I am an outfitter andI take offense to these comments.

BTW this is my first year in business as an outfitter and let me tell you why I did it.

For 3 years I was on the road working disaster relief for huricanesand stroms. We were rebuiliding what nature took away.

For those 3 years if there were no outfitters I couldn't have hunted at all. I did have time to scout, find land (even public) or devote to hunting at all. I barely sqeezed away to hunt for 3 days at an outfitters lodge each year.
Each of those 3 days to me were priceless refuges of stress relief I desperately needed. Even though I didn't shoot a buck on any of those hunts (a buddy did though) I felt like I was being taken care of. They did all the work that I didn't have the time to do and I got to show up and hunt. Otherwise I would have missed 3 years of hunting.

So while at the last one I went to I decided I wanted one of these stress busting retreats and I built this... www.robertsretreatlodge.com

Now I run hunts....we want everyone to have a good time and if possible everyone kill a buck, but we know that everyone is not going to. We have free ranging low fence land for people to hunt that can't or don't have the time to set up thier own trips but still want to hunt.

So before you paint all outfitters with the same brush.... we all don't have 200 acres of penned in deer for you to harvest and so much $ per inch. Some of us provide a needed service to people that wouldn't get to hunt without a place like mine.

Thanks,