RE: What is your view on Outfitters?
Hunting is no differnt than any other sport in North America. There will always be some who choose to make a living off it and there is nothing wrong with that. There are golf, tennis, ski pro's and a multitude of other jobs involved with the various sports. Do we hate the golf course owners who charge $100.00 a round for a premium course? No, we either choose to spend the money and play or play elsewhere. There are very few sports today that can be enjoyed without some form of payment. Hunting as populations grow and buy up land is increasingly becoming a pay as you play endeavour. Many complain about the price of Iowa hunts but right now they are the premium hunts with the biggest deer, Saskatchewan hunts are similarly priced. If everybody wasn't obsessed with taking a bigger deer than the next guy they could hunt many other places and hunt smaller deer for way less money. So who is the greedy one really? We have relatively mediocre deer hunting where I live and I have started venturing away for some additional oppurtunities and I don't mind paying, I also don't have the means to hunt Iowa but I don't care. I just like deer hunting, bowhunting them more and more it seems. But I'm just as happy to harvest a doe with my bow as a buck with my rifle, I'm in it for fun not fame. As already said the world is changing and unless you adapt to it it will leave you behind. I'm not going to be left behind.