DD:

My opinion is you don't tip in the circumstance you are talking about. To repeat -- you have paid for a high dollar outfitted hunt and the guide's role comes down to driving you to the blind, picking you up from the blind, skinning your kill, and caping your trophy. This is not the case of the guide who is working 19 hours per day 7 days per week (hard to believe anyone can work 19 hours per day 7 days per week for the duration of a hunting season). Now the guide might be working . . . but he isn't working for the hunter during the day. In this circumstance the outfitter needs to pay the "guide" enough to make it worth his while to do the work -- whatever it is.

If the hunt involved the guide spending daylight hunting hours with me and perhaps one other hunter scambling around the mountains to find a good animal, that is another story. In that case I might well be inclined to tip.