03/19/2025
‼️ Not a typical post from us but I wanted to share our side of the story. Pretty long read but that’s not even half of what I wanted to say. ‼️
I figured I’d give our side of the story since Boddie Lindsey is bashing our names all over the place. I am the owner of B & L Hunts. Boddie and his 5 friends arrived at our camp for a 5 day hunt. Boddie warned us minutes after arriving that we would have to “babysit” one guy in the group because he was a hard core alcoholic. We knew right then and there we were going to have problems. We allow drinking in camp but NOT during the hunt. You can drink in moderation after the evening hunt. We will not tolerate drunks. We had our first meeting with everyone sitting at the kitchen table in our home, all 6 guys were there during this meeting. We went over all the rules and everyone signed these papers and initialed them that they understood the rules. Day one of the hunt we realized who the problem was going to be, the drunk. We had to keep a close eye on him so we knew he wasn’t sneaking alcohol to the deer stand. Pretty pathetic. I even bought a breathalyzer test just in case. By day 2 we were ready to be done with this. Worried about one guy messing things up for us. On day 3, 5 of the hunters went hunting. The drunk stayed in the lodges part time and drove around while drinking the other time. I couldn’t even let my kids and dogs out because this guy was stumbling drunk in and out of his vehicle. By this time we decided it was time for him to leave our property. We talked to Boddie and Another guy and told them the problem. They understood. The other guy offered to take the drunk guy home so the rest of the group didn’t have to leave. We said that was fine but he didn’t have to ruin his hunt because of one guy. He went ahead and volunteered to take him home. That’s fine. Get him off my property. Boddie agreed that he didn’t feel like he should stay either and felt bad for even bringing this drunk to our camp. Boddie apologized the whole time he was packing his things and shook our hands when he left. He said he would leave too and we said that was fine too. After these 3 left we apologized to the last 3 guys left in camp. They understood why we did what we did. We told them we were going to have a great time now that we could relax since the problem had left. On day 4 of the 5 day hunt 2 out of the 3 took shots at deer and didn’t tell us until after we picked them up from their hunt. Our number one rule, that we talked about multiple times in our meeting was “if you take a shot, hit or miss, we need to be notified after so we know if it was a clean miss or not” these two did NOT call Bruce. After the week we had with this group, we were done. We told them to pack their stuff and leave our camp. One guy did not break rules but his son did and he was his ride so he had to leave too. We were going to refund the Dad $500 since he didn’t do anything wrong and had to leave but he left without saying anything. Long story short, we welcomed these guys into our family home and now we are getting nothing but harassment, slander, calls, emails, and messages from Boddie. We have not heard anything from the other guys. Only Boddie. He had made threats about hoping to “bump “ into us this next season and calls us and hangs up and bashes our names everywhere he can. We have sold 200 hunts in our 6 years of business and this is the first time we have ever dealt with something like this. You can contact any of my hunters and asked them about my family, we are good people and we always have a great time in camp. Just remember there is always two sides to every story. He has blasted his all over the place so I guess this is my story now. Oh, and I forgot to mention that Boddie also canceled his check for $2000, so he’s not even out anything… please message me if you want to know more. I’m sure I’ve missed something but enough is enough Boddie. We did what we did for the sake of our family farm. We did not step out of line. We felt what we did was necessary. I have all pictures and documents to prove all of this. I have messages from Boddie while he was here at camp saying how great our families are and can’t wait to come back and he was so sorry all this happened and totally understand why we did what we did and that he wishes us nothing but they best. And now here we are. Take it how you want. We have been dealing with this guy for 5 months now!!
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