Muskrat89 laid it out pretty well. I have a hunt consulting business, and though I help outfitters, I work for the hunter (and myself). Sure, the outfitter benefits, but I seek to provide the best hunts to my clients, period. If they don’t have good trips, I don’t have a business. One year I booked 11 Osceola turkey hunters to a place (and hunted there myself). Everyone killed a gobbler, everyone. I quit using the outfitter though because I didn’t like his attitude and personality with clients. The hunting was good, but for $1500 I think people should be treated with great hospitality and have a great overall experience. This spring, I had 81 turkey hunters that took 92 gobblers and missed 20 more. I already have 76 turkey hunters booked for 2004, and 8 for 2005. So repeat business and reputation mean everything in this business, and if you screw people, it takes no time for the word to get around. Then you are out of business. Good booking agents work for their clients first, or they won’t be around long. Like Muskrat89 said, you talk to a client, find out exactly what he is looking for, and then you give him a few options of hunts that you think will fit his needs. If someone comes to me and wants a hunt, I will set them up on a hunt where know they are with good people that will treat them right, there is game to be hunted, and they will get 100% effort from people that run very high success rates. All hunts are fair chase, so there is no guarantee, but my turkey hunts average 90-95% success with many outfitters at 100%, and my deer and elk hunts average over 80% with most of my private land hunts hovering around 100%. I cut out the leg work for clients, and if they book through me, they have piece of mind that they are going to the right place where they will not get ripped off…

Tim Herald

Tim, you can talk of your business, but you cannot provide links, unless you are going to pay to advertise through Huntingnet.