Musselshell 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: Dennis Naylor on Dec 18 2004

Species Hunted: Elk: Archery Season

Game Quality: Very Poor

Accommodation Quality: Good

Camp Condition: Mediocre

Food Quality: Less than quality

Guide Experience: Pitiful

Other Personal Experience: Poor

Overall Impression: Run don't walk away

Recommend: Recommened suspension of licen

Reviewer Comments: Outfitter misrepresented his hunt. No archer in the first three seasons even saw one of the quality elk that he stated that "virtually everyone has shooting opportunities to take". This would be for 310+ animals. Only animal of this quality seen on their properties was when one hoped a fence AFTER shooting hours. Treestands were DANGEROUS. Used dead branches as steps. Some were inverted. Didn't even know where their safety belts were. Some of the double bull blinds had rods hanging out. Stay away from this outfitter. We have filed a complaint and several others have also. Now found out that he was already under probation for other violations.

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outfitter review submitted by: Darrell Brown on Nov 26 2004

Species Hunted: Mule Deer

Game Quality: Excellant

Accommodation Quality: Excellant

Camp Condition: Excellant

Food Quality: Does\\\'nt get any better

Guide Experience: Good

Other Personal Experience: Good

Overall Impression: Going again next year

Recommend: No Question, Go

Reviewer Comments: Well this is my third hunt with Musselshell and the first for my son. We not only seen nice mule deer, but good herds of elk, antelope 30 to 40 at a time and wild turkeys. The food was Excellant. My son got the first buck the first day. Our guide Randy did a great job of getting him a good shot, also his first buck, boy will it be hard to top. I also shot a good four point the last day of our hunt after passing on several. I have been here for the third time and can't imagine that you could hunt here and not see any animals. But after all some peaple may forget this is hunting and even though you have a guide he can only put you in a good area. Maybe this is the reason high fence operation are becoming so popular. But for those of you that would like a good hunt with good peaple I would highly recomend musselshell outfitters. Thank you, Randy and Jenifer for another great hunt. Darrell and Bryce Brown

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outfitter review submitted by: Barry Stratton on Nov 18 2004

Species Hunted: Antelope, Mule Deer

Game Quality: average to excellent

Accommodation Quality: good

Camp Condition: good

Food Quality: great

Guide Experience: great

Other Personal Experience: great

Overall Impression: even better than expected

Recommend: Yes, highly

Reviewer Comments: FIRST CLASS is the only way I can describe it. The camp is nice, the guides great hunters, and the cook is in a class of her own. Mr. Higgins is an honest, upfront, hard working outfitter. The material and information provided was accurate, concise, and easily understood. The only surprise was that the camp, people, and hunting area's were even nicer/better than expected! The bottom line is that I had a terrific hunt. Seeing new animals, walking new terrain, meeting new folks with a common interest was absolutely wonderful. I got a taste of Montana hunting, and I like what I saw/experienced. In fact, I'm already making plans to go back. I have hunted all over Alaska as well as other states and countries. I can tell you from first hand experience that Musselshell Outfitters is a quality operation, despite what a few negative posters would like you to believe. I have never had a guide or outfitter work as hard as Mr. Higgins and his crew to ensure my happiness and satisfaction. I will be going back.

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outfitter review submitted by: Joe Foreman on Nov 17 2004

Species Hunted: antelope/mule Deer/Whitetail

Game Quality: Very good

Accommodation Quality: Extremely comfortable

Camp Condition: Very good

Food Quality: Excellent

Guide Experience: Excellent

Other Personal Experience: Excellent

Overall Impression: Excellent

Recommend: Absolutely

Reviewer Comments: Hunted w/Randy in 2000 archery elk/deer , 2001 archery elk/deer/antelope,2004 rifle antelope/deer.It gets better every time I'm there! My wife wanted to hunt antelope for our 25th wedding anniversary 2004. We hunted 2nd week of rifle season.Had a ball!Lots of game.No other hunters.Great food.Great accomadations. Rifle season-deer-2004. Saw 54 deer (16 bucks)first day.Harvested a great whitetail 3rd day.

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outfitter review submitted by: Larry Reese on Oct 27 2004

Species Hunted: Mule Deer/ Elk Archery 2004

Game Quality: None, ZERO !!!

