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What is your view on Outfitters?
01-25-2008, 07:26 PM
#11
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NY
Posts: 4,668
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.
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.
01-25-2008, 08:36 PM
#12
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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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.
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.
01-25-2008, 09:30 PM
#13
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Junction,Illinois(SE)
Posts: 1,548
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!
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!
01-25-2008, 11:30 PM
#14
Typical Buck
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: East Central Illinois
Posts: 660
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!
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?
01-25-2008, 11:38 PM
#15
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: IL
Posts: 1,269
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?
I know I can't afford $4,000 for a 3 or 4 day hunt. Then what?
01-25-2008, 11:53 PM
#16
Typical Buck
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: East Central Illinois
Posts: 660
RE: What is your view on Outfitters?
ORIGINAL: Bols
Public land....with all of those who had to hunt it from day one and those who can't afford guided hunts who may have hunted private ground before.
ORIGINAL: englum_06
I know I can't afford $4,000 for a 3 or 4 day hunt. Then what?
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?
01-26-2008, 01:35 AM
#17
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Southeast Central Illinois USA
Posts: 6,969
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.
01-26-2008, 08:06 AM
#18
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Central Wisconsin
Posts: 1,196
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.
01-26-2008, 08:22 AM
#19
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 3,102
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.
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.
01-26-2008, 09:21 AM
#20
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 1,282
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.
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.