How to end NR Wyoming wilderness ban?

[CrescentB]

I'm kinda surprised there isn't Wyoming residents posting WTS Friendship for a week threads. If you already had a hunt planned in a wilderness area then you could make a little extra dough. Just tell them you're not packing anything out for them.

Illegal. Most people approach that subject with "they gotta catch me first", but those kind of violations follow with the Lacey Act.

 

[CrescentB]

That sounds like illegal guiding to me.

The historical record stands for itself though. WY doesn't enforce this rule with much vigor at all.

It most certainly was illegal guiding, but a fine as well to the NR hunter. That's looked at as requiring due diligence prior to (1) paying for services, and/or (2) obtaining a resident guide.resident guides are not allowed to be paid, compensated, or given gratuities for accompanying no more that 2 NR hunters per year.

 

[Dos Perros]

It most certainly was illegal guiding, but a fine as well to the NR hunter. That's looked at as requiring due diligence prior to (1) paying for services, and/or (2) obtaining a resident guide.resident guides are not allowed to be paid, compensated, or given gratuities for accompanying no more that 2 NR hunters per year.

Yup. One time in a McDonald's drive through in Wyoming a resident cowboy struck up a conversation with us. It was clear he was offering to take us on an illegally outfitted hunt in a unit for which we did not have tags and he had no license. I would expect harsh enforcement for something like this. In retrospect part of me wonders if this was a sting operation. We still talk about ole Randy from time to time.

 

[ClearCreek]

Yup. One time in a McDonald's drive through in Wyoming a resident cowboy struck up a conversation with us. It was clear he was offering to take us on an illegally outfitted hunt in a unit for which we did not have tags and he had no license. I would expect harsh enforcement for something like this. In retrospect part of me wonders if this was a sting operation. We still talk about ole Randy from time to time.

Probably not a sting operation.

In the town where I live in northcentral WY, I have known two or three people over the years that were just "hunting with good friends" on deer and antelope hunts. Oddly, when asked what their "good friends" last name was they did not know.

One of these "guides" got busted because the hunter (who I thnik was clueless) went to the game warden and complained he was not getting the services he was promised. The other guy (guide) died before he got caught.


ClearCreek