Has anyone hunted at Carta Valley before.Just woundering how the hunting is there,Im going there in April with a group of friends.

Are you going on the bow or the rifle part?

I do know that when Kush owned it, the hunting stunk. I hear a few things about it but nothing terrible. From what I know from personal experience, get off the roads and hunt if your in the bow hunting section.

A friend of mine said it was the hardest ranch to hunt he has ever been on. They all got a shot oportunity on an axis or ram but he said it was very hard hunting. He said a 4+ day package is a must if you want a shot at an axis deer.
This is all second hand stuff so don't hold me to this!

He's probably right. Success rates on ranches like this place are pretty low and its not the ranches fault so to speak. What happens is a lot of the people that go to hunt just go off the sides of the roads and set up not far from there. Most of them will also hunt only the morning and the evening hunts and not during the day. These spots become very commonly hunted and the animals will pick up on it. They learn how to get around these hot spots and if you can get off the main roads and find these trails you will do better. Get as far to the back of the ranch as you can get in order to get to the isolated areas.