A while back I got a brochure that said if I sign up for a year I will get a free white tail book and 2 hunting knives. I sent a check with the application.
Then I got a notice to pay for the subscription. I E mailed them and told them they have my check.
I then received the book and it said to get the knives I had to pay $7 for the book. Nice book so I sent $7.
Now I got a notice that to get the knives I have to renew my membership for 2 or 3 more years.
That did it! Bait and switch in the extreme. This will be my last dealing with this outfit.
If they keep sending deer books, they will be tossed in a pile. If they want them back, they can come and get them.

Over the years there have been numerous posts on this forum and others, concerning NAHC, I belonged once, they are a joke, and like you say, bait and switch!

Best way to deal with them is to cancel your sub. and urge others to do the same!

I have had NAHC send me items that I did not order or want and ask me to make three "easy" payments on. No Way!!

Always keep advertisements for your record. When you sent them the check, you should have sent a copy of the add. This goes for anything, not just hunting.

I have not had a problem with NAHC. I have never been sent anything I did not ask for.

Including books and a backpack. I ended up cancelling the book club membership but kept the backpack. Hauled a caribou in it too.

I had some issues and I know of two other guys here in Montana as well. They are a SCAM pure and simple. I've got better things to do with my time than spending it having to police all the crap they sent me.

FN in MT

I will second that . Also Buckmasters are bad to!

The wife informed me she signed me up for 3 years, the required time to get the free book and knives.
I E mailed them and told them to cancel my subscription and return my money. Let's see what happens.

How come I have had no trouble with them? I joined for life and have gotten a whole bunch of stuff from them. The books you can keep and pay for, or send back. I only keep the books that I want, and send the rest back. Life membership is quite inexpensive, and I like the magazine that I get monthly.

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Originally posted by Whitworth:
How come I have had no trouble with them? I joined for life and have gotten a whole bunch of stuff from them. The books you can keep and pay for, or send back. I only keep the books that I want, and send the rest back. Life membership is quite inexpensive, and I like the magazine that I get monthly.

Or you can keep the books and not pay for them if they send them without asking. Their bait and switch and all the annoying other crap gets old..

They finally quit sending me the unasked for crap and cancelled my "membership" when I started sending them back with bricks attached. They had to pay for return shipping, by weight.

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Originally posted by larrys:
They finally quit sending me the unasked for crap and cancelled my "membership" when I started sending them back with bricks attached. They had to pay for return shipping, by weight.

I wasn't dealing with this particular "club" but I suspect it's the same outfit. It was Streetmachines Club for us old hotrodders. Same kind of crap. I eventually got them out of my life.

And yep, returning their unasked for stuff in a box with a slump block was the next approach I was going to take. I had heard of somebody doing this and I was certainly open to try if need be.

Ken....

I've also had problems with NAHC's deceptive advertizing.

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They finally quit sending me the unasked for crap and cancelled my "membership" when I started sending them back with bricks attached. They had to pay for return shipping, by weight.

Larry

That is just too Funny.

Yes they are a scam.

Bill Miller is a Ding-Dong

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Originally posted by larrys:
They finally quit sending me the unasked for crap and cancelled my "membership" when I started sending them back with bricks attached. They had to pay for return shipping, by weight.

You too!!!!!!!! At this point I've sent them about 6 or 8 bricks myself and got a couple dozen more just waiting.

I was a member for a while and enjoyed reading the hunt swaps. It seemed like I was suppose to provide a fully outfitted elk hunt and the other party would take me out to shoot cottentails in return.

I had the same problem with NAHC a couple of years back, After 3 months of renewing my subscription they came back and said I had to renew my subscription that this was my last issue!!! I called them and talk to someone that didn't have a clue...that was it, I Never renewed with them again nor did I join the club. I'll never join NAHC again, I never saw the bennies anyway they claim to have....

There is no such thing as a free lunch in life. Most bait and switch deals offer the free lunch, but it is never free. Most "hunting clubs" that are unrestricted are not legit.
Same goes for conservation entities. I did a bit of research on them a few years back. Seems several were headquartered out of Edgefield, South Carolina - some in the same building. Seems they were raising money for conservation but most of it went to salaries for the paid staff.

Check groups out before you send money.

There are a couple and I don't know all of them, but the NAHC and Buckmasters are perfect examples of hunting clubs that promote free hunting for the founder, and provide no service.

They are magazines that try and pass themselves off and conservation outfits.

If you like the magazines they provide then ok, if you don't then tell them to pack sand.

I only belong to the Boone and Crocket, NRA, Wild Sheep, Safari Club, and OVIS.

I also get Peterson's Hunting, Guns and Ammo, Rifle, Rifle Shooter, Handloading, Alaska trapper, Alaska magazine, Sports Afield, The Field, British Shooting Times, and that's it for magazines.

My shitter looks like a freaking magazine rack but there isn't a woman here to complain, so it works for me.

If your spending money on a hunting club, make sure your doing it for reasons you are ok with. I like the magazines, but I don't think any of the Hunting Clubs have decent magazines other than the TTHA.

I joined once and they send me books and free stuff all the time. the North American Fishing Club too. When they send me something, I open it, take the free stuff out, put the book back in, tape it shut and slap their return label on it and back in the US Mail it goes. Come to think of it I haven't gotten anything from them lately.

I give the free stuff to kids in the neighborhood to add to their tackle boxes or hunting gear.

Alan

I had never heard of the outfit and yet I received two books in the mail with a notice to send them back of pay for them.
I had not requested any books, I had not even contacted them to begin with, nor signed up.
It was completely unasked for.

The books were junk, nice covers and fluff but no substance or good info inside whatsoever, very juvenile information with lots of glossy photos and fluff.
They went in the trash.


When I did not return the books nor pay for them,I received letters threatening legal action, they went in the trash as well.
Finally I called them to explain where I stood on receiving their unasked for crap and the dipstick I talked too had the gall to mention legal action to recover their property or payment

I have had them send me unasked for stuff also. I think they buy mailing lists from magazine subscriptions, and then mail you crap and ask for money. The books went into either the yard sale pile or the donation pile - and the bills went into the trash. After a while they stopped sending me anything - problem solved. Now they don't even bother to send me membership information.

Jason

i just got the election issue monday,what timing