Accommodation Quality: Fair

Camp Condition: Good

Food Quality: Good

Guide Experience: Lacking, young first timers

Other Personal Experience: Average that is generous

Overall Impression: VERY POOR

Recommend: NEVER

Reviewer Comments: After a bunch of lies an a hunt from Hell I called the MT outfitters Association an he has had 3 violations all with disciplinary action resulting in fines and his Lic. on each violations was give 18 months probation. Has of this report his Lic is in active Probation. Don't think of hunting with this guy. One of the violations was he did not pay his guides. Another was he hired guides that were not Lic. The other was a citation from the MT fish and wildlife for guiding /hunting on land he did not have permission. If you don't believe me call the MT Outfitters Association 406-841-2373.

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outfitter review submitted by: TODD GREEN on Oct 6 2004

Species Hunted: ANTELOPE

Game Quality: POOR

Accommodation Quality: GOOD

Camp Condition: GOOD

Food Quality: VERY GOOD

Guide Experience: GOOD DRIVER

Other Personal Experience: N/A

Overall Impression: POOR --MISERABLE

Recommend: OH NO!!!!

Reviewer Comments: 13HRS A DAY FOR 3-DAYS---SEEN NO GAME---LAST DAY SAW A SMALL HERD---ONE BUCK SMALL---NO BACK UP PLAN IF IT WAS NOT 90DEG---WE HAD COOLER WEATHER THIS WAS BLAMED FOR LACK OF GAME???---THEY STILL HAVE TO EAT---THIER WHOLE HUNT IS PLANNED AROUND CATTLE TANKS AND IF THE GOATS ARE NOT WATERING THEN YOU WATCH CATTLE COME TO TANKS----NO SCOUTING WAS DONE BEFORE HAND---AREAS LIMITED TO HUNT ANTELOPE----JUST BEFORE ROUND-UP--ON THE WAY IN WE SAW NUMEROUS ANTELOPE AND SOME GOOD BUCKS---THEY HAD NO LEASES IN THEM PARTS AND RANDY SAID AT THE TIME OF ARE ARIVAL THAT WE SHOULD NOT EXPECT TO SEE THOSE QUANITYS--BUT THE QUALITY WOULD BE MUCH BETTER---NONE OF THIS CAME TRUE---JUST NO ANTELOPE IN AREA--ONERHUNTED--I DONT KNOW---OVER SOMETHING---BECAUSE TEAM OF 4 HUNTERS WENT HOME NEVER EVEN GETTING CLOSER THEN 150 YARDS---ONE WENT HOME WITHOUT EVER SEEING A ANTELOPE--THE WHOLE TRIP I HOPE HE SAW SOME ON THE WAY BACK TO THE AIRPORT---DO NOT BOOK THIS FOR ANTELOPE---AGAIN DO NOT BOOK THIS!!!!!!!!!!!

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outfitter review submitted by: G/. WILSON on Oct 6 2004

Species Hunted: GOAT

Game Quality: OUCH

Accommodation Quality: GOOD

Camp Condition: GOOD

Food Quality: REAL GOOD

Guide Experience: O.K.

Other Personal Experience: O.K.

Overall Impression: OUCH

Recommend: NO,,,NO,,,NO

Reviewer Comments: WEATER WAS COOLER THEN NORM----SEEN A FEW NEVER CLOSE--SEEN ONE BUCK---WAS 100PLUS YARDS AWAY--SAW THE BLIND I WAS IN AND SPOOKED---DUE TO BLINDS NOT BEING UP AHEAD OF TIME---SET OF CATTLE TANKS 2 DAYS IN A ROW FOR 13 HOURS HAD NO TRACKS AT TANK BUT WAS SET ON TANKS ANYWAY???? WHY,,WHY,,WHY----GUIDES HAD NO ANSWER--RANDYS ANSWER WITCH IM TIRED OF HEARING THIS IS NOT A CANNED HUNT---ANIMALS GO GO ANYWHERE---WHAT ANIMALS---I COULD SEE IF I SCREWED UP OR REFUSED A SHOT--OR EVEN HAD ANIMALS JUST 50YARDS--SOMETHING--OTHER THEN COWS AND CATTLE TANKS AND THE RARE BIRD---THIS AREA SEEMS TO BE MORE FOR MULE DEER---BUT NEVER SAW ANY BUCKS--EXCEPT DRIVING BACK TO CAMP AT NIGHT---THEN NOT VERY BIG---DID SEE ONE BULL ELK WAS VERY NICE BUT THIS WAS WHILE DRIVING AND ON A RANCH NOT SUBJECT TO HUNTING ACCORDING TO GUIDE???---THEY HAD A ELK HUNTER IN CAMP THAT NEVER GOT CLOSE TO A ELK---ELK HUNTERS BEFORE HIM HAD THE SAME STORY NO ELK---GIUDE SAID HE WISH HE WOULD GET BIT BY A RATTLER SO HE COULD GO HOME EARLY---BUT AS THE ANTELOPE HE COULD NOT FIND A SNAKE EITHER!!!!

