I agree with what you are saying here Salmonella. They are very skilled people as a collective. And you don't find animals like that very often on dumb luck alone. They have to know what they are doing for sure. It would be nice to see some sort law in place to atleast balance the scale a bit. Great for the guy that can afford to outbid everyone for the tag. But I don't see how it is fair chase or sportsman like to be allowed to hire a small army to do the work. I'll stop now though. Cause this is one of those things that can be ran in to the dirt and all you would be is a little deeper than you were when you started. Single guides are good ethics, resonably sporting and a good way to learn an area and animal tendencies.

As far as moneys being used for good purposes, that is debatable at best. I personally have seen "improvements" made to small areas where I live right now. And to be frank, they were the biggest damn waste of over $250,000 of fishery and hunting invested funds. Every last bit of it was made into observatory property that can not be touched. Cougars run around the area killing peoples dogs, the building that is supposed to be the vistor center can't be used, the restoration of the river is for planted hatchery fish, and the access to it is based on whether or not you care to walk down a hill a mile or attempt the crossing of a major highway that is riddled with multiple vehicular deaths and collisions on nearly a monthly basis. So how are we benefiting as sportsman from that? I have personally talked to the person who is very proudly responsible for it and they have very little answers to any questions and only seem to care about where the funding is going to come from for the next part of the project. Which last time I had the displeasure of hearing from was apparently trying to solve the elk problem in the area. By asking for more money. Yes, I am a skeptic at best.