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<blockquote data-quote="Sharecropper" data-source="post: 4172752" data-attributes="member: 12660"><p><strong>Poser, I hear you on the price, however..there are many</strong></p><p></p><p>items you are over looking when you state your example of "cooking eggs and bacon".</p><p>I also include these as extremely important if not vitally important to a successful hunt to those living outside the west.</p><p>1) knowing the area intimately where you and/or your group are going to be hunting, the reason this is so important to me is because of the weather. The areas you are hunting out west are huge, the game is already under hunting pressure and you need to know where their hideouts are, then you throw in the changing weather of the 2nd and 3rd season and the hideouts change according to the weather. Now I live in the Memphis metro area, how can I possibly know within reason of where those elk are going to be? Truth be told, these guides not only have forgotten more than I will ever know about their area of expertise, they are in either up there all year living and work in the area, therefore they can talk to the sheep herders that are grazing sheep all summer in the high elevation and get invaluable info.</p><p>2) They can read the weather, if you hunt out west most likely you will be in a true wilderness area. I grew up in the woods down south and I could care less what weather came in I knew what to do and where to go. In the mountains it is no joking matter, you can die in many different ways. I've worked to dang hard to die now just having fun.LOL</p><p>3) I do not want to have to cut firewood everyday, I don't want to have to cook 3 times a day. I don't want to feed the horses 3 times a day. When I go hunting out west we usually get up at 4:30 and get back 6-7:00 at night, if I had to add those other chores to my body I would be dead by day 3. There is a reason there is such a big staff at camp, it's a lot of work. I forgot about drying clothes every night. </p><p>4) I've had to pack out elk before, I would rather give Obama 4 more years than have to do that again. 5 trips from 11,000ft to 8,000ft carrying 100 lbs in the dark in unfamiliar territory. I swear I saw a cougar behind every rock. LOL</p><p></p><p>I easily admit I use to feel just like you, and did it that way. No more, and I don't feel bad about it one bit. That's a young man with time on his hands method, or a big group that's all on the same page method.</p><p>Not arguing with you, just saying you can see it in more than one angle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sharecropper, post: 4172752, member: 12660"] [b]Poser, I hear you on the price, however..there are many[/b] items you are over looking when you state your example of "cooking eggs and bacon". I also include these as extremely important if not vitally important to a successful hunt to those living outside the west. 1) knowing the area intimately where you and/or your group are going to be hunting, the reason this is so important to me is because of the weather. The areas you are hunting out west are huge, the game is already under hunting pressure and you need to know where their hideouts are, then you throw in the changing weather of the 2nd and 3rd season and the hideouts change according to the weather. Now I live in the Memphis metro area, how can I possibly know within reason of where those elk are going to be? Truth be told, these guides not only have forgotten more than I will ever know about their area of expertise, they are in either up there all year living and work in the area, therefore they can talk to the sheep herders that are grazing sheep all summer in the high elevation and get invaluable info. 2) They can read the weather, if you hunt out west most likely you will be in a true wilderness area. I grew up in the woods down south and I could care less what weather came in I knew what to do and where to go. In the mountains it is no joking matter, you can die in many different ways. I've worked to dang hard to die now just having fun.LOL 3) I do not want to have to cut firewood everyday, I don't want to have to cook 3 times a day. I don't want to feed the horses 3 times a day. When I go hunting out west we usually get up at 4:30 and get back 6-7:00 at night, if I had to add those other chores to my body I would be dead by day 3. There is a reason there is such a big staff at camp, it's a lot of work. I forgot about drying clothes every night. 4) I've had to pack out elk before, I would rather give Obama 4 more years than have to do that again. 5 trips from 11,000ft to 8,000ft carrying 100 lbs in the dark in unfamiliar territory. I swear I saw a cougar behind every rock. LOL I easily admit I use to feel just like you, and did it that way. No more, and I don't feel bad about it one bit. That's a young man with time on his hands method, or a big group that's all on the same page method. Not arguing with you, just saying you can see it in more than one angle. [/QUOTE]
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