375H&H
Well-known member
The blowback on the deer location service was the person at the time was not licensed for commercial activity to provide services for compensation in that state and was not obtaining permits required to conduct commercial activity on Federal land. Get the paperwork in order, pay your taxes and I have no heartburn over bounty scouters anymore than do for guides or outfitters or application services or unit recaps or maps with prior year harvests or trespass fees or equipment rental companies or trail cams or ATVs. All those things make it more likely to obtain a tag or once a tag is in hand to have a successful outcome of the hunter's goal. Some of us like the added challenge of one hunter solo entering into the wilderness carrying camp on our back. Other hunters would not hunt if that was their only option. I am not sure how fair chase is impacted by this. I am not sure how tag allocation equity is impacted. I am not sure how the NA game management model is impacted.
Different strokes for different folks.
The problem with this is the non hunting crowd will view it in a negative light. And when hunting is viewed negatively by non hunters who can and will decide what and when the hunting public can do, then we all lose and the North American big game model is affected severely. It's not good for the image of hunting and could affect tag allocation if rut hunts are shut down due to this or any number of potential outcomes that could chip away at the edges of hunting opportunities.