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RE: What is your view on Outfitters?
ORIGINAL: Rob/PA Bowyer There is no right answer in that poll for me. I've used outfitters in the past, bear in Canada, elk in WY. I'm going to an outfitter in IL in Nov. I'm fine with it but I don't use them all the time, more like I rarely use them so again, no right answer in the poll. Same here..........have used them, will again...........but hunt mainly on my own. Most people that have problemswith outfitters are those that have had land gobbled up by them or can't afford to use them.............misplaced anger IMO. |
RE: What is your view on Outfitters?
no answer for me. I will use them, but almost always hunt on my own.
I will most likely only be using them for out of state hunts for species i am unfamiliar with. Such as my planned Pronghorn bow hunt in SD this coming up fall. |
RE: What is your view on Outfitters?
I would..but prolly wouldn't care too
Around here theres outfitters everywhere...we have 6-8 right here in my county...with more coming Its getting out of hand....I'm 15 and I'm always hearing "I'm going to hate it for the up and coming generations with no where to hunt"! A couple of outfitters is ok....but when you have so many outfitters around its hard to find a place to hunt then theres somthing wrong! Its also bad when some people pay these outfitters and they wind up on Public Land!! If the State of Illinois wasn't worried so much about Money and more concerned on people keeping their land then who knows what Illinois could be! |
RE: What is your view on Outfitters?
ORIGINAL: Chasebaker I would..but prolly wouldn't care too Around here theres outfitters everywhere...we have 6-8 right here in my county...with more coming Its getting out of hand....I'm 15 and I'm always hearing "I'm going to hate it for the up and coming generations with no where to hunt"! A couple of outfitters is ok....but when you have so many outfitters around its hard to find a place to hunt then theres somthing wrong! Its also bad when some people pay these outfitters and they wind up on Public Land!! If the State of Illinois wasn't worried so much about Money and more concerned on people keeping their land then who knows what Illinois could be! One day it probably will get to where you have to pay an outrageous amount to hunt, I know I can't afford $4,000 for a 3 or 4 day hunt. Then what? |
RE: What is your view on Outfitters?
ORIGINAL: englum_06 I know I can't afford $4,000 for a 3 or 4 day hunt. Then what? |
RE: What is your view on Outfitters?
ORIGINAL: Bols ORIGINAL: englum_06 I know I can't afford $4,000 for a 3 or 4 day hunt. Then what? I dont know where you're from in IL, but I know where I am there isn't any public ground for about 45 miles and theres already way too many that hunt it. Im saying in the future, if more outfitters keep buying up land and forcing hunters off of it, how many more hunters are those public lands going to have then? |
RE: What is your view on Outfitters?
I am not voting but I will say this.......I am confident if this poll were taken to the general hunting population, at least here in Illinois, 5-1 would be against outfitters. Maybe even higher.
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RE: What is your view on Outfitters?
I don't have a clue as to hunt elk, moose, antelope or just about anything besides native Wisconsin species. Therefor I would have to have a guide of some kind and an outfitter would mostlikely be my only option.
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RE: What is your view on Outfitters?
I have hunted with outfitters twice many years ago and unfortunately both experiences were not favorable.It is possible I will hunt with an outfitter again in the future but pretty unlikely.I prefer to do it myself on out of state hunts.
I believe it is especially difficult to find relatively reasonably priced guided hunts that are actually good ones.I do think you can find good hunts on the high end of the price spectrum,but I can do it myself for 25% of those kind of expenses. The one thing that a lot of hunters forget,myself included in the past is that there is good and bad in all walks of life including us hunters,we feel especially violated when a member of the hunting "community" deceives us. These outfitters need to make a living regardless of winter kill or other conditions that influence the hunting in their area. In general I would say that I don't like the proliferation of outfitters but I don't know what can be done to reverse the trend. |
RE: What is your view on Outfitters?
ORIGINAL: tsoc I have hunted with outfitters twice many years ago and unfortunately both experiences were not favorable.It is possible I will hunt with an outfitter again in the future but pretty unlikely.I prefer to do it myself on out of state hunts. I believe it is especially difficult to find relatively reasonably priced guided hunts that are actually good ones.I do think you can find good hunts on the high end of the price spectrum,but I can do it myself for 25% of those kind of expenses. The one thing that a lot of hunters forget,myself included in the past is that there is good and bad in all walks of life including us hunters,we feel especially violated when a member of the hunting "community" deceives us. These outfitters need to make a living regardless of winter kill or other conditions that influence the hunting in their area. In general I would say that I don't like the proliferation of outfitters but I don't know what can be done to reverse the trend. |
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