I’ve wrestled with this one and putting it out there. But if it saves a fellow member from getting mixed up with him I’d like to prevent it. I was fully aware of the bad press with this guy but my company wanted a corporate lease and ran across a property he had in Menard. I warned them to not risk it but a few guys met up with him and he sure convinced them he was an ok fellow. So they inked a deal and cut a check, set to take over Sept 1. Well that day came around and the excuses began, then he comes out this week and says it ain’t gonna happen. Said he might be able to put us on something else but we asked for money back. Did some digging and found out he leased same pasture to another group the week after us, also paid in full. So I guess we will hope for the best and try to recoup the funds. Moral of the story, stay away from wolf in sheeps clothing.

When was the "deal inked", and was your check cashed?

Yeah, if you paid with a check and it was cashed, the local DA may take an interest.

Interesting fellow for sure and I will not do business with him again. We had a lease in palo pinto county that we were leaving due to price/rules and found one of his about 2 miles away. Seemed like a no brainer since it was so close. Went ahead and leased it and we were able to move our camp our before the lease term started. The group getting off missed the deadline several times but since we could hunt turkeys at the other lease never worried about the April 30 date that the other group was supposed to get off. Fast forward to May when the official lease period started and went out there one weekend to start setting up, shoot some pigs etc and he told me that he extended the prior group and he would extend our lease period to start June 1. We could not hunt, set up, etc. until then. Of course, had that conversation with him on the phone and he flat out told me if I didn't like it I could get off. We dealt with it but he forgot to tell us of the 30 folks that leased the back half of the property that drove the roads coming and going all the time. When it came time to leave, we had to remind him that he extended the lease period as he was ready for us to leave on the original date. Worst lease I have been on in recent memory. He talks a good game but he is a con man. Always taking from Peter to pay Paul.

I seem to remember that name from some folks who go screwed over on a lease, maybe double leased like this deal. Hope you get your money back at a minimum.

He got me too! Probably the same property in Menard that is owned by the Boy Scouts? Supposed to have 12 feeders, 12 blinds for 10 hunters. He supplied the feed, electric and water for RV’s? Yeah, still isn’t ready, luckily I only put down a deposit to see the property. We liked it and wanted to get on but luckily we never signed the lease. Yet I still haven’t seen my deposit back. It has been promised and promised, yet come payday (after numerous unanswered calls and texts) excuse after excuse!! NEVER do business with this guy.

He got my group earlier this year as well. Same property in menard that is owned by the boy scouts. He showed us the lease, we paid our deposits, waited all summer to go setup the lease because we were told we could access property until labor day weekend because of land improvements he and the land owner were doing. Labor day weekend comes and we are getting ready to head out there and he says we cant come. Property isnt ready. Excuse after excuse lead to us requesting our money back. More excuses and more excuses and finally we had to threaten legal actions on him and he paid our money back. The dude is a true scam artist.

All in the name of Jesus. What a clown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od5sPLhdk5s

Is this him?

Yep thats him. Glorifying god to steal peoples money.

Comments turned off. Wonder why...

Churches are full of sheep, and wolves pretending to be shepherds. Worst kind of thief IMO.

Guy needs to be hung!

Did any of you contact the Boy Scouts? Seems like they might be interested if he’s using their property to scam people.

Yes we did. All the way up to the VP of this area. They could care less. Scott is in bed with the boy scout property manager of this area. Who just also happens to own the Coralina ranch where scott takes a bunch of his ministry hunts too. Its all a big joke and scam.

You mean that literally?

My neighbor and his group of buddies have been members with him for the last couple of years and he said it was good until this year and they won't be renewing. He was supposed to go hunt this weekend with his group and the guy called them and said they have people flying in and their group of 8 can only hunt in one area with 2 blinds. Week before last they got down they got screwed over a little as well.

There's another guy named Dusty Barber that screwed the wrong guy. Scott Thrash went after him with a vengeance. He was relentless contacting law enforcement and district attorneys in his pursuit of bringing this guy justice. Last I read, this Barber clown got 10 years and probation. 2cool fishing has an old thread about him, circa 2006. So, it can be done. If you get ripped off, there are DA's out there that will prosecute. I guess you have to bug the hell out of 'em, but it can be done.

These kind of scumbags must believe that no one can put a stompin' on them. There's always someone who can, even if you have to talk to a guy that knows a guy.

Lowest of the low IMO. Too many negative comments all over social media. I cannot believe GW’s or law enforcement have not tracked him down. Scam artist

What the...!

Yes, his "ministry that he is blessed to be director of" requires some $ up front to have a look around.

Bad advice. Don't become a criminal to beat a criminal.

