Wow!DO NOT BOOK A HUNT WITH CHRIS!! I just returned from a trip on February 5th and it was a complete disaster. Chris is a poacher and a con. He Did not guide us a single day. One day he had one of his guides, David, put us on someone else’s property and then we ended up being ran off at gun point by the actual landowner. Chris never shows up to these properties because he has already been warned and law enforcement has been notified he is trespassing and poaching off their land. He knowingly puts you at danger and risk you being prosecuted as a poacher. DO NOT DO IT. I found the yelp reviews to late, but check them out if you need more convincing.
Seems like aoudad hunts run from what you described all the way to pure luxury. There are good options in the middle and the upper/lower end of the middle.We found the yelp results a little late also. We canceled our trip and I’m currently contesting the charges with my CC company. The service he is selling is not what the customers are getting. I have a very good friend who hunted with Chris about four or five years ago in back to back years and had a good hunt. My friend cannot believe how Chris is currently running his business.
When I questioned him about the bad reviews he said the yelp reviews were just a few people who had a bad hunt then he quit answering me. We were supposed to hunt Feb 3-6. He told me the guys who hunted prior to when we were supposed to be there had killed one and wounded another that took a bullet to the shoulder and kept running over the hills. I believe the week he is talking about a father daughter group was there and did not kill anything and had a terrible hunt. He sent me a photo with the head cropped out of the picture to not identify who the hunter was saying they were the recent group.
I’ve read reports of him taking folks money then “guiding” them on land that isn’t actually his without permission. The whole time he was smoking joints and getting all paranoid because he was trespassing.I guess I am just to trusting. Wish I would have researched more before we booked or traveled 20 hours just to be ripped off.
I had a-lot of questions before I booked and Chris is a smooth talker. He said they had 35,000 plus acres to hunt and a pick of what you want to shoot. Promised 25” plus rams. Fully guided hunts to help judge size, cape and help pack out. None of it was true. We had to drive our own trucks and scratch them up. Dave showed up 2nd day to pick us up and said Chris told him there was only two hunters. Dave only had a two seater pickup and no gas. (There was 4 hunters and 2 guests) Had to wait for him to return from finding gas. Let us loose on a hill that was trampled with footprints and no sign of aoudad. These guys are professional crooks. Hope all these bad reviews will help other people from getting ripped off !I’ve read reports of him taking folks money then “guiding” them on land that isn’t actually his without permission. The whole time he was smoking joints and getting all paranoid because he was trespassing.