Hypothetical question
Hossblur has a mature bull tag on the Fish Lake unit and did some scouting but really did not find what he was hoping for. The two kings of Fish Lake BigJohn and 2lumpy say come with us we will led you right two a 400" bull. 2lumpy will even make his world famous ? biscuits and grave for breakfast before we go out.
Sure enough hossblur goes with Bigjohn and 2lumpy and kills a 400" elk.
Part 2
notdonhunting has a Pahvant mature bull elk tag and did some scouting and had a couple bulls found but he shows up for the first day and can not find a bull. notdonhunting runs into Doyle Moss the second day of the hunt and notdonhunting tells Doyle he can't find a bull so old Moss back says I got my client a bull already and I have nothing better to do so he says meet me at Mom's Cafe at 6am we will have Mom's world famous biscuits and gravy and then go kill a 400" bull and that is exactly what happens.
So is notdonhunting less of a hunter than hossblur because he went with Doyle and hossblur went with a couple of friends?
Sure, in that scenario there's little difference except I doubt lumpy rocks a mullet.
But now let's be honest.
Hossblur spent 20years trying to draw that tag. Finally did. Spent the spring and summer scouting, talking with dwr, making friends with cowboys and herders. Finds a couple real good bulls.
He then heads down a few days before the opener, with his brother and buddy,to find hordes of flatbrimmers in every canyon, but concentrated in one, sitting on one of those bulls because Doyle has a client flying in who bought the tag at a banquet, who has never seen the Fishlake, let alone set foot on it.
Hossblur sets up camp, makes dinner, gets to bed early so he can roll early. All night dudes are up and down the canyon, each sure they will collect the finders fee for a bull the client saw on a zoom call.
Hossblur and his 2 are sitting on top of a canyon as the sun comes up, watching a herd of cows filter up the ridge, with a monster bull trailing them. As he gets ready to shoot, a shot rings out, the bull drops, and throughout the canyon celebration yells erupt as out of the trees comes an army of spotters, sitters, and guides.
Eventually the shooter waddles up to the bull, sits 40 yards back for a glory Pic. He then hands out $100 bills to the small army. Then he and Doyle head down the mtn while the army cuts, and skins the elk, then packs it down to the truck where the client has been drinking coffee and sitting in a chair.
Another glory shot of antlers in the truck bed, and the client is whisked off to the airport so he can fly to Colorado to hunt deer.
Hossblur later gets another bull, where he and his 2 spend 2 days packing it out. They then break camp, head home, and spend another day cutting meat.
During butchering, hossblur sees Doyle's IG where he hashtags 40 companies, talks about all the conservation done with the money, then talks about how the client grinded out a brutal camp to connect on an incredible shot on a fabulous bull.
But sure, I'm sure Doyle is sitting around the Cafe waiting Hopefully for a random dude to want to go hunting