Cafeteria Style - Whitetail Archery Hunt

Let us customize your next hunt to meet your exact specifications. We specialize in everything from do-it-yourself hunts to fully guided adventures. Our unique system allows you, the hunter to choose the items that suit your needs from the list of our available services. There are no hidden costs and you get to choose which services you want and only pay for those services.

Our hunts are on private land in the upper Mississippi River watershed of rural North East Iowa. The area contains mixed hardwoods and agricultural fields. The terrain features rich agricultural bottom lands with hills approaching 800 ft in elevation. Check the B&C record books. We grow some incredible trophy whitetail bucks in this area, 150" bucks are not uncommon and even larger specimens are a very real possibility. We insist that our hunters harvest only mature deer and have a 140" minimum in place for any buck taken.

All hunts include exclusive hunting rights on a fair chase, private property loaded with wild deer and turkey. Real time scouting reports, weather reports and knowledgeable suggestions to help you formulate a specific game plan for your hunt, plus a guided, low impact tour to help you familiarize yourself with the property along with maps of the property with feeding areas, bedding areas, game trails and boundaries marked. Assistance in the field dressing and retrieval of downed game.

To book a hunt call 563-252-3980 x 1#

Menu:
5 day whitetail archery hunt:
Party of 1 - $1299
Party of 2 - $2499
Party of 3 - $3699

Including:
o Exclusive hunting rights on a fair chase, private property loaded with wild deer and turkey.
o Real time scouting reports, weather reports and knowledgeable suggestions to help you formulate a specific game plan for your hunt,
o A guided, low impact tour to help you familiarize yourself with the property
o A map of the property with feeding areas, bedding areas, game trails and boundaries marked.
o Assistance in the field dressing and retrieval of downed game.

Options:
o Add additional days to your hunt. $200 per person per day.(Must be arraigned in advance, pending availability)
o Lodging - $360 per person
o Meals - $180 per person (Includes supper the afternoon of your arrival and breakfast the morning you depart.)
o Pick up / return to Dubuque Ia Airport - $200
o Pick up / return to Cedar Rapids Ia Airport - $400
o Transportation from lodging to hunting camp and back - $125
o Pre-hung stands set up to reflect current whitetail movements and trends. (2 stands per hunter) $150 per hunter.
o Unintentional harvest a buck smaller than 140" including button buck - $500

No Charge Options:
o Bring your own stand or blind and hunt from anywhere on the designated property that you desire!
o Provide your own lodging
o Provide your own meals
o Provide your own transportation

Services available by local, pre-screened professional on cash basis
o Caping your trophy
o Taxidermy and shipping of your trophy to your home
o Meat processing by the area's premiere locker plant plus shipping finished product to your home
o Transporting you and your animal to locker plant - $30 per deer

Each hunter must provide:
o Air transportation to Dubuque IA or Cedar Rapids IA or Ground transportation to Guttenberg IA
o License, tags and hunter safety certificates as required by Iowa state law.

To book a hunt call 563-252-3980 x 1#


2008 Archery Deer Hunting Dates
Session 1: October 6 - October 10
Session 2: October 13 - October 17
Session 3: October 20 - October 24
Session 4: October 27 - October 31
Session 5: November 3 - November 7
Session 6: November 10 - November 14
Session 7: November 17 - November 21

Note:
We request all our hunters take measures to reduce or eliminate human odor on their person and their equipment. This means showering with scent free soaps and utilizing scent controlling clothing or washing clothing with scent free soaps. The use of scent eliminating sprays is highly recommended. Reducing foreign odor will improve your chance at a trophy. The use of a safety harness is mandatory when hunting from a tree stand. NO Exceptions.

Arrive by at our location before noon on the day prior to the start of your hunt. Get a complete low-impact tour of the property you'll be hunting, review maps and get the latest scouting and weather reports. Provide proof that you have obtained the proper license and tags. Shoot your bow to re-check zero and you're cleared to hunt the next morning.

Our hunting area is in Zone 9

Visit the IDNR Website for more details. Nonresidents can apply online for license and tags or use the telephone ordering system (1-800-367-1188).


Weapons:
Only longbows, recurve bows, or compound bows shooting broadhead arrows. Arrows must be at least 18 inches in length. Chemical or explosive devices MAY NOT be attached to the arrow. A physically disabled person incapable of shooting a bow as defined above may obtain a permit from the DNR to use a crossbow to hunt deer.

HUNTER EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Nonresident hunters born after Jan. 1, 1967, must provide proof of having successfully completed a hunter education course to apply for or obtain a deer hunting license. Applications will not be accepted without proof of completion.

To book a hunt call 563-252-3980 x 1#


We also offer Turkey Hunts - Call for details

2008 Turkey gun/bow hunt sessions:
Spring Season 1 April 14 - 17
Spring Season 2 April 18 - 22
Spring Season 3 April 23 - 29
Spring Season 4 April 30 - May 18