The main big advantage to a guided hunt is that they do all of the leg work for you. I' m like you, I prefer to do my own. But if the area I' m going to hunt is more than an hour or two from the house, I don' t have the means or to time to do it. I can' t afford to waste hunting vacation just to go somewhere and spend it scouting an out of state site. With my luck, when I finally get back there to actually hunt it, it would be overrun with other hunters anyway.

I do believe that some of the guided hunts are extremely expensive which puts them out of my reach unless I win the lottery. As much as I hate to see any government intervention anywhere in life, I' m wondering if the states should regulate some of it. I know that some of the states already have their hands in it and are making money off this system because the guides and outfitters having increasing costs every year too. It' s a vicious cycle and we poor folk are at the butt end of it as usual.

It seems like everything now days is money driven. I can' t remember the last time I asked to hunt someone' s property and was told I could without having to pay a trespass fee, or get on with a lease situation.

There' s all kinds of possibilities for fixing this problem. Unfortunately, most have undesirable consequences to them and don' t really solve the problem, but create more.