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: Frankie Stanley on Aug 27 2007

Species Hunted: Deer, boar

Game Quality: Excellent

Accommodation Quality: Excellent, Superb

Camp Condition: Excellent

Food Quality: Excellent

Guide Experience: best around

Other Personal Experience: excellent

Overall Impression: Excellent

Recommend: YES!!!!

Reviewer Comments: My son and I have gone to Bostick Plantation numerous times and we've been extremely pleased with our experience. Joe welcomed us into his home and treated us like family. A very beautiful place to hunt. A lot of hard work goes into preparing the stands beforehand and we were extremely pleased with the animals we harvested. My son killed his first ever wild boar there and I killed a 502 lb wild boar. I also got a monster 9 point buck during one trip. My son also has killed a couple of nice bucks as well on different trips. The meals that were served were outstanding. After hunting, my son enjoyed swimming in the beautiful pool while the adults sat around with Joe and shared hunting tales. A great time was had by all. We definitly plan on going back to Bostick in the years to come. A great place to go for a great time hunting!

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outfitter review submitted by: Lance Lannigan on Aug 25 2007

Species Hunted: Deer/Boar

Game Quality: Good

Accommodation Quality: Excellent

Camp Condition: Excellent

Food Quality: Excellent

Guide Experience: Excellent

Other Personal Experience: Excellent

Overall Impression: Impressed

Recommend: Yes

Reviewer Comments: About 5 years ago I hunted Bostick and was a little dissapointed with the quality of the stands and the way the manager was running things. This year I thought I would give them a second chance, so I booked for August 17-19, 2007 in the Executive lodge and brought my 12 year old son. I must say that I was very impressed in the many changes that have been made since they have a new manager. The stands were vey nice, limbs had been cut for better visibility and all were sitting over new feeders. I took a nice 8 point in velvet with my bow and my son went home with his first hog- 273 pounds. Yes it was hot, but the guides put us in stands with plenty of shade. I have already booked for another hunt in October with Bostick. Bostick's new manager has really turned it around, Good job!

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outfitter review submitted by: Lance Lannigan on Aug 25 2007

Species Hunted: Deer/Boar

Game Quality: Good

Accommodation Quality: Excellent

Camp Condition: Excellent

Food Quality: Excellent

Guide Experience: Excellent

Other Personal Experience: Excellent

Overall Impression: Impressed

Recommend: Yes

Reviewer Comments: About 5 years ago I hunted Bostick and was a little dissapointed with the quality of the stands and the way the manager was running things. This year I thought I would give them a second chance, so I booked for August 17-19, 2007 in the Executive lodge and brought my 12 year old son. I must say that I was very impressed in the many changes that have been made since they have a new manager. The stands were vey nice, limbs had been cut for better visibility and all were sitting over new feeders. I took a nice 8 point in velvet with my bow and my son went home with his first hog- 273 pounds. Yes it was hot, but the guides put us in stands with plenty of shade. I have already booked for another hunt in October with Bostick. Bostick's new manager has really turned it around, Good job!

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outfitter review submitted by: George Ackley on Aug 19 2007

Species Hunted: Deer & Hog

Game Quality: Poor

Accommodation Quality: Good

Camp Condition: Good

Food Quality: Real Good

Guide Experience: very poor

Other Personal Experience: Poor

Overall Impression: BAD!

Recommend: NO!

Reviewer Comments: We hunted there this August 15 to the 18- 07 hunted 3 different stands never seen a deer or hog . Being a long time hunter and though talks with old guides (on the Internet) that used to work there I new I wonted to hunt the back swamps, but on first meeting with Mike one of the current guided there at this time I was told that I don't get to tell them were I like to hunt that they would place me on stand. Many thing I found disturbing there. 1 being the lack of game 2 being the lack of skilled guides There are hog to hunt in 2 pens they have there one being 5 Acers and one much smaller. they will ask you if you like to shoot one in there for a extra price. they do have a dog hunt also but the hog's is realest from the pen that sets back in the woods and the dogs are put right on it. I have seen both pens. Also there are many hog traps laying throughout the property. this all look to me as the reason for the lack of seeing any hogs. stands were all in good shape but no game was seen. sorry to say but i feel i was not given the opportunity to hunt and opportunity to hunt was all I was looking for the harvest has and always will be the last thing i am looking for so with that i feel i was miss lead and taken advantage of .. and they do it over and over every 3 days. i hunted with 2 friend and there were 8 bow hunters and 12 gun hunters and the only game i seen taken all 3 days were the hogs from the pen. feel free to contact me for more info

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outfitter review submitted by: Chris Shipes on Jul 7 2007

Species Hunted: Deer and Boar

Game Quality: Awesome

Accommodation Quality: Excellent

Camp Condition: Good

Food Quality: Awesome

Guide Experience: Excellent

Other Personal Experience: Very Professional

Overall Impression: Very Pleased

Recommend: Absolutely

Reviewer Comments: Bostick Plantation is most definetly one of the most professionally run hunting businesses that I have ever been to, and I hunt all over the country. I harvested a nice 8 point with an 18" spread. I knew to hunt the swamp for a mature and wiser buck. I also pruchased a hog hunt with dogs--- ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE. The dogs located a Russian boar that I took with my knife. I stayed in the executive lodge and was very satisfied with the service and hospitality. The food was awesome. I plan to take my son this coming deer season.

