Union Springs, Alabama · 6,000 Acres
GREAT SOUTHERNOutdoors — Premier Alabama Hunting Lodge
Southern Hunting at Its Finest
Great Southern Outdoors is Alabama's premier guided hunting lodge offering deer, turkey, hog, quail, pheasant, and fishing experiences on 6,000 acres with Southern hospitality, home-cooked meals, and comfortable lodging.
Call (334) 738-5066 with any questions.
Our Game Species
What Roams Our Land
Over 6,000 acres of prime Alabama habitat home to some of the finest game in the South.
Who We Are
An Outdoorsman's
Dream Come True
Great Southern Outdoors is every sportsman's dream come true. Located in Union Springs, Alabama, the lodge provides guided hunting for whitetail deer, turkey, hogs, quail, and pheasant on more than 6,000 acres of abundant wildlife habitat with Southern hospitality at its finest.
Great Southern Outdoors is home to some of America's finest turkey, deer, hogs, quail, pheasant, fishing and many more. Our 6,000-acre Plantation is located in the Black Belt Region of Bullock County, Alabama — an area host to the largest population of deer in the state.
As an Alabama hunting outfitter who prides itself on southern heritage, we aim to give you the best Alabama outdoors experience. Our property consists of prime habitat for deer, turkey, quail, pheasant, and hogs — not to mention our great outdoors fishing.
6,000
Acres
30+
Years Experience
5
Game Species
Location
11440 Hwy 82 W
Union Springs, AL 36089
6,000 Acres · Bullock County, Alabama
Best Hunting in Alabama
Premier guided hunts for deer, turkey, hogs, quail, and pheasant on our world-class managed plantation.
Alabama's Premier Deer Hunting
Whitetail Deer Hunting
When you consider everything that you expect from an Alabama Deer Hunting outfitter, one of the great advantages of being a privately-owned wildlife plantation is that it enables us to manage our lands exclusively for Alabama deer hunting and other wildlife. Each spring and fall we plant hundreds of acres of crops exclusively for wildlife, designed to provide the necessary nutrition to help maintain a healthy Alabama deer herd and to produce Alabama whitetail trophy class deer.
We were among the first to implement a Quality Deer Management program in the state many years ago, based on the QDMA & Alabama Department of Conservation guidelines. Great Southern Outdoors is very proud of more than 3 decades of maintaining a 2:1 buck to doe ratio of Alabama whitetail trophy deer to provide the best Alabama Deer Hunting experience possible.
- ✦Bow Hunts (3-day): $1,300 (Oct 15–Nov 15) · $1,500 (Nov 16–Dec 31) · $1,700 (Jan 1–Feb 10, Rut)
- ✦Opening Weekend Rifle Hunt: $2,095 — Nov 20–24
- ✦Early Season Gun Hunts (3-day): $1,895 — Nov 26–Dec 24
- ✦Pre-Rut Gun Hunts (3-day): $2,095 — Dec 28–Jan 7
- ✦Full-Rut Gun Hunts (3-day): $2,295 — Jan 7–Feb 10
- ✦Shared Whitetail Hunt (2 hunters, 1 weapon): $2,445 (Nov 20–Dec 24) · $3,245 (Dec 28–Feb 10)
- ✦Oct 15–Dec 24: 1 Buck (8pt+), 1 Doe & 2 Hogs · Dec 26–Feb 10: 1 Buck (8pt+) & 3 Hogs (NO does)
- ✦All packages include fishing
- ✦Active-Duty Military: $200 discount (not applicable on bow hunts)
- ✦Non-hunting guests: $200/day (Oct 15–Dec 24), $250/day (Dec 28–Feb 10)
- ✦Airport pickup: $100 per hunter (Montgomery Airport)
- ✦50% non-refundable deposit due at booking — held for later date if notified 14+ days prior
*NO DOES ARE ALLOWED TO BE HARVESTED AFTER DECEMBER 26th. All Rifle/Bow packages after December 26th will include 1 Buck and 3 hogs.
