Hall of Fame/Shame

Hall of Fame

FCS had good experiences with the below businesses/outfitters/guides and will rehire/recommends them.  Included is the event(s) that we did with them, other activities that they offer, and their location.

• 74 Ranch Resort (24-hour sporting clay shoots; they also offer hunting for several species of big game, dove, quail, and turkeys; near Campbellton)
• Alpine Shooting Range (sporting clays shoot; they also have skeet and trap ranges and clay target throwers, rifle and handgun ranges; near Fort Worth)
• Capital City Clays (sporting clays, 5-stand, and skeet shoots; and sporting clays tournaments they also have trap ranges; near Austin)
• Todd Condiff (guided duck hunt; DFW area)
• Copperhead Creek Shooting Club (sporting clays tournaments; they also have skeet, trap, rifle, and handgun ranges; near Marble Falls)
• Eagle Peak Shooting Range (rifle and handgun ranges and clay target throwers; near Jonestown)
• Elm Fork Shooting Sports (sporting clays shoot; they also have skeet, trap, rifle, handgun, and archery ranges, DFW area)
• Limitless Outdoor Adventures/Jacob Orr (guided duck hunt; DFW area)
• Ricky Ethridge (guided duck hunts and semi-guided hog hunts; he also offers guided teal hunts and semi-guided deer and axis deer hunts; near Marquez, Cameron, Lockhart, Rocksprings, and in Mexico)
• Rayce Jenkins (guided duck, teal, goose, and sandhill crane hunts; near El Campo)
• Mike Schumann (guided upland bird hunts; near Dimebox)
• Tenney Creek Outfitters/Jack Chamberland (guided duck and semi-guided hog hunts; they also offer guided upland bird hunts; near McMahan)
• Texas Wild (semi-guided hog hunts and dove hunts; they also offer season leases for duck and semi-guided turkey and deer hunts; near Pleasanton)
• Three Curl Outfitters/Bret Jepsen (guided duck hunt; they also offer semi-guided hog and dove hunts, and guided quail hunts; DFW area)

Hall of Shame

FCS had bad experiences with the below outfitters/guides and will not rehire or recommend them.  These experiences including lack of game/false representations of the amount and type of game that is being seen, lack of scouting/effort, and/or misrepresentation of lodging and/or food.  Included is the event that we did with them and their location.

• Blue Roan Bend Outfitters (goose and duck hunt – lack of game; near Eagle Lake)
• Brett Manry (hog hunt – lack of game – sent several pictures of hogs, our six hunters only saw one hog and it was on a neighbor’s property; near Cherokee)
• Dove Heaven/Double H Outfitters/Justin (dove hunt – not enough game for the number of hunters they had and they put 30 hunters 100 yards from us that shot most of the dove that were heading our way; near San Antonio)
• Elm Creek Outfitters (an affiliate of theirs) (dove hunt – lack of game; near Hutto)
• Haun Ranch (deer and hog hunt) – did not tell us until after we arrived that does were by permit only and only two of  our hunters could take one; near Victoria)
• Heart of Texas Guided Hunt/Texas Thermal Hog Hunts (hog hunt – lack of game, poor quality/worn out thermal sights, and deceptive trade practices on lodging and food; near Hubbard)
• Pinoak Ranch (duck hunt – lack of game; near Tehuacana)
• Simmons Waterfowl Service (duck hunt – lack of game and his idea of concealment is laughable (sitting on straw bales in the open); near Fort Worth)
• Triple Play Outfitters (dove hunt – lack of game; near New Braunfels)

Members – if you have an outfitter from an FCS trip that you’d like Randy Rowley to consider adding to either of these lists, send an email to him at randywrowley@gmail.com.  It would be helpful if you would also submit details of the encounter.