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This is sound advice, and likely true in any Northern Canadian town, good luck with your hunting.

I grew up 1 hour north of North Battleford. M70Guy is exactly right.

SS

Otter I saw them at the show as well and spoke with them regarding their hunts. Their pricing was reasonable but you need to take into consideration the fact that you will be paying additionally for your food and hotel. They mentioned that the casino would probably be the best place to stay when I spoke to them. They were really pushing to get a deposit. They said that if I gave them a grand deposit at the show they would extend the hunt another 4 days. Something didn't quite sit right with me about those 2 but to each their own YMMV. One thing that bothered me was that they seemed a little evasive on some of the questions that I asked and also the fact that the guy who was the outfitter did not bother to attend and instead sent someone else to do the marketing.

Question for Dwayne and Sam and the rest of our friends up north. Do you have an organization up there responsible for monitoring business complaints against companies or outfitters licenses in some regulatory fashion? Thinking maybe something like a bureau of consumer affairs or the like or a governmental agency that is responsible for the oversight of such entities or business licenses in general , does that fall under the the Department of Natural Resources possibly or the entity that someone would buy a hunting license from? I'm just thinking out loud here. If so this may be something we could add to the sticky thread of the forum. Thanks for your help as always and Happy new year to all, I've been out of touch for a while sorry for the belated well wishes.

Dean

In Saskatchewan here is a place to start researching your guide. http://www.soa.ca/

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