow him and some of the other big name guys & they buy what they are told.

I have a lot of respect for Cam Hanes/Steve Rinella etc, but some of the newer guys don't know that real hunting ain't like you see on tv.....

Solves a problem that doesn't exist. This isn't predator vs alien. If you walk into a spot for the 10th time in a season the same way every time, deer are going to know you are there.

Pay attention to your access routes, work on scent control and be disciplined about hunting the right winds. It's not as fun as buying cool new gear, but it will actually work, so that's a plus.

A lot of hunting in texas is done over a food source, artificial or otherwise. Prey animals know they are most vulnerable while feeding, and act accordingly. That's why the guys on tv can get away with more movement, is because typically they are hunting travel corridors. You have to do a lot right to get a mature buck into bow range over a food source.

Story time: had a wise old buck (7.5+) on a smallish (300 acres) property I hunt. Was super consistent (as in came in every morning and evening), but always ducked out when we hunted, despite being low pressure as possible, hunting the right winds etc. I was sitting there on a Saturday afternoon, frustrated, because he was ghosting again after being on camera every morning and afternoon the prior week. As I was sitting there, I heard the neighbor leave. There is a gravel patch on the road in that we share about 500 yards from the stand, and it sounded like the car was right next to me.

We did the same thing every time we went to that spot. We would approach via a creek bed that ran behind the blind to minimize our presence, but we would always drive up to the gate about 400 yds away and walk in, after driving through that gravel patch. I figured the buck was bedding in the neighbors field, and when he heard tires on gravel, would go scent check the gate, and then leave.

The next morning I hiked in from the north side of the property, about a mile. Wind was in my face with the steep creek bed at my back. He walked out at 8am like he owned the place. He went 40 yards after I shot him.

Moral of the story, we spend a lot of time trying to pattern deer. I promise you they spend just as much time patterning us.

I know of old ranchers who have taken their best bucks while in blue jeans and a long sleeve shirt while feeding range cubes ... so maybe this stuff works. Or maybe not.

Pics or it didn't happen

JK considering I've seen the pic already

True but I've also seen animals run after ranch trucks feeding range cubes because they've been conditioned to them and have no reason to be afraid. Doesn't mean the deer didn't detect them but that they were conditioned to ignore any warning signs because they associated them with food.

I don't really give a crap if people buy the HECS stuff or not but I think it's a waste of money. At the end of the day, how far are you willing to go, and more importantly - spend, before it just doesn't really make a difference?

Use camo clothing?
Absolutely some animals I hunt do see well
Take scent control showers and use descent deodorant?
Absolutely, not a big inconvenience
Spray down with cover scent or descent?
Sure
Use an Ozonics machine?
Until this past season, no but I now have one. Not sure it was worth it yet but I gambled on it.
HECs?
Not for me

FWIW on scent control - Steve Bestul deer editor for F&S a few years back used to run an annual scent test on the various products out there using police trained German Shepards. His findings were the same every year with cover scents the only thing that provided a few extra seconds before being detected - until he tried ozone. That provided a few extra minutes of detection. I sprang for one last year and believe it has helped

Saw the same thing and picked one up before elk hunt last year. Just haven't had that anecdotal confirmation yet.

Reminds me a bit of that fad a while back of the charcoal infused under layer. I saw print adds for it showing a "hunter" at the bar the night before and having a successful hunt the next day because he was wearing that stuff.

If memory serves there was a serious lawsuit over their claims.

I spent an afternoon shooting a plate rack with a 45, turned around, and there was a herd of axis watching me from about 30 yards away.

I'm pretty sure almost all of it is hoakum.

If someone ever starts doing camo based on UV cameras, etc that might do something.