Check out Tad Ladd Western Kentucky whitetails .

 

Whitetail heaven seems to kill nice deer every year

 

Research this one very carefully and thoroughly. If you want to hunt with 30+ others at a time, have at it

 

WH is a Huge operation, very high volume. They kill some big oness but the reviews are not good on bowsite.

 

LBL is all the public land you could ask for. 100% free too!

 

Yea, and about all you see there these days is land.
They're doing nothing in the way of game management there anymore, it's all going to a buncha penned elk.

Much has changed there in the 30 years I've been hunting there.
Just got back today from my second trip there this year, and saw enough to tell myself that it was probably my last trip.

 

Western ky has good public ground that ain't bad crowded during bow season

 

Check out Pennyrile Outfitters. Quality people and deer.
Dan 786-457-3697

 

A group of six hunted there the last week in October but none of us saw any "shooters" (3 1/2 year old). If you shoot a younger deer you are fined $500. Dan and Nancy were great hosts and the facilities and food were great. But quality deer were lacking but perhaps it was because the big (old) ones only came out after dark.

 

Southern whitetail outfitters.
Hunter runs a great operation with plenty of ground and farms to hunt and works very hard
getting his hunters on mature bucks.

 

There are no big deer in Ky.

 

That is what I hear, I am not a fan of big deer though.
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This hunt was a terrible experience. Their website promises a FULLY guided hunt. What you get are chauffeurs to take you from your camp to your stand and back. In 4 1/2 days I got rides with 6 different people. An actuall “guide” was non existent. I never looked at trail cam pics or discussed where I would be hunting. You are dropped off at a trail and told to follow bright eyes. They would pick you back up at dark. I spent 12+hrs a day in a stand(some ladders and a lock-on) I saw plenty of deer, but nothing even close to shooting size. The only shooter buck I saw was at night on one of the properties picking up other hunters. The guide decided to chase the deer through the field in his truck where it jumped over the fence into the road where it was hit by a car and ran off. The success rate is advertised as 90%. It’s not even close to that. More likely around 40%. And of those 40% about half of the deer were undersize and the hunters paid up to $1000 extra for the deer harvested. The food was not even close to 5 star. Nothing 5 star about spaghetti, lasagna, and fried chicken. All of which was not that great. Their were 56 hunters in camp the week we were there. The lodge holds about 20. Some stayed in Tevis’s(Tevis is the owner) parent’s basement, some in hotels, and others in the horse barn. Everyone seemed to be told that they were going to be sitting in stands that hadn’t been hunted in weeks. Yet we all seemed to just rotate stands throughout the week. This was the first paid hunt I had ever taken, and it was a horrible experience and waste of money.

 

Sorry for the bad experience, I guided for a few years and I would say a 40% success is on the high side . 90% is a joke , and a lie.

 

Luke Carswell at 7 Bar outfitters does a really good job with a good success rate.* I'm biased because he is a friend of mine but his success will speak itself if you research him.*

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Check out Buck Country Outfitters. Good deer, good accommodations and good people

 

Check out Riverbend Whitetails in Sturgis, KY.
https://riverbendwhitetails.com/

 

It's not clear if some of those recommending outfitters have actually hunted with them or not. I'm interested in Kentucky, too, so please give a few details if you've been to the place you're recommending, if possible.
I liked everything I heard about Pennyrile, except for the lack of shootable deer. Tevis' name has been bashed for years, so that's not in the cards. Riverbend looks good, but something rubs me wrong about having to call for a price and details. That seems odd.

 

I already take it back, as I see several of those above want you to call them to discuss prices. I've been on dozens of outfitted hunts and never saw that trend in the past.

 

And all you guys are willing to pay how much $$ for a good deer hunt??

 

You are welcome to come to New Orleans and show me where all the good deer hide.

 

Try Pennyrile Outfitters facebook page

 

^^^I don't think the falling away dates back that far myself.
It started showing up when the elk and bison arrived imo.

