Anyone hear any scuttle butt about him and his entourage getting stung in Utah for blocking access to public lands? Starting a physical fight. I heard it was videod by a group of private hunters and the Utah Game dept.

Haven't heard anything yet but I'll keep an eye/ear out. I might check with our local regional office to see what's up. If it's true, it would be about time and a long time coming. I know many young men who have had similar issues with Moss' crew. I guess if one wants a successful outfitter that's fine but I wouldn't want the black cloud of suspecion hanging over me and any animal I harvested under Moss' moniker.

Alan

posse hunting ranks right up there with canned hunting,imo

Moss invented and perfected posse hunting, and I agree Ravenr!

Sorry guys, I have to ask the dumb question, who is Doyle Moss? Can you guys bring me up to speed a bit?

I have a bit different view. While I've never hunted with Doyle Moss or his outfit, I have hunted the same area as them, and met Doyle Moss several times.

I had a Monroe archery elk tag last year when Mossback was guiding Denny Austad for the spider bull. Contrary to what a lot of people have to say about Mossback, I found them to be respectful and better people to share the woods with than a lot of the other people who were out on that unit during the 2008 archery season. Doyle even offered to point me in the direction of some nice bulls they'd seen if I wanted any help. Also offered that if we had a bull down and needed help getting him out, to come get them for assistance. Not everyone would make those kind of offers, so I have a bit different view of him than some of you.

The only question I have is, 'have you actually met him and hunted around him before coming up with your opinion of him?'

Personally, I think he's a better person than many give him credit for.

I called Conservation Officers in both the Central (Springville) and Southeastern (Price) regions and neither had heard anything about Moss and company; this year.

Alan

I was simply asking, then I was told it may have possibly involved a Native American Reservation. A deputy sheriff, that was hunting here, from Utah, told me about it.

There are rumors about road blockages, confrontations, dirty tricks etc. about Doyle and his group every year. Nobody I have talked to can say exactly who, or where, these events took place. While I don't doubt that there are underhanded tactics dirty tricks misdirection and confrontation, nobody I have ever talked to can pin point them. There is way too much money involved for it to be completely clean though, Way to much. DW

How much money are we talking?

Dont know for sure about Doyle, all I know is that he guides clients to some wicked trophies every year. I never read or heard any wrong doings (on anyboard, or magazine) by him until I read this post.

One thing I do know is that, successful hunters (and this includes GO) seem to have alot of bad reports about them that never seem to lead to anything other than RUMOUR. Not sure if its jelous people causing this ruckus or what, but its wrong.

I personally know investigators that followed an outfitter around up here for 2 1/2 seasons. There were many, many claims about him doing "illegal activities", in the time they followed him, they did not find, see or report ONE SINGLE infraction...........weird!