early in

The good Doctor hit the nail on the head! Almost every part of Canada requires that nonresidents be guided or with a host. I might be wrong but I think maybe Ontarioor a part of it, you don't need a guide. Not positive on that. Also, likeDD said Canada is remote and only a fool would be hunting without a guide, to at least give you a basic idea of the land your hunting.
As far as a caned hunt goes, you couldn't call an Alberta bowhunt a caned hunt. My guide dropped me off well before light and I walked a mile, litteraly, down these RR tracks and then I headed in to a nice red willow bog. Thisspot was in the middle of no where and I sat till dark, every day. They don't baby sit you!

bawanajim

Champlain is exactly right , my guide over the years has become one of my best friends his family and mine are great friends.You can read all the stories about how to pick a guide but the best way to tell is the guide that hunts with the same hunters year after year.If a guide is always looking for hunters he is either taking poor hunters or is a poor guide.Word of mouth keeps good guides with good hunters.

hillbillyhunter1

Not neccesarily true. A good guide can definately improve the odds substantially for most people, however, there aresome that are capable and would rather do it themselves, if the law permits,although success (in the way of a trophy) may take longer. May not. Just depends.
So while there are some areas where a guide is neccesary by law, there are plenty of remote areas that one can hunt DIY and depending on the person, can still have a quality hunt.

early in

hillbilly, this is true. But not in most, if not allof Canada!

Irish Yankee

When I placed the guided hunts in cat with other types of hunt,,I ment as in the guide leading you right to the animal.I should of made this clearer..Some people find canned hunts unethical,As for the stands are in place and they know the deer will show up there. But there are some canned hunts where you have to do the work yourself.(scouting)
Hunting over a food plot...Now a cornfield compared to deer munch clover and attractants just for deer are 2 diffrent types of food plots..One is for profit and survival and the other is intentionalto lure deer and wildlife in.
I have seen many guided hunt videos.Most of them I seen was the guide would take you to spot and wallah,The deer showed up there,,or they put a person on stand and drive a woodlot.How can this be any diffrent from the other hunts?? When you look at stats on guided hunts,,97+ % success ratio on a harvest.More than less areyou not just pulling the trigger and the guide did the rest of the work for you? I guess all these hunts can be positive and negative depends how they work.Hunting is not being successful all the time.It's about your own personalwork that you put into hunting to help increase your chances..

Bionicrooster

So if you go on a guided hunt the guide does all the work for you, and if you hunt over a foodplot or cornfeild is intentionally drawing them in... but canned hunting is challenging if you have to "do the work yourself"?

I take it your against the use of scents and calls? As they are made to "intentionalto lure deer and wildlife in. "?

stubblejumper

Most guided hunts have far lower success ratios.A wilderness hunt for elk,or bighornfor example may only average 50% to 70%.On the other hand a guided hunt for caribou will average much higher.

C. Davis

Maybe it is only ethical if you have a really dumb guide.

C. Davis

Lifeguard

How can you call this a WILD hunt?? You are hunting someone's livestock. The person bought the deer, feeds them, cares for them, and then sells you one. Okay so you get to pick which one you want and shoot it, does that make it hunting?? Canned, caged, fenced, it's all the same, and in my opinion, is not true hunting. If the animal is contained in any way shape or form no matter how much land is involved, it's not the same as taking a wild animal. I can get a trophy animal year after year too if I eliminate all it's natural preditors, and control it's diet.

Bob H in NH

At some point a "fenced" hunt becomes fair chase, in my mind. A 10 acre pen, nope, fence in the entire USA, sure. Absurd extrapolation, but the point is there is a line somewhere where the fence becomes a non-issue because the area enclosed is so big.

Where you or I or someone else draws that line is the question.