Wilderness Whitetails is proud to offer trophy whitetail hunting on its managed properties located in central Wisconsin. Home of the current pending whitetail, we put our hunters on more record book class deer than any place in the world.
How many times have your heard the phrase...”the stuff legends are made of?" Wilderness Whitetails has a number of legends. We don’t know just how many but they are legends just the same. We call them our Legendary Bucks.
Our hunting properties is comprised of 3 different areas making up ~1000 acres of managed, fair chase opportunities for our clients. We have 2 separate lodges and can accommodate large corporate groups, or small private groups.
Wilderness Whitetails showcases 14 years of trophy and legendary bucks as well as our property and lodging quarters. Browse our collection and get familiar with the Wilderness Whitetails experience!
Wilderness Whitetails has rightly earned its reputation as “America’s Premier Whitetail Outfitter.” Recognized as the most consistent producer of huge world record typical and non-typical Whitetail bucks, Wilderness Whitetail’s hunters have registered dozens of monster bucks in the SCI world record book. Massive bucks, scoring 300, 350, 400...even 492 inches are taken every year. In 2013 a truly amazing symmetrical 8-point netting 189” was taken on the property. Another hunter harvested the potential new #1 SCI typical...a gorgeous 252-5-8” giant in 2013. Wilderness Whitetails superior Northern genetics ensures fantastic trophy quality year after year, solidifying Wilderness Whitetails’ ranking as the highest rated Whitetail hunting outfitter in the country. Wilderness Whitetails is most the highly recommended whitetail hunting operation in the US given our 98% performance record...meaning 98% of our hunters rebook for the following year because they got what they came for....or at least they saw what they were looking for.
"Nobody offers bigger, more impressive whitetails. Nor a better hunting experience.Wilderness Whitetails has the biggest bucks you will ever see."
This issue of "Giants in the Woods", will be a little different. One of our hunters was kind enough to write about his trip to Wilderness Whitetails in October. Please see below:
We flew in from Texas and were looking forward to some good old fashioned, Northern Wisconsin whitetail hunting. We booked a 3 day hunt with Wilderness Whitetails and looked forward to a long weekend of hunting and relaxing at the lodge. Just a short drive up from Milwaukee airport, we arrived at the lodge about 5pm. We were greeted by Shorty Flees and his brother Greg. I've got to tell you, the Flees family are some good people. Since we missed the afternoon hunt, the first evening was spent making sure my rifle was still sighted in, then eating some pork chops, drinking a few beers and sharing a laugh with our new friends.
There were 5 hunters from upstate New York that arrived ahead of us and they were a riot. It was one of the guys birthdays and the cook whipped him up a birthday cake. The food at the lodge is second to none. The preserve is huge and the lodge is very comfortable, but all I could think about was getting out there the next morning and hunting that trophy buck! The guide showed up after dinner time and told me what to expect for the morning hunt. Man, this was getting good.
The next morning, my guide John came to get me. I packed a backpack, grabbed my rifle and hopped in the 4 wheeler. It was a chilly morning, about 25 degrees, and still dark. The preserve is remote, and pretty far north so there are no nearby city lights to pollute the sky. In fact the stars up there are pretty amazing. We stashed the 4 wheeler in some brush and hit the blind. It was very comfortable and had room for three. We propped open the front and side windows and waited for the sunrise. Within about 20 minutes of hitting the blind, I could already hear movement around us, the sounds of hooves crunching through the leaves, but it was still too dark to see.
We spent the rest of that morning glassing for whitetail. The number of animals on the preserve is impressive. We saw a couple of bucks sparring just barely out of range and a true monster buck chasing down some turkeys. My shooter buck didn't show himself and we decided to head back to the lodge for some breakfast about 9:30.
