A website with online booking for an elk hunting outfitter

For an elk outfitter, the website carries more of the sale than in almost any other guided trip. A hunter spending thousands on a week in your camp — often after a draw result, sometimes years of points — will read every page you have before they ever call. So the site has to do two jobs at once: sell the country (the hunts, the lodge, the stock, the trophy wall, the crew) and book the hunt the way outfitters actually book — a date request you approve, a real deposit to hold the week, the balance in camp, and intake that tells you who's showing up: license and tag status, physical condition, rifle or archery, meat and cape plans.

Instant-booking widgets are wrong for this — you don't let a stranger click-buy a week in September. Marketplaces will list the hunt, but they take a cut — and some (BookYourHunt among them) require price parity, so you can't even reward a returning hunter with a better direct price. What fits is a site of your own with request-then-accept booking: the hunter picks the hunt and dates, you confirm the week works, and only then do they pay the deposit — into your own account, under your terms, with everything about the trip on the confirmation.

That's what Timber & Tackle builds for outfitters — the whole site, free, before you pay anything: cinematic pages from your own photos, each hunt with its own dates, pricing, and deposit percentage, lodging and crew pages, trophy galleries, your reviews, and per-unit pages that target “Unit X elk hunt” searches. Booking runs request-and-accept with deposits to your own Stripe account. Flat $29 a month, zero commission — on a booked elk hunt, a 10–15% marketplace cut would cost more than the year of software.