IMHO these guys aren't hunting anything. They are simply paying someone else to allow them to shoot a book animal.

When it reaches this point you aren't a hunter any more and simply becomea shooter. Any one can be a shooter.

Another problem with thiskind of "hunting" is that it is growing more and more wide spread and iscausing more and more hunters and would be hunters to be discouraged, quit, or not start at allwhen they can't kill deer like the ones they see on TV all the time.

But bigbulls, out of curiosity, do you feel the same way about guided elk hunts?

They are excelent hunters...how do you think they got on TV?

Yeah, they got it easy now hunting ranches like that on a day to day basis, but dont bash them and call them not hunters. They just shoot bucks like we shoot does

I have never paid for a hunt in my life. I really couldn't care less what others do as long as they are not breaking the law. It may not be everyone's cup of tea but it's really no one else's business.

I can't really say to much about that because I just paid a guy on Sunday to drive his 4 wheeler to a field and throw a half dozen pheasants out there so I could shoot them. While I would like to so I would never hunt that way I kind of already have. Is it different for deer?..... maybe. It is legal and if you have the money why not. I am not for the high fence but that is a different thread.

Plenty of nice deer where I hunt. I'll pay for guide fishing and aftere that I'm on my own but hunting is different. I get the satisfaction of learning about the deer that i hunt. I'm too cheap to pay for a hunt like that. I guess an elk hunt may be a once in a lifetime so I'd pay, but whitetails heck I've got plenty of those around for free!

Exactly! But theses guys are doing it for a living so would you like to watch a show where they go out and dont see any deer? They are doing it to etertain...

Ifthe deer were bottle raised and population was above actual holding capicity behind a fence I'd never put my name in.

Jimmy Huston, Keith Warren, and many others are great hunters?

Charlie, I think that was sarcasm and you missed it. [8D]

Exactly...