Without countenancing what the outfitters have done in these cases, I guess "caveat emptor" -- let the buyer beware -- comes to mind. Maybe avoid hunting with the outfitters that advertize on TV. Call several of the outfitter's references. And finally . . . sometimes you are just going to get screwed on an outfitted hunt. I have read enough stories about this that it sounds like a significant number of outfitter hunts -- probably more than 5% maybe more than 10% -- end up having something that fell significantly short of reasonable expectations. It isn't a perfect world. If you DIY sometimes things don't go according to expectations and things suck, too.