2026 Deer Hunt Gun Season Dates
You may book an archery hunt during these dates as well. Call for bow season special dates.
Hunting Specials
Children's Christmas Special — December 17-20
Share the wonderful experience of an Alabama Whitetail Deer and Hog Hunt with a child 12 or younger and make memories that will last forever.
- ✦$2,145 — December 17th–20th
- ✦Child 12 or younger and Adult share the hunt
- ✦Semi-guided with lodging and "Kid Friendly" meals included
- ✦Allowed 1 trophy buck (8 pts or larger & outside the ears), 1 doe & 2 hogs
- ✦Child receives a new rifle that is theirs to keep
- ✦No cleaning fees
Couples Deer Hunt Special (Includes free return Hog Hunt)
Designed for men & women who love to hunt together or are just getting started. Couples sit together or separately. Each person is allowed 1 trophy buck, 1 doe, and 2 wild hogs — a total of 8 animals per couple.
- ✦Early Season: $3,940 — Nov 26–Dec 24
- ✦Pre-Rut: $4,290 — Dec 28–Jan 7
- ✦Full-Rut: $4,640 — Jan 7–Feb 10
- ✦Meals and lodging included · No cleaning fees
- ✦Includes free return Hog Hunt ($100 each required for guide)
Military Discount
We honor our military past and present and appreciate what you have done and continue to do for our country.
- ✦Active-Duty Military receive $200 discount on Alabama Deer Hunts
- ✦Discounts do not apply to Bow Hunts
- ✦Semi-guided with meals and lodging included · No cleaning fees
World-Class Spring Gobblers
Turkey Hunting
There is nothing more exciting than calling in a gobbling eastern wild turkey in the great state of Alabama. Great Southern Outdoors offers the most unique Alabama turkey hunting experience in the state. Due to intensive management on our property, we have a healthy and abundant population of eastern wild turkeys. By only allowing a very limited number of hunters per season, we have a 99% success rate in harvesting Alabama wild turkeys.
Great Southern Outdoors holds a National Wild Turkey Federation record for the largest eastern wild turkey harvested by a female in the state of Alabama.
- ✦Season: March 25th – May 8th
- ✦2-Day Hunt: $2,500 — 1 mature gobbler
- ✦3-Day Hunt: $3,000 — 2 mature gobblers
- ✦No Jakes
- ✦Calling services available for $100/day
- ✦Meals and lodging included
- ✦Fish or hog hunt in the afternoons
- ✦10% gratuity added to all hunts
Year-Round Feral Hog Control
Hog Hunting
If you're a hunter in the south, you know that wild hogs have entirely taken over the land across the southeast. As a free-range property, Great Southern Outdoors is no exception. By harvesting hogs throughout the year, focusing on February through September (outside of regular hunting season), we have been able to put a dent in the population of this invasive species.
Do you want to enjoy a fun vacation while managing an ever-growing wild hog population? Great Southern Outdoors has you covered! With our exciting FREE Alabama Hog Hunts, you can satisfy your outdoor cravings while waiting for the Alabama deer season. We hunt over bait with feeders equipped with motion-detector lights for that perfect shot. Our 6,000-acre plantation is a natural habitat for these animals. Pay for meals, lodging, and guide services — the hunt is FREE.
- ✦2 nights lodging & home-cooked meals: $600
- ✦3 nights lodging & home-cooked meals: $900 (special dates only)
- ✦Non-hunters: $250/night (meals & lodging)
- ✦No bag limit — no trophy fees — no cleaning fees
- ✦Hog hunts run late Feb through early October
- ✦Weapon of choice — semi-guided
- ✦Coyotes & Bobcats (daylight hours)
- ✦Groups of 15+ can book private hunts
- ✦50% non-refundable deposit due at booking — held for later date if notified 14+ days prior
2027 Hog Hunting Dates
Back by popular demand! Select dates below. Call to reserve your spot.
