HuntWiser

I have been thinking and looking at my notes from our Moose & Bear hunt this past September 2009.

My wife was lucky enough to draw a hard-to-get Moose tag in New Brunswick Canada this year. I went along to hunt Bear with my bow. Certainly a win-win situation for all.

I personally thought about a product like this years ago. I get hundreds of ideas like them while sitting in a tree stand or a ground blind for days on end. And I'm sure we all could undo the world's problems while our minds wonder in the beautiful silence of the woods.

Like most, we never follow through. So when I saw this ad for Huntwiser. I immediately called our great guru of Huntinglife and asked him to follow up a conversation I had with the owner. Kevin had gotten back to me in a few days and I was told a case was on its way, and it was a go. I was very excited about this product because of my previous visions of taking a pill of some kind and becoming invisible to our prey's most powerful tool, its nose.

I notified our outfitter that we were going to test this product and I needed total cooperation from him or anyone out with us. He e-mailed me back with total assurance and I'm sure he had thoughts of "what kind of client have I gotten myself this time!"

We arrived at our destination of True North Outfitters in New Brunswick Ca. with owner Kory Leslie waiting for us right on time. On our first day we sighted in my bow, which made the trip in perfect shape, and went to the rifle range to get my wife, Ginny's rifle sighted in. Again all was well.

That afternoon we/I were to go out and sit in a tree stand for the first time. So this is when we had to bring out the HuntWiser to show and explain it to Kory and Benji, his friend/helper/tracker and every title one can give someone... OH, and great roadside cook.

They agreed to try it. We all did our normal scent protection of changing our protected clothing out of the truck and before going into sit. We also sprayed down with scent eliminator and had already started after lunch taking our "candy." After the first minute of HuntWiser in our mouth we all came up with the same thought... This stuff tastes just like the hard candy our Grandmothers always had on the tables for all us kids when we visited them. It's like a hard candy that has a grape, berry kind of nice taste.

On our first evening on a stand with Grandma's candy in our mouths we had bear as close as 3 feet. We had a young one scamper up our tree underneath us. Even the big ones never knew we were there. The wind changed 2 or 3 times and they never caught our scent.

Time for a down and dirty evaluation...

The biggest problem with Huntwiser is we almost ran out of the stuff. We all used it all the time, the owner, guides and ourselves. Did we have bears around us??? All the time! Did I shoot my bear 15 yards from a tent blind? Absolutely!

Along with normal scent control this product makes more sense then wearing scent controlled underwear. We were never winded, never even looked at. And at times we could have choked on it because the bears were so close.

Is the product as good as it says? I can't answer that because I'm not a scientist, but what I can say for sure. There are at least five believers that won't go hunting without it.

Just think for a few seconds about it.... Grab that quick salami with pickle and mustard sandwich, fast cup of coffee, some chocolate cookies at a lunch break. Then spray down each other and NOT doing anything for your breath? I'm hooked.

You should try it. But remember the one thing I told you to watch out for... running out. So make sure you get enough...

OH!!! I forgot about the Moose Hunt. The rut was not on and only a few road hunters had gotten some spikes and cows. So we can't give an evaluation of how it would have worked getting close to a moose. But that's hunting.

And for my beautiful bear I shot a 15 yards' with my bow...it's already at the taxidermist.

Don Rickards ( eldondo, worlds 2nd greatest )
Hunting Life Pro Staffer

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