justthrowit I don' t think I read anything into your post, you said
Basically doing the dirty work so you can go out and hopefully bag a monster.
I was just expressing my personal opinion of what hunting is, I spend more time preseason scouting than I do on stand, to me the scouting and setting of stands is the biggest part of being a hunter and not the time spent sitting in a stand, once you are sitting in a stand the hunting part is finished except for the aim and release. I am not knocking folks who pay others to do the " dirty work" , all I am saying is to me the dirty work is the part of the hunter, the shooting can be done by a hunter or a shooter. I prefer to be able to say that I did it all. Do not get me wrong I have gone hunting with friends and they have put me on a stand and I have killed deer from them, but the satisfaction is not as great, still makes me a happy camper though. If I had enough money to pay for guided hunts I would dump it into land I could hunt myself instead.