Yes I have seen this attitude from outfitters toward the common Joe schmo hunter. Worse yet here are some other things to watch out for with outfitters:

Get stuck in camp with repeat hunters that come and hunt every year with the outfitter (you will be taking a back seat to them)

Last one to arrive in camp and getting stuck with the only guide left (usually bottom of the barrel guide)

Over crowded situations from stand locations to sleeping quarters.

Guides that promise private land only to take you on public land.

But it is your responsibilities to ask these questions before booking.

Not all are like this though but the ones that have been at it awhile tend to get like everyone else in the service orientated field and become desensitized to the things they are doing wrong.



I have been going unguided to different parts of Wyo the last couple of years. Mostly miles in the back country where I have spent literally hours looking at sat. images, topo maps, calling the local wildlife offices and sometimes even the forest services asking questions. It takes allot just to know where your going let alone trying to be successfully in a hunt. Some people love the planing as well as the hunt too. Others just wouldn't know where to start or don't have the time. I invite some acquaintances out with me every year and all I hear is "so who's guiding you"? and a guided hunt is to much money ect ect ect then when I explain that you just save, plan, hunt and that the cost depending on tag availability\cost and gas prices it could be a $1000 or less depending on how many hunters go to split the cost. They just look at you like you are nuts going 2000+ miles away without a guide! I just don't get it???????