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outfitter review submitted by: Wayne Britt on Sep 30 2004

Species Hunted: Whitetail/Mule Deer

Game Quality: Very Good

Accommodation Quality: Warm Dry Hunting Shacks

Camp Condition: Very Good

Food Quality: Home Cooking in Cook Tent

Guide Experience: Last Years Guides were great

Other Personal Experience: Jennifer\\\'s a great cook

Overall Impression: very good

Recommend: Yes

Reviewer Comments: Week of my hunt was a week of high wind. Saw lots of does, but the big boys kept out of sight. I enjoyed the hunt in spite of not making a kill. Mule Deer hunters in camp did much better, everyone except 1 mule deer hunter brought in a really nice mulie. Can't address the problems some of the other post raise, but i was very pleased with Randy, Jennifer and guides. I know the grain fields on the Musselshell River hold some really nice whitetails, and I'l return as soon as possible to hunt with Randy.

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outfitter review submitted by: R. TOLL on Sep 28 2004

Species Hunted: ANTELOPE

Game Quality: SMALL BUCK--2

Accommodation Quality: FAIR

Camp Condition: FAIR//// 3BLINDS ONLY

Food Quality: GOOD

Guide Experience: POOR

Other Personal Experience: POOR

Overall Impression: VERY POOR

Recommend: ABSOLUTLEY NOT

Reviewer Comments: PHONE CONVERSATIONS VARIED GREATLY FROM WHAT WE SAW AS FAR AS GAME----GIUDES DID NOT HAVE AREA SCOUTED AT ALL--NO IDEA WERE TO FIND ANTELOPE,, ALSO AREAS LIMITED FOR HUNTING---CATTLE ROUNDUPS FORCEING US FROM CERTIAN HUNTING AREAS (TWICE) BLINDS NOT SET UP AHEAD OF TIME CAUSING GAME TO SPOOK AT THE SITE OF THEM---CRUSHING THE ONLY CHNACE WE HAD THE WHOLE TRIP----AREA IS NOT PLENTYFUL WITH ANTELOPE--GUIDES HAD NO EXPLANATION TO WHY WERE NOT SEEING GAME--JUST THE FAMOUS IT MUST BE THE WEATHER---ONE HUNTER IN CAMP WENT 3 DAYS AT 13 HRS A DAY SOLID HUNTING AND NEVER SAW ONE ANTELOPE GIUDES HAD HIM IN SAME WATER WHOLE FOR TWO DAYS (26HOURS) AND NO SIGHTINGS LAST DAY HE WAS PUT ON A CATTLE TANK THAT HAD NO TRACKS AROUND IT---WE HAD THE SAME NO TRACKS NO GAME NO FUN----WASTED MONEY WASTED VACATION----YOU WANT TO HUNT ANTELOPE GO TO WYOMING (GILLETTE)WE SAW 3,000 ANIMALS ON THE WAY BACK TO MICHIGAN--MANY MANY BUCKS--I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND RANDY HIGGINS FOR ANTELOPE

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outfitter review submitted by: Larry Reese on Sep 24 2004

Species Hunted: Elk Archery 2004

Game Quality: Never saw an Elk on his land

Accommodation Quality: average

Camp Condition: OK

Food Quality: Great

Guide Experience: mine was his first guide job,

Other Personal Experience: Can not comment

Overall Impression: Only interested in running hunters through and taking there money

Recommend: Not from my experrance with th

Reviewer Comments: I was told and read on his web site that there was a good concentration of Elk on his leased land, There has been a 100% shot opportunity on 300 class bulls each year, I would see good bulls every day, there were large Muley bucks in the 28" spread that I would see. I hunted 6 days and Never saw a Elk on any of his leased land and Never saw a Muley buck of any size, did see some does. The 10 hunters ahead of me told me the same story upon my arrival, NO ELK!! Ask him for the names of them that hunted the week of September 8-15, 2004 I was there 16-23rd . There was also 4 antelope hunters in camp when I was there get there names also they will tell you about how much game he has. If you can't get them from him e-mail me I will give you there phone numbers.

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