Guys:

I've been calling around to some ranches in Texas, looking for a place to do the next DRSS weekend hunt. As of right now, the place that is giving us the best bang for the buck is Camp Cooley, where the DRSS hunted in the past.

Camp Cooley is located in Franklin, Texas, almost smack dab in the middle between Dallas and Houston.

Now, this thread ISN'T for booking the weekend, this is for me to present the details of the offer to everyone and see how many people would actually be interested in the hunt.

The hunt weekend would start on Friday morning (check-in) and departure would be around lunchtime on Sunday.

It would happen sometime in August - Hot, you bet your butt it is, but so is hunting in Africa.

TARGET DATE OF AUGUST 18 to 20 (But flexible) Alen says there is nothing booked in August at this point.

The POC at Camp Cooley, Alen, said there are a lot of hogs on the property, but can't guarantee that everyone will get one.

The cost of the weekend hunt, including lodging, would be $300.00/person. If you harvest a hog, no matter what size, it would be $50/hog; with a special of "shoot three, only pay for two" - so basically shoot up to three hogs for $100.00. I am awaiting to see if there are other charges, such as game prep, etc.

The lodge has accomodations (bunk beds) to sleep up to 12 people. If people had air mattresses, we could accomodate more people. If more than 12 people want to attend, and if someone has a camper or trailer, we can park that next to the lodge so everyone can be together.

We would bring our own food and beverages. The lodge has a kitchen for us to cook stuff. Since we will all have cars, we may want to go out to dinner one (or more) of the nights.

If the past is any indicator, we'll spend the weekend hunting, shooting, eating, drinking and lying ;-) Alen said they don't have a range, but can take us to a place on the 11,000 acres where we can all shoot - that, I must say, is the highlight of the weekend. Seeing so many doubles and being able to handle and shoot them is just AWESOME.

So, right now I would like people to respond who think this is something that they would like to do. It's rather inexpensive for a GREAT weekend with some of the greatest guys you'll ever meet.

If my hunch is correct, I think that there will be a lot of people interested. So, if you are interested, and you have a camper or trailer, I would like to know that.

As I get more information, I'll post it here!

Count me in.
I should have my 450/400 double back from JJ with a Schmidt und Bender 1.1-4x24, fitted in claw mounts.

We will give it a test and ya'll will see just how much better a scoped double is for an all-round hunting gun.


Also there is exotic game there as well. I assume you could hunt some of them too.
$ of us have taken a cow eland. The meat was very good.
They recover the animals immediately and get them into a walk in cooler.

Here is a link to Camp Cooley's Hunting page, with prices for exotics:

http://www.campcooley.com/hunting.htm

The running total of interested individuals:

1. 577NitroExpress
2. Doc52
3. NE450No2
4. Rusty
5. bobc
6. Frank Beller
7. PWN375 (per Rusty)
8. 400 Nitro Express
9. MacD37
10. JPK (Expressed interest in another thread)
11. 700 Nitro
12. Mike Davis
13. new_guy
14. ROSCOE
15. AKrange
16. Jim - Rusty's Friend
17. gal

Jeez, I just posted this less than an hour ago and bang, up to 12 interested people!

Now here is the thing - who have a camper or trailer? I ask because the bunk house/lodge at Camp Cooley has beds for 12 people. However, there is a living room area and couch. I have a blow-up mattress that I can bring to accomodate another person. But, if we have a trailer or camper, we can have sleeping places for a few more guys.

Add me please. I've had several great hunts at CC. bobc

For anyone on the fence about deciding if this is an enjoyable weekend, please read this thread:

DRSS Hunt in April 2005

I'm interested if the date is between Aug. 15th - Aug. 30th. Let me know .......

I'll go. I've never missed a DRSS hunt.
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"Serious rifles have two barrels, everything else just burns gunpowder."

Drat! Foiled again.

But ... I do have the very best reason for not making it. Will be in Tanzania during that time takin' a couple of pokes at Buf.

Will surely try to make the next one!

577,

You know I am interested. However, my 14 year old daughter and I will be bear hunting in NM from August 18-23. Hot and muggy won't do justice to what that part of Texas is going to be like in August.

I have a place near Tulsa that will house and feed all of us plus allow one hog each for about 450.00/person. Beautiful rolling hills and a nice new lodge, plus a good assortment of exotics and trout fishing.

www.sycamorespringsranch.net

Perry

If the proposed date of August 18 to 20 doesn't work, and doing it earlier in the month would be better, we are flexible.

