Eastern Carolina Taxidermy
Bostick Plantation
Rated 2.25 out of 5.0 based on 65 Outfitter reviews.
Contact: Joe Bostick
Location: Estill, South Carolina
Species Hunted: Whitetail Deer, Wild Boar, Turkey, Quail
State(s) Hunted: SC
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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: 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.
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!!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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Contact: Justin Johns and Ben Harris
Location: Hotchkiss, Colorado
Species Hunted: Elk, Mule Deer, Black Bear, Bobcat, Mountain Lion
State(s) Hunted: CO
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