Sorry Alaska, but I couldn't dissagree more. Have you ever had a friend find or scout out an area and give you the heads up? Tell you the best trail to use, game he saw and lend you the maps he used? Not really any difference. Or have you always found all your hunting spots without any help from anyone and not helped anyone else?

Personally I think it is a great idea that is catching on. I used a service in Colorado for a mule deer early season wilderness hunt. From the service, I got a location of a "honey hole" that the guy had found for big bucks. He supplied me with some maps and a detailed description of how to get there and where to concentrate my efforts. From that point, I was on my own. My brother and I backpacked into the wilderness and set up our own camp 4 miles from the truck. We arrived 2 days early and did some scouting on our own. I then killed a 29" 8x7 mule deer over 5 miles from the truck and carried him out on my back.

A far cry from someone tying him up to a tree for me near a road, don't you think?

If you want see an already successful business doing this, you can visit the website of the guy that helped me. His business is called antlerquest: http://members.aol.com/antlerquest1/.../business.html I think he still has a picture of my buck. I am the one with the goofy grin, a thumbs up, and a velvet buck. And by the way, all the game at the top of his website (live animals). Those are pictures he took himself.

I knew where to go, but it was certainly not a guaranteed hunt, and I had to get it shape, figure out what I could carry in in the way of tent, sleeping bag, groceries, etc. I still had to be a good enough hunter to find a mature/wary buck above timberline, shoot it and get it back to the truck on my own, well, with a little help from my brother!

I burned 8 preference points for that hunt and didn't want to waste my time stumbling around trying to find a good spot. I wasn't dissapointed.

Yes, I think it is a great idea. Go for it. WHat areas of Colorado would you be concentrating on?