Spruill's Pasture Hunting Club

Paul Willis_Trinity,NC takes Mature Gobbler

spruillspasture — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:02:32 +0000

Paul Willis of Trinity, NC who is hunting with us through the weekend with a nice gobbler taken in the back of the Pasture field on 4_19_2012. Lots of turkeys around and several openings available in the next 2 weeks. Call or send us an email if you are interested in a Carolina turkey hunt. Email: info@spruillspasturehuntingclub.com or call 252-799-6070 for details.

Paul Willis_Trinity, NC_4_19_2012

Spruill’s Pasture Monster Bruin Lives on in 2012

spruillspasture — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 08:53:05 +0000

Greetings from www.spruillspasture.com. Just wanted to share a few of our latest trail cam pics with you. Many of you will be delighted to see that the 600+ pound black bear that eats our peanuts(that we keep out in the off season for the wild hogs) and deer stands made it through 2011 and is back with us again for 2012.

If you haven't booked a hunt for this fall, you should consider giving us a call and inquire about a hunt with us during the first week of bear season and get a shot at harvesting this giant. The opening week of bear season is November 12th - 17th, 2012 and as of today(3_23_2012) we have no one booked that week. The group we had a verbal commitment from returning from last year got a chance to go to Alaska that week and cancelled their hunt with us. Visit our website at www.spruillspasture.com or call Taylor or Ron at 252-799-6070 for details about a hunt at Spruill's Pasture Outfitters.

Spruill’s Pasture arrives at the Greater Philadelphia Outdoor Show 2012

spruillspasture — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:55:46 +0000

Ron and I arrived in Oaks, PA yesterday and got our booth setup for our weekend visit to the Philadelphia Expo Center. Any of you in the Philly area should come by and see us over the weekend at the show. We will be in booth 607.
We will also be at the Suffern, NY show from March 1st-4th: http://www.sportshows.com/suffern/index.html

Ron in Philly Booth

Much Needed Deer Season Update 12_1_2011

spruillspasture — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:50:39 +0000

Sorry not to have updated the blog since the opening week of muzzleloader season. Hopefully most of you know to go to our "Hunting Pictures" media gallery from our homepage (http://spruillspasturehuntingclub.com/photos_hunting.htm) or our FaceBook page(https://www.facebook.com/pages/Spruills-Pasture-Outfitters/110466525657105) to see the latest harvested animals pictures for the 2011 season. We have had a fairly successful rifle season thus far considering the unseasonably warm weather. Here are a few pictures for those of you that haven't been to the media gallery on the website.

Gettysburg Woman Dominates Muzzleloader Season

spruillspasture — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:35:00 +0000

Spruill's Pasture welcomed the Pyne party out of Gettysburg, PA for the first week of the 2011 muzzleloader season. We were able to get the skunk out of the bag on the first afternoon when Cheryl Pyne took a 9 point buck near the old pasture on Indian Woods Road.

Cheryl Pyne with 9 pointer

Don Pyne harvested a 231 lb. sow wild hog on Tuesday.

Don Pyne with 231 lb. sow

Wed. Don and his grandson Tyler brought back to camp 3 hogs and a doe.

Greg Kugler also downed a 110 lb. boar hog on Wednesday afternoon.

All in all a great week for the Pyne party. Two shooter bucks were missed by Tyler and Greg, but I hope they enjoyed their overall experience nevertheless. Cheryl returned to Gettysburg with the bragging rights for the week. Congratulations on your nice buck Cheryl!

Slow Start/Good Finish to Final week of Bow Season 2011

spruillspasture — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 16:34:42 +0000

Tom Crossgrove and his friend Tammee Jo Seeley as well as Tom's daughter and son-in-law, Kim and Joel Carpenter met up at Spruill's Pasture once again this year from Ithaca, NY and Fayetteville, NC. The week started out slowly due to MORE wet weather and warm days. Although the hunting was slow, everyone enjoyed the vast array flora and fauna that the Roquist Pocosin has to offer. All of the wet weather made for a banner year for the fungus among us and I think Tammy enjoyed taking pictures of mushrooms as much as she did the hunting.

The hunting picked up later in the week as Kim stuck a doe behind the school bus.

Kim and Capt. Ron looking tough after Kim sticks her first deer with a bow

Kim Carpenter butchers her doe

and Joel from the Batts#1 stand.

Joel Carpenter and his kill for the week.

This was a slight improvement from last year as they were able to take some meat home for the grill this time.

