What’s it take to become an outfitter

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   Well the wife want's to know if we can move to Idaho, buy a couple hundered acres and outfit for folks while she works.  I know some of you have done things like this, are we nuts?
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Spot shooter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Left BSB in Disgrace Banned Joined: 19 June 2003 Location: Bahrain Status: Offline Points: 0	Topic: What’s it take to become an outfitter Posted: 08 August 2003 at 00:55
	Well the wife want's to know if we can move to Idaho, buy a couple hundered acres and outfit for folks while she works. I know some of you have done things like this, are we nuts? Spot

saddlesore Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby Joined: 16 June 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1345	Posted: 08 August 2003 at 06:44
	Yep, you sure are.You have to want to be poor, have folks think they own you after they pay you thier money, have too many hoses/mules, and equipment, and yet no money to go to town. The hours are 24 per day working, first up,last to bed. You eithe have to buy out a license that someone else wants to sell or find a local where there aren't any ( about like finding hen's teeth)to operate in a national forest or wilderness. You have to usually prove that you have the equipment and livestock to supprt the business, know the country you are to be outfitting in, and usaully past a few test on wilderness skills, first aid, etc. Then ther is the libility insurance, that ain't cheap
	Saddlesore If God wanted you to walk and carry things on your back, He would not have invented stirrups and pack saddles

pocketnavy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .375 Holland & Holland Magnum Joined: 12 June 2003 Location: Antarctica Status: Offline Points: 612	Posted: 08 August 2003 at 08:28
	Hey SADDLESORE . . . if the wife and I show up at the rodeo, how do I know which one is you? 2 legs or 4? Ain't enough room in there for a rodeo. I noticed that last year. It REALLY put a damper on the barrel racing.

saddlesore Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby Joined: 16 June 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1345	Posted: 08 August 2003 at 12:58
	I don't go to that rodeo. Too many wannabe cowboy yuppies, and all those buckle bunnies chasing them. They did a real diservice when the county wouldn't work with the PRCA in lettting it stay at Penrose I'm am going to see Baxter Black next Saturday night though. Damn this retirement is hard, I v'e been working straight through here around the house and don't get the weekend off. Semi load of hay is coming tommorrow.
	Saddlesore If God wanted you to walk and carry things on your back, He would not have invented stirrups and pack saddles

Muleskinner Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby AKA The Crotchety ol’ Geezer Joined: 13 June 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 5285	Posted: 09 August 2003 at 01:56
	Take it from somebody who floated in thet boat, 'cept my wife didn't want to an' I had to tell her I was doin' it no matter. Saddlesore is dead on. The work is harder than mos' people will ever want to do for more than a couple weeks a year, an' the money don't stretch far as the bills do. Like a farmer, you generly gotta take on extra jobs to make ends meet. Mos' outfitters' bodies start talkin' to 'em at 'bout 50, an' the message ain't a nice one.
	Mule

Spot shooter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Left BSB in Disgrace Banned Joined: 19 June 2003 Location: Bahrain Status: Offline Points: 0	Posted: 11 August 2003 at 00:51
	After I wrote this thread, even before SS responded I'd already thought about some PAMB tellin me he was pissed cause I didn't shot the gun fer him when he missed. I am the LAST guy you want to be an ass too, although in the last couple of years I'm much better at not tellin folks when they're overbearin, dumb arses, I still ain't afraid of much, and probably wouldn't do well with lazy pink arsed clients. (Forget that noise). Still would like to get the mileage in the woods, been thinking of different ways I could do that. Guy's I just need to move, I was a farmer so hard work feels good in a way (strange - you call it). Guess, I'm not that old yet. Spot