Moose Shed Hunting Tips – Moose Hunting Outfitters
Moose Shed Hunting Tips - Moose Hunting Outfitters
Elk Hunting Outfitters – How To Find An Accredited Outfitter
Elk Hunting Outfitters - How To Find An Accredited Outfitter
For many elk hunters, finding a reputable elk hunting outfitter is his number one challenge, and his best investment. For those dreaming of bagging big game in big states like Wyoming, Montana, or others, enlisting the help of a guide service will become essential. A hunter's elk hunting experience can be a great success with the help of one of these experienced outfitters.
Are hunting outfitters making hunting a sport for the rich?
Question by IlliniDK: Are hunting outfitters making hunting a sport for the rich?
Where I live here in Eastern Illinois I just don't see a need for it. About 20 years ago when I started hunting myself it was no big deal to get permission on private property which was basically the only way one could hunt unless you owned your own land.
I moved away for a few years and now suddenly there are like 8 or 9 outfitters here in my county. The problem I have with this is that these so-called outfitters try and lease up all the land they possibly can. This has made a huge impact around here with hunting because so many people have quit hunting because they have no where to hunt now and can't afford to pay for an outfitter because they're marketing to the wealthy which is a total crock anyway because these guys usually don't know crap about hunting so they go to outfitters who know exactly when and where a buck will come in. Good for them(outfitters) in knowing that, but that is not HUNTING.
Hunting has become a game of target practice for these damn outfitters and their clients, and that is not hunting. Hunting should always be fair chase, and available to the tax payers of the state. If the state of Illinois is going to be giving out outfitters licenses, then they need to do something for the people who have grown up with hunting as a tradition and way of life. Make more public land available or restrict how much land the outfitters can lease up, because that is the biggest problem I see. Shoot just last year I lost permission on some land that I've hunted for almost 17 years because some jerk came and offered him a lease to use for outfitting. This makes me sick because that is where I killed my first deer, my sister killed her first deer and I had hopes of my kids taking their first deer there. What the owner didn't know is that he was signing away his say-so on who can hunt there including himself, and that happens all the time. These outfitters come up with this fine detailed print that would take hours to read and then just tell the landowner something completely different to get them to sign on the dotted line. It's rediculous and around here with as many natives to the area that enjoy hunting like I do outfitting is just not needed.