H, don't forget regular rifle season is two weeks long, plus draw and archery season. To be quite frank a lot of guys will pull eye teeth to get a crack at any legal elk in this province, success rate is really pretty low on an annual basis. With the call a guy doesn't need to go to them but rather draw them out for a peak. It is just an ider'.

If the area was good I can tell you a lot of guys would have no quams with dropping 1/4 on a camp right now! Last years was a awesome year and amongst all the BS, wars, economics in US & our high dollar they still came. No CWD has been found anywhere near your area, Manitoba is clean of it and have yet to find any cases, IMHO a nonissue on the CWD. I realize that is wack of money but depending on the tag allocation you could eat up that investment very quickly. You could look at adding a partner to ease the investment, share responsibility and gain. Like you said something to think about.

It is illegal to rogue outfit biggame and is non-legit, has been for 10 years at least. The area designed for non-resident/outfitting has changed since then somewhat, largerly to denote the rogues and appease local(residents) & first nations hunting concerns. However indian reserves being crown land are able to either run or lease their reserve for hunting purposes regardless of the location. Really is pretty cut and dry, like H mentioned ain't anything he can do but buy out the other guys biz! Well actually if you own land in his desginated outfitting area you could approach him to pay for access or for a few tags as a sub-lease for those parcells of land. I would try the later if he was reasonable and your investment would be very minimal..another thought!