fortheloveofit , yes Im sure if I were a guide I would be a huge fan. I have nothing against guides, I know several, in fact my brother is one. But it does bother me that they get special hunts specifically for them just because they are a guide, yet the regular resident gets shafted. Also, there is a think called ethics and when you can go and see 5 to 10 guides watching one animal, using radios, sat phones, trail cams that send pics to your email, etc.. it puts a bad taste in a guys mouth. The regular local guides that I know, great guys. Nothing against them. I do think however that there are far far too many of them tho and I wish they had to draw to be able to guide in certain units too. Cap it somehow. Take unit 231 for instance, ya have 60 or so land owner tags. Most the ppl with the tags have more money than sense so they hire a guide. That guide may have 6 7 8 subs under him. So now the regular hunter that draws a tag that took 5 to 10 years to draw has to deal with not only the other lucky ones that actually drew a tag, but those 60 others and all the guides running around too sitting on every vantage point in what is a relatively small unit, and get yelled at by the guides if a regular guy wants to sit on the same hill or God forbid hunts the same animal. And yes, if you spend more time in the hills you do hve a better chance, Im all for that and I feel like we do pretty good for ourselves, better than most.