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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.
Company Business Name: C.P's Guiding Service
Country of complaint: United States
i have a coworker that went there 10 years ago chris wanted money before you left boat dock.besides my brother paid him (chris) infull an having hard time getting his money back.he was told by chris that he had to wait till oct after the hunt was over.
Same complaints as everyone else! Service sucked, nothing guided or semi guided on Adirondack trip. Huge scam, eight men in camp and not one deer or bear seen. Trip was cut short, nothing offered in return. Everyone swore to never return. Eight men, Two half ### so called guides, pitifull!
Just to follow up on my original complaint and comment on the other posters that ignored my warnings...
Get yourself a nice inflatable boat from www.boatstogo.com, a decent tent, a sleeping bag and mat, and an inexpensive ground blind and go hunt at Indian Lake for the same $1, 000.00 that C.P.'s Guide Service charges. The difference is that you can take the same boat, tent, ground blind and sleeping bag every year for free after that. If anything, split the cost with a friend and you and a buddy hunt the same area at half the cost.
I have gone on my own for three years in a row since that nightmare and have had better luck without C.P.'s Guide Service.
Just look for me the day before opening day and I'll even point out some of the better campsites that I've hunted (and actually seen deer).
Good Luck and Good Hunting
By The Way... If you still want to use a guide try Bucklore out at Schroon Lake, they have very high ratings and excellent reviews. Some of their guides are Park Rangers and very familiar with known deer and bear travel patterns and food trails. They do everything including handing your rifle to you when you're secure in your tree stand.
As an update to the 2013 Northern Zone hunting season I hunted Long Lake with LICENSED Guide and 13 year forest ranger Beth Melecci. She scouted dozens of square miles of forest for scrapes and signs of deer weeks before I arrived, set up a four season tent in an area where I could take breaks and rest between sitting in a ground blind or tree stand, she also took me into areas where I saw deer everyday... Three deer the first day I was there. She also set me up in a beautiful cabin on Steamboat Road with heat, hot water, full kitchen, full bath, direct TV, washer/dryer, and sleeps six (and I am just one person) right on Long Lake with a boat dock and canoe.
I had the greatest nine day hunting trip experience ever. When she said she was going to put me on the deer I didn't realize she meant she was going to put me right on top of them. Every spot she took me to she carefully scouted the areas. She even invited a friend to drive deer over a ridge in my direction one day and yes they ran right past me.
The meals were also unbelievable. We had western omelets, venison burgers, venison back straps that were so tender I cut it with my fork, Home made split pea soup, surf and turf, and my favorite stuffed breaded pork chops, pasta with shrimp and home made garlic bread, thermos's of hot peppermint tea and sandwiches (choice of roast pork, ham, etc) and lots of delicious snacks to sit in the blinds during the day, and hot meals for breakfast every morning and hot meals every night for dinner.
If you ever have the chance to use the services of a real licensed hunting guide not one that advertises that he is... Call Beth Melecci and I guarantee that you will be more than impressed with the level of service and attention that she puts into every part of your trip. She ran me ragged everyday and I enjoyed every minute of it.
I went hunting CP's guide service as well and I can say everything stated above is true. I may have even been staying there at the same time as the person who started this review. The pics of the place you are told you are staying at are those of Chris's actual house. Ands you don't stay there. You will stay at an old farm house. When I was there his son had said his mom and dad where not on good terms and she refused to let hunters stay there. Old house has electricity but no heat. The heaters are old and useless. (also who wants to hunt smelling like kerosene). Sleeping bag and pillow is a must if you decide to waste your money there. I spoke to many land owners while I was not hunting who are friendly and will let you hunt there properties for FREE. Just knock on their doors and be polite. Clients were promised doe tags and didn't receive them. The counties you hunt are loaded with does. I don't see how this guide services does not request tags from land owners that rent him there property. There farmers who could probably request nuisance tags. The hunt is not guided. They point to the path and say look for the markers to show you your stand. Game care is also not provided unless you demand it. I shot a doe (had my own tag) and was told to start field dressing it before he came with his son to get it. I said no and waited. From what I saw and was told by land owners is that the counties are over hunted and locals shoot most if not all mature bucks before opening day. Entire families that may have one or two hunters get hunting license and tags. Then the hunters in the families use up all the tags. I saw farmers stop there tractors shoot at deer and then continue working. Out of everyone there two hunters left after 2 days, I left after the third, and two started hunting properties that they got permission from local land owners to hunt. In all honesty do not waste your money...food was not good, their are no bucks to hunt and the guide really is a thief. I know I shot a doe but it was the rest of the trip in which I am an happy. I went in hopes of a chance at a buck, the food and accommodations are not what I was promised.