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Our Florida outfitter offers Osceola turkey hunting on 25,000 private acres in Osceola County. Hunter success is typically 85 to 95% success with 55 of the last 60 hunters scoring on a tom. The ranch is about 45 minutes from Disneyworld in Orlando, so this is a good hunt to slip in while your family is vacationing nearby.
Hunts.Net customer Taylor Mills.
You can wild hog hunting. The hogs are free-roaming animals, not penned-in pigs as is often the case in some other southern hunting locations.
Turkeys frequest pastures near pasture ponds in surprisingly open terrain. Snakes are not normally a problem.
You'll sleep in a seven-year-old lodge with all meals included.Disney World is only 40 miles away. You can add alligator, wild boar and whitetail deer (90 to 100 B&C are typical, the bigger ones score in the 130s and 140s). Archery hunting is allowed.
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Price per person |
| 3 days, 1 hunter per guide unless you prefer unguided or 2x1 |
$2,000 in 2006, full in '05. |
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| Lodging and meals |
Season |
| Lodging in a 7-year-old lodge and meals are included |
mid-March till late April or mid-November through early January |
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Success |
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Mature toms only. Outfitter does not allow shooting of jakes.
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30 hunters in 2004 got 29 gobblers, and one bowhunter missed two. In 2003 all 31 hunters got mature toms. |
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| Travel |
License fees |
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Fly to Orlando, rent car for drive to St. Cloud about 45 miles to the south
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Was $26.50 for hunting license and $5 for turkey tag, sold over the counter or the phone. Click here for latest price. |
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Whitetail deer |
| No trophy fee on turkey. |
Some whitetail deer available during season, call for price |
| Wild boar |
Gators |
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Can add boar for $200 for first day, $75 for extra days plus trophy fees of $100 for non-trophy pigs and $125 for trophy boars.
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$100 a foot up to eight feet long. Trophy gators (8-12 feet) $3,200 |
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