2007-08 SWS Findings

[Professor T]

While statistics in a lot of cases don't necessarily prove anything they are interesting to look at when seeing what actually took place. In my opinion if you want to see how this product works you should try it yourself.

Going back two years ago before trying SWS products I was under the impression from my experiences that deer urine products actually scared off deer. I had actually never had a deer come by while I used any type of product. I had no desire to try any product relating to deer urine. pdaddy contacted me and asked me to field test his products. I agreed. The conditions were that I reported the truth about what I saw. I was impressed. This year he asked me to do the same. I continue to be impressed.

Below are the statistics from this year's hunts:

[Professor T]

Archery hunts:

No scent used:
53 hunts
184 Deer seen
4 Deer shot at
Ave. 3.5 deer seen per hunt

Hyper Estrous X
1 hunt
3 deer seen
0 shots at deer
ave. 3.0 deer seen per hunt

Hyper Heat
6 hunts
25 deer sween
0 shots at deer
4.2 deer seen per hunt

Hyper P
29 hunts
119 deer seen
5 shots at deer plus 1 hog
4.1 deer seen per hunt

Hyper P and Hyper Estrous
1 hunt
0 deer seen
0 deer shot at
0 Ave.


Rifle / Muzzle Loader hunts
No Scent used
32 hunts
79 deer seen
1 deer shot at
2.5 deer seen per hunt

Hyper Heat
4 hunts
3 deer seen
1 deer shot at
.75 deer seen per hunt

Hyper P
2 hunts
0 deer seen
0 deer shot at
0 ave.

Non Hunting sightings were 78 deer

[Professor T]

Another interesting statistic would be my own deer sightings. I can see what went on during these hunts as opposed to what was told to me.

Bucks that were 2.5 years and older (shooters on archery hunts)
10/2/07 2.5 y 8 pt Hyper P
10/2/07 2.5 y 8 pt Hyper P
10/14/07 3.5+ 8 pt Hyper Rage
10/21/07 2.5 y 7 pt No Scent
10/21/07 5.5 y 12 pt No Scent
10/25/07 2.5 y 7 pt Hyper P
10/25/07 2.5 y 8 pt Hyper P
10/25/07 5.5 y 12 pt Hyper P
10/25/07 2.5 y 8 pt Non Hunt Sighting
11/16/07 2.5 y 8 pt Hyper P
1/26/08 3.5 y 9 pt Hyper Heat

Of the 11 shooter buck sightings one was while not hunting, 2 were while not using scent, and 8 were while using scent.
I used scent 37 times
I used no scent 25 times

All of these buck sightings were within 35 yards of my stand with the exception of the non hunting sighting and the last deer while ML hunting. Could be a coincidence of course. But no by what I have noticed on the stand by observing deer.

[Professor T]

Observations:
While last year Hyper P secured a place in my hunts, it continued to impress me this year. In my observations deer, particularly bucks were very calm on the plots while using this product. I did have several does with fawns that were nervous all year. This was because other deer were shot while they were on the plot and they knew it was not a safe place to be. They continued to come out and feed but remained nervous. Other does I had to either throw my water bottle at them from the stand or stay there all night long. Yearling bucks which are the easiest to fool showed no sign of caring. I had a couple of different bucks look straight at me and never left the plot nor got nervous.

I killed my biggest deer in my life using Hyper P this year. I cannot give 100% of the credit to the product but it did have an impact and I may not have had the opportunity if I wasn't using it. this hunt for this deer was planned intensely by placement of corn and observations from a trailcam. Everything was right and the deer did as planned. Hyper P was placed in a spot to use the wind after laying out a scent line to cover my tracks going to the stand.

Last year when rifle season openned the deer went underground on my land. this year the same thing happened with the larger bucks but it took them a little longer to do it. they also returned before the end of the gun season this year. My success with Hyper Heat last year was not good for this reason. This year on 1/26/08 I did have a good buck come in to my calling and H-Heat. I just didn't see the little limb in front of me in the scope. The buck came in on a string.

I did have several trailcam pictures of very large bucks smelling the Hyper Rage. The big one, a 13 pointer with double main beams was very nocturnal. He and his bachelar group would visit my stand / Traicam location almost every night but we never crossed paths. He was seen n the East Food Plot twice but not within bow range.

I honestly can say that I never gave Hyper Estous X a decent try. It was very hard not to use Hyper P becasue it was working so good for me.

I continue to recommend the use of these products. I will continue to use them wheather I am a field tester or not. Using scents is a learning process the same as the rest of deer hunting. With 45 acres to hunt on I will not use them all the time. It would be to much in to little of a space. I made 62 hunts this year and used scent 37 times. I feel that was about the right usage for my place. If I hunted a larger area I would use it more often.

I thank pdaddy for the opportunity to field test his products and for all the help this season with his knowledge of deer. It definately helped.