Don DeValk

Chaparral Hunting Adventures

White Scribbled Underline

"Friends of mine, they got me into hunting and now it’s kind of a family deal. My brothers all hunt and so that’s how I got into it. Mostly Whitetail in Wisconsin. That’s kind of what we have is Whitetail, smaller Whitetail."

Tradition

Back Home

"It’s a hard hunt. You know, you can go up north for four or five days with your kids and hunt hard and not see more than four deer. So, it’s a hard hunt."

The Search

"I did about five, six days of research, called maybe seven or eight outfitters, and I got a few that responded right away. Some responded a couple days later, and Greg responded within 15 minutes. So, I thought, that’s a good start already. Then he told me how the program worked."

The Decision

"Then I went on his website and checked some stuff out. I went on his YouTube videos and I watched and I listened to him talk and and then I really got intrigued by it with the 150 and just the way he ran his camp. No favoritism on stands. You pick your stand and that’s the stand you get out of a hat. You can’t get fairer than what was going on here."

"I didn’t realize how big they are. How the body size on them, you know, the brisket just like three inches bigger than I’ve ever seen in my life on a deer back home. The body size is what floored me. The body size on the yearlings, the body size on the doe’s, and then of course the seven and a half year old buck that I shot was huge.."

The Deer

First Day

The Shooter

The Trophy

Hands On

Good Advice

"You’re going to see a lot of animals. He said, Don’t rush your shot.” Patience was the big thing. But to see big animals and be ready. So, patience and have your have your equipment ready, he told us."

"They’re 10 out of 10. And that’s no lie. I mean, the places, the beds, everything’s as clean as you can imagine. The bathrooms, everybody’s got their own bedroom. It’s the food is fantastic. The lodging is topnotch, clean, changing rooms to change your clothes for hunting. And we have more than enough room. This is above what I expected.."

The Camp

Chaparral Hunting Adventures