Brown/Bevington Crew opens Spruill’s Pasture 2011 season

spruillspasture — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:05:02 +0000

While I would like to put a positive spin on the hunt my returning crew from western PA/eastern OH had last weekend(September 21st through23rd, 2011) the majority of these bow hunters came up empty handed. One of the young bucks, Doug Brown, stuck 2 does out of the Barb Wire dead end stand on Thursday afternoon and that was it. The corn piles we were putting out at the majority of our stands were being eaten by deer after dark. The deer just would not move during the daylight hours. I don't know if it was the enormous amounts of acorns that fell from the high winds during Hurricane Irene, the moon, the mosquitos, or we just weren't holding our mouths right, but this was a weekend hunt with a low body count.

On the positive side, Spruill's Pasture welcomed Bertie County local Stacey Harrell

Stacey Harrell and Ron White

to the fall lineup as cook,guide,story teller, and experienced outdoorsman. Stacey's grandfather was an original member of Colerain Gun Club(they started hunting the Spruill's Pasture property in the early '50's) and he put on a hell of a show in the kitchen after dark. Last week's menu included Barbeque chicken, Spaghetti,Bone-in Ribeyes/Hot wings. Quote of the weekend came from Sam Bevington after downing the last of his bottle of Wild Turkey whiskey: "At least we killed something this weekend!"

Signed Wild Turkey bottle by Brown/Bevington crew

At least these hunters know the difference between hunting and killing.

Bevington/Brown crew from western PA and eastern OH

Doug Brown with 2 slickheads

Spruill’s Pasture Clubhouse and Camp Upgrade Photos

spruillspasture — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:54:50 +0000

Check out the Slideshow of Pictures from the new upgrades to the camp and clubhouse here: https://picasaweb.google.com/102772152832695338044/2011CampUpgradePhotos?authkey=Gv1sRgCKDuu-W-ye_5XQ#slideshow/5653309076753719458

Pictures of remodeled camps and clubhouse coming soon

spruillspasture — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:46:40 +0000

I had been waiting on doing an updated post when the remodeling of 2 camps and clubhouse were completed. However, as with all construction projects, they are never finished on time. I will take pictures of the remodeled camps and clubhouse as soon as the contractors are finished, I promise. Bow season starts in 3 weeks and I will get the pics posted by then. It looks really nice around the yard now and I can't wait for my hunters that are booked this fall to arrive so I can show it off to them in person. The Cox camp and Charlie Boy's camp have been re-wired, re-plumbed, cleaned and painted. They both have full bath's with hot water, 2 sets of bunk beds and Charlie Boy's has a full kitchen for hunting parties that want to cook for themselves. We have also added a washer,dryer, and ice machine. The bunk beds were moved out of the old clubhouse and the old bunk room has been turned into an entertainment room with a flat screen, theater chairs, and a bar. Again, I will post some pictures here of the improvements around camp in a couple of weeks. Stay tuned!

2010 Fall Season Summary and Winter Sportshow Information

spruillspasture — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:12:37 +0000

I hope everyone had a happy and healthy holiday season and are enjoying the new year. I would like to thank all of you for being part of our first fall hunting season at Spruill's Pasture Outfitters. We had a total of exactly 30 hunters come through camp this fall and what a great group of people we were blessed with in getting our feet wet in the outfitting business. Ron and I are still telling stories about all of the good times we had.

Here are the final statistics on the game harvested during the season:There were 46 deer, 6 hogs, and 1 bear taken. Of the deer that were killed, the breakdown was as follows:
20 antlered bucks, 7 button bucks , 19 does

There were 25 deer taken on the east side of the CC Road and 21 deer taken on the west side

26 out of 30 people killed at least one deer for an 86% success rate.

2 exceptional bucks were taken:

13 pointer by Ernie Veneziale which had a Boone and Crockett gross score of 168:

10 pointer by Mark Gallacher which had a Boone and Crockett gross score of 154:

Mark Gallacher and guide RC White with split G2 10 pointer 11_3_2010

Ron and I will be at 2 hunting shows in the coming weeks and if you are close by and need a break from the winter doldrums, come by and visit with us at our booth. Our first show is the NRA Great American Hunting and Outdoor Show (http://www.nrahuntingshow.org/) in Westminster, MD from January 28th through 30th. We will be setup in booth 104. Westminster is only 30 minutes from Baltimore, 45 minutes from Gettysburg, an hour from York, and 2 hours from Philly. The second show we are doing is the Philadelphia Sport
Show(http://www.sportshows.com/philly/index.html) outside of Philly at the Oaks, PA from February 17th through 20th. Please come by and see us if you get the chance.