Trophy 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: Henry Bernatonis on Jun 17 2008

Species Hunted: boar

Game Quality: Poor- very small piglets

Accommodation Quality: Fair

Camp Condition: Fair

Food Quality: N/A- Bring your own

Guide Experience: Good Guide

Other Personal Experience: N/A- no one else there

Overall Impression: Totally misrepresented

Recommend: Definitely not!

Reviewer Comments: Hunt was 2-4 June 2008. The guide was a young fellow who did what he could with the situation, but the scenario was totally misrepresented by the outfitter. The lodge couldn't accommodate more than 6 men comfortably. On the first day no one saw any game, and very little was sighted thereafter. We were led to believe that there were many large boar there, but of 4 hunters hunting 3 days, only one of us got a boar, 44 pounds. The guide admitted to us that we would have done well to harvest 2 animals between the 4 of us, throughout the entirety of the hunt. Naumann talks a good act, but is absolutely dishonest about his operation. He leases the land from a timbering company, there is virtually no game on the place. Would never recommend this outfitter to anyone, he's very unprofessional. You'll notice that he advertises a great deal, but the reality is that no one who hunts his place is likely to hunt it again. With Naumann, it's a matter of taking one's money and letting him look at the woods. BOOK ELSEWHERE!

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outfitter review submitted by: Matt on Mar 22 2008

Species Hunted: Hogs

Game Quality: N/A

Accommodation Quality: Pretty Nice

Camp Condition: Good

Food Quality: You bring your own

Guide Experience: No guide just Tom

Other Personal Experience: N/A

Overall Impression: Awful

Recommend: No

Reviewer Comments: Ok First off Tom is an awesome guy I enjoyed shootin the bull with him an the other hunters, but the hunting was awful. We arrived on thursday an werent hunting until friday. He baited the stands the day we arrived not nearly enough time for the hogs to find the corn. Did the same thing friday for the stands we would be hunting saturday. He calls a week old sign good that the hogs are there which they were a week ago but baiting the day before a hunt is not nearly enough time for the hogs to get bk on the site. there were 6 hunters and we spent 120hrs total in the stand an no one even saw a hog. Great place to go hang out but not to hunt. Tom doesn't run the lodge full time like he should and plus on our way to the stand one morning he stopped an got gas very unprofessional especially since where hunting all but 3 hours of the day. I would not recommend this outfitter

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outfitter review submitted by: Leroy on Feb 19 2008

Species Hunted: Boar

Game Quality: N/A

Accommodation Quality: Good

Camp Condition: Adequate

Food Quality: Self Provided

Guide Experience: Adequate

Other Personal Experience: No one else

Overall Impression: Poor

Recommend: NO

Reviewer Comments: With 7 hunters in camp - each spending a total 2 days in "somewhat baited" stands - NO ANIMALS SEEN

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outfitter review submitted by: Ron on Jan 20 2008

Species Hunted: Boar

Game Quality: Out of 7 hunters - 4 pigglets seen

Accommodation Quality: Adequate

Camp Condition: Good

Food Quality: N/A - Self Feed

Guide Experience: Guide Baited Stand

Other Personal Experience: N/A - No one else

Overall Impression: Not much of a hunt - Little or no game.

Recommend: No

Reviewer Comments: Cherokee Run Hunting Lodge is a hunting camp with adequate facilities for a small group that’s just looking for a weekend get away and has little or no expectation on actually harvesting an animal. Their hunting area is over hunted with little or no game. However, the guide will go out of his way to make you stay as comfortable as possible.

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outfitter review submitted by: Jeremy Mahaffey on Jan 28 2005

Species Hunted: deer & hog

Game Quality: not applicable becasue none was sighted

Accommodation Quality: 16 men, 2 rooms, 1 toilet, 1 s

Camp Condition: hideous

Food Quality: pop tarts, beenie weenie, prov

Guide Experience: no experience, they can only d

Other Personal Experience: there was no on e else

Overall Impression: it was not a hunt, it was a convention of a bunch of southern baptist to see who could stare at the

Recommend: if you want to spent $400-500

Reviewer Comments: Cherokee run is a hunting outfit that we here in NC like to refer to as "come waste your money hunting lodge" Your truly, Jeremy, Travis, Ronnie, Harvey, Josh, Tim, Billy, Larry, Wayne, Raymond, Tyler, Sandy,

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outfitter review submitted by: Scott Shifflett on May 4 2004

Species Hunted: Boar

Game Quality: none seen

Accommodation Quality: adequate

Camp Condition: fair

Food Quality: N/A

Guide Experience: UNKNOWN

Other Personal Experience: UNKNOWN

Overall Impression: POOR

Recommend: NO

Reviewer Comments: Prior to taking this hunt I looked for reviews by other hunters. I found none. I'm submitting one in hopes others don't make the mistake I did. I contacted Tom expressing a desire to take my boys on a successful hunting trip for Boar. I'm in the reserves and work full time so I spend a good deal of time working. Since returning from military service I've wanted to do something with my boys to get them interested in hunting and the outdoors as well as making some life long memories together. Tom indicated he had a good number of boar actively hitting baited stands. Said it should be no problem seeing boar and the boys would love it. I confirmed my intent to hunt 4 days prior to arriving. I wrote several emails and made a call to Tom the day of the trip. Once on the road I made calls to ensure I would be meet at the lodge as planned. None of the calls were returned. I arrived at the address just as planned but found no one there. I almost went home. I made one last call stating that I was headed to the store to get the boys a drink and would come back by one more time before leaving. When I arrived back at the camp the guide and his family were there. We got up around 0430 and got out to our hunting location around 630. The guide dropped us off at the gate and gave us instructions on how to find the stand he wanted us to sit. I had copied a map from at the camp and didn't have too difficult a time locating the stand. No evidence of active and maintained baiting was present. All the locations I later walked looked like several days or a week had passed since they last were serviced. Around 1030 I decided to leave our stand and walk the areas not yet seen. While the area does hold boar nothing too recent was obvious. There was no sign of recent baiting at any of the stand locations. We made it back to the first stand location and I called the guides cell phone number. I had to leave a message so it was a good thing we didn't have an emergency. It was 40 minutes later when he came riding through on his ATV dropping corn off at the various stands. This occurred around noon. We meet him back at the truck and headed to camp. I still owed a little money on the hunt so when we got back to the camp I was reminded it would be a good opportunity to go get the money before heading back out around 4pm. The name eat, sleep and hunt shouldn't fool you. You will have to go get whatever you decide to eat and prepare it yourself. My experience: 1) No one returned my calls while I traveled to the camp. 2) No one was there to meet me upon arriving. 3) The stands were not baited prior to noon the day of the hunt. 4) You are left on the stands and have to call and wait on transportation. Be prepared to deal with any emergency. You will get the answering machine when phoning. 5) There is only 1 guide. One of my guides is a misnomer. The guides name is Mike. He traveled as far as I did to get to the camp. That explains why nothing was prepared. I'm not sure if I'll be able to get the kids to go on another boar hunt. I really feel bad for them. They were really excited about it. I'm bummed out by the whole ordeal.

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