RE: Why are hunts so damn expensive???
Johnny - I've been on several hunts on a working man's salary. It takes me a couple of years to save up enough $ to go. But when you go with an outfitter, one who does his job, there are expenses just like any other business. If he doesn't own the land he is hunting, he has to pay for the exclusive right to hunt it. He also has to pay the camp cook, guides etc. If the hunt requires horses, there is feed and other supplies. Other costs include fuel, tents and other camp and equipment supplies/upkeep. Not to mention the cost to do preseason scouting. For most of these guys, its their living and its all they do for 3 or 4 months out of the year (the actual hunting part only). Its notthe outfitter costs that disturbs me, its the cost of some of the non-resident license fees. Some of these states are getting pretty outlandish.