HECS Technology - A Gamechanger in Whitetail Concealment
It’s a crisp fall morning in Tennessee, minutes from the break of dawn. The frost crunches beneath your feet as you walk to your stand, your dad’s old .270 slung over your shoulder. The sound of movement through the brush to your left wakes you from your morning stupor. You stop, fully alert, and drop down to a shooting position as you unsling your rifle. Racking a round into the chamber, you prop yourself against a tree in your crouched stance and wait.
The seconds tick by as you sit, still as a rock, fighting the urge to shiver. At last, the buck appears through a gap in the trees at 75 yards.
You take a moment to note the direction of the wind: it’s whispering straight into your face.
Perfect.
You carefully bring the scope to your eye, filling the reticle with the tan coat of the whitetail, placing it center mass and just behind the shoulder. He has no idea you are there.
As your finger slowly uncurls to remove the safety, the buck jerks his head up, looking right in your direction.
“Don’t move, don’t move,” you think to yourself. And yet, despite your composure, he takes off into the woods, never to enter your scope again.
Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Sometimes, even in the most ideal conditions, animals just seem to have a sixth sense, some innate awareness of a human’s presence. And for centuries that’s all it seemed to be. “There’s just some side of an animal’s senses that we’ll just never understand,” they’d say.
Until now.
Hunting with HECS | 2020
In 2006, Mike Slinkard, an avid hunter from Eastern Oregon, gathered a team of researchers to study that “mystery sense” that has frustrated outdoor enthusiasts for millennia. After years of research and tests, they discovered that the old-timers weren’t so wrong after all, that animals really do have a sixth sense, what biologists have referred to as their inner compass. In short, they are attuned to the electromagnetic field of the earth, allowing them to orient themselves and migrate accordingly. These electromagnetic fields are also produced by living things when they move.
Since making this discovery, HECS Technology has created several garments that block these electric impulses for conservationists, wetsuits for divers and spearfishers, and, most interestingly to us, camouflage for hunters. Many stories have surfaced of turkey and deer hunters having birds land on their gun or raccoons walking right by them without a care in the world due to the concealment provided by the HECS Stealthscreen.
With deer season just around the corner, the HECS Stealthscreen gives hunters an advantage that will allow them to sit totally invisible to any whitetail that comes by their stand. Check out their website here to see their full array of products so that you, too, can have the upperhand this season. And make sure to check out our new show Hunting With HECS on Waypoint!
