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First off my hunt started out like this. My group of three arrived for a 3 day fully guided hunt . When we arrived we were met by Ben who was pleasant and welcomes us. He then showed us to our rooms. Now being you booked a hunt as a group you would think you would all be staying together . Nope not the case here . Ok no biggie . The room i was staying in wasn’t even finished it was basically just play wood and a few bunk beds . You could clearly see it was an addition so Dave could get more bang for his buck and squeeze more hunters in because that’s the type of outfitter he is . It was clearly a smaller lodge at one point that he added a deck onto also. Our room had space heaters and no working smoke alarms because there were no batteries or outlet covers . And if he tried to convince you other i have pics to prove this . Major safety risk esp with 18 ppl staying in a wooden lodge with space heaters and only two bathrooms. Again this shows you the type of person he is. Ok we were excited to hear the stories of all the deee and maybe a few big bucks spotted by the 13 hunters in the woods . Let me tel you that is not what we heard . When all the hunters arrived back they were def shocked to see 3 more hunters Cramed in and this is when the nitemare really started . Each hunter and i mean each hunter pulled us to the side and said ask for your money back because this place is a scam . Not one person seen a shooter and hell even most ppl didn’t see a deer all day . Not one person saw even a food plot , just a sorry old stand that has been way over hunter and how can you tell . When your lucky enough to even see a deer it will stare at the stand with The Who is in the stand this week face. We still gave it a shot . My stand was a stand that a hunter spent 26 hrs in and didn’t see a deer and asked to me moved and how do i know this because the hunter was with me when they dropped me off. When i confronted the guide with this he said a hunter shot a big ten last year out of it. So we all returned to the lodge and the same story no one seen a deer besides my buddy who got out of his stand out of frustration and stumbled upon a food plot they must of been saving for someone special. Well everyone was extremely frustrated now . A guy in camp confronted Dave and asked him how many ppl he hunts . Dave’s response was none of your business and then he asked the guy to leave camp his hunt was done for asking that question. Well we are not stupid and can do basic math so here it folks. 3 camps of 16 every three days equal 48 ppl which is crazy and crazy money . I was contacted from a gun hunter who hunted there last year who said he had 53 ppl his week with 3 kills . Avoid this scam artist he should be ashamed of himself because he let money ruin ppl dream hunts . This is not the last he will hear from me

Was the outfitter notified of problems? - NO

Outfitter's Response

All fabricated. These guys hunted (1) day..... literally (1) day... It was 73 degrees, Full moon, hot, deer were not moving ANYWHERE in the Midwest and These guys expect peak rut cold weather results. We did our part by By putting Guys in good spots, and doing what we could but as an outfitter We are hunting WILD ANIMALS..... period. We can't make them move until The are ready. It's now 11/9/17, and we had 8 different bucks shot at in one Day alone... we are Ohios LARGEST outfitter.... we do have several lodges, And we do have to take hunters at each lodge which is zero issues because we can afford the properties, Afford the nice lodges and afford to be full time so we can focus on our outfit As a business and a company. We have TONS of references..... and everything is laid out not only on social media but on the Website as well. These guys hunted (1) day, the other boy hunted 3 days, and would NOT Sit consistently where we asked even though we had recent trail cams of giants...two Others hunted for 2.5 days, and again, wasn't happy where we put them... even though We took video of a big shooter 8 running a Doe right at him.... and one of the three guys In this group who's leaving the review Was with my guide, pulled in where one of the unhappy hunters had been hunting, they then seen two shooters and said, "that guys a Moran For not hunting here"...... one of the guys in Justin's group also seen a big shooter as well, but they Tend to leave that out. As two out of the three seen deer. The group that got it all started, seen bucks..... the one boy passed a book archery buck at 10 YARDS!!!!! But because he wasn't a 150 plus he decided not to.... also, one from there group did decide to stay the entire trip, had a great time and had a few choice words about how they all acted. Their main complaint was that we didn't "really know what the deer were doing", because back home they all run live cell based cams.... so, at the end of the day, we had a group of guys, who decided they would rather leave instead of hunting and then try to dog the outfitter because the weather sucked and deer weren't moving good. That's hunting. I've been in business 14 years.... we are better than ever, and do everything in our power to treat our customers right but at the end of the day, you HAVE to hunt.... and keep expectations realistic as we are not high fence. I feel like our website explains everything to a T and is never in no way misleading.