I just don't understand how this guy hasn't been arrested, prosecuted and thrown in jail with all of the evidence of scamming he has done. Has to be in the thousands of $'s which should be felony level type activity?

Verbal agreements, vague contractual agreements............In the world of deer leases there just has to be an element of trust in most cases. There are people out there that take advantage of that concept. Add the quise of "ministry" and religion and you have an opportunity for a Robert Tilton Jimmy Swaggart Jim Baker con man to do well.

This time last year a forum member told of an unpaid debt of about 12k from Scott Huggins for a delivered load of feed. He was conveniently absent at the time of the planned delivery, spoke to the feed dealer who had shown up on site after a long drive and told him an emergency had called him away. Promised to put a check in the mail that day. Months later, no payment and all kinds of excuses. Called him out publicly here and it got paid.

His home address isn't too hard to find... Maybe put up a big billboard across from his house... Or something...

I remember it well. The moderator staff here worked hard on that one behind the scenes to help get that man paid.
https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/8741950/

Curious, has anyone ever tried calling the 800 number on the AMR website? Seems like there should/could be an avenue to report them as an illegitimate business and action be taken to shut him down? Guess this just shows that you can't be too careful when signing up for something, and keep records and paper trails of everything in case something goes south.

I understand the "hook" could be the religion and ministry push, but dang, I would do everything I could to shut this guy down to keep him from pulling this crap to good, hard working and HONEST folks.

I have had a couple of incidents on guided/outfitted hunts somewhat similar, and was very fortunate to have a good outcome. I just HATE crooks and glad the word is getting out on this fella!

Really a sad situation.

Really is, for sure!

This crook has yet to pay us back! Piece of freaking trash!

I would be finding me a lawyer - folks have to be aggressive with a trash guy like this

Have you tried calling that number on the AMR website? Maybe you will have some luck that route? Good Luck!

Get ahold of the County Sheriff for Menard county, Also the local DA. They are both aware of Scott and what he's doing in their county. The Sheriff told us as soon as we were to file on him that he personally would go get Scott. Fortunately for us, with a little demanding Scott decided it was in his best interest to pay us back and wire transferred the money back to us.

Worst scum on this earth. He will answer for this someday.

The youtube video gave me the willies. 'Rhythm of it screams con. I couldn't make it very far. I'm gonna step out on a limb here and guess he's originally from deep east Texas. I live an extremely blessed life, and it infuriates me to hear the word "blessed" so overused by loons and confidence men. It turns more people off to Christ than leads them to Him, in my opinion.

He won't.

Yessr.

Old saying from, I believe, P T Barnum. There’s a sucker born every minute and 2 to take him.
Before money changes hands, get a notorized contract.

NEVER TRUST A MAN WITH A FAKE CUP OF COFFEE!!!

History shows if you pressure this guy with lawyer legal, he will scam someone else for some cash and make refund to squeeky wheel to avoid further legal. Same story, different dance for 25+ years now. Seen it, know of him and even hunted with him (no money exchange) because he knew very damn well I knew all about him, that I had my attorney (that he knew very well) on speed dial. I watched him actually scam a goup (which I warned) while I was at one of his camps. It looks like $ deposit for property showing and then he no shows/cancels is one of newest added Rob Peter to Pay Paul. At times, he can make Bob "Jilton" look like an amatuer. Sad. He'll disappear now for a period of time back down to Costa Rica now and resurface again in about 2 years. This is sad because this history is easily discoverable before someone gets scammed.

Looks like his site is back up (without the membership option) -

https://adventureministry.ecwid.com


And here's the warning site about the membership issues -

https://amrreviews.com

Almost went the membership route for our church group; glad we waited a year.

Just amazing this guy is still doing this stuff to hunters

Not only hunters, vendors as well. This guy will cheat anybody he can. It was a feed/grain dealer that he tried to stiff for $12,000.00 that got my ears up. Seems that he was conveniently absent for a planned delivery of a load of feed. Promised to mail a check that day over the phone. Not wanting to turn around with the feed it was delivered by the driver. It was months of delays and excuses for not paying. Finally, after being outed on this forum he agreed to pay, if the thread would be taken down. Shameless.

I posted the reviews link above on TBH - more people who are aware the fewer who will get scammed

This dude is worse than I thought. Here's a post from TBH on a thread about Reverend Huggins:
Today, 11:12 AM
Wow, so glad someone finally exposed him.

My grandfather purchased an axis hunt from him at a Church auction for over $5,000 for me for my college graduation present.