Groups of 15+ may inquire about scheduling a private hunt (subject to availability). Minimum of 15 hunters, pricing must be paid in full regardless of the number of hunters showing up.
Licensing Requirements
- ⚠Out-of-state hunters over 16 need a 3-day small game, non-resident license beginning on the first day of their hunt.
- ⚠The resident annual all-game permit applies.
- ⚠All hunters, regardless of age, must purchase a Baiting Privilege License and a Nighttime Feral Swine & Coyote License.
- ⚠Licensing requirements are issued by the State of Alabama and are subject to change.
- ⚠Hunt start time: 4:30 p.m.
Classic Bobwhite Quail Experience
Quail Hunting
Great Southern Outdoors is known for its outstanding Southern quail hunting, offering more options, more birds and more fun! In addition to traditional Bob White Quail, we also offer Tennessee Red Quail and Chukar. You may request exclusive coveys of either or a mixed bag. There is no limit to the number of birds you may shoot, and you now have the option of adding extra bird packages to further enhance your opportunities.
Located in the Bird Dog Field Trial Capital of the World — Union Springs, Alabama — quail hunting in this area has been a gentleman's sport since the 1800's when plantation owners would get together for some friendly competition. It is as much fun now as it was a hundred years ago, with our well-trained Alabama bird dogs, classic Southern cuisine, and gracious hospitality.
Great Southern Outdoors was chosen as one of four plantations in Alabama to host Quail Forever, RealTree, and Alabama Black Belt Adventures in February of 2018, showcasing the rich habitats that support generations of quail hunting traditions in the south.
- ✦Season: October 1st – March 31st (2-man minimum)
- ✦Half Day Quail Hunt (12 released quail, lunch): $575/person
- ✦Full Day Quail Hunt (16 released quail, lunch): $825/person
- ✦Full Day Split Quail Hunt (24 released quail, dinner, breakfast & lunch): $1,275/person
- ✦Extra Birds Plan A: 75 birds — $600
- ✦Extra Birds Plan B: 150 birds — $1,200
- ✦Over limit fee: $10 per bird
- ✦10% gratuity added to all hunts
Quail Tournaments
- 🏆Great Southern Outdoors is the only plantation in the country to offer Alabama Quail Hunting Tournaments for corporate or private groups.
- 🏆Average harvest rate: 1,800 birds during a 2-day tournament event.
- 🏆Call 334-738-5066 for tournament information.
Continental-Style Pheasant Shoots
Pheasant Hunting
"The most fun you can have with a shotgun" — "Like a dove shoot on steroids" — "Never knew that wing shooting could be so exciting" — just some of the things we hear during lunch after a morning in the field!
Imagine a tower in the center of the field, with shooting stations around the perimeter, and two to three hundred (or more) birds being released. Their flight patterns are totally unpredictable, and by the time they make it to the outer edge they are approaching 35 to 45 MPH! After each group of birds is released, a horn sounds and the entire field rotates one stand so every shooter has an opportunity from almost all stations.
It is great fun for people of all ages, men and women, boys and girls; some even make it a family affair. A few of the shoots are open to the general public, but increasingly, smart businesses are reserving private shoots to honor valued employees or show appreciation to their best customers and clients. After the shoot, hunters return to the lodge for one of our famous Southern-style buffet luncheons. Birds are cleaned and packaged for everyone to take home.
- ✦Public Shoots: $290 per person
- ✦Package A: Up to 24 shooters — $6,500
- ✦Package B: 40-50 shooters — $10,250
- ✦10% gratuity added to all private shoots
- ✦Breakfast & Southern buffet lunch included
- ✦Birds cleaned and packaged to take home
- ✦Perfect for corporate gatherings, team building, family reunions, bachelor parties
- ✦50% non-refundable deposit due at booking — held for later date if notified 14+ days prior
- ✦Call 334-738-5066 for private shoot reservations
Your Home Base
Our Lodges
With almost two decades of managed wildlife experience, GSO offers hunters an extreme adventure during every Alabama season. Bughall Plantation is family owned and has been operated by the Pritchett family since the end of the Civil War. Dale Earnhardt Jr. has also called Bughall Plantation "home" for a hunt.
