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The website states that there is some type of guiding service provided. The wilderness hunt is you being dropped off by boat at the banks of Indian Lake at early morning and being retrieved at sundown. The services that are provided are tent accommodations, an outhouse, portable shower, a cot, 3 meals, transportation in and out, and game and trophy care. Bag a 300 lb bear 6 or 7 miles into the woods and try dragging it out yourself. I have been on two trips with CP Guiding service and they were okay.
If you are thinking of the Farmland Hunting Trip offered, Don't bother... it is nothing like what is presented on the website. There is only a 5 day farmland for $1, 000. (cash) and the Chyle Country Inn is not the beautiful home in the photos but just a shell of a house with a kerosene heater. Bring your sleeping bags because there are no linens and your own pillows unless you like stained yellowed ones. There are only two hot meals a day not three. For lunch expect two slices of bread and one slice of salami and one slice of cheese.
Don't think for a moment that you will bag a buck because the area is hunted out even before the season begins by farmers and poachers that just want to take the trophy bucks before any outsider does.
I was put in a tree stand that was surrounded on three sides by barking dogs, farmers shooting off there guns every 45 minutes and earth moving equipment tearing up parts of the tree line with the loudest back up beeping I have ever heard. There were four other guests that were promised doe tags... none were provided. Guess how many bucks were taken by the 5 participants in this 5 day farmland hunt. If you guessed zero you would be correct. And if you think you'll get even a partial refund for pointing out all of the misleading advertising and misrepresentations by the owner you'd better start planning your court case now.
If you really have nothing better to do with a $1, 000. go buy your wife a nice gift or take her and the kids away to Florida for the weekend. By the way there are residents in the area that will let you hunt their land for free.
I've seen their ads in the annual Hunting magazine from time to time. I had thought about giving them a call and signing on to one of their trips. Thanks for letting everyone know that they are not what they pretend to be. I would expect if more people complain that they may pull his guide license or at least pull his advertising.
You saved me a thousand dollars and five days of frustration. Thank you.
Edward
I noticed that you stated that C.P.'s Guiding Service only accepted cash. That's usually a sign that they have no intention of returning your money when you realize you've been ripped off. It's also a sign that he probably isn't reporting all this income. If you really want to get even call the I.R.S. on this business and have him investigated.
You said there were five participants at $1, 000.00 each just for those 5 days that $5, 000.00; now multiply that by the number of trips throughout the hunting seasons (deer, bear, coyotee, bird, and so on). This is a three-hundred sixty-five day per year business. If this is an all cash business he is probably raking in tens of thousands annually that is not reported income. According to the website he's been a guide for twenty years. Now we are talking hundreds of thousands in unreportable income.
I'm pretty sure after a 7 year audit that C.P.'s Guiding Service will be run out of Sing Sing prison in Ossining, New York. Call toll free: [protected]
Good Luck with your case.
There are millions of acres of State land to hunt in New York. The farmland guides are only property owners that don't farm their own land. After they've taken the trophy bucks and there is nothing left they open their farms to the outsiders. I've heard several people at Gander Mountain's Plattsburgh, New York store complain about C.P.'s scams. They haven't caught a buck in years on his farmland and his Northern deer and bear hunts. Don't waste your money. For a $1, 000.00 go buy yourself a new rifle and hunt for bear and deer in Pennsylvania or New Jersey.
If you and the others got promised doe tags and C.P.'s Guiding Service did not deliver I would ask for my money back. I would think that C.P.'s Guiding Service would have at least offered you a refund or tried to accommodate you in some way. If they didn't, that would make them a pretty crappy businessmen as far as repeat business goes. Money is hard enough to come by in this economic depression we are in. I would be upset too if I threw away $1, 000. on false promises and bait and switch hotel accommodations.
Have you ever thought to sue for damages or file a complaint with the BBB or DEC?
Better luck next year. I hope you get a trophy buck to make up for this years mishap.
I would only use a guide service if I was unable to scout the area weeks before the season to find food trails and deer and bear travel patterns. Since I cannot get that much time off from work to go in pre-season I guess a guide service would come in handy. Unfortunately it sounds like the service promised much more than it delivered especially when it came to providing doe tags to all the participants. I did visit the website and I can see what you mean about the promised accommodations, I also noticed that a Northern Zone buck is shown for the farmland hunt for the Southern Zone Farmland Hunt. I guess after you and four others spent your whole trip not seeing any deer I would have to agree that you got ripped-off. Thanks for the 4-1-1 on C.P.'s Guiding Service. I will use Bucklore or one of the other guide services advertised.