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outfitter review submitted by: Gary McHenry on Mar 13 2007

Species Hunted: Hogs

Game Quality: average

Accommodation Quality: average

Camp Condition: average

Food Quality: N/A

Guide Experience: Below Average

Other Personal Experience: n/a

Overall Impression: below average

Recommend: no

Reviewer Comments: It is a fair chase hunt. I felt the amount of animals sighted and harvested would have been a little higher. Group of 6 harvested 4 hogs all with rifles. 3 members of group never saw a hog in 2.5 days of hunting. 3 members of group bowhunted with 2 never sighting a hog in the bowhunting only area. The entire plantation appears to be highly pressured it appeared that most of the activity was of a night. The plantation has great habitat and potential. It just seemed not to be that many hogs.

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outfitter review submitted by: Brian Wilson on Mar 4 2007

Species Hunted: Wild Boar

Game Quality: Average

Accommodation Quality: Good

Camp Condition: Good

Food Quality: N/A

Guide Experience: Good

Other Personal Experience: N/A

Overall Impression: Average

Recommend: Not for Bowhunting

Reviewer Comments: Six of us took 4 hogs (all with rifles). All three people bowhunting had no hogs in range. The guide did a good job of moving us around and the accomodations were good. It is definitely a fair chase hunt. Expect to hunt, not kill. The area showed signs of excessive hunting pressure. It would be nice if they either limited the length of the season or number of hunters. There were almost 20 hunters at camp for our 4 days. A decent place to shoot a hog with a rifle, but bowhunters should stay away.

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outfitter review submitted by: Gary Gaulrapp on Feb 17 2007

Species Hunted: Wild boar

Game Quality: good

Accommodation Quality: good

Camp Condition: Very Good

Food Quality: N/A

Guide Experience: Very Good

Other Personal Experience: N/A

Overall Impression: Good

Recommend: yes

Reviewer Comments: If you go to Bostick expecting everything they advertise you will be very disapointed. You have to remember(as with all fair chase/no garentee hunts)you are paying for the land/transportation and a guide to place you in the best location. They provided all of thay. This 10,000 acre parcel is hunted every week with anywere from 6 to 21 hunters. Thats a lot of pressure. Dispite 2 days of bad weather we got 9 pigs with 12 hunters. I do not think thaat is to bad. The guides did there best to put all of us in good stands. I had atleast 2 feeders whithin 100 yds of me on every hunt. The guides do rotate you to a spot that was hunted by someone els the day before but that still produced pigs. They have spent a lot of money on feeders and stands. We say 20-30 deer and 19 turkeys. There are plenty of food plots and the pigs were there. Early Full moon does not help. All in all we had a good time and worth the money. Just remember IT'S HUNTING not just KILLING and you will have a good time. As a side not the lodge/ cabin is nice and clean and a great place to stay.

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outfitter review submitted by: Greg Wallace on Feb 5 2007

Species Hunted: Hog

Game Quality: poor

Accommodation Quality: poor

Camp Condition: poor

Food Quality: poor

Guide Experience: poor

Other Personal Experience: poor

Overall Impression: poor

Recommend: no

Reviewer Comments: Do your research on this place-I wish I had. The outfitter has totally RAPED this land, and the over the course of 2 days, I saw no hogs (only after my final hunt did I inspect my bait piles to see my guide had not put ANY bait out!!). The best thing that could happen here is no hunting for at least a year, and then only on a limited basis. I did see 3 hogs killed, all averaging between 100-130 lbs.-far from the bruisers I imagined; and that appears to be the average size of the kills. The hogs have so much pressure put on them year round, that they've gotten wise, and feed primarily at night. In short-stay away.

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outfitter review submitted by: GARY WARNER on Nov 29 2006

Species Hunted: DEER & BOAR

Game Quality: NONE

Accommodation Quality: AVERAGE

Camp Condition: FAIR

Food Quality: FAIR

Guide Experience: GOOD

Other Personal Experience: N/A

Overall Impression: POOR

Recommend: NO!!!

Reviewer Comments: 9 OF US WENT, 4 OF US TO THE MAIN PLACE AND 5 WENT TO ISLAND PLANTATION FOR THE CHEAPER HUNT(CAUSE THERE WAS NO MORE ROOM AT THE MAIN LODGE THEY WERE TOLD-WE WERE TALKING TO OTHER HUNTERS AT THE LODGE AND THEY SAID THEY BOOKED IN AUGUST- WE BOOKED IN MRACH)THE 5 HAD BETTER ACCOMADATIONS AT THE CHEAPER PLACE THAN WE DID. THE FIRST AFTERNOON THERE BEFORE THE HUNT STARTED WE WERE TALKING TO A GUIDE, HE TOLD US THE PLACE WAS OVER HUNTED AND IT WOULDN'T HURT TO SHUT IT DOWN FOR A FEW YEARS BUT LIKE HE SAID THAT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN BECAUSE IT IS A BUSINESS. THE HOUSE WE STAYED IN WAS JUST JAMMED PACKED FULL OF HUNTERS. I DID NOT SEE A DEER OR BOAR AT ALL, OTHER GUYS SAW SMALL DEER, BUT NOTHING LIKE IT SHOWS ON THE WEBSITE OR THEIR BROCHURE, MOST OF THE PICTURES THEY SHOW ARE FROM ABOUT 4 YEARS AGO, ALL OF THE HUNTERS THERE SAID THE SAME THING WHEN WE WERE TALKING - THAT THEY WOULD NOT BE GOING BACK THERE AGAIN, WHICH IS WHY THEY MUST HAVE TO ADVERTISE IN ALL THE MAGAZINES THEY DO - TO GET NEW HUNTERS TO GO THERE. FROM WHAT WE SAW AND HEARD THEY HAVE NOT PUT ANY MONEY IN THE PLACE IN A LONG TIME, YEARS AGO IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A GOOD PLACE TO GO TO BUT RIGHT NOW IT IS NOT WHAT THEY SAY IT IS. WE ALL WOULD NOT RECOMEND THIS TO ANYONE!!!!

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