The Cypress Creek Skinning Shed

As I talked about in a previous post, Cypress Creek Hunting Lodge put together a promotional video a few years ago. In it, there were a couple of hog hunts, two deer hunts and lots of great footage of the many great game animals that we have on our land as well as many of the harvests our hunters had made at the time.

Well, we have been working hard to get it edited in to short clips that we could put up here on The Cypress Creek Skinning Shed, and I am pleased to report that two more clips are ready to be viewed. First we have a 3 minute clip of our old marketing/media coordinator Ron Tabor shooting a big sow, and then we have one of the best hog hunts that I have ever seen showing Kerry Earnhardt watching two giant boars fight and then harvesting one of them. Check them out… I guaranteed that if you are thinking about hunting hogs here in the lowcountry, these videos will convince you that Cypress Creek is the place to be. And of course don’t forget that we also have the 2.5 minute intro to the video already up over on the Cypress Creek video page, and in it are lots of examples of what hunters come to us for…

I will keep working on getting some of the other clips from the promo video up over the next week or so, and then I will start uploading the tons of hunts that we have on film that have aired on the Outdoor Channel… We truly can’t wait to share them all with you!

Mike and his sow

As for this past weekend, we had two hunters at the lodge for 2.5 days and another two just for the afternoon on Saturday. The two from Indiana, Mike and Matt, each had an opportunity on a hog, and Mike shot a nice sow at Boggy Creek while Matt missed a HUGE boar over on our Sandy Run tract. However we will give Matt a pass since it was kind of a long shot with his open-sighted rifle, and he was a good enough sport to pose with Mike’s hog!

Matt is in the picture somewhere

Our two hunters over from Charleston for the afternoon, Jonas and Carl, also had a great time with us, and Jonas came close to harvesting a hog with his bow while his friend Tim filmed the hunt. However it didn’t happen when a deer eating on the corn got nervous and ran off taking the approaching pack of hogs with her… but that is REAL hunting.

Thanks for reading, and don’t forget to check back to see more of the video clips that we will be showing off as well as tons of new trailcam pics from our new Cuddieback trailcam that we just put out over on the Bow Camp.

Update: Jonas came back Sunday afternoon and had a big boar come by his stand over on Boggy Creek. But it didn’t stop and give him a shot with his bow. He said that it then trotted away, passing right under the rifle stand down at the other end of the food plot… now that is bowhunting!

Jeff

Kerry Earnhardt and his giant freak of a buck

Like I talked about on Tuesday, we had a big group of employees from Bass Pro Shops at the lodge to deer and hog hunt the South Carolina lowcountry this week. And Bass Pro hunting team member Kerry Earnhardt was with them.

The weather was perfect for their hunts, and everyone saw lots of game. Just about everyone had shooter bucks come by their stands, and those hog hunting also saw quite a few. The only problem with the hogs was that many showed up right at dark, so they only killed one nice boar.

However everyone was covered up with great deer. Several hunters passed on some good shooters hoping for a real monster while a few others had monsters come by, but couldn’t get a shot. But that is hunting. Fortunately Kerry had a great 5.5 year old buck with a giant, freak of a rack follow a doe by his stand on the final morning of his hunt while

Cypress Creek owner Danny Harrell filmed his last hunt. Craig Pond of Wolf Creek Productions was down to film as well but had to leave to catch his flight back to Michigan early Wednesday morning so Danny stepped in.

Wolf Creek films lots of hunts with us, and they are responsible for providing the footage that you see on several shows on the Outdoor Channel as well as Versus such as Trijicon Outdoor America, The Wingshooter and American Archerer. So make sure and look for this great hunt on one of these shows in the very near future.

We truly had a great time with all of the Bass Pro guys in camp, and they are already planning their next hunt with us.

I also would like to take this opportunity to talk about the hunts we film with special guests like Kerry… They hunt the same stands that every other guest gets to hunt - Period! Every hunter that visits Cypress Creek Hunting Lodge is the same as far as we are concerned, and EVERYONE gets special treatment; that is what makes us different.

And we don’t have stands that we save just for them. For instance, the stand that Kerry saw hogs at Monday night but couldn’t get a shot due to darkness was the exact same stand that an Sargeant Major in the Army, up from Fort Stewart with his daughter, missed a hog from last week. It is a great stand that gets constant traffic from hogs, and that is the type of spot we want to put all of our guests in!

We hope that you will come join us to see for yourself.