Recent content by Brad Bortner

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I promise this is my last response to this thread. I won't argue with your points on the client mix. Nobody is seriously arguing outfitters don’t provide value or that their clients are all wealthy. The choice itself is legitimate either way. Some hunters prefer having someone else handle the...

Adam, I don’t want to drag this out, but I keep coming back to the same concern. These regulations put most of the pressure on freelancers, and they don’t actually fix the land‑pressure issue you’ve described. When the number of outfitted hunts is capped, basic supply and demand takes over...

Adam, I appreciate your participation here and the information you’ve shared. My confusion came from the way your earlier comment was phrased. I’m trying to understand why SCPO would want to limit or decrease the number of outfitted hunters. Does that mean fewer clients for outfitters, fewer...

I hear what you’re saying, but I completely disagree that these principles do not apply to Saskatchewan. The McGraw best‑practice principles absolutely apply to what is happening here. This is not about whether the Ministry plans outfitter‑allocated licenses or landowner tags. It is about how...

I’ve followed this thread for a while and mostly stayed out of it, but I guess I’ll finally weigh in. I’ve hunted the prairie provinces since 1995 and worked in migratory game bird management in North America for 45 years. When I first started hunting Alberta and Saskatchewan, things were very...

Love those little buggers.

Dani, you need this vise...

I hadn't heard of HuntQuietly before. Looked them up, like any organization I think 75% of their thoughts are right on, but 25% misguided or I just disagree. Tod, I'd question that misleading graphic. Salary.com reports that the average 503(c) non-profit CEO for large organizations makes...

I used to work with the waterfowl biologist from Indiana who pointed out that they could hunt every day of the year with a 10 duck bag limit and Indiana wouldn't be able to kill as many ducks in a full year as Louisiana or Arkansas could kill in a 40 day duck season. He always said that if you...

I've been monitoring this for weeks, I've been trying to stay out of the fray. I guess i'll offer a couple of points now. Ramsey Russell has a podcast on this topic coming out soon. There also have been a couple of good articles published too. Suffice it to say, there are many factors involved...

Interesting design on the bat house. Is that eastern red cedar? I love the smell and look but that sawdust really makes me react.

That's a beast of a saw.