I have an outfitting business that I run on my own ranch so I have some experience in the hunting business. Right now the market is saturated with hunt options for about any species and it is very hard to book clients with legitimate hunts because there are so many low dollar, high volume outfitters. This is particularly the case in Nebraska because of our liberal permits. The high fence operations face the same economic issues. To stay in the hunting business you need to keep a decent percentage of repeats or referals because it costs so much to book a client. These canned hunts that everyone keeps referring to occur very infrequently and generally don't last because even the high fence hunters have some threshold of ethics that they don't like to cross. I've had several clients hunt high fence operations and with the exception of a place in Canada they have all been good experiences for the clients however they acknowledged that it was high fence. If you don't like it fine, but I'm calling BS on most accusations of tame deer or whatever because I would be surprised if very many people on here have even been on a high fence operation let alone hunted one. If so, please share your experience and the name of the operation so we can avoid it or possibly shut it down. Of course I'm assuming hogs don't count, right?
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