ORIGINAL: triggerhappy
turkeyward,
I appreciate your comments on tipping and doing what you feel comfortable with. But tell me, what does the guide expect? I am sure every guide is a little different but there has to be a threshold you hear around camp away from clients. Do you ever hear anything like "I busted my butt and got him a big bull, packed it out and he gives me a sorry --%"??
I have always been curious as to what goes on behind the scene, what drives guides crazy about clients etc. I have never done a guided hunt, I have been lucky enough to be able to bust my own butt on DIY hunts and be successful. But, when I have just finished debonning an elk and am loaded to the gills I often think how nice a guided hunt would be.
Give us a little insiders look.
I've only been on two guided hunts, but from what I can tell from chatting with the guides (lots of time while elk hunting), the 2 things that drive a guide completely nuts:
1) The hunter who "knows" better than the guide and doesn't listen, which often causes a missed chance.
2) Miss-representing your abilities. where I've gone, and going again this fall, each hunter gets a questionaire to fill in, things from right/left handed (its an archery hunt), comfortable shooting distance, physical condition for hiking etc. Based on this you may get put in certain wallow setups/stands/blinds and may get assigned to certain guides (some guides LOVE hiking the steep stuff etc). By miss-representing things you setup a situation which will not go smoothly.