Hadley Creek strikes again
Got a call from my landowner today who borders Hadley Creek property near Kinderhook in northern Pike Co, IL. Had one of our hunters to arrow a 160" 9 pt. that went 3/4 miles and finally dropped approx 50 yds across our line onto Hadley property. Hadley was notified that bloodtrail crossed onto their property. Whitetail was found. Unclear of the events up until 3 days after the recovery, but Hadley called saying our guy could come and take his trophy. When he got there cameras were ready, pictures were taken but they insisted that a HADLEY CAP be on our guy's head. After all the pictures were taken, he was handed a bill for $250 for the recovery of his animal. Hadley Representative's name was Bradshaw. According to our hunter, the pictures will appear in Hadley literature next year--for a deer that was shot 3/4 mile(at least) away from their border. Truly swell bunch..... .

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Just wrong fellas.
#1 Would not release deer for 3 days.
#2 Made to pay $250 before deer released.
#3 Made to wear their hat and pose in pictures for their pamplet.

Why ANYBODY would play Russian Roulette with their hard-earned money and go there for a hunt is beyond my comprehension.

For me outfitters are out of the question. If you are rich and can bring several more hunters ,I feel you get better stands.Higher probability stands where big deer have been seen.
A lone hunter just gets his money collected and a poor stand site.

Perch sounds like you know them as well as I do. Celebrities get prime stands.

I don't know why any man would go there as many bad reviews as there is on em.

Mac a member of this board suffered thru that kind of stuff several yrs ago. You R right celebs get the deer and regular hunters pay the bills.

Sounds like somebody needs an arse whoopin

TCO - better hunt, better price, small camps, every stand= great stand. We know how some "other" guys do it. We don't like it either. And the story above is unreal if true.

i shot a great buck several years ago in illinois went on anothers mans land went and got the GW he drove us back to the farm told us to wait in the truck he talked to the farmer laughing and cutting up, came back and said they wanted a $900 trespass fee to get my deer. I wouldn't pay it even after he told me they had scored my deer at 174 i was mad.

honestly i wouldnt have got the GW, I would have took my chances and got my buck, If the owners says hey you cant do that, then i say, oh well. shucks happens. Holla lol

Thats how i did it. Shot him watched him cross the line and fall in a field. Went and got my buddy to help my drag him knowing we would need to be running. When we got within 50yds of the deer the land owner came flying across the field on a 4 wheeler with a clint eastwood looking roscoe. I told him where i shot the deer from and we didn't want no trouble (we didn't have our bows on his property). He big boyed us and we left.Thats when we went and got the GW. This was at the crab orchard wildlife refuge

I don't doubt that for a second. There is a whole thread over at bowsite.com about them posting photos of big bucks on their website that were not killed on their land. A few guys just came across pictures of their deer on the Hadley Creek website. Their deer were not killed anywhere near the place and no one had asked their permission to use the photos.

When BOHNTR and I hunted up in Pike County a couple years ago we heard a lot of bad stuff on them from the folks in Pittsfield. How anyone that does any research at all could still book a hunt with this bunch is beyond me.

yeah they have bad ratings

I have been hunting in Pike Co., IL for the last 4 years and everybody in the area has nothing positive to say about Hadley Creek. They are just a bunch of money hungry individuals. I also heard up there that they dont put you in stands to KILL deer, they put you in stands to SEE deer. Big difference in seeing and killing.

Nothing like using the paying clients for scouting, so the hunting rock stars can kill the bigg'uns for the TV adds!

Correct me if I'm wrong but on the AT thread the original poster has not shown any proof this story is even true. No reports or comments from the alleged hunter who had this confrontation.

Reyn the OP on AT is from Bama. He got the info from the farmer he leases from.

HOw was he forced to wear a hat and take pictures? Did they hold a gun to his head?

No they held a 170" deer to it...:(

That is okay. But, once I left with my deer I would get on the internet and blast my pic and story everywhere and tell everyone I could what they did and that I didn't kill it with HCO.