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pressure on guides
Posted by Alasken on Mar 02 2006
Sure there are hunters wanting to buy an animal instead of buying a hunt. I think there have always been that type of people in the hunting world, and they will probably always be around. However in my opinion they are a minority.
During the days when I had my guiding business I spoke to a very few guys who were after a "book animal". If that was their first concern, I simply wouldn't talk to them any more about booking a hunt with me. Since I was a small operator (myself and one assistant guide) I chose to be picky when it came to the hunters I booked. But like I said there were a very few I would tell to go talk to someone else.
I never felt like there was any pressure to do anything besides what I knew what was legal and ethical. Did I lose some income because of that? I suppose so, but I could continue doing what I was doing with a clear conscience.
There are guides who operate both unethically and illegally. But they are a very small part of the guiding industry. They'll keep doing what they're doing as long as they don't get caught for anything illegal, and as long as they keep finding unethical hunters to deal with I guess they'll keep operating. One problem I see is that penalties for illegal guiding practices are generally not severe enough. There have been a few cases here in recent years where I felt the guides license should have been taken away for ever, but in most cases that doesn't happen.
What can be done? Good question. One thing as far as I'm concerned is to hand down stiffer penalties for illegal practices. The good guides I know won't change the way they do things. The bad ones I know won't either, unless they're forced to.
I'm interested to see what other ideas there are to change things.
Ken
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