California Tejon ranch

[Jd259]

Look up carrisa plains outfitters on the Twisselman ranch great honest people of the hunting isn’t good at the time they will tell you and suggest when would be better for the style of hunting you wanna do, I guided for them for years and lived on the ranch it’s a great place and probably 4-5 hours from where your at it’s just west of Bakersfield

 

[Dunndm]

Look up carrisa plains outfitters on the Twisselman ranch great honest people of the hunting isn’t good at the time they will tell you and suggest when would be better for the style of hunting you wanna do, I guided for them for years and lived on the ranch it’s a great place and probably 4-5 hours from where your at it’s just west of Bakersfield

I’ll give them a call for sure then and see what they have to say, I really appreciate the referral and hopefully it all pans out.

It’s not like a petting zoo kinda hunt there is it though? I just want something that has high -ish odds with some kind of stalk. I don’t want it to feel like I can put a quarter in a grain machine and they will come up and eat it outta my hand


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[Jd259]

Haha o hell no no petting zoo there it’s pretty damn fun huntin them when there hittin the grain they feed all night and you hunt them goin back to bed which is about 5 Miles from the grain so you glass then try and figure where there gunna go and get in front of them and set up. It’s hard to hunt them with a bow when there in the grain because it’s pretty open country until you get on the mountain then it’s a bow hunters paradise with all rolling oaks and juniper country basically spot and stalk you’ll have a good time I would think. you’ll either talk to Joel or Andrew both are super great guys. Worth givin a call and picking their brain they may have a decent amount of hogs on the ranch now with all the rain I know they’ve been killin a few lately just haven’t been out in a while to know first hand.

 

[Dunndm]

Haha o hell no no petting zoo there it’s pretty damn fun huntin them when there hittin the grain they feed all night and you hunt them goin back to bed which is about 5 Miles from the grain so you glass then try and figure where there gunna go and get in front of them and set up. It’s hard to hunt them with a bow when there in the grain because it’s pretty open country until you get on the mountain then it’s a bow hunters paradise with all rolling oaks and juniper country basically spot and stalk you’ll have a good time I would think. you’ll either talk to Joel or Andrew both are super great guys. Worth givin a call and picking their brain they may have a decent amount of hogs on the ranch now with all the rain I know they’ve been killin a few lately just haven’t been out in a while to know first hand.

I’ll defiantly give them a call and see what they have to say, only bummer is I’ll be the only bow hunter. The other 3 in the group are rifles, so we will have to see what they have to say about the configuration of the group and how they are feeding! Thank you for the post


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[Arrowslinger]

I've been twice and killed twice with archery. It's far from an easy hunt, but opportunity abounds.

 

[Jd259]

I've been twice and killed twice with archery. It's far from an easy hunt, but opportunity abounds.

Tejon or Twisselman ranch?

 

[Arrowslinger]

Tejon

 

[trackboss]

Tejon is a great ranch. I've done the private hunt there a few times. The ranch itself is absolutely beautiful. It's really something to see whether hunting or not. One would never imagine such a place exists in California just driving by on I-5. I certainly didn't until I actually booked a hunt there.
I only bow hunt and had a great time every time I went. First time I went I didn't get anything, but I passed on a group of pigs the very first day as they were pretty small and I didn't want to end my hunt so fast. The opportunity for a shot was there. My hunting buddy took one however. On another hunt I managed to harvest an absolutely massive boar. For me it's all about the hunt and never expect to shoot anything let alone even see game. It's just a bonus if it happens. There is absolutely nothing about Tejon that would lead me to believe it is a high fence or "canned" hunt. Everything is free range. It's real hunting. The benefit is that it is on well managed private land with experienced guides that can improve ones chance of seeing game.
The accomodations I would say are first class by hunting camp standards.

Another great place is camp five. When I first started doing private, guided ranch hunts, this was where I went. Excellent place. Great ranches and great guides. Have had a blast every time even though I have only hunted in the dead of winter when pigs are much harder to find. At the end of last year I got a really nice red/brown boar out of that ranch. I actually have it on video, but not sure how to attach here.
Accomodations at camp five are not nearly as nice as Tejon. They have a house there for hunters to stay in, but it could use some work/cleaning. However, it's acceptable.
These are the only two private ranches I have hunted and plan to return. They both cost the same for the guided hunts with accomodations, and I would bet most others are similar.
For me, with limited time, it's a fair price to hunt a private ranch. It would cost me way more to hunt public land simply because of the time involved just to learn a place that I've never been to. Travel, time off work, etc. Not to mention some of the closers places have people there that may be quite disrespectful to the others and the surroundings.
One way to help justify the cost is to think about how much would it cost to buy your own land to hunt on in California?