Boyd Shelby, blacktail guide

[bullchaser]

You guys have too much time on your hands if you are going to sit at your computer and critique some Guy you have never even talked to let alone hunted with. We as westside hunters are loosing our land to hunt at an amazing rate year to year why wouldn't we encourage him for promoting hunting and management or maybe you would rather see those bucks die of old age because they are your "pets" if he is caught breaking the laws fine pin him up if not get off your high horse my

[Deep Forks]

  Several years ago we kept seeing a bunch of deer along posted land by Kettle Falls, we had ask but never got permission to hunt.  One day we were driving by and there was a truck broke down half in the road, we stopped to help and it was one of these landowners.  The water pump was broke so we towed him home and he ended up giving us permission to hunt what we thought was about 25 acres.  We thought the land on the other side of him was his neighbors but turned out to be posted by him (neighbor) illegally, it was DNR land, which our new friend said happens all the time.  Well this ended up being almost 100 acres and we have taken several nice W.T. and lots of turkey off land we stumbled on.  Between Chewelah, Kettle Falls and Colville we have found several areas like this, none as large though.  Anyway the thread was talking about these small strips of land, well that is what we have found in the N.E.  Some of these strips get you access to public land so he possibally found areas like we did.  Some of the nicest deer I've seen killed are close to our residential areas on little strips.  MUZZY or BOW GO GET EM      

[7mag.]

My buddy hired him for a bear hunt a few years ago and said it was a joke. He said the guy is real strange also. He said they drove around in his Nissan pickup and glassed clear cuts, nice guided bear hunt. His blacktails aren't that great anyway. I watched one of his scouting video's, taken from the shoulder of the highway. His methods may not be illegal or even unethical, but I'm not going to pay a guide to hunt suburbia.

[bonecrusher]

saw his booth at the show. wasnt impressed

[duckmen1]

he sucks
did a coyote hunt with him and we ended up not even really hunting
he charged 200 dollars a day and said he garenteed 1 if not 2 coyotes
it was supose to be a baited hunt until the night before he called us up and said plans had changed we would be calling them with electric calls
about twelve o clock midnight the night before he called saying he couldn't get the calls so he would use a mouth reed
we mended up not getting to a spot to even call "which was only a 1/4 mile from the main highway, and you could still see the truck" until about 9 o clock
hunted 15 minutes if that in two spots right on top of the other, which might as well be the same spot and then went back to his place empty handed

as for deer hunting he told us about some of his ways and how they have shot at deer standing on a main highway, and sneaking on to private land without permission making his clients think they have the right to hunt the land

as for bears he still baits at times and his brochure says guarenteed hunt for 2000$, he says that is just a way to get more money by catching peoples eye "guarenteed"
i did pay half price, but shouldn't have gave him anything

he is the biggest load of crap i have ever heard of and he is a discrace to hunting

[duckmen1]

hey bullchaser
your right i have never hunted with him because if you consider what he did to me hunting you are just as bad as he is
take a look at the last comment
that is a short and nice way of putting how he treated me
he is the biggest piece of crap i have ever met "HUNTING"
whoever calls him a hunter is probably the same way themselves
you talk about critique on people but your doing the same to a big group of people rather than just one person
why don't you book a "HUNT" with him and maybe you"ll quit protecting him

[bullchaser]

I am not  bashing you guys who have had bad experiances with the guy i was not impressed with him at the show either. my point was lets not be so quick to judge. Hey Duckman Now your accusing me let it go, besides who the heck needs a guide for coyotes.

[7mag.]

I am not  bashing you guys who have had bad experiances with the guy i was not impressed with him at the show either. my point was lets not be so quick to judge. Hey Duckman Now your accusing me let it go, besides who the heck needs a guide for coyotes.

I could use a guide for yotes, I suck. A free guide, that is.

[Houndhunter]

I am not  bashing you guys who have had bad experiances with the guy i was not impressed with him at the show either. my point was lets not be so quick to judge. Hey Duckman Now your accusing me let it go, besides who the heck needs a guide for coyotes.

I could use a guide for yotes, I suck. A free guide, that is.

no kidding those are tough lil basterds to get in on the west side, ea isnt even huntin

[Jerome]

The thing that didnt impress me about Shelby is that when i looked at his info he said he charges a trophy fee for 3 point or better bucks, then you look even further down and you see that he is counting eye guards.  So if you kill a two point with eye guards you had to pay the trophy fee.  That was 5 years or so ago so i dont know if thats still how he is or not but thats sad to pay a trophy fee for a 2 point. 

[7mag.]

A few years ago, I took a blacktail rack from that previous season in to have it scored and I had it in my hand when I walked up to his booth. He couldn't get enough of it, and looked it over for several minutes. It was much nicer than anything he had on display or in his pictures. It was a nice buck, but it didn't meet the state record book minimum. As a blacktail guide, he should at least have pics of his clients with big bucks, or have some that he's shot himself. I am not impressed with that guy.

[Thehowler]

Has anyone checked out his website, Shelby's trophy guide service? I guess he also produced a Blacktail hunting video!

[duckmen1]

the reason i wanted a guide was because i think i was only around 14 years old and i could'nt seem to get one myself would never do one now and i have shot many on my own
have gotten a few honey holes and techniques to hunt them hear on the westside
but when your young sometimes you would like to pull a trigger once in a year
did'nt you when you were young?

[bullchaser]

duckman when i was 14 or 15 it took me hours and hours of calling missing and trying to get my first coyote I still remember walking home with him on my shoulder. we got off on the wrong foot my whole point was as hunters we should strive to be less critical of each other we as hunters and outdoorsman are a dying breed. pm me sometime lets go call in a few together.
-Matt

[trophyelk6x6]

I dont know him, my buddy said when he bought some property for his house he found his cameras. Later he came knocking on his door wanting to hunt his property and he told him no.