Huckleberry Ridge Hunting Preserve
Contact Info
George Johnson
Phone: 252-341-8953
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Additional Info
Public or Private Destination: Private
Type of Shoots: tower, field
Game/Birds Offered: Quail, Chukar, Pheasant
Gun Dogs: Available
Other Hunting/Sporting Opportunities: Deer, Duck, Turkey, Trail Rides,
Lodging: Historic House
Huckleberry Ridge Hunting Preserve is a hunting, waterfowling and fishing experience you will never forget. Our hunting preserve in Tarboro, Edgecombe County, NC with over 2000 woodland acres along the Swift Creek, Fishing Creek, Deep Creek, and Tar River is managed for ducks, deer, turkey, dove, and upland game birds including, quail, pheasant and chukar. Hog Island Point, our private island in the Pamlico Sound of Carteret County, is available for sea duck hunts and fishing trips.
We have experienced hunting guides that can assist you with all your hunting needs. Kennels are on site if you have your own dogs or trained hunting dogs can be provided.
Lodging is available at the Batts House, an historic ca. 1880 plantation home located on the property. Offering five bedrooms, large living areas and a fully equipped kitchen, you'll feel right at home and have enough room to bring friends and family, too. We also rent out the house for group hunts or functions and offer catering services!
So, whether you're looking to hunt for ducks, upland game birds, dove, wild turkey or deer, or just want to escape for a quiet weekend get-a-way at our historic Batts House Hunting Lodge, we can accommodate your needs.
North Carolina Hunting
Fully insured and can supply certificate of insurance upon request
Whether it’s your intention to bag a trophy buck, wild turkey, dove, quail, pheasant, chukar, or just do some duck shooting, Huckleberry Ridge Hunting Preserve can accommodate you. Our pine ridges and hardwood bottomland along the banks of the Tar River, Fishing Creek, and Deep Creek provide superior habitat for a variety of ducks, dove, pheasant, wild turkey and whitetail deer. We maintain a variety of food plots to attract both wildlife indigenous to our region of northeastern North Carolina and migratory species, as well. We limit our turkey and deer hunts to maintain our population. Over the past three years in our development of the hunting preserve, we’ve only allowed two toms to be taken and this year we're setting our limit to five. We have built up our Whitetail deer population, too, and plan to hunt 15-inch spread or better bucks and some does this next season. If it's predator hunts you're interested in, we can arrange those too, just give us a call!
Upland Bird Hunting
When you're finished with your early morning duck hunting, as long as you've got the dogs all warmed up, it's a great time to take advantage of our vast acreage available for upland game bird hunting. Our pine ridges mixed with fields of perennial grasses, lespedeza, milo, and small grains, are the perfect environment for Quail and Pheasant.
So, come on out, stretch your legs and let the dogs loose to chase out some birds! It's a great hunt for a group of friends or corporate function.
NC UPLAND GAME BIRD SEASON
Wild Quail
Nov. 21, 2009 - Feb. 28, 2010
Wild Pheasant
Nov. 21, 2009 - Feb. 1, 2010 (males only)
Released Upland Game Bird Preserve Shooting
Oct. 1, 2009 - Mar. 31, 2010
UPLAND GAME BIRD PRICES & LIMITS
Quail
$7.75 per Bird
Pheasant
$18.00 per Bird
All Released Upland Game Birds Have No Limits
Controlled Hunting Preserve Permit Required
Wild Quail: Daily limit 6 Possession 12; Season, no limit.
Wild Pheasant: Daily limit 3; Possession 6; Season 30
Dove Hunting
 We look forward to the first of September here at Huckleberry Ridge, because it means that it's time to have our Opening Day Dove Hunts! Each summer we work the fields to maintain all the proper food sources that these little grayish-brown migratory game birds love: corn, milo, sunflowers, oats, popcorn, and a variety of melon patches, including cantaloupe, honeydew and watermelon, and each fall it pays off - big time!