Great Southern Outdoors has three distinct hunting lodges and a 6,000 sq. ft. Activity Center — all built with character, comfort, and southern hospitality in mind.
Reserve Your Stay →Bughall Lodge
c. 1890
Built around 1890 and lovingly restored in 1990, Bughall Lodge is made entirely of cypress with its original tongue and groove interior still intact. This historic lodge sits on a slight knoll beneath a grand oak tree, overlooking the main plantation grounds — the heart and soul of Great Southern Outdoors.
Hunters Hide Out
6 Private Rooms
Also crafted from cypress wood inside and out, Hunters Hide Out features 6 individual rooms each with a private bathroom. Step outside your room onto the wrap-around porch and deck for a beautiful view of the open green fields — the perfect way to start and end each hunting day.
Blue Gill Cabin
Family Friendly
Designed with families in mind, Blue Gill is the first cabin in the newly developed Beaver Ridge area. It overlooks a peaceful wooded area and small pond, offering a quieter, more intimate retreat for families and smaller groups.
Activity Center
6,000 sq. ft.
The crown jewel of the property — a 6,000 sq. ft. gathering space featuring a game room, main dining area, lounge area, and a huge observation deck with an outdoor bar and fire pit. Built from 100-year-old cypress wood cut right from the plantation, with sweeping open-window views to observe wildlife in the surrounding green fields.
Packages & Rates
Price List
Call us at (334) 738-5066 for current pricing, availability, and to book your hunt.
Whitetail Deer Hunt
3 Day / 2 Night
From $1,300
- ✦Bow: $1,300–$1,700
- ✦Gun: $1,895–$2,295
- ✦1 Buck (8pt+), 1 Doe, 2 Hogs
- ✦Lodging & meals included
- ✦$175 base gratuity added
- ✦Military: $200 discount
Couples Deer Hunt
3 Day Special
From $3,940
- ✦Early Season (Nov–Dec): $3,940
- ✦Pre-Rut (Dec 28–Jan 7): $4,290
- ✦Full-Rut (Jan 7–Feb 10): $4,640
- ✦Lodging & meals included
- ✦FREE return Hog Hunt included
- ✦10% gratuity added
Turkey Hunt
2 or 3 Day
From $2,500
- ✦2 Day: $2,500 — 1 gobbler
- ✦3 Day: $3,000 — 2 gobblers
- ✦Season: Mar 25 – May 8
- ✦No Jakes
- ✦Meals & lodging included
- ✦10% gratuity added
Hog Wild Blowout
2 or 3 Night
From $600
- ✦2 nights: $600 / 3 nights: $900
- ✦No bag limit — no trophy fees
- ✦Semi-guided, weapon of choice
- ✦Late Feb through early October
- ✦Non-hunters: $250/night
- ✦Coyotes & Bobcats included
Quail Hunt
Half or Full Day
From $575
- ✦Half Day (12 birds): $575/person
- ✦Full Day (16 birds): $825/person
- ✦Split Day (24 birds): $1,275
- ✦Oct 1 – Mar 31 · 2-man minimum
- ✦Extra Birds: 75/$600 · 150/$1,200
- ✦10% gratuity added
Pheasant Shoot
Half Day Event
$290 / Person
- ✦Continental-style tower shoot
- ✦Breakfast & buffet lunch included
- ✦Pkg A (up to 24 shooters): $6,500
- ✦Pkg B (40–50 shooters): $10,250
- ✦Birds cleaned & packaged
- ✦10% gratuity on private shoots
The Great Southern Experience
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Testimonials
"Best deer hunt I've ever been on. Shot a 145" 10-point buck on day two. The guides know exactly where the big bucks are. Booked again for next season."
Mike Thornton
Birmingham, AL
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Great Southern Outdoors
11440 Hwy 82 W, Union Springs, AL 36089