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Old 11-18-2009 | 08:52 AM
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Tipping is a very hard thing to figure out as I am in a business that it is a common thing. First off you would not tip the outfitter as he is the one charging the fees for your hunt. The guides and the cook are working for whatever has been agreed upon. It is a common practice to tip your cook and your guide. How much is totally up to you but I would make it according to how good of a time you had with this guide or did the cook supply good eating and enough of it. For instance when I worked in Alaska I made 50.00 a day extra 20.00 if more than 3 people where the lodge was paid 175.00 per person. So the house got 525.00 while I made 70. Let me tell you tips were very much appriecated. It's really up to you but it's really better not to tip than not to tip enough. There is nothing worse than having a guy say here this is for you take your kids to dinner looking down and seeing 10.00. I guess my answer to how much is if you had a really good service from this person make it enough where he can do something with it. (Take a couple buddys to dinner, buy a box bullets, maybe get a new shirt). If you ever do go back to this place and that guide or cook is still there I promise you he will remember you and will continue to go out of his way to help you.
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