We invite interested dove hunters to come to the preserve prior to the North Carolina Opening Day Dove Hunting season, so that they can peruse the property to select and reserve the field that they'd like to hunt. Bring your ATVs and have some fun riding around while you scout out the perfect spot for the hunt that you've been waiting for all year!
We only sell 150 tickets to each of our Opening Day Dove Hunts*, which fall on Labor Day and the preceding Saturday each year, so buy your tickets early! Show up early to get the best of the barbeque feast we'll have prepared, bring your dogs and ATVs and let's shoot some doves!
Waterfowl Hunting
 Hog Island Point is located off the coast of Cedar Island between Cedar Island National Wildlife Refuge and Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge. This area of North Carolina’s Inner Banks is a mecca for waterfowl, including Brant, Tundra Swan, Canada Geese, Pintails, Scaup (bluebills), Redheads, Canvasbacks, and sea ducks. Our coastal waters, marshes, and ponds make it a water fowler’s dream boasting a variety of diving ducks and puddlers. Hunts can be arranged for you and your guests in our four duck blinds, each accommodating three people. The private island is accessible only by boat, which we can provide. There is a house on the island, and while we don’t house people in it at this point in time, it’s good for getting warm, eating, and getting out of the (hopefully) bad weather!
The Tar River is a river that is approximately 346 kilometers (215 miles) long, of northeast North Carolina flowing generally southeast to an estuary of Pamlico Sound.
Our acreage along the Tar River in Tarboro, NC consists of scattered beaver ponds, swamps, wooded marshes with flooded timber, and waterside grasslands that are great for getting a mixed bag of puddle or dabbling ducks, including Mallards and Wood Ducks (Woodies). You'll also have the opportunity to hunt other wild inland ducks such as Widgeon, Black Ducks, Teal, Ring-necks, Gadwall, and an occasional Pintail. Dependant on your hunt date, you might have the chance to harvest a Tundra Swan along with Canadian Geese. We also offer released Mallard duck hunts for your shooting enjoyment, at $25 per duck with no limit.
Turkey Hunting
The Sawtooth, White and Overcup Oak trees that make up our hardwood bottomland along the banks of the Tar River, Fishing Creek, Swift Creek, and Deep Creek here in Edgecombe county, North Carolina, provide a superior habitat for wild turkey, offering a natural food source and safe roosting sites. We also maintain a variety of food plots, including chufa, a spring mix of small grains along with numerous clover ridges for bugging and strutting areas to attract and maintain a heavy wild turkey population.
Housing
 The Dr. Dempsey Bryan Batts House is an historic plantation home located on the Preserve. It was built in 1880 and offers gracious accommodations to those who hunt with us. Take a look at some of the recent renovations we've recently completed in our Photo Gallery, and if you're interested, read about the history of the Dr. Dempsey Bryan Batts House in this National Register of Historic Places document (Adobe Reader required).
Capable of accommodating up to 16 people, the house has five bedrooms, each with their own fireplaces. There are two large bedrooms downstairs, one with two full beds, and the other with a queen poster bed and it's own full bathroom. There are three upstairs bedrooms, two of them are large rooms with two full beds in each of them, and the other room has a queen bed and a full bath.
The den or great room is furnished with oversized leather furniture and has a fireplace and a 48" flat screen digital television with Direct TV. We'll also be hooking up Wi-fi soon for our guests convenience.
The kitchen is everyone's' favorite with two tables that can seat a total of 10 people comfortably. It has heart pine cabinets and the original wood stove everyone loves to sit around. It has all the modern cooking conveniences and comes fully equipped with everything you need to cook your own meals. However, if you’d like, arrangements can be made to have meals provided or there are restaurants nearby.
BATTS HOUSE LODGING PRICES
Lodging prices vary depending on length of stay and hunts. Please call for details.
BATTS HOUSE ACCOMMODATIONS
5 Bedrooms w/total of 8 beds
2 Full Bathrooms
Also visit us at www.landandhunting.com
DaHunt for the Cure
A 2-day Upland Game Bird hunting event on January 16 - 18, 2009, to raise funds for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society®. Sponsored by Huckleberry Ridge Hunting Preserve.
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