These rules are designed to help insure a safe, successful and fun hunt for everyone. They are really just common sense, and I hate that we even have to write them down, but it seems that some people need common sense spelled out to realize it. If you are not one of those folks, great, but please read these rules carefully anyway, and follow them precisely. Any person caught violating any of these rules will be immediately asked to leave the premises. There will be no money refunded and you will not be allowed to come back. 

1) All persons must act in a safe and sportsmanlike manner at all times. We reserve the sole right to determine what actions are unsafe or unsportsmanlike at the time of occurrence. Our decision shall be final. We offer the rest of these rules only as a guideline to our thinking on that matter, and they are not in any way to be considered a complete list of what we’d consider unsafe, or unsportsmanlike.

2) NO HUNTING UNDER THE INFLUENCE of intoxicating drugs (legal or illegal) or any level of alcohol. After you are completely done hunting for the day, and your firearm is empty, if you are of legal age, you may sparingly consume alcoholic beverages. Anyone smelling of alcohol, or appearing or acting like they are in any way intoxicated, will not be allowed to hunt or have access to the properties.

3) All hunters must turn in a personally signed Hunting Participation Agreement upon check-in. Youth hunters must be co-signed by parent or guardian.

4) All persons must attend an orientation prior to accessing the property each day, and must not access or leave the property unless escorted by a guide.

5) All firearms must be handled in a safe manner; such as:
      a) Do NOT shoot toward other hunters, vehicles or houses that are within the maximum range of  your pellets.
          We do not "walk up" dove, or hunt the middle of fields, because over 80% of serious dove hunting accidents occur while doing those.
      b) Do NOT load your firearm until in the field and ready to hunt.
      c) UNLOAD your firearm prior to leaving the field. 
      d) SAFETY ON until raising the gun to shoot.

6) All Federal and Texas state game laws will be strictly enforced. It is your responsibility to know these laws before you hunt. We will not be responsible for any citations issued and the Game Wardens have keys or combinations to all of our locked gates.

7) All animals brought must be for retrieving game, and kept under tight control at all times.

8) All vehicles must stay on marked access roads, and park only in designated parking areas. Sorry, but no ATV's allowed due to liability insurance restrictions.

9) NO LITTERING! This means no trash at all is to be left behind, including but not limited to;
empty shotshells, cigarette butts, candy wrappers, bottles or cans, or dove parts. We will provide trash cans for cleaning your birds. PLEASE do not clean birds in the field. Do NOT put trash in the bird cleaning barrels. Plan to take your trash with you.

10) All persons must leave the premises prior to 9:00 p.m.

Below is the itinerary for September 01. The only thing that changes for hunts on other days is the legal shooting times. Be sure to check those prior to hunting.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

5:30 to 5:45 am Hunter Check-in and Mandatory Hunter Orientation
5:45 to 6:50 am Hunters will be assigned to a guide. You follow your guide to the field you will hunt.
     Guides place hunters into the fields.
6:50 to 10:45 am  Dove hunting. Guides check on hunters regulary (about once an hour).
10:45 am- 2:30 pm Guides and hunters leave all fields by 11. Eat lunch by noon.
2:30 to 2:45 pm Mandatory Hunter Orientation for anyone showing up after am hunt
2:45 pm to 7:45  Dove hunting
7:45 to 8:30 pm  Leave fields. Socialize. Clean birds
9 pm   All hunters must be off premises by 9 p.m. PLEASE!

ALL hunters must attend an orientation prior to hunting. NO exceptions. Please be on time so as not to delay the start of hunting for yourself or others.

ALL hunters must be escorted to and from the fields by a guide. NO exceptions.

Lunch will be provided for hunters on Tuesday, September 01, and on Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the opening weekend, September 04, 05, and 06. A large cup of sweet tea will also be provided with the meal. Lunch will consist of things like Bar-B-Q chicken,  ribs, brisket, pork loin and/or sausage, with plenty of side dishes. On Wednesday and Thursday, we may cook lunch or buy you the special at the local restaurant, just depending on the number of hunters we get.

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Check-in #2 is just outside of Bellmead, Texas.
Proceed east on US Hwy 84 for a bit less than one mile past the Bellmead City Limit sign. 
The entrance to one of our hunting fields is on the right side (south side) of the hwy. 
It may or may not be the actual field you will hunt,
but we meet there when hunting anywhere near that area.
It is directly ACROSS the highway from "Sanderson Farms, Inc." headquarters.
That is a large, well lit building with the name on front in BIG letters.
There will be a vehicle with flashers on (unless it's daylight) right by that gate. 
Turn in there.
The ball on this map marks Bellmead. It is NOT the check-in for day hunts.
Follow the written directions above for day hunt check-in.

If you would like complete directions from your house or office to our place,
just CLICK HERE to use Mapquest.

Hunting license, and if 17 yrs old or older, a migratory bird stamp endorsement. The endorsement is needed to take or attempt to take any dove or other migratory bird.

Shotgun, with a  maximum capacity of  3 shells, including the one in the chamber. Plenty of appropriate shotshells, sunscreen, soft drinks and/or water and a cooler with ice. Gallon size, zip lock bags for the cleaned birds. Water and/or quick wipes to clean your hands after cleaning birds. Hearing and eye protection. Bird bag/shell vest. Trash bags. We also recommend snake boots. There are not many snakes, in fact, very few, but it only takes one mean one to mess up your whole day!

First Name: ___________________ Last name: _____________________________

Address: ____________________________________________________________

City: ____________________________ State: _____________ Zip: _____________

Office Phone: _____________________ Home Phone: _______________________

Guest of: _____________________________________

For and in consideration of being permitted to hunt, fish, and/or visit Robert Steenbeke, Allen Morehouse, 1A Hunting in Texas Guide Service or Hot Guided Hunts on any of the properties they manage, lease and/or own during the period of September 01, 2009 through August 30, 2010.

Participant hereby executes this Consent and Release to the party above, their agents, servants, employees and any other persons connected with them in said activities of Robert Steenbeke, Allen Morehouse, 1A Hunting in Texas Guide Service or Hot Guided Hunts, which voluntarily releases, discharges, waives and relinquishes any and all actions or causes of action for personal injury, property  damage or wrongful death occurring to Participant arising as a result of engaging in said activity or any activities incidental thereto  wherever or however the same may occur and for whatever period said activities may continue, and Participant for himself/herself, his/her  heirs, executors, administrators and assigns hereby releases, waives, discharges and relinquishes any action or cause of action, aforesaid, which may hereafter arise for himself/herself and for his/her estate, and agrees that under no circumstances will he/she or his/her heirs, executors, administrators or assigns prosecute any of the parties above, or any of their agents, servants, employees and any other persons connected with said activity of Robert Steenbeke, Allen Morehouse, 1A Hunting in Texas Guide Service or Hot Guided Hunts, whether the same shall arise by the negligence of any said persons or otherwise.

Participant also agrees for himself/herself, his/her heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, that in the event of being cause to any claims for personal injury, property damage or wrongful death prosecuted against Robert Steenbeke, Allen Morehouse, 1A Hunting in Texas Guide Service or Hot Guided Hunts or any of their agents, servants, employees and other persons connected with said entities, he/she shall indemnify and save them harmless from any and all said claims or causes of action by whomever or wherever made or presented.

Participant acknowledges having read the foregoing paragraphs, that he/she is fully and completely aware of the potential dangers incidental to the hunting activities, and is fully aware of the legal consequences attendant to signing/executing this Consent and Release.
 

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Signature                                                    Date                         Hunting license number