2008 Cmere Deer 3 day harvest Review

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C’Mere Deer Three Day Harvest
11-5-2008

Our friends at Leaf River have arranged with the folks at C’Mere Deer to send us a new product to lure old Mr. Big into camera range. They have been using it with some pretty impressive results, so they wanted us to try it and see if we have the same results. The product that we received is a palletized mixture of tan and maroon pellets (see picture)

I stuck my old nose down into the bucket and got a good sniff of it and it did not have any kind of an unusual odor. Anthony said that he thought it smelled like Granola with raisins. There is supposed to be something about this mixture that will give off an odor that will bring in the deer from a distance. The folks at Leaf River said that they seemed to have a greater ratio of Bucks to does that came in to the area. The way to set up your area for your pictures or hunting is to spread a 20 food area with some of the product on day one and do it again on day two and again on day three. The animals that come to the scent will return because of the smell so by the third day there should be some visitors hanging around with their noses to the ground. We have a testing area that last year gave us some good pictures but this year we have not any luck in that area. We just pulled the last camera out of that area two weeks ago and after two weeks we only had 3 pictures so it should be a good test as to the effectiveness of this product. Our setup will be with two RC-60 cameras and one LR 7ss. The LR will be our long range cam because of the red flash and RC 60s will be on top of the product. Absolute scent control will be used on the application so we hope this will not be a deterrent. The cameras will be well disguised so they will not present themselves as being a foreign object to the area. This should be a fair and interesting test. As time allows we will be doing additional setups as we find other areas of limited activity. This is strange to us because we have always searched and scouted for the areas with the most activity. If this product will pull the bucks into these areas we will most definitely have a use for it and it will keep us out of the far back briar patch we have to wiggle through to do our setups. We will report as we count off the days the product has been put out.

11-08-2008 update: Three long trips to the application site has not showed us much as far as having good results so far. Our cameras showed that on day one a couple of hours after we put out the first application we had a single young doe come into the area and just sniffed around but slowly walked off and did not return. The second day I re energized the area early and the only activity was two coons sniffed around for a few minutes and then left the area. The third day (today) the area was freshened up before daylight and about ten AM a buck came through but did not stop and just kept moving and paid no attention. Later a small fawn walked through but did not even stop and smell. We pulled the card and reset the cameras for the next round to see what happens day four, five, and six. We are going out this afternoon to an area that is much closer so we do not have that long daily trip to refresh the site. This way we can easily make daily refreshes much more easily without that gasoline bill.

11-12-2008 update: This new area was not far from where we have fed corn daily for years. We had not put any corn out for days and on day one we had does and fawns find the area and searched for the pellets. Night visitors were bucks and some does. Day two we had the same with small bucks coming in. Day three was about the same and the night visitors were the large bucks but the does and fawns came and searched the leaves for the pellets. The attractant was spread over an area and not put in piles. The next test will be an area away from our feeder area where we have had nothing so if they find it then we will know. Be advised these are the same crowed of animals that have visited our feeders and have little fear of cameras other than the filter clunk or the click of the white flash that sometimes makes them jump and pay attention. Our other area that we originally tested in has been left un disturbed for a week and the cameras are in place to see if the animals do finally find the attractant and how long it took. There is one thing that we noticed with this product. There is a lot of the powder that settles to the bottom of the bucket. We turn the bucket upside down and gently shake it with the lid held tight and make sure that this powder coats all the pellets prior to making the application and that seems to make it work better.

11-17-2008 update: We have four sites up and running and this week it rained and rained to the point some dude down the road started building a big boat. We can let folks know that even though we managed to keep things fresh during the rain we had zero results with this product once it has been rained on. We have pictures of many deer crossing the area with no indication of any interest. This seems to be mostly a dry weather product. The acorns are falling to the max rite now and that is some pretty heavy competition for this product. This week is colder and will be dry so we will see if the interest comes back once things dry out.

11-20-2008 update: We were not scheduled to check the areas for a couple days because the rain had just stopped. One of the areas we are testing in is near a residence that is about 70 yards away and 20 yards from a dead end road (paved). This morning the resident of that home had nature call and was on his way to the bathroom when he happened to look out the window and down through the woods there was someone in the area with a flashlight, walking back and forth as what appeared to be a search for a blood trail. On this particular area we had a black flash XIR Buckeye set on video and 10 second delay. The video sequence was set to 15 seconds. The person in the residence made the mistake of turning on a light which caused the trespasser person to run away in the direction of the dead end road. The time of the first sighting was around 4:30 AM. We did not have the camera secured but the poacher had no idea that there was a camera there so the whole sequence was caught on the camera from the presents of a pretty good buck to the guy shining his flashlight through the woods and then coming into the area as to be looking for blood. An extensive search by us with flashlights in the dark and after daylight did not find any blood trail so we feel he had missed. There was no gun shot heard so we feel this was done with a bow. The game warden was called but was not very prompt in responding to the situation and still had not replied by 9 AM. Around 9:15 we received a call and they only ask that we send his secretary the videos and she would review them. This was a bit of a letdown. You will be able to see that the person is dressed in camo and it is evident he was up to no good at 4:30 AM on private property. C’mere deer seems to work pretty good on another critter that we were not expecting.

Video sequence capture on Buckeyecam XIR: (click picture)

11-24-2008 update: We managed to make it down to the other areas and checked the cams and this report will not be by the day because things changed and the results were very positive. We feel that the term “three day harvest” is somewhat off. What we found was that in areas where we have had feeders and we used this product within a couple hundred yards the deer would find it much faster. Some times this has been as little as one day and most of the time it was on the fourth or fifth day. In the wild and very rural areas we had an occasional visitor but not much action until the product was out over a week. In these wild areas once the product was found the deer would stay in front of the cameras until the memory cards would be full and the product was gone. We are going to adjust the delay period on the cams so we can make it past a week so that we can get a better feeling as to how long the animals will keep coming back looking. The area where we had the night poacher visitors is going to be re set up with some new security cages wrapped around the cams and some sneaky secret cams watching the cams watch the deer. So, as of now lets call this product “Three day + Harvest” depending on the area that you choose to use it. All new setups will be done this coming weekend.

12-7-2008 update: Rain rain and more rain has plagued things again. We have logged more miles than we could have ever done on a camera review doing the three trips to the site to evaluate this product. We have managed to get that little evening shower that spoils everything. Our big set up with the Leaf River IR-7 is where we have paid the most attention and as of today we still have not got any positive results. There were just a few deer that stroll through the area and did not stop and pay attention. The past few days have remained dry and the product is on the ground but the results were still negative. The best results were when we had the XIR Buckeye set up and had the visitors at night that forced us to make some changes. These were good dry days with out a lot of morning dew. The temperature has dropped to the high 20s/ low 30s at night and we hope this has not also affected the results. We are going back to our original setup and see if we can duplicate the results we had on day one, two, and three.