COLORADO OUTFITTING BUSINESS FOR SALE—LAKE CITY OUTFITTERS

Unit 66 elk and deer hunting, trophy big game hunting outfitters in southwest Colorado

$135,000

Hunters riding the Colorado high country with Lake City Outfitters, a business for sale

A quality Colorado outfitting business for sale is hard to find, but Lake City Outfitters is one of the best small outfitting businesses to come on the market in the last several years.

SOUTHWEST COLORADO OUTFITTING BUSINESS FOR SALE

Located southwest of Gunnison, Colorado and just a few miles southwest of the scenic mountain town of Lake City, this outfitting business for sale offers trophy guided elk hunts and mule deer hunts.

UNIT 66 TROPHY MULE DEER HUNTING

Colorado Game Management Unit 66 is world-renowned for trophy mule deer hunting, with the chances of scoring on a record-book mule deer buck among the best of any area in the country. Lake City Outfitters has exclusive outfitting rights to some of the best Bureau of Land Management permits in Unit 66. Bucks taken on this permit commonly score 190-200 B&C and above. The BLM permits are on lower-elevation sage and oak brush terrain, and hunting for late-season bucks in the rut is outstanding.

EXCELLENT WILDERNESS ELK HUNTING

Lake City Outfitters operates in a wilderness study area on Bureau of Land Management permits. Most BLM land in the West is lower elevation pinyon and juniper forests, oak brush, and sagebrush flats. Not Lake City Outfitters! The permit area includes several 14,000-foot peaks. It is sub-alpine and alpine terrain that goes from 8,000 feet to over 14,000 feet. There is dark timber, aspens, and open terrain above timberline. This is a high-elevation permit that can only be accessed by foot or horseback. This is every outfitter’s dream—plenty of bulls scoring up to 340 in a completely wilderness setting.

A GREAT VALUE FOR THE PURCHASE PRICE

Lake City Outfitters has everything it takes to be a successful outfitting business: quality permits in a trophy area; a strong repeat client list; quality equipment, tack, horses, and trailer; excellent marketing materials, including website and trade show booth; contracts and forms; and a good reputation.

Lake City Outfitters has the capability to outfit about 24 hunters a year out of 4 wilderness camps. Gross receipts, at current market rates of $4,500 per hunter for quality guided hunts, could top $108,000 a year. Given a purchase price of $135,000, it shouldn’t take a quality operator very long to recoup his or her investment.

This is a smaller business that is primarily focused on big game hunting. There is the capability to run overnight pack trips during the summer. Historically it has been run for about 60 days from September muzzleloader and archery hunts through the second rifle season. Typically, there’s too much snow to operate during third and fourth rifle season. There is no real estate involved with the business—it is strictly the sale of the business and business assets, accompanied by the operating permit.

As a former Colorado wilderness outfitter and current ranch real estate broker, I can tell you that this is a quality operation. I’ve personally inspected the camp equipment, horses, and trailer. The horses are quality animals and the equipment is in excellent repair. This is an outfitting business that has been run right, and you’ll find it is a good investment.

LISTED BY:

Gary Hubbell

Broker Associate

Needlerock Mountain Realty & Land

344 Highway 92 P.O. Box 190

Crawford, CO 81415

970 921 5588 home

970 988 2122 cell

970 921 5331 office

970 921 4595 office fax

ASSET LIST AND EQUIPMENT LIST, LAKE CITY OUTFITTERS

1995 Barrett stock trailer, 32’ on the floor, 8’3” wide, all aluminum (15 horse capacity), double dually. 10,000-pound axles, new tires, spare tire, great shape.

4- 14x16 wall tents with rain flies, floors, stakes, and side poles

4- cylinder wood burning stoves (excellent quality)

2- Decker pack saddles

4- sawbuck pack saddles

6- sets of pack panniers

6- lash ropes

6- manty tarps

1- potty tent

12- cots

6- lanterns

3- tables

12- chairs

shovel and ax

kitchen supplies (pots, pans, etc.)

4- coolers

1- highline rope

1- packing scale

4- saddle bags

4- scabbards

6- riding saddles

6- bridles with bits and reins

6- halters and lead ropes

12- saddle pads

12- nose bags

2- small cook stoves

5- broke mountain horses

SHOW BOOTH

Wood timber booth

3- director’s chairs

6x6 bull elk mount, scoring 328 B&C

5x6 mule deer mount, 28” wide

table, skirt, etc.

LEGAL FORMS & PAPERWORK

Contracts

Waivers and release forms

Corporate name

Website and lakecityoutfitters.com domain name







IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN BUYING AN OUTFITTING BUSINESS: We'd love to help you buy an outfitting business, and we'll spend the time to patiently answer the questions you may have. However, IF YOU'RE NOT A QUALIFIED BUYER (that means you don't have or can't get the money), KEEP DREAMING and let us know when you do have it! We simply cannot afford to spend hours on the phone or sending emails back and forth to parties that don't have the financial backing to seal the deal. We may ask for verification of your financial qualifications before we begin the process of showing a business to you. Don't be offended--there are dozens of inquiries that we've fielded before you called, and only a few buyers truly had the financing to close a deal. Secondly, if you've never been out West hunting elk or mule deer, and you have dozens of questions about how to live your dream as a hunting guide, get out here and get some experience first and then call us about buying a business. If you are not horse savvy (that means being able to put all the food and gear for a party of 6 or 8 people on a string of pack animals to live for a week in the wilderness), you don't have what it takes to buy a wilderness hunting outfit. Again, get out here and learn it, then talk to us about buying a business. We want to sell quality businesses to qualified buyers.