Rules and Regs

Soon after your arrival at Valley Creek Outdoors, we will explain our rules and regulations to you.

The following is a copy of our "Rules and Regulations" sheet that you will read, understand & sign prior to hunting with us...
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Rules & Regulations – Page 1

Camp Rules 

No Smoking Inside!

No drinking alcohol before hunts!

The camp is yours during your hunt so help yourself to meals and snacks!

Daily Schedule – A Day at Valley Creek

2:00 pm      Leave camp for the afternoon hunt.

Sunset        We pick you up and head back to the camp for supper.

4:00 am      Rise and shine followed by a simple breakfast.

5:00 am      Leave camp for your hunt.

10:00 am    We pick you & your deer (hopefully) up.  Lunch will be waiting for you back at the camp. 

Bag Limits (3-day Hunt) 

1 mature buck (3 ½ year old buck weighing 170 lbs. and up with mass & tine length) & 2 does.

In January, we will not be taking does off of green fields in the afternoon. 

If you wish to add an additional buck to your hunt package, there will be a $750 fee (if the buck is taken). 

No fawns (a deer 70 lbs. or less) are to be taken. If you shoot a fawn, we keep the meat and you forfeit your doe tags.

A $250 fine will be imposed if a taken buck does not meet minimum requirements.

Game Care Options 

$0.00          You do it yourself. 

$25.00        We skin, gut and quarter. 

For your convenience, we have two commercially run deer processors located close to the lodge.  Prompt service is guaranteed.  Your meat can be specially cut and wrapped to your specifications and ready to travel in less than 24 hours.  The price depends on size of deer.  This fee is between you and the processor.      

Tips & Gratuities 

Our guides work for tips in addition to a modest fee paid by Valley Creek.  Gratuities of 10% are customary in our business. 

Firearms 

No loaded guns allowed inside the camp or vehicles!  We may ask you or even look at your rifle to check.  Going to some stands, it is fine to load your rifle and hunt on the way (we will let you know).  Do not attempt to climb a stand with a loaded weapon! 

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Rules & Regulations – Page 2 

Hunting 

All hunters are required to wear 144 square inches of orange (a hunter’s orange hat will do). 

Stands consist of ladders, box stands, and ground blinds. 

If you take drink cans or other snacks to the stand please bring them back to throw away. 

If you wish to stay in woods and hunt all day, this can be pre-arranged with your guide. 

If you have to use the bathroom, walk a safe distance from your stand the way you came. 

Please do not field dress your deer. 

If you shoot at a deer and think you missed, please tell us so that we can follow up on the shot.  Mark the place where you last saw the deer with ribbon. 

You can shoot coyotes, cur dogs, foxes, and bobcats.  It is probably better if you shoot these animals because, if you see them, they have more than likely already messed up your hunt, and if you do not shoot, they may mess up someone else’s hunt. 

You cannot shoot any turkey(s). 

Please let us know if you cannot or do not want to walk long distances to your stand, also please tell us if you do not necessarily like heights. 

Please stay at your stands during the entire hunt unless we instruct you to meet a guide at a certain place.  

Please do not wander around the area because it is dangerous to you and to other hunters; this also disturbs the area. 

We have a shooting range and all hunters will be required to shoot their guns to make sure they are sighted in. 

Please, if you have any questions at all, ask one of the guides.  The only bad question is the one you don’t ask.

I, __________________________________, have read and understand these Rules and regulations.

Valley Creek Outdoors
1064 Valley Creek Church Road
P. O. Box 990
Selma, Alabama  36702-0990
Phone:  334-872-0491
Fax:  334-875-9436
Email:  info@valleycreekoutdoors.com