I personally don't have a real problem w/ outfitters in general but ran into a not so ethical one while hunting in IL. I was hunting a timber strip that ran through the middle of a large CRP field. I was hunting the head of the strip and the strip ran another half a mile or so and continued onto private land that was leased from a outfitter. The ground I was on was public ground and I made the effort to contact the outfitter before hand and ask him what the situation would be if I were to shoot a deer and it run onto him. He assured me it would be no problem and to just contact him and it would be fine. The next day I let my little brother sit in my stand in the strip. While sitting there he observed two gentlemen cross out of the leased land and onto the public ground circling the strip. They came upon the head and spread apart walking the strip out all the while throwing something out of a bag in their coats while wearing latex gloves. He walked upon my brothers stand and noticing him began grilling him as to whom he was and where he was from. He introduced himself as the gentleman that I had talked to previously. My brother then said I think you talked w/ my brother two days before he acknowledge that he had talked to me and said good luck. I knew this was the beginning of trouble and the next morning we decided to go back and pull the stand. While pulling the stand I looked around where my brother had said he had seen them throwing things from their pockets. I soon found the ground littered with MOTHBALLS. This outfitter had 13,000 continous acres to hunt on and in my opinion ruined several days of our hunt. My first emotions told me to find this [:@]hole and let him have a piece of my mind and maybe a little more. We let the IL authorities handle it though and once we mentioned his name they knew just whom he was and said they have had alot of problems w/ him and he is not on the up and up. I check out his website when I returned home and man he really preached ethical hunting and so on and so on. He boasted high success rates which now I can see why when you drive off pulic ground you know is holding good deer and litter the boundaries w/ mothballs. This guy is a disgrace to hunting and has given me personally a bad impression of outfitters and the lengths they go to make there money sometimes at other sportsmen expense. I know BT and you are probably reading this saying not me. I am not aiming this your way because I do not have any idea of your situation and ethics. I also am not trying to label all outfitters because just like there are unethical hunters doesnt mean they all are and the same for outfitters. Just had to get that off my chest.