Affordable Auto Inc

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Todd Dillard

We hunted in late December 2013 and were deeply disappointed. First of all, I had seen several negative reviews and contacted the owner directly about them and mistakenly bought his explanation that the bad reviews were from outfitters who competed with him. Second, in my opinion, he grossly exaggerated the deer population and opportunity there, including sending me a series of pics making it sound like they were in the last couple of days. When we were there, I saw no trail cams and when I asked about them, I was told they had been pulled a couple of weeks ago. Third, they are not an outfitter or even semi-guided. When we hunted, the only person we saw was the 15 year old son of the owner, who took us to and from the stands. Now he was a great kid and he cleaned the the animals taken if you wanted him to, he provided no info on game, trails, expectations, etc., - it was simply dropping you off and picking you up. Fourth, the quality of the hunting itself was poor. There were two other hunters there while we were - and for the most part we hunted together. There were multiple instances where there were shots fired so close, in fact sometimes between our locations, that we all assumed it was each other shooting and only to learn later that no one had even seen anything. In one case, a truck drove in my line of sight from my hunting stand and proceeded to drive within 75 yards of me. Another time, I could actually hear two people talking. There was virtually no game to be seen. Two hogs and a doe were taken between the 4 hunters there. No shooter bucks were seen, much less a spike. The cabin was ok, but comfortable, although we had to drive back into town for toilet paper and paper towels. When confronted about the quality of hunting and all the shooting so close to us, especially the truck driving through the hunting area, the owners response was "well, thats a first" and suggested we should have come earlier in the season. I dont think the owner is dishonest, but I think he grossly oversells what he has. He represented, priced and sold this based on a description that might match his product in early to mid-season, but not the latter part of the season when we booked and hunted. Based on all the shooting we heard, I suspect this place is hunted heavily and the owner should have been more forthcoming regarding his descriptions and more fair in his pricing. ______________________________________________________________________ This is an update after seeing the positive reviews suddenly showing up for these guys. I would urge anyone considering them to check out some of the hunting forums like Texas Hunting forum and Texas Bowhunting forum along with the Better Business Bureau. There is nothing first class about this place and that includes the accommodations. And you only have a private cabin if they dont put someone with you. We also thought we had our own cabin. We were told there was only one group hunting there besides us and that we would likely never see them. So imagine our surprise when there were two people in our cabin when we arrived. They were good guys but they too were under the impression that they would have their own cabin. I am sure there are some who had positive experiences there and it might even be a decent place to hunt the first couple of weeks of the season. But this is not an outfitter, much less a reputable one.

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Mark Devens

Dont waste your time or money at Affordable Outfitters. I drove 1,000+ miles each way to hunt hogs here and never saw a thing except for one of the family dogs (which is even more pathetic than not seeing anything). I booked the trip a couple weeks in advance, and until I got to the ranch the owner was sending me pictures and videos of hogs that had been killed, half of them during the day. Then I get there with another group of hunters and we get a speech about how they dont want us out hunting when their cameras arent getting any action, so were going to hunt at night. Sat in two blind in different fields for 7 hours each night and didnt see anything. No deer, no raccoons, no turkeys, and NO HOGS. Both nights near the end when they were going to pick me up I got up to go look at the feeders that are supposed to dispense corn every few hours, and there wasnt even corn in the feeders. Then when I bring it up they say they swear they just filled them. Oh and they tell you that they have fishing available right outside the cabins (which are really just campers), but its just a pond thats supposedly stocked with fish. You cant even get to it because theres so many weeds and so much manure laying all over the place from the cows that they let wander around. They asked for a "Starting Tip"", and then acted like I was incredibly rude when I said I tip at the end based on my experience. As I was walking around the first day I went into the shack where they clean hogs and found all the information for the other group of hunters, including credit card number just written on a piece of paper laying there. Then about an hour after leaving I get a text about how its my fault I didnt shoot any hogs, I must have fallen asleep or my eyes not good enough to see in the dark. Number one, thats very rude. But more importantly, I dont have $3k+ worth of night vision for nothing! The whole thing is experience was just terrible. I get it. Its not managed land. But to not have feed in the feeders, have the family dog running in front of my blind, promise fishing when its just a pond, ect, its just too much for me to write it off as not getting lucky enough to see a hog. I wouldnt go here ever again. I wouldnt recommend it to my ex, NOTHING. Its just some rednecks with some land making quick cash selling you false hopes, and with the "its not managed land" excuse when you complain. I cant stress enough, DO NOT GO HERE. Oh and last thing, half the pictures and videos you see online of a guy hunting at this place ARE HIS KID. SCAMMERS

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Joe Kapitany

Dont waste your time and money on this so called "outfitter." I gave him the benefit of the doubt and it was a very bad experience. The place is an amatuer show. The owner has tons to learn about managing a property for quality deer hunting. He made many misrepresentions to me. I never even met him, he did everything via text. His idea of a quality hunting setup is setting up a corn feeder in an opening and putting one bow stand 10 yards away in a tree, and one crummy home-made box/gun blind 60 yards away. No alternate stands for wind directions, no shooting lanes, no food plots. All of the racks in the cabin are small, and a "guide" confirmed to me that those were the average deer shot there. They were all about 100 inch deer, maybe a couple of 110s. The hogs dont even show themselves during daylight because he pressures the same stands with too many hunters. This is painfully obvious when you hunt there. All i saw were lots of does and fawns, ane one fork buck. His stands are line hunting pushing his zone to his neighbors. You only get to hunt 2 stands. I hunting two stands that were both along his property line. His neighbor just put up a high fence so deer could not cross onto this guys land. One of the stands i hunted i was staring at the high fence and seeing dozens of deer on the other side. The other side Is NOT a high fence operation, he just put it up on that section that he borders this guy. I saw a beautiful buck cruising the other side of the fence only about 100 yards away. I manage deer property for myself and family and i can tell you that this guy has absolutely no clue on running a quality operation. He obviously does not invest any of the $1200 gun fees back into the land/operation to improve it. Do not waste your money. There is so much more that i could write about how wrong that setup is, but it makes me furious just thinking about it. Do not waste your time and money!!!! He is a slick talker for sure....

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