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In reading the registered guide-outfitter license in statute (AS 08.54.610) there does appear to be two violations - one is certain. Section a7 depends on interpretation (provided this encompasses the ability to judge animals one is hunting which I would think it would) but e1 is undebatable (was not present in the field).
I'm of the opinion that people don't go out of their way to do a bad job, but that doesn't mean that people don't do bad jobs. I've been on six guided hunts, not all successful but this is the first where I felt the guides/outfitter did not do their jobs (I would go so far as to say unethical). If you were a guide for an outfitter would you set your tent up in the middle of an area that another guide with the same outfitter was hunting? You don't even need to be a guide for the same outfitter to know that this is wrong and unethical - its like knowingly putting a bait site next to someone else's site or putting your tree stand 50 feet from another tree stand with a hunter sitting in the tree.
It will be real interesting to see the episode to appear on the Pursuit Channel - I'll be sure to follow up with a reference to day one of my hunt so those that question the experience can see and decide for themselves the ethics of the activity.
John Lewis said it best when he said, “When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.” At this time I'm trying to decide what are the options and it doesn't look like there are many to choose from and none of them sound satisfying. However, I keep hearing - you have to do something.
I'm of the opinion that people don't go out of their way to do a bad job, but that doesn't mean that people don't do bad jobs. I've been on six guided hunts, not all successful but this is the first where I felt the guides/outfitter did not do their jobs (I would go so far as to say unethical). If you were a guide for an outfitter would you set your tent up in the middle of an area that another guide with the same outfitter was hunting? You don't even need to be a guide for the same outfitter to know that this is wrong and unethical - its like knowingly putting a bait site next to someone else's site or putting your tree stand 50 feet from another tree stand with a hunter sitting in the tree.
It will be real interesting to see the episode to appear on the Pursuit Channel - I'll be sure to follow up with a reference to day one of my hunt so those that question the experience can see and decide for themselves the ethics of the activity.
John Lewis said it best when he said, “When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.” At this time I'm trying to decide what are the options and it doesn't look like there are many to choose from and none of them sound satisfying. However, I keep hearing - you have to do something.