Abbott Brook Guide Service
Abbott Brook Guide Service
Rated 3 out of 5.0 based on 17 Outfitter reviews.
Location: Rangeley, Maine
Species Hunted: Whitetail Deer, Black Bear, Coyote
State(s) Hunted: ME
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note: The following reviews predate the numeric rating system and are not included in this outfitter's overall rating.
outfitter review submitted by: Jamie J. Barton on Sep 16 2007
Species Hunted: Black Bear
Game Quality: None seen
Accommodation Quality: Fair
Camp Condition: Fair
Food Quality: Cooked Everything ourseleves
Guide Experience: Greg is good, the rest are Bad
Other Personal Experience: N/A
Overall Impression: Like I got ripped off
Recommend: Never
Reviewer Comments: This trip was like a bad dream, we started on Sunday night with a meeting that included "if your stupid 101, and avoid the game wardens" their where 30-35 guys in camp. Some had bait not even touched for the whole week. NO ONE IN CAMP seen a bear. Weather was a little warm but at the end of the week was better but still no bear. This guy was Indian Rock before. I will never afford Russ nor the other Guides Dwayne, Wes the time of day. The only good part was Greg. Decent guy that worked hard. BEWARE.
outfitter review submitted by: James R Stanhope on Aug 28 2007
Species Hunted: black bear
Game Quality: NONE
Accommodation Quality: FAIR
Camp Condition: FAIR
Food Quality: NONE
Guide Experience: FAIR
Other Personal Experience: POOR
Overall Impression: VERY POOR
Recommend: NO
Reviewer Comments: Abbott Brooks Guide Service Rangeley, ME BAD experience!!! Waste of money, waste of my hunting time. 44 hunters ONE 60lbs CUB Many other problems With Outfitter!!! Don't trust just references check with B.B.B and chamber of commerce if NOT REGISTERED STAY AWAY !!
outfitter review submitted by: Rachel Skelly on Aug 27 2007
Species Hunted: Bear
Game Quality: None sighted
Accommodation Quality: Excellent
Camp Condition: unknown
Food Quality: made our own food
Guide Experience: bad
Other Personal Experience: very bad- bunch of liars
Overall Impression: beyond belief bad
Recommend: absolutely NOT
Reviewer Comments: We were lied to on many factos. We were told 15-20 people max a week for hunters. There were more than that the week we hunted. We were told we would have full contact with the guide at all times yet the owner Russ Burgess called us several times wondering where our guide was. We were also told 80% of us would see a bear. 1 person in the whole camp saw a bear. Please contact me with more info and details about his place. DO NOT waste your time and money. If you know of any other sites or ways to let poeople know this Guide service is a farce PLEASE contact me.
outfitter review submitted by: Bill Skelly on Aug 24 2007
Species Hunted: black bear
Game Quality: poor
Accommodation Quality: fair
Camp Condition: poor
Food Quality: did our own
Guide Experience: poor
Other Personal Experience: poor
Overall Impression: sucked
Recommend: no never
Reviewer Comments: this was the worst hunt you could go on there was 42 people in camp one person seen and shot a bear this man is nothing but a thief you are paying for a hunt where you are being told there is an 80% sighting and we no that is not true by any stretch of the imagnation this man should not be a guide service he is a scam artist that is getting rich off honest good hard working people and that is wrong
outfitter review submitted by: Erik Johnson on Jan 17 2007
Species Hunted: Black Bear
Game Quality: None seen
Accommodation Quality: ok
Camp Condition: fair
Food Quality: N/A
Guide Experience: fair to bad
Other Personal Experience: same
Overall Impression: Like I got lied to and screwed
Recommend: Absolutely not.
Reviewer Comments: We did have warm weather, however, I spoke to others who hunted the similar region and they saw bear or at least had their baits hit. One bear shot, two bears seen, for something like 20-30 guys for a week. Poor outfitting.
outfitter review submitted by: Bill Braithwaite on Oct 6 2006
Species Hunted: Black Bear
Game Quality: None
Accommodation Quality: Marginal
Camp Condition: Fair
Food Quality: Cooked my own
Guide Experience: questionable
Other Personal Experience: questionable
Overall Impression: Very dissapointed
Recommend: Never
Reviewer Comments: The Sunday evening camp rules briefing made me feel like an idiot and caused me great concern about the quality of clients. I guarded a bucket of rotten jelly donuts with a rock on top of it for 5 days and NEVER saw or heard a bear. The buildings were run down. The number of bears seen and taken was terrible for a full camp of hunters. I hope this post saves others the dissapointment I experienced.
outfitter review submitted by: Clint Niles on Sep 14 2006
Species Hunted: Black Bear
Game Quality: None
Accommodation Quality: Not Good, Not as Promised
Camp Condition: Bad
Food Quality: N/A
Guide Experience: Not Sure, They weren't..
Other Personal Experience: N/A
Overall Impression: Terrible
Recommend: Absolutely not
Reviewer Comments: Amount of hunters at camp was more than the max of 12 the outfitter told us would be there. The lodging was not what he said, he told us (our group of 5) we would have our own lodge we were stuffed into 1 room. The baiting was a joke, he used half of a 5 gallon pail of donutes. No one even saw a bear and that goes for the whole group at camp. Very Very disappointing...
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Contact: J. Paul Taylor
Location: Midway, Alabama
Species Hunted: Whitetail Deer, Turkey, Quail
State(s) Hunted: AL
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