WE SCOUT 4U

Offering private land hunting on over 6500 acres for Mule Deer and Elk

PRIVATE LAND HUNTING: A GREAT SELF-GUIDED EXPERIENCE

We started leasing and managing private land for high-quality hunts in Idaho beginning in 2001.  As of 2022, we’re operating on 6,500 acres of mostly private land. All game is free range.

We manage our ranches for approximately one hunter per 500-1,000 acres, per species, depending on the year.  These low hunter densities combined with great habitat are what makes our success rates relatively high.

TESTIMONIALS FROM PREVIOUS HUNTERS

We’ve hunted archery elk for over 20 years. Your Willow Creek Ranch is one of the best places we’ve seen for quality bulls. Although the big ones stayed out of range, we still went 4 for 4 on archery bulls- thanks!

Tim Atkins

Chico, California, 2009

Just want you to know it was the best hunt we have had in 20 years.  Everything was great.  Tyler and Matt were fun and worked hard.  Saw some good bucks and shot a couple of nice ones.  Guess you finally got a 100% kill with 3 good bucks.

John Huston Sr.

2013 Mule Deer

Justin has killed over 100 whitetails so when he called me and said he’d hit a bull at dark but hadn’t recovered it, I was pretty confident we’d find him. I met Justin before first light the next morning and after a short tracking job, Justin had his first Idaho bull, with no meat spoilage. And yes, he’d made a good shot, but bulls are not easy to kill! Justin and his party returned for the 2017 and 2018 season, filling five out of eight tags with branch antlered bulls.

DEER AND ELK HUNTING IN IDAHO

WILLOW CREEK ELK HUNTING

 

Our ranches offer some of the best over-the-counter bull elk hunting in Idaho. The success rate for rifle bull elk has never been below 50% and has been 100% on some years.

WILLOW CREEK DEER HUNTING

 

There are some good bucks on the ranch, too. However, unless you draw the late tag during the rut, all buck hunting occurs in October which is a tough time to hunt deer. Success runs between 30-100% on 4-point or better bucks. 

WILLOW CREEK RANCH: PRIVATE LAND HUNTING

Prices run between $4,000-$6,000 per rifle elk hunter, $3,000-$4,000 per archery elk hunter, (you need minimum of four hunters for rifle, two for archery to book and have ranch exclusive to your party) and $3,000-$4,000 per rifle deer hunter (need three to book and have ranch exclusive to your party) .  We also typically offer first-right-of refusal to our current year hunters before booking the following year.  This is subject to change but has worked well for everyone since we started in 2001.