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Old 05-21-2015, 03:23 PM
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TxHunter2015
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Join Date: May 2015
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Default Waste of time and money!

Don't bother with Moore's Hilltop Ranch, they are a rip off. My brother and I went to their Balsora Ranch property for a 12 hour turkey and unlimited hog hunt. We saw one hen that came to a feeder from the adjoining property. That was the only game that we saw, of the 600 or so acres that we had to hunt on 80% of it was wheat fields, which is not a habitat for hogs or turkey. All of the feeders were placed on the perimeters to draw wildlife from other properties, the animals that come to feed there simply cross to feed and then go back across the fence into the woods. They offer deer hunts but I can't imagine how that would work out as I'm sure most deer that aren't immediately dropped would jump the fence before dying and then you would be trespassing unless you received permission from the landowner to retrieve it.

Besides the one hen we saw some turkey tracks but there was no sign of hogs at all. There was one other hunting party there as well who were also hunting turkey and hogs, they saw less then we did, no tracks or game. They stated that they would not be returning to Moore's Hilltop Ranch for any more hunts.

The manager of the ranch that we contacted for the hunt and then met up with on the property was extremely rude and had a never ending list of rules for us to follow, the agreement I had to print out and sign must have been 15 pages long. I had to edit the font to make it smaller and I cut of a bunch of it before printing because it only applied to deer hunting....there was still 5 or more pages that I printed.

During the last three hours of our hunt I was sitting in a ladder stand hoping to see a turkey.....I heard the rumbling of a truck and then I turned to see the ranch manager driving through the field in his yellow low rider truck equipped with glass pack mufflers across from my stand, he was only about 50 yrds away. He was apparently just checking to see if we were still on the property, in doing so he also scared away any potential game that would have came to the feeder at sundown.

Was a big waste of time and money. We basically paid $175.00 a piece to sleep in a barn.
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