Reviews for Victor® Mole & Gopher Repellent Ready-to Use Spray

Ok so this product deserves probably 3.5-4 stars, but I'm giving it 5 just to help offset the terrible reviews left, I believe, in error. Yes, this is just an expensive bottle of castor oil. BUT, of you USE IT PROPERLY, it really does work. I think the people who are saying it doesn't come out of the bottle haven't exhausted all their options--the dial turns two ways: one for water only, and one for water+product. I initially made the mistake and turned the dial the wrong way, and lo and behold the bottle was still full after 20 minutes of spraying. So I turned the knob in the other direction and voila, oil and water mixture. Now, criticism where criticism is due: (1) the dial is not labeled at all, so it's really a 50/50 shot which spray mode you enter into first. It would be easy to think that the bottle is defective if you get it wrong first and then immediately give up on it. (2) I also can't get the last 1.5-2 inches of oil out of the bottle. It just won't come up with the water anymore at that point. So that's a waste. On the plus side, the morning after applying this product (early April), the mole hills immediately stopped appearing! So the product seems to work as a repellant. I am using the product in April to tide me over until I can apply grub killer in May. I expect it to keep the moles at bay until it's time to kill their food. Do not expect this product to work longer than a month or two. It will not get you through a whole season. But it serves its purpose as a short term repellant until season-long measures can be taken. Otherwise you'll have to reapply a few times per season. I hope this helps!

Just for the sheer impossibility of applying the product (which may work…who knows??) I cannot recommend. After an hour of applying (or trying), investigating, engineering.. I finally decided to cut off the top with a knife and see what was inside after all the attempts to spray. Answer: all the product. So - poured into a pump garden sprayer, mixed with hot water to dissolve, and applied. Thick goo was left at the bottom which I added more hot water to and kept spraying (the goo clogs the nozzle, of course, so you have to keep thinning it). In the end had to just dump the last 2 cups of it that just would not dissolve. The 20 minutes to de-goo my sprayer and my hands. What a mess. Buy granules.

The worst human engineering on a bottle I have ever encountered.Directions say on and off but there is no on and off label on the bottle. You can’t see the contents of the bottle so you don’t know how much you have sprayed. After an hour of spraying, 3/4 of the contents was gone. I couldn’t get the last 4 ounces to spray out of the bottle. There should be a YouTube video on how to operate this gizmo.

Awful bottle. Does not come out. I want my money back. I’m pissed.

I’ve used many Victor products over the years with good results. I was so hopeful that this product would work. I sprayed for 20 minutes and the level in the bottle has not changed. I put my hand in the spray, and it was not oily nor did it smell like castor oil. I want to open the bottle and put it in a reliable sprayer but I can’t even get the cap to twist off. Very disappointed.

sprayer does not work aftr turning it on and spraying for 30 minutes. Molemax sprayer is better than this brand.

Product will not come out of the bottle. After reading reviews I see that I am not the first person with this problem. This company needs to re-create their application bottle. $16.99 wasted.

Was hopeful this product would work to deter the groundhog chewing on our garden. The problem is the applicator. Soaked it in warm water both times I used it and after two thorough applications, hardly any of the product was released. Disappointing.

I am rating this a three - it may be a great product and get rid of moles but it is impossible to know how to use. I have no idea if the sprayer worked - it was still almost full after 45 minutes of spraying - so I used another bottle with same results. How does one know you have used the chemical up. Then you directions say to put nozzle on water setting. We bent our tab back and could only get on and off. No idea of how to set on water only. We'll see if it works, but right now I feel like I have just wasted time. Will change review if we see less moles. But the process is bad at best.

Spraying was east. Bottom 2 inches would not blend with product and Stayed in bottle. Maybe I was spraying straight water at end? Anyway, seemed to work on Voles eating tree bark for only 1 night. Wish it could have lasted longer. Can’t afford to spray every day.