wildone;
Good evening to you Dean, thanks for the well wishes and please allow me to return them your way for sure.

As my cyber friend Cariboo noted, that's the guys you'd want to start with in Saskatchewan.

In BC it's the Guide Outfitter's Association that would be the place to start.

http://www.goabc.org/

If memory serves it's at the beginning of the sticky thread, but there's admittedly a pile of info to digest there.

Here in BC, if a guide or outfitter wanders off the path legally speaking, the first folks they'll run afoul of is the Conservation Officer service, who enforce wildlife law for the Ministry of Environment.

http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/cos/

While we do have a better business bureau in BC and they might be worth a look too, as far as I'm given to understand they can only give negative feedback or warnings to potential clients.

http://www.bbb.org/mbc

The best advice I can give a visiting hunter now is the same as I gave four years ago Dean, which is to get a list of successful and unsuccessful hunters from the outfitter and phone them ALL.

Write your questions down and ask them - it's your money after all and your time and safety too for that matter.

Hopefully that was useful information for you or other visiting hunters out there. Good luck on your upcoming hunts this year and all the best to you this year too.

Dwayne

The most important stuff in life isn't "stuff"