I'm absolutely not trying to start a fight. I'm going to do my best to ask this with all due rspect, but what do you have against outfitters? I wouldnt use an outfitter close to home but I have used many when I hunted far from home. IMHO ethical outfitters provide a service by helping facilitate hunts for those who want to hunt areas and/or animals that they cant hunt at home. Most , but admittedly not all, outfitters are locals just trying to make a living. Unless he is a scrooge who needs no maney and simply puts his earnings in a vault, money paid to a resident outfitter (by the way Ill resident outfitters are the only ones who get their clients in the early drawing) winds up being spent in your state or gets added into your tax base. Considering the investment an outfitter makes in advance by leasing ground, reserving accomodations, advertising, promoting etc etc etc it seems only fair that DNR and the legislature should consider those expenditures when they pass a law imposing a quota that DNR has said is not biologically necessary.

I wouldnt be pleased if an outfitter leased a place I previously hunted for free but guess what? It's happening everywhere.

If you want to pick on thr rogue, bandit outfitters please feel free to do so. But legitimate outfitters have a right to do business and any business has the right to not have their businees hurt by laws and regulations that are that are purely the result of poltical pressure