Thanks for the reply, turkeyward. A good friend of mine worked his way through college guiding hunts on the King Ranch in South Texas. He guided some big names like Fuzzy Zoeller and Tommy Lee Jones. The amount of work he had to put in was ridiculous. Guides are severely underpaid.

To me, I have a set tip in mind before the hunt. If a guide lives up to expectations, he'll get that tip or maybe more. If he pisses me off or shirks a task, the tip goes down slightly.