Long story short, there were no axis on the ranch. We confronted him about it and said we could hunt whitetail. It was a 150 acre high fence trap with poor looking whitetails and some little scrub bucks. For $5,000 we said no thanks, let's get rebooked. He said he had them at another ranch. We did and went to another ranch and same thing. A few blackbuck in a small high fence trap.

The guy is an absolute POS.

The comments on TBH out number those here by a good margin.

Where's Bubba

He got me on 1200 Acres Boy Scouts property On Bobcat lane and he won’t answer phone. I paid people to help bring blinds and feeder and will have to pay for help again to move. He wouldn’t let me put RV and stuff on lease so he had me store it at another property, never heard from him since.

Former AMR Member here and I wasn't burned like others. I actually paid and hunted the properties through their family membership, harvesting many animals. Seeing how many of you got burned by him extremely unsettling and I hope you all find justice. Since we are all sharing in the name of trust and doing the right thing, I have some information that may help inform others... Read on and decide for yourself.

There appears to be another outfit taking over the AMR memberships. I know this, because I received an email from the new company.

American Heritage Sporting Club (AHSC) - which, according to the Texas Comptroller site, was just established on February 14, 2024.

There are many interesting connections between AMR and AHSC, but I'll share just a few:

1. AHSC is emailing AMR members they are taking over and requesting people to sign up before June 1, 2024 on the AHSC site. Within the site, they are using the same faith-based sales pitch that was on the AMR site (when it was active)... and it isn't just kind of similar. The pitch is nearly a verbatim regurgitation of the same story. Coincidence? Here is a snip of the email I received from AHSC:



2. As you can see on the site and in the email, Scott isn't named as a team member of AHSC. Even so, direct links can be found between the AHSC Chairman and Scott Huggins:
A simple google search of their names yielded a Facebook post from January 12, 2022, where a Houston company thanks 5 people for a weekend on the Coralina ranch (a property I personally hunted while it was managed by AMR). The Chairman of AHSC and Scott are two of the five people being thanked.

3. There are already six 5-star ratings on their website claiming all their great experiences in the past with AHSC... but hasn't AHSC only been in existence for 18 days as of this post?

My take on it - This transition to AHSC feels like the same old thing, different company name. Good luck out there!

Thanks for the update - I am amazed that with his reputation other people would allow their names to be attached to him or anything even remotely connected to him -

Michael Scott Huggins is the Registered Agent for American Heritage Sporting Club LLC. Huggins' old AMR site and the new AHSC site are hosted at the same site (e-commerce software - ecwid.com - which points to Amazon Web Services). The domain myahsc.com was registered 2024-01-12T13:13:42 (matching up with your Facebook find). It's the same business and people simply trying to rebrand to keep the scam going... a wolf that simply changed its clothes.

Looks like Huggins also started "Land Management Service and Supply, LLC" in the latter part of 2023. Another name to be on the lookout for. Not saying it's related to hunting. Just pointing it out for anybody that has a business or land that may use a "business" of this "type".

Well you sent me down a rabbit hole. I searched other company names associated with him and came across a brand new civil case against him and ANOTHER one of his companies "Romans623 LLC doing business as OILFIELD APPRECIATION DAYS OR LAND MANAGEMENT SERVICES" for breach of contract and asking for a judgement of $50,000. Go to Monroe County Supreme Court Site and search Case #E2024001659 for those details. I wonder how many companies he's really got and why.

There's also an identical breach of contract case, Index Number 138285-2024 in Ontario County, NY, against Romans 623 LLC and Huggins filed by SKYINANCE HOLDINGS LLC on Feb 22, 2024 for, I think, $40k.

I had to go read Romans 6-23. My what an interesting choice for his business name and how he seems to conduct business.

Just depends if you were Peter or Paul if you dealt with him as to how you may feel about him or company affiliations

He got me too. He tried to sell me on his turn key property’s where he has blinds and feeders set up. I told him I was looking for a typical lease and then he sold me on 1200 acres that he was filling 7 other spots on property so 8 total hunters. Bobcat lane was on property line. If anyone out there has paid on same property maybe we can do a group lawsuit against him and let Justice be served.

So how did it go down? You met with him and viewed the lease property and then paid him money? Did he provide you a written lease agreement? Just curious how this guy keeps pulling this stuff off?

Yes I drove down to look at property and sent him half for deposit. I signed his lease agreement but he didn’t give me a copy of lease paperwork. He said he would send me a copy after I paid in full but he didn’t send it.

yep I would have a law suit against him ASAP

yep I would have a law suit against him ASAP

since you know where the property is go online to tax records and see who the land owner is and contact them to see if they know what this guy is doing

Boy Scouts of America is who owns the property. They were made aware of what Scott was doing and have since kicked him off their property.

that is good -