Boulder Creek Outfitters

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: Scott Davis on Feb 3 2005

Species Hunted: Spring Black Bear

Game Quality: Far

Accommodation Quality: Very,Very Poor

Camp Condition: Very, Very Poor

Food Quality: Fair

Guide Experience: Never guided bears

Other Personal Experience: Great

Overall Impression: Very, Very Poor

Recommend: NO,NO,NO

Reviewer Comments: 5 of us booked a wilderness hunt 2 on 1 with camp cook and wrangler (stated in his contract). We drove to Idaho from Utah and wanted to make sure we could find them. We found out that only 3 of us could go into the wilderness and 2 of us had to stay down on the river (the 5 of us are hunting buddies and this really sucked). So we drew straw and myself my dad and our fried Jim went into the wilderness. We headed out and I noticed that there was only one guy going in. I just thought that the others were already in camp. Well they were not. To make a long story short I did not get what I paid for. No guide a cook half the time and a wrangler half the time. Our guide did the best he could with what he had to work with. I could not stand to let him do all the work so I did all I could to help. I have guided and have my own string of horses and pack animals. I think that Tim thought that we were out for the wilderness experience.

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outfitter review submitted by: Mike Bain on Sep 14 2004

Species Hunted: black bear, elk

Game Quality: excellent

Accommodation Quality: excellent

Camp Condition: excellent

Food Quality: excellent

Guide Experience: excellent

Other Personal Experience: excellent

Overall Impression: excellent

Recommend: yes

Reviewer Comments: Tim knows this business and the game behaviour like no one else. He earns and deserves your business.

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outfitter review submitted by: Jack Beck on Mar 24 2004

Species Hunted: elk/mule deer

Game Quality: poor

Accommodation Quality: poor

Camp Condition: poor

Food Quality: fair but ran out before end of

Guide Experience: fair when not sleeping

Other Personal Experience: fair

Overall Impression: Very poor

Recommend: No

Reviewer Comments: 8 hunters in 1 tent was very cramped. Shower would not work. Ran out of bread, meat, cheese, matches, toilet tissue. Very little water. The one elk I saw I was hunting solo. The hunter I was paired with wouldn't even go out last day and a half.

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outfitter review submitted by: Steve on Mar 15 2004

Species Hunted: MULE DEER

Game Quality: POOR

Accommodation Quality: FAIR

Camp Condition: FAIR

Food Quality: GOOD

Guide Experience: POOR

Other Personal Experience: FAIR

Overall Impression: TERRIBLE

Recommend: NEVER

Reviewer Comments: When first booking the hunt,we were given false information about area never been hunted before. When we got there, we were greeted rudely by the so called cook. Everyone else was just as rude. We never saw or heard from the outfitter, the whole time a camp. The animals were scarce. The quality of the animals were non-existent. With some luck I harvested a mature buck. Think twice before you book a hunt with this outfitter. He will tell you everything you want to hear over the phone, and does the complete opposite of that, when you there. Our hunt took place on October 31, 2001.

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outfitter review submitted by: Ned J Crowley on Mar 12 2004

Species Hunted: elk/mule deer 10/16/03

Game Quality: 4 elk/one bull

Accommodation Quality: poor

Camp Condition: poor

Food Quality: very good, only good part

Guide Experience: poor

Other Personal Experience: fair

Overall Impression: very very very poor

Recommend: Never

Reviewer Comments: Hunted same hill(approx 40 acres, yes acres) the whole hunt. Within sight of main highway, park full of hikers etc...you get the picture. No elk or mule deer. excuse was wolves ran everything off. Thought guide should find where elk where anyway? Guide got lost, fought with horses daily instead of hunting, did not get out of bed one day, slept every day in field anyway Worst of all Mr Craig "information" not exactly what he presents. Think a whole lot before going on his wilderness hunt. PLease please..........

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outfitter review submitted by: Larry Ludlam on Oct 6 2002

Species Hunted: Elk

Game Quality: poor 1 small bull

Accommodation Quality: fair

Camp Condition: fair

Food Quality: fair/ one guide was cook

Guide Experience: 1 of 4 guides.. 1 elk in 8 day

Other Personal Experience: fair to poor to worthless

Overall Impression: a rip off...Just a show..no game

Recommend: absoletely not

Reviewer Comments: Fly-in/Horseback Bugling Elk Hunt to the wilderness of Sellway-Bitterroot in Idaho..A dream come true hunt...except Tim Craig ripped us off. 8 beautiful fall days in camp and out of 4 hunters with 4 guides, 1 saw only 1 small bull. Plenty of excuses....Only bugle heard came from lone bull after calling him for an hour and the elk was leaving the area. Group at our camp before us saw no elk, and group at other camp at same time as us so no elk. Note: Boulder Creek sponsored Two hunts on BuckMaster's TV Show. I'm Jackie Bushman a copy of this review.

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outfitter review submitted by: Ron Braund on Jun 7 2001

Species Hunted: Mule Deer/Bear

Game Quality: Poor/None

Accommodation Quality: Adequate

Camp Condition: Good

Food Quality: Adequate

Guide Experience: Very Good to Poor - the good o

Other Personal Experience: No cook in camp

Overall Impression: Not worth the money.

Recommend: Not for deer.

Reviewer Comments: Hunted Mule Deer in 1999 - private land hunt. Boulder Creek advertises 95% success on 24" to 30" deer. We (four hunters) didn't see any over bucks over 20". Paid in advance for a Bear Tag, but Tim had forgotten to get it. He did send guides to town to get it, but then they weren't guiding us for half a day. Cook was not in camp, so one of the guides was trying to do double duty. We didn't eat until 9:00 PM most nights. Several of the guides were good, but they were assigned to the Elk hunters, who were paying more. Saw a lot of Elk, and one of the hunters in camp got a monster 7x8. Might have been satisfied if hunting Elk. One guide we had worked hard, but was inexperienced. Another mainly rode us around on a 4 wheeler, talking instead of hunting. He admitted he did't know much about trophy hunting - said he usually liked to take an easy one. Wrote to the outfitter after the hunt, politely criticising several aspects of the hunt. Never received the courtesy of a reply, or even any followup literature. Boulder Creek receives a lot of publicity hosting Bill Jordan and Jackie Bushman. Apparently doesn't need repeat business from anyone that complains. Also quite expensive for a deer hunt.

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outfitter review submitted by: Joe Lesko on Aug 16 2000

Species Hunted: Black Bear

Game Quality: very good

Accommodation Quality: good

Camp Condition: good

Food Quality: very good

Guide Experience: super

Other Personal Experience: very good

Overall Impression: A+

Recommend: Absolutely

Reviewer Comments: Hunting spring bear in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area is something all avid bear hunters should do. It is as good if not better than the western canadian provinces, and Boulder Creek Outfitters want you to get your animal just as much as you do and they work their tails off to accomplish that goal. You will see up to 6 or more different bears a day and many are color phase bears. I will be going back.

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outfitter review submitted by: GERARD SAUCHELLI on Feb 17 2000

Species Hunted: WHITETAIL

Game Quality: EXCELLENT

Accommodation Quality: A respectable place

Camp Condition: GOOD

Food Quality: GOOD

Guide Experience: DID THERE HOMEWORK

Other Personal Experience: EXCELLENT

Overall Impression: SCALE 1 to 10 a 9

Recommend: YES

Reviewer Comments: EXCELLENT expierience good guides food lodgeing lot of game MY Cousin and i shot 2 good bucks in 2 1/2 days on a 5 day hunt he shot a 136 10 pt and i shot a 125 8pt let him go 2 times before i elected 2 take him....email for more info. GSSA2@aol.com

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