I wonder what is spent per year on those herds?
Myself, I think they want the deer nearly extinct so they can free range the whole place with elk.
It's all about the $$.

 

I'm not sure, the early 80's all the way until about 89 there were more whitetail and fallow deer up there than any where I've ever seen, not sure if you remember but the fallow deer were running up there in unbelievable numbers they would run under my stand seemed like hundreds during quota hunts and the whitetail were everywhere, you could count em until you turned blue from one end to the other on LBL and with in a few years seemed like both were decimated by something...……..something wildlife officials never told, I quit deer hunting up there in the mid 90's because of it but duck hunted there until around 2005-6.

I never see over a few Elk every time I go look at em, I've been told theres really not that many up there now, was told after they get so many they sell them off to other states trying increase their herds...…… I dunno that's second hand info on the Elk.

 

I've been hunting KY for the last 6-7 years on 3 different tracks of land and to be honest I don't think it's as good as some of the other mid-west states. We have an excellent farm to hunt and a good camp. We've set the place up well and this is why I stay. Unless you're looking for a big velvet buck there are other states that probably give you as good or better odds of a good deer. I guess it's all about location though. Best of luck!

 

I met a guy who shot a 172" green this year. He was at LAS when i was there.

Kentucky, his land.

 

I realize this is a thread from 2018 but I feel compelled to set the record straight. One of the members of the OP's group missed a nice buck and the other member of his group saw no less than 3 shooters but they were out of his comfortable effective range. When the OP booked this hunt for his group he was asked if all were comfortable with Millennium M-150's, Millennium stick ladders and lifelines all set at 20' with an additional 4' section on all stick ladders to make access safer. His reply was "yes". I confirm this with anyone that hunts with us. When I walked the OP to his spot the first afternoon of his hunt he never indicated there was any problem with heights. At the stand he tied his bow to the pull up rope and clipped onto the prussic . He then turned to me and told me he was afraid of heights. I'm perfectly fine with that but I wish he had been truthful before we got to the stand. I immediately switched gears and said that's fine we can move to a groundblind. Unfortunately most of my groundblinds are set up alongside foodplots. I set them up at least a month before we start hunting (late October). Acorns are falling in late Oct. and frankly you need to be hunting near them esp. for the afternoon hunts. I have dozens of stands set up in oak flats but unfortunately for this hunt no groundblinds. This is why it's so important to let your outfitter know that you're afraid of heights. I would have set up blinds for the OP. In an open woods setting groundblinds need to be set up early before acorns start falling. Unfortunately the OP did not see any shooters during his hunt but he knows that I catered to his every wish. I set up blinds, moved blinds and walked to and from every spot on every hunt with him. All I can do is give people 100%. I can't control our deer herd. Nothing would have been enough for this hunter. After the care he received on this hunt I never would have thought he would have left us a questionable review. Of the 6 that we had in camp for this hunt 5 rebooked for 2019 and of those 5 4 have rebooked for 2020. As to the group before and the comment "no bucks taken". That group has hunted with us for 8 years. The same 6 hunters. They passed on a few bucks that would have met our minimum. They have a self imposed minimum of 150". Because they rebook year to year they feel it is an investment in their future hunting to pass on younger bucks. Please check our reviews at Bowsite. Dan Kendall Pennyrile Outfitters

 

Regardless of where I hunted I would definitely consider the moon in my timing. I haven’t kept records of moon phases vs deer sightings in and around my house (lots of deer around and see them regularly in the back woods) but I definitely believe there is at last some correlation. There are some weeks where it seems like deer are out all over in daylight all day long and other periods when you only see them at night in your headlights.
I have started to look at the best days to him type free calendars online and it seems like every time I am seeing a lot of deer in daylight (at anytime of the year) is when the calendar points to higher activity in daylight times. Obviously weather can trump the moon and so on. I am not a hunt but the moon hunter but I think I would plan my trip around forecasted best days by a moon calendar. My experience indicated there just are periods when they don’t move until after dark and there are periods where they move frequently during the day.

 

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nice resurrection!