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Old 12-10-2013 | 05:05 PM
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Deer meadows victim
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I did a hunt with deer meadows thus past October. The owner Scott did a good job of selling the hunt and that's about it. He claimed to have 300,000 plus acres to archery hunt on. That was a lie. His top guide said that most of that property is what they call the Mormon ground and is off limits to archery hunters and available only to certain clients. This is where they shot hook on a heartland bow hunter show. He threw 4 of us onto a tract of ground the first morning where we saw sone good deer. That night we were told we could not hunt there anymore because the lease ran out that day. That makes no sense since we were only the third group of hunters. The next day we were put on a piece of ground that Scott said was unhunted that year. Well as we drove in we see a dead antelope in the middle of the ranch road, my guide let it slip that they were hunting antelope in that ranch and one if the hunters must have shot it. This is what Scott calls virgin ground. This tract of ground was way too small to hunt 4 hunters and by the end of the day all the good deer were blown off of the ranch. I was able to stalk a buck that was in the 180's or so and was not allowed to shoot it because Scott said he wanted it to breed and it was only a three year old. I didn't give them any problems over it and moved on. Two other hunters also had to pass this deer. We'll I just saw on Deer meadows Facebook page that this deer was shot with a gun by a " repeat client". If you look at the pics from year to year you will see that the same guys every year kill big deer and the celebrity hunters. Not many others kill good mature deer and aside from a few select repeat clients that pay more for special treatment deer meadows gets little repeat business. Scott lied about his acreage, accommodations, and everything in-between. He really misrepresented his operation. There is too much bad to write in a thread. His home cooked meals were hot dogs and ground venison in different variations. His field lunches were bite size sinkers and twice bars and cans of Pepsi and mountain dew. His "lodge" was a run down trailer were 4 men with all their hunting gear slept in one room. They do have good deer but he saves the good ones for certain hunters. Even his guides out of frustration finally started to admit these things. If you hunt with this outfitter you will be sorry you wasted your money time and hunting season. I don't mean to be vengeful but I don't want what happened to us to happen to more honest hunters. It would be possible to have a good hunt here if the owner was honest and cared about providing a good experience for all of his hunters but instead he caters to a few big spenders and relies on the tv shows to fool people and sell hunts. I fell for that trick and so did my friends. He told us he was going to give us some money back because of not having enough ground to hunt but after we drove back to Pa he won't return calls and sent an email to my friend that said "no refunds!!!!!". The people that are locals and know of Scott and his operation don't have much good to say about him either. For more info feel free to call 724-557-1200.
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