DB has a lot of loyal customers. Maybe they have gone down hill the last few years I don't know. My own experience there was a little less than positive but I know of several people who have gone there many times for pigs and exotics and had good hunts. Sorry you had a bad experience there.

I had a pretty crappy experience here several years ago. Posted about it here and I believe it was the owner?, called me up the next day pretty much talkin crap.
I have told everyone who has asked me about that place to look elsewhere ever since.

Passthru,

One time it was good ranch with affordable price and lot of animal , good guides were there Scott, Cody and Daniel . If any body is ready to shoot from the 6 acre pen , then it is good ranch for them and for hog hunters , tons of hogs . Yes they had lot of loyal customers , I am looking some feed back from any hunters hunted on this year.

It is good Ranch If they stop these practices ,

1, If there is no shooting opportunities deduct hunt fee and give the balance to the hunter (Eg: 600-125 per day = 475). Don't force to come back or hunt from the dirty pen.

2, Killing from the 6 acre pen ,He will not refund any money so every body forced to do that.

3, Wounded animal goes to the guide, not to the ranch or paid hunter. Here guide will do wrong hunting practice.

4, Remove all the carcass same day from cleaning station and processing area .

5, Regulate the hunters number to at least two group per day , My first day hunt there were 4/5 active hunters with only one guide, ( three groups ) total 7

The old guides Scott and Daniel were assisted me to find the wounded animal , ,Brandon the new guide started quartering the first one then they told they can do the tracking the second one then Brandon started crying, at last Scott did the quartering , told Brandon and Daniel to do the search . I HAVE NO IDEA WHY HE IS UPSET WHEN SCOTT AND DANIEL (OLD GUIDES WORKING IN OFFICE NOW )IS READY TO HELP ME TO TRACK THE ANIMAL. The new guide forced me to quit the search from the beginning.

They can make any hunt hard or easy. As long as they don't refund the deposit they don't care you and your time . If you are coming from far distance you will be in trouble.

iehooligan 11b,

Now it is more worse.

What do you mean by drop in animals? They drop them out of a trailer in front of you or into the 6 acre pen? Confused...

Drop in animals. When you come in the front of the ranch they are dropping animals in the back of the ranch. I know several ranches that do that. The guides are told to drive around and kind of make it a show. The guide gets a text and then heads that way. The animals are generally a little dazed and confused and the hunters shoot their animals (rams normally). The hunter never realizes what is going on. I know of one that would deliver their rams with different tags in their ears at different places so it seemed like more of a hunt. They finally bought their own property. The guides used to laugh about it.

Put and take is one thing. Widely practiced and sometimes practical when a certain breed is requested or when high $$ animals are being hunted. But dropping them off the day /night before the hunt is completely different.
For instance, if you are known for fallow hunts and a client decides to shoot one of each color and takes out half your heard, and you have 3 more hunts booked with other folks wanting fallow, damn right, better get on the phone with a broker!
But selling elk cow hunts and dropping one off the day before your hunter arrives because you lied or didn't plan ahead (ie, don't have an established group of elk) , is crap. But then again, trying to accomplish all this on a hundred acres is crap to begin with.

They were doing more trapping and selling exotics than hunts last I knew. I wouldn't go back.

TenTenWhitetails

They have three units of land , The main section is about 200 acre and other two is about 4 to 6 acre land. They will drop animal any time even same time depend on customer requirement . I saw a costumer request one Corsican ram he drop the same time and started hunting. They have some bottle feed animals, pigs are in the 6 acre unit near the cabin . They will add some more axis, sika doe depend on demand . Whoever is not getting chance from the main unit (200 acre land) , they will allow to do it from this 6 acre land. They are doing lot of animal trade so they I have always stocks all the time in animal holding building.

when I was there we all
got the feeling they could care less about the hunts and only cared about selling live animals. it's a shame too bc the outdoor area and cabin were nice. customer service? not so much.