That afternoon we went back out. Afternoon hunting is my favorite. I like to stay out there right up to the time we spend the last bit of shootable light. As it turns out, we didn't have to wait that long. After about an hour in the blind, John nudged me and pointed to his right. A whitetail had just slipped into some tall pines and brush. All we caught of it was it's hind quarter as he disappeared into some thick brush. The direction it was moving would have it step into the shooting lane directly in front of us. We still didn't know what it was, but I got my rifle ready.
Moments later, the largest whitetail I have ever seen in person stepped out into my shooting lane. It was incredible. I looked at John and he whispered, "That's the one we've been looking for". Anyone who loves whitetail hunting knows the feeling at that moment. I could feel my heart start racing as I slowly brought the scope to my eye. The buck was probably about 80 yards away and through the scope, it tripled in size. All I could say was "wow". At that moment a young buck entered the picture and got the big boys attention. The smaller buck came in and ruined my shot. The monster stepped back out of the shooting lane and into the thick stuff again. After what seemed like an eternity, the smaller buck was intimidated away and my buck stepped back into the shooting lane, giving me a new opportunity. I regained my composure, focused in on the sweet spot and slowly started to pull the trigger.
I was shooting a 200 grain .308 Winchester cartridge. It did its job to perfection. The buck jumped and ran less than 20 yards. We could see him lay down in some tall grass just 100 yards from the blind. After a few celebratory high fives and a massive adrenaline dump, we decided that we would wait a few more minutes before going down there and checking out this buck. The next 20 minutes seemed to last forever!
We walked out into the forest to find the buck. It looks a lot different at ground level than 20 feet up, but we still had no trouble finding the buck. We loaded him into the 4 wheeler and headed back to the lodge.
You can see the blind back in the distance.
The boys back at the lodge were excited for me and all needed to get a picture with the buck. That night we cooked steaks, had a few more beers and shared some more laughs. This is what it is all about and the folks up there at Wilderness Whitetails really know how to do it. I can't wait to get back up there. I expect this will be a tradition now for years to come.
Thank you Shorty and Greg for such a great hunt and a memory I will carry with me for the rest of my life.
-Bill F.
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The big bucks of Wilderness Whitetails continue to amaze! A huge 472” non-typical buck was taken at Wilderness Whitetails in August 2013. Two lucky hunters scored magnificent typical bucks in 2013 as well. The potential new SCI #1 Typical…an impressive, symmetrical buck scoring 252-5/8” was taken early in the 2013. Another Wilderness hunter took home a “hunter’s dream buck”…an 8-point typical scoring 195” gross -- netting 189”...the holy grail of Whitetails!
Going forward we anticipate that we will likely take a few bucks over 500” as well as a number of typicals scoring 260” or better.
Ever since Shorty and Greg began hunting their property in 1999, Wilderness Whitetails has been known throughout the US as providing the biggest and best looking bucks in the country in the 200” to 400” range and our hunters leave here extremely happy with having had the opportunity to hunt huge deer in a true wilderness setting.
Ben Carter, Executive Director of the Dallas Safari Club, is on location with Keith Warren’s “The High Road” TV crew, hunting huge Northern Whitetails at Wilderness Whitetails, DSC Exhibitor), in Central Wisconsin with legendary Brock Lesnar, world champion MMA fighter, on the Pursuit Channel Monday, July 14, 2 p.m., Wednesday July 16, 11 p.m. and Sunday, July 20, 7:30 p.m. (all times CDT).
Both Carter and Lesnar took huge 300-pound-plus main frame typical 8 point bucks scoring in the 200 inch category. Wilderness Whitetails is renown for having the best Whitetail genetics in the country plus the finest deer habitat imaginable from nearly impenetrable cedar swamps to broad stands of hardwoods. As co-owner Greg Flees points out, “Hunting big Whitetails in our dense Northern habitat is like hunting in no other place in the US.”
“This is the biggest Whitetail I have taken in my life,” said Carter. “I have never seen so many huge Whitetails!” Both Carter and Lesnar had high praise for the quality and quantity of Wilderness Whitetails deer, plus for the pristine deer hunting habitat and Wilderness Whitetails hospitality.