Business ProfileforWestern Outdoor Adventures, LLC

$1,372.50 in fines from Colorado Parks and Wildlife, two misdemeanors and 15 points on my hunting license . . . My experience during 2021 3rd rifle season with this outfitter was an absolute nightmare. Jeff M******* lacks integrity and is completely ok bending the rules. I contracted Jeff M******* to acquire my cow elk tag with zero points as guaranteed on his website. On January of 2021 I provided my credit card information to him and was told my application was complete. Once my group arrived I was told by Jeff that all my licenses were in order, and I was good to follow my guide up the mountain to harvest a cow elk. I’m from ** and completely unaware of how Colorado hunting works and that is why I paid thousands of dollars and entrusted an outfitter to acquire a tag and was told everything was taken care of. Upon arrival we learned that we will be hunting on public land, and nothing about this hunt was on private land. So, in front of my guide I sign my small game license and my guide reviews it and shows me where to sign. Day 3 on my 5 day hunt I took a cow elk and quartered it and began trekking up the mountain with my guide and 2 other hunters. My guide then realizes that Jeff provided me with only a small game license and didn’t have a tag to validate the animal. So the guide calls Jeff on the mountain who began scrambling to find a land owner tag that he was going to attempt to use for a cow that I harvested on public land — which is illegal and unethical. With no luck that’s when Jeff told me that I wasn’t awarded a tag. At this point our group agreed that we should contact Colorado parks and wildlife and we’re uncomfortable removing the animal until directed by the appropriate authorities. His website states guaranteed tag allocation with zero points and I’m assuming this is how he does it. The guide was directed by Jeff to bring the animal down the mountain without a tag in order to make this problem disappear.