Sorry, little slow today. I feel so stupid.
I didn't catch the sarcasim either. We can be stupid together.
But bigbulls, out of curiosity, do you feel the same way about guided elk hunts?
On a real guided elk hunt, no. A guided elk hunt on public, or even a lot of private land, there are absolutely no guarantees that you will shoot a record book elk or even see one. I am not talking about the elk hunts where you stay in a cozy lodge in town, drive out to the woods or prarie and glass miles and miles of land from the truck.
Besides that, you are paying the guide to keep you safe, keep you from getting lost miles from anywhere, pack hundreds of pounds of gear into the back country, provide horses and mules, pack out meat, etc... etc... Things most people would not be able to accomplish.
What this thread is about is sitting in a shooting house, picking out a specific deerandshooting it. Deer like the ones being discussed here have been trained to eat at the dinner table every single day of their lives from birth. You just have to sit there for a couple of hours in the morning and a couple in the eveningand pick the one you want.
The exploitation and commercializationof bone growing on an animalshead has gotten absurd. Don't get me wrong here, I like a large set of antlers too but to pay thousands and thousands of dollars just to sit there and wait for deer "X" to show up is absolutely ridiculous.