Effords Hunting Adventures

[traumaninja]

I am booked to hunt a fly in moose hunt with Effords in Oct 2025. Can anyone hunting with them post some pics of their trophies?

 

[Brooke]

I just got back from hunting with Effords, a group of 4 of us went together and we all tagged out. We had a great time, accommodations were awesome, the guides really knew what they were doing. We all shot bulls that we were happy with. 2 guys tagged out on day 1. Two of us passed on a few smaller bulls (30-38”) I ended up shooting a 44” bull and the other shot a 42” bull. We were at Cochran pond.

 

[mattflipper]

Went with them last year and booked again for 2025. Great time and really fun hunt.

 

[Muleyczy]

out of curiosity what do you all do with the meat. Do you ship it or do you drive?
If you ship what’s the cost?

 

[mattflipper]

I drove and took a chest freezer and generator. Some other other guys I hunted with flew and had their meat shipped.

 

[Brooke]

out of curiosity what do you all do with the meat. Do you ship it or do you drive?
If you ship what’s the cost?

This was our first time and we ended up shipping it home. Knowing what I know now, I plan to drive next time. Cost to ship home was/is around $2000 per moose. We paid for it to be processed there at $520 per moose, then add the $2000 to ship it home ($2500ish) each moose. For the 4 of us it’s a chunk of change!! I’m booked to go back in 2027 and will just drive. That being said, we are on the west coast, so shipping to the west coast gets a bit complicated, as the closest cold storage they would ship to was in Tulsa Oklahoma, so we then had to arrange shipping from there to home.

 

[Habitat#1]

Congrats,how much of the shipping was from Tulsa to west coast?How was the overall hunt and do you think the first week of Oct was in the rut?Also did they do 1x1 hunter guide or 2x1

 

[Brooke]

From Tulsa Oklahoma to Oregon via refrigerated Hot shot truck it’s $2000 for all 4 moose. The overall hunt was great, we had 1 on 1 guides at a “regular camp”. We were expecting 2 on 1 so 1 on 1 was a pleasant surprise. The guides work together to help each-others clients be successful. That being said, you get out of it what you put into it, it’s extremely difficult territory to walk, so being in top physical shape would greatly increase your odds of harvesting nice bull. The moose were starting to rut in the first couple days we were there and by the last day they were in a good scrappy rut!

 

[Habitat#1]

Sorry I should have asked how much was shipping to tulsa as thats only a couple hours from me

 

[Brooke]

Sorry I should have asked how much was shipping to tulsa as thats only a couple hours from me

To Tulsa was $1200.

 

[Habitat#1]

Thats not bad,did you have to box yourself and take to shipper?

 

[traumaninja]

I just got back from hunting with Effords, a group of 4 of us went together and we all tagged out. We had a great time, accommodations were awesome, the guides really knew what they were doing. We all shot bulls that we were happy with. 2 guys tagged out on day 1. Two of us passed on a few smaller bulls (30-38”) I ended up shooting a 44” bull and the other shot a 42” bull. We were at Cochran pond.

Thanks for the reply and pics!! Those bulls are all very impressive. Very excited to get there next year.

 

[traumaninja]

out of curiosity what do you all do with the meat. Do you ship it or do you drive?
If you ship what’s the cost?

great question. I plan to fly. I called and asked about shipping and it sounded like shipping was around $550. I may have to ask around more about this. I prefer to drive but its a 40hr drive. I am in central Ohio

 

[Brooke]

Thats not bad,did you have to box yourself and take to shipper?

Effords and the shipping company took care of everything!

 

[Sako76]

If I had moose pics I would post them but I don’t, Effords is a crook!

 

[Brooke]

If I had moose pics I would post them but I don’t, Effords is a crook!

Out of curiosity, how so?

 

[Sako76]

Booked a drive in hunt in 2015 at his Gander hunting camp. One of the references calls very late and informs us that Effords sold the camp after we booked it and never told us. One of our criteria for hunting with him was “we could walk out the back door if the cabin and start hunting, no long drives to hunt”!

When one if our guys called him on it he sent an aerial photo of the camp, it was his fly out fishing camp on a lake with a lot of houses (local hunters).

When we get to the camp we are told we have a 2 1/2-3 hour one way ride to hunt “our area”. We are all pissed off and want to talk to Effords, he is “unavailable”. The hunt consisted of 70 year old guides driving up and down roads (road hunting)! We would turn down a road, two local trucks coming out, two behind us. The guides refused to go into the woods. They didn’t know the area. I never saw a moose. Two out of five guys killed a moose road hunting, not what we signed up for. We ran into a lot of tree planters, you have to case your rifle going into these areas.

When Effords sold the camp, he should have told us, offered us a refund or a better camp. He just took our money and squeezed us in his fishing camp. He is is a crook!

 

[Brooke]

Booked a drive in hunt in 2015 at his Gander hunting camp. One of the references calls very late and informs us that Effords sold the camp after we booked it and never told us. One of our criteria for hunting with him was “we could walk out the back door if the cabin and start hunting, no long drives to hunt”!

When one if our guys called him on it he sent an aerial photo of the camp, it was his fly out fishing camp on a lake with a lot of houses (local hunters).

When we get to the camp we are told we have a 2 1/2-3 hour one way ride to hunt “our area”. We are all pissed off and want to talk to Effords, he is “unavailable”. The hunt consisted of 70 year old guides driving up and down roads (road hunting)! We would turn down a road, two local trucks coming out, two behind us. The guides refused to go into the woods. They didn’t know the area. I never saw a moose. Two out of five guys killed a moose road hunting, not what we signed up for. We ran into a lot of tree planters, you have to case your rifle going into these areas.

When Effords sold the camp, he should have told us, offered us a refund or a better camp. He just took our money and squeezed us in his fishing camp. He is is a crook!

Oh Geez! Yeah I would have been pissed!!
Fortunately our experience was not that this last season, we were super remote, walked from camp to hunt and those guide would hike to the moon and back if I asked them to, we damn near did it anyway just to see bigger bulls.