Who needs to apply for an outfitter permit?
An outfitter is a person who both receives compensation (i.e., money, services, or gifts) from hunters and provides outfitting services to hunters. Outfitting services include providing guides, guide services*, equipment, stands, blinds, or transportation to and from the field for hunters. (“Guide services” is defined as providing any of the following: advice to hunters while hunting about how and/or where to hunt; setting decoys; calling, stalking, pursuing, tracking, field dressing; caring for meat; field preparation of trophies; carriage of hunters, hunter equipment, and/or animals harvested by the hunter.) Leasing or renting land for the purpose of providing hunting opportunity to others or subleasing such land for deer and wild turkey hunting requires you to obtain an Outfitter Permit. Does a landowner who leases his/her property to a hunter or group of hunters need to obtain an Outfitter Permit? No, as long as he/she does not provide outfitting services to hunters. Providing a pl
