Eastern Carolina Taxidermy

note: The following reviews predate the numeric rating system and are not included in this outfitter's overall rating.

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outfitter review submitted by: Howard Vogelien on Feb 15 2008

Species Hunted: Hog Hunt only

Game Quality: Poor

Accommodation Quality: Poor

Camp Condition: OK

Food Quality: N/A

Guide Experience: Excellent

Other Personal Experience: Average

Overall Impression: Poor

Recommend: Executive Lodge ONLY

Reviewer Comments: I believe they misrepresent their hunting area. 9 guys stand hunting: 3 kills 1 miss (only hogs seen). (75-150 lbs) 3 guys paid the extra and hunted with dogs. 3 kills 1 boar and 2 sows (150-250 lbs). Totaly different area. I thign if you pay the big bucks and stay in the executive lodge you will have a better chance of getting a large hog. Jeremy (our guide) was great, he did eveything he could to get us hogs.

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outfitter review submitted by: Daniel Russ on Dec 20 2007

Species Hunted: deer,boar,turkey,quail

Game Quality: excellent

Accommodation Quality: excellent

Camp Condition: excellent

Food Quality: excellent

Guide Experience: excellent

Other Personal Experience: good

Overall Impression: excellent

Recommend: definitely

Reviewer Comments: I have been down to Bostick Plantation numerous times over the last 10 years. Usually go 6 times a year to deer,hog and turkey hunt. Have had a marvelous time each trip and am looking forward to my next trip this spring to turkey hunt. This place is a class act with everything from the check-in to the handling and packing of the game. No, I did not see or harvest something everytime I went but I did the majority of my trips. But thats hunting though! Joe Bostick was a wonderful host each time and the guides were very personable. Would probably go just for the food and the peacefullness this place has. Would recommend!!!

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outfitter review submitted by: Jim Zamberlan on Dec 19 2007

Species Hunted: deen/hogs

Game Quality: excellent

Accommodation Quality: excellent

Camp Condition: excellent

Food Quality: very good

Guide Experience: excellent

Other Personal Experience: very good

Overall Impression: outstanding

Recommend: yes

Reviewer Comments: This has been our 15th year at Bostick. My son took a nice 8 point while I shot two hogs. We are definitely booking for the spring turkey season. last year i took a nice tom on the first day of our hunt....missed a second the next day.... ^%&#^%&^%tl!!! The executive lodge is like a second home to us. Joe bostick and his long tiome manager, jimmy Haskins do an outstanding job! We'll be back. thanks Joe.

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outfitter review submitted by: Jerry Abbott on Dec 16 2007

Species Hunted: Deer / Hog

Game Quality: 1 doe 6 piglets

Accommodation Quality: Guest House is very run down.

Camp Condition: Is in need of updates. One hu

Food Quality: Decent

Guide Experience: Guides were very nice and acco

Other Personal Experience: No others

Overall Impression: Out of the 30+ hunters that were there very little taken.

Recommend: No way in H_ _ _!

Reviewer Comments: Myself and a group of guys went on a trophy deer and hog hunt in Sept '07. There were over 30 hunters in camp. There were no bucks taken and one hog in four days. The guides tried to get you on game but there is very little game there. Think about it over 30 hunters twice a week for many years ..... not much left.

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outfitter review submitted by: John Acuff on Dec 16 2007

Species Hunted: Deer / Hog

Game Quality: Saw one doe

Accommodation Quality: Low

Camp Condition: Low

Food Quality: OK

Guide Experience: Good at driving trucks.

Other Personal Experience: None

Overall Impression: Poor

Recommend: No way

Reviewer Comments: I went to Bostick in Sept '07 with some guys I work with to have a good time. Did not happen. This place is nothing like their web site. There is no game left. Hogs are completely nocternal. One of the other guys in camp had a tree stand break under him and got hurt bad. Guess he is set for life. Joe Bostick is a liar. His main guide, Jimmy Haskin is Joe's puppet. He has to lie in order to get paid. This place is a joke. There were NO food plots, just a few feeders. Guest house, shooting range, vehicals are all falling apart. Guides try but have absolutely nothing to work with.

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outfitter review submitted by: Mike on Dec 11 2007

Species Hunted: Boar

Game Quality: Horrible

Accommodation Quality: OK

Camp Condition: OK

Food Quality: Poor

Guide Experience: Bad

Other Personal Experience: Bad

Overall Impression: Horrible

Recommend: Hell no

Reviewer Comments: I went on a 3 day hog hunt with three others and came back with nothing. The camp had 12 hunters and a total of one hog and one doe killed. Each night I talked with other hunters and the story was the same, no game was seen. The feeders did not work the whole time we were there. The guide had no idea where the game was so he just rotated us to different stands with the same result. This experience was so bad that 6 campers ( half of the people ) elected not to go on the sunday morning hunt. In conclusion, IF you want to go on a paid hunt look elsewhere. P.S Never did see the owner.

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outfitter review submitted by: Tom Filo on Oct 10 2007

Species Hunted: Whitetail, & Hogs

Game Quality: Poor

Accommodation Quality: Poor

Camp Condition: Poor

Food Quality: Good

Guide Experience: Good

Other Personal Experience: Good

Overall Impression: Very Poor

Recommend: NO

Reviewer Comments: The plantation may have been a great place to hunt years ago, but it"s played out. The lack of good food plots and game management has left it in poor condition. The game is small and not that developed for the amount of property avail- able. They need to put more time & money back into the plantation in order to revive the herd. I was there for a 3 day hunt sept. 16, 2007

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outfitter review submitted by: Bill Mullineaux on Oct 2 2007

Species Hunted: Deer and Boar

Game Quality: None

Accommodation Quality: Good

Camp Condition: Fair

Food Quality: Very Good

Guide Experience: Very Poor

Other Personal Experience: Poor

Overall Impression: Waste of Time and Money

Recommend: Never

Reviewer Comments: Friend and I went on three day combo hunt(deer and boar). Between us , we saw 9 deer,(7 doe and 2 forkhorns), and NO hogs.One dynamite place to see Armadillos though.Owner didn't seem to care that no one was seeing anthing.Place was hunted out, and nothing like brochures or video described it to be.I would not recommend going to this plantation, unless you have the time and money to waste.

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outfitter review submitted by: Pete Larsen on Oct 1 2007

Species Hunted: Wild Boar

Game Quality: Poor

Accommodation Quality: Acceptable

Camp Condition: Good

Food Quality: NA

Guide Experience: Truckdrivers but very friendly

Other Personal Experience: NA

Overall Impression: Waste of time

Recommend: NO

Reviewer Comments: Bostick Plantation is so over hunted that its impossible to have enough game for all the people they book. This place is a cash cow for the owner who we never saw. 10 hunters in camp 1 pig killed in 3 days. No one was happy or ever going back. I see other reports saying that they had good hunts there and you can bet they are written by the owner.

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outfitter review submitted by: Greg Henderson on Sep 7 2007

Species Hunted: Deer Hogs

Game Quality: Very good

Accommodation Quality: Good

Camp Condition: Good

Food Quality: Excellent

Guide Experience: Good

Other Personal Experience: Good

Overall Impression: Great

Recommend: Highly

Reviewer Comments: The guides worked hard to put us on deer and hogs. They were very knowlegable about the hunting territory.

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