Looks like hunters pushing hunting to the Rich and privileged again
Everyone is chasing an unattainable dream of perfection and blaming everyone else for why things aren't working out
Trying to fight this is nearly impossible...your odds of becoming wealthy are better and easier to achieve then your odds of drawing a "cheap" tag....
Good work everyone
Here is the problem, even if I was “wealthy” I wouldn’t want to hunt with an outfitter.
To me it’s like getting an incentive ride in a two seater F-16 and calling yourself a fighter pilot. Sure you saw and felt everything the guy up front did, but you were just along for the ride.
Even if I was blessed enough to live in WY I’d still want to come to Ohio and hunt rutting whitetails, or Alaskan Moose, etc.
Everyone is becoming so selfish, locking down their state hoping to keep things looking just like they did 20 years ago that they are failing to see the big picture. We’ve got existential threats to hunting itself at the border so to speak, and meanwhile we’re fighting our next door neighbors.
Outfitters need to face the fact their industry is facing change it’s going to have to adapt with in order to survive. If you asked me or most guys out east in 2005 what I needed to hunt elk I’d say 5-7k and an outfitter. 2020 me knows better and I’m not alone. They are desperately trying to get that genie back in the bottle, and in the process wrecking a lot of hunting heritage in the process.
The ironic thing is, the only reason a lot of these outfitters have anything, or any semblance of an industry to begin with is because the founders of the American conservation movement were very selfless in creating what we have today.
It’s going to take that same spirit of selflessness among all of us to keep it.