ORIGINAL: _Dan
ORIGINAL: early in
He owns and has access to 2000 acres.
Before I forget, they only issue 60 non-resident tags for the Edmonton Bow Zone (1600sq miles) each year. My guide gets more than half of them.
Let me get this straight. The bow zone is 1600 sq miles and only 60 tags. Your outfitter has over half of them and is hunting 2000 acres....or roughly 3.5 sq miles. So, say he has, conservatively, 30 tags....then he's hunting 1 hunter per 66 acres.
Now, to me, with his style and with the number of hunters per acre he's educating a lot of deer with as much running in and out as he does.
If my my numbers are correct and with all the info you gave, I'd look for a different outfitter that can give a better hunt more to your style.
JMHO.