I just picked a date as a starting point.

Perry, would earlier in the month work for you? Say August 4 to 6?

I will get there early on the first day and cook a wild pig roast for our first nights meal.
If I am lucky on this Junes bear hunt I will fix one of them too.

Perry, you have a PM.

Tony - NICE!!!!!

Hey does slugs in a side by side count????

Count on me for sure. I have no trailer but have some camping equipment. Any time in August looks good now.

Mike

Guys:

Perry (PWN375) posted a link to Sycamore Springs Ranch.

Seeing the amazing response for another DRSS hunt weekend, it is clear that we are quickly running out of room for the people to stay.

At Perry recommendation, I took a look at the ranch he recommended. Now, it's located in Oklahoma, outside of Tulsa, but the facilities look amazing. They offer boar hunting amont other exotics:

http://www.sycamorespringsranch.net/lo/group_photos.html

What are people's opinion about me contacting this location and seeing what kind of deal they would extend to our group? Would people actually be intereted in going here, or is it too far away from the Texas area originally posted on Camp Cooley?

Please let me know what you would like to do and I will do the coordination.

Paul,

Thanks for being point man on this.

I would love to come, but may not be able to get a kitchen pass as I leave for a three week African hunt on Aug 28. I may be able to come for one night. I will let you know once you set your plans. Sounds like a great time.

Doug

UPDATE

I just spoke with Alen at Camp Cooley. If we, as a group, decide to go there, and if we have someone bring a camper or something, we will NOT be able to park it directly next to the lodge, but WILL be able to park it near the lake, not far away.

Also, if someone wants to attend, and there isn't enough room to sleep at the lodge, there is a motel about 10 minutes away that we can use. Alen said if someone were to go that route, it would be $200 for the weekend (Not $300) plus the cost for hogs.

Also, if we go there, Alen would need a $150 deposit form each person attending.

Doug, thanks for the kind words. I really want to do another hunt with all of these GREAT people...

Count me in too.

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Originally posted by 577NitroExpress:
Guys:

Perry (PWN375) posted a link to Sycamore Springs Ranch.

Seeing the amazing response for another DRSS hunt weekend, it is clear that we are quickly running out of room for the people to stay.

At Perry recommendation, I took a look at the ranch he recommended. Now, it's located in Oklahoma, outside of Tulsa, but the facilities look amazing. They offer boar hunting amont other exotics:

http://www.sycamorespringsranch.net/lo/group_photos.html

What are people's opinion about me contacting this location and seeing what kind of deal they would extend to our group? Would people actually be intereted in going here, or is it too far away from the Texas area originally posted on Camp Cooley?

Please let me know what you would like to do and I will do the coordination.

I may have to get in on this shoot too. 577 this other place looks interesting...I vote to throw in a raffle for a buffalo hunt on the ranch. Could make for a hell of a weekend!

your damn stright im in and i might maybe have my 505 by then heres hopin.

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quote:
Originally posted by 577NitroExpress:
Guys:

Perry (PWN375) posted a link to Sycamore Springs Ranch.

Seeing the amazing response for another DRSS hunt weekend, it is clear that we are quickly running out of room for the people to stay.

At Perry recommendation, I took a look at the ranch he recommended. Now, it's located in Oklahoma, outside of Tulsa, but the facilities look amazing. They offer boar hunting amont other exotics:

http://www.sycamorespringsranch.net/lo/group_photos.html

What are people's opinion about me contacting this location and seeing what kind of deal they would extend to our group? Would people actually be intereted in going here, or is it too far away from the Texas area originally posted on Camp Cooley?

Please let me know what you would like to do and I will do the coordination.


I may have to get in on this shoot too. 577 this other place looks interesting...I vote to throw in a raffle for a buffalo hunt on the ranch. Could make for a hell of a weekend!

Guys:

I am so pleased to see so much interest in this weekend hunt/shoot. I can't stress enough how much fun it is!

Inregards to the other location in Oklahoma, I know it's further away for the people in Texas, BUT, the accomodations WILL NOT be any issue! We can have as many people as we want without worrying about finding places for people to sleep.

I have messages into Sycamore Springs, requesting information and asking what kind of deal they would offer us. I will post detail when I get them.

