Wayne Kendrick is the founder and owner of Southern Outdoor Products and organizer of TEAM Hammerdog.
How did Southern Outdoor Products come to be?
Wayne was not satisfied how many of the marketed odor eliminators for hunting worked. Owning a soap and specialty chemical company and doing odor eliminating for garbage landfills and environmental clean up projects, he went into his lab and spent numerous years developing products that worked. Once they were formulated, he spent three years sending samples out to everyday hunters for field testing. Then Southern Outdoor Products was incorporated to manufacture and supply these products to hunters like yourselves.
Wayne was nicknamed "Wilderness Wayne" by some guys who he hunted with for years because his first initial is "W" and he hunted from daylight till dark, in rain and cold, and is such a great tracker.
Wayne grew up in the woods near a river and has trapped, hunted, fished, and spent as much of his life as possible in the great outdoors. Wayne's favorite passions include chasing whitetail's and wild hogs, duck and turkey hunting, fishing for bass and crappie, and occasionally going after redfish and speckled trout.
Living in Louisiana offers him a variety of species to chase and the lack of snow and ice allows for fishing year round.
Wayne has been happily married to his wonderful wife for over 25 years, has three daughters, and two grandsons and one granddaughter.
He is an active member of the Goodwood Church Of Christ in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and is active in helping out numerous charities.
Wayne formed Team Hammerdog as he and his best friend and main hunting buddy, Danny "Hossbug" Hyatt started filming their first "how to hunt wild hog" video and their favorite saying when lining up a hunt was "Lets go hammerdog some hogs"! They hunted them with bows and rifles in the summer and had a blast doing it.
Through networking with numerous hunters across the country, Wayne decided to put together a Hunting Team of good Christian people from different denominations, who loved hunting and fishing as much as he, and held the same beliefs about morale character and ethical sportsmanship.
Putting together the Team was a slow and painstaking process but Wayne feels he has assembled a great group of guys who are just everyday hunters that are passionate about the outdoors!
Thus Team Hammerdog was formed! All the members of the Team are ethical hunters, who work in conjunction with each other to film their hunts for inclusion of their film footage onto future hunting videos which Southern Outdoor Products is developing for market.
Team Hammerdog is not concerned about being "Politically Correct" they show REAL HUNTING and REAL HUNTERS, not "SANITIZED" video footage.
All their hunts are places average hunters could go and most of the hunts are on hunting clubs, friends property, public land, or land they asked for permission to hunt on. Places the everyday hunter could gain access. A few hunts are made on places that offer hunts for "paid promotional" considerations. These are fair chase properties that offer hunts for a fee to everyone.
One thing you will never see a member of Team Hammerdog do is making a hunt on "High Fence" properties, it is not allowed!
You will see some "High Fence" hunts filmed as they are offered to Team Hammerdog... but we reserve those for children who are physically challenged or terminally ill, It is our way of giving back to the sport and helping those who otherwise would never have an opportunity to make such a hunt.
Team Hammerdog also accepts video footage shot by everyday hunters for inclusion on the videos! We want to give hunters the option to show their hunts as they filmed them and get the opportunity to be on a video!
Why the name "Team Hammerdog?" Well Wayne's Black Lab is one of his best friends, and the Lab is named Hammer Dawg!
We at Southern Outdoor Products and Team Hammerdog hope you enjoy our web site, the products, the ones we retail for other companies and those we personally manufacture. The TEAM also appreciates you checking out their profiles, sneak peek video clips, and picture galleries. The Team welcomes your inquiries and comments.
Once again, thank you for visiting our site!
W. Wayne Kendrick