BIG difference in that Argentina hunt and what the OP hunt appears to be.
I bet the outfitters down south didn't have you pick your fallow deer, pay for it, then guarantee you'd be able to take it................100% guarantee as I recall.
But, if a dude, or gal, wants to spend $20K for a set of antlers they like, maybe I don't care if they shoot it or by it from an antler merchant.
I do have this tendency to believe it shouldn't be called a "hunt" though. Leave that language out and I'm ok................mostly.
You'll get no argument from me on that Geno.....but that is why I specified: "
The deer in the OP sounds to be a totally pathetic canned hunt deal. I won't say the ranch's business model is "wrong", as I just DGAF however not all high fenced hunts are that way".
I was responding to some posters who were indicating that they felt all high fenced hunts are easy and unethical.
I most certainly have never "picked" an animal out, paid for it then got a guarantee to kill it. It just isn't how I roll.
I do know of one BC outfitter who (back when they could hunt griz) had I believe 1 griz on their quota and had game cam pics on his phone of the bear that whoever his client was for that year was going to hunt. I guess there was no guarantee his client could kill that particular bear, but that was how he sold his bear hunts. I was talking to him at a trade show when I was trying to decide on where to go in Canada for a mountain caribou/griz combo hunt. It didn't interest me at all.