577
I would love to join this hunt..Meet the Fellows/Posters I've followed for the last year or so.. I'm waiting for my Ritterbusch to come back from conversion from 458 Win to 450 3 1/4.. Maybe if there's room if it happens soon..
AK

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Originally posted by akrange:
577
I would love to join this hunt..Meet the Fellows/Posters I've followed for the last year or so.. I'm waiting for my Ritterbusch to come back from conversion from 458 Win to 450 3 1/4.. Maybe if there's room if it happens soon..
AK

AKrange, I know you'd rather shoot your own double on this hunt, but don't let that stop you if you want to come along, there will be pleanty of double rifles there to shoot. You can certainly hunt with one of mine! I like the Oklahoma place as well, but either it or Camp Cooley, will do for me, if I'm well from my little set back! Kinda been wanting to hunt a foreign country anyway!

Do I have to have a passport to cross the Oklahoma line? Got to prepare for these things you know!

Mac
Thanks for the offer..I'll be watching to see how this unfolds.. I'd love to get some "School'in" in the Art of Double Rifle Shooting.. The list/You has many of the people I've followed and would like to meet.It would be a real experience to handle and talk Double Guns with You'll..
AK

577
Oklahoma is OK with me. [Could not resist]
See if they will cut the price of the hogs if we bring a big group.

With a large group, they doing the cooking would be a good deal.

lets stick with camp cooley if there is a hotel only 10 minutes away thats great plus the camp can hold 12+ people there we go we have more than enough room.

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Posted May 17, 6:32 AM
Guys:

I've been calling around to some ranches in Texas, looking for a place to do the next DRSS weekend hunt. As of right now, the place that is giving us the best bang for the buck is Camp Cooley, where the DRSS hunted in the past.

Camp Cooley is located in Franklin, Texas, almost smack dab in the middle between Dallas and Houston.

Now, this thread ISN'T for booking the weekend, this is for me to present the details of the offer to everyone and see how many people would actually be interested in the hunt.

The hunt weekend would start on Friday morning (check-in) and departure would be around lunchtime on Sunday.

It would happen sometime in August - Hot, you bet your butt it is, but so is hunting in Africa.

TARGET DATE OF AUGUST 18 to 20 (But flexible) Alen says there is nothing booked in August at this point.

Too bad for me. That is my last wedding date already booked. Any other and I mighta been able to get there and learn a bunch about my 450/400 3.25 and a new little thing I am paying off soon.
Frank
Frank

Frank:

If doing the hunt weekend earlier in the month works for you, we are flexible right now.

If people could do a sound off as to what dates they would like, it would make this easier...

So, what do ya'll have to say? When is best for you?

I'm good any time in August.

Thank you for the opportunity.
I will commit for August 12 if it works for others.
Frank

I will just reiterate that October would be better than August.

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Originally posted by Charles_Helm:
I will just reiterate that October would be better than August.

I heard that statement!!!!
The one thing bad about hot weather, besides being hot as hell here in Texas is, for hog hunting is they become intirely nocturnal, and bed up in Yopon in the daytime. Today May 18th it is allready 92 deg at 10:00am. Something to think about.

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I heard that statement!!!!
The one thing bad about hot weather, besides being hot as hell here in Texas is, for hog hunting is they become intirely nocturnal, and bed up in Yopon in the daytime. Today May 18th it is allready 92 deg at 10:00am. Something to think about.

I'm open for anything...This is a group thing.

One possibility is a range day this summer (we did this a few years ago, which is how I met Rusty, Mark, Tony, etc) and then a hunt in the fall when things have cooled down a bit. I hate to even think of fleas & ticks on an August hog in 100 heat.

Re: Pigs only out at night..

Whats the matter don't all of you DRSS guys have a double rifle fitted with an illuninated reticle scope, with a flashlight mount on the scope?????

Late October would also work for me if I can know with advance notice. Bear hunting around here doesn't really open up until the weekend deer shooters quit anyway.
Frank

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Originally posted by N E 450 No2:
Re: Pigs only out at night..

Whats the matter don't all of you DRSS guys have a double rifle fitted with an illuninated reticle scope, with a flashlight mount on the scope?????

Have Surefire, will travel, but be sure that someone calls the game warden first.

Count me in as well, I'll have a couple new doubles for you guys to shoot>

Jim

For me, it would have to be after Aug. 15th; in the first 10 days of October, I'll be hunting mule deer in Wyoming.

OK Paul,

I broke down and registered here. Count me in.

Jim