Graham Outdoor Adventures
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This is a scam hunt if i have ever seen one-stand sites are bad-stand quality is bad-this guide does his best to keep you away from the large deer on his property,all deer pictured are killed by his son-his sons friends-Keith with a gun-or sheds mounted and winter kills mounted,this is why the pictures on his web-site are all his kid-- by the way he limits the property because his son hunts where the larger deer are spoted WHILE HUNTERS ARE IN CAMP. One guy left camp mid week because of the way this went down. Pictures tell 1000 words,ask for pics of client kills--there are 2 since he started guiding. P.S he dosent have an e-mail
Was the outfitter notified of problems? - YES
The very first day that Vinnie arrived it seemed like he had a chip on his shoulder. He was very blunt and he was extremely rude to my family including my kids!
First point is that all of our stands are TMA approved. Safety is our number one factor to this club. We did have some wooden tree stands, but they have been replaced by the metal stands. There is a total of 65 TMA APPROVED tree stands on our property that comfortably hunt 4 hunters at a time, which is the maxium of people that we take per week. Second complaint was that I said we keep clients away from our 180 class deer... We sell hunts to hunt these deer. Why would we keep people away?!, and there is no fences, so how can we keep our clients away from these deer? Deer roam.. That is what deer do. It's called Hunting because it's Hunting. We do not have fences here! Clients killing big deer helps this business...
I gave my son a very small area to hunt with his camera guy, because they are involved in a popular hunting filming company. Every Hunter that hunts here has 80-100 acres to hunt in prime area... My sons little spot is just like the rest of the property.
The client that left mid week left because of problems that weren't any of our business, but he didn't leave because of the hunting situation... That client has hunted here in the past years.
Graham Outdoor Adventures has records of at least 23 Pope and Young kills in the past 7 years, which this club has been in business for 9 years. We are a small outfitter that only takes 20 hunters a year. We do not have fences and we don't walk deer to you to kill. We sell hunts, not deer. The deer shown in our lodge are sheds because we save the deer for the clients, and it shows what type of deer that are on the property, so sorry Vinnie that you don't like what our deer look like, if that is what you mean.
Thanks, Keith Graham Graham Outdoor Adventures
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