Can't blame the Outfitter, he did his job best he could.
Most Outfitters in Alaska are restricted as to where they can guide, so can only work with what they have. Things change from year to year and these guys have to make a living. In a different season things could have been very different.
I beleive the problem is with the management of the areas. (GMU 17 & 19)
Small window for the season and just too many hunters wanting the same thing. Of course the managers are going to take the tag revenue.
If the hunting gods had been favourable toward me, I'd have a nice Griz. But my 4 mile stalk came unstuck in the last 600 yards, when Mr bear got buzzed by a plane checking him over. It was a small wheeled plane, so more likely tourists than an Outfitter. Frustrating.
As for the Moose. Numbers of legal Bulls are real thin out there.
And a decent sized caribou just wasn't going to happen. Maybe later in the season. (This was mid-late September.) and I'm told often the Bigger Bulls will hold off migrating south till later.