ORIGINAL: TEmbry15

i agree with the whole outfitter debate to a extent...

how is somone from the eastern US supposed to go out west with no contacts out there, set up camp (out of what) and hunt land youve never experienced before for animals you have never even seen in person before?

too many unknowns for someone like me to go out west for a hunt. take my possible MT trip next year. Probably will take my bow for a mule deer/pronghorn combo hunt for 5 days. the outfitter has tens of thousands of acres to hunt, and it is a spot and stalk type hunt. this is basically just paying for food, a good place to hunt, and a place to comfortably sleep. nothing canned about these type hunts.comparable tosomeone leasing a farm for hunting purposes around here.

but then you can compare that to the whitetail hunts around here where all you do is show up to the guys 1000 acre lease and hunt one of his pre hung stands. not much skill required.

outfitters cant be summed up as a canned hunt, IMO.