Originally Posted by
OntElk
I would suggest your focus is all wrong. Bigger turkeys???? what does that have to do with what turkey hunting is about. A 16lb gobbler with 1.5 inch hooks is more impressive to me than a 27lb 2 yr old but really even spurs aren't the issue either.
If you're going to "sell" your services (you said guided) then what you're selling is an experience. The value is not the weight of the birds for goodness sake.
I had a buddy book a "guide" in a new state he was hunting. That meant he was walked to a ground blind and told to sit there until a turkey walked by. BRUTAL! Even if some 30 lb, 2 inch spurred, 12 inch bearded monster walked in he would of been very dissapointed with the hunt.
Figure out what value you really have to offer before taking people's money.
Think I see what you are trying to say. I remember going on a goose hunting trip in Maryland. The guide didnt even set out decoys just broke the ice on a nearby pond so they would have fresh water. He literally told us to wait for the birds to land then everyone pop up from the ground blind at once and mow them down. I looked up cause I could feel the wind off their wings and there had to have been at least 5,000 of them.
10 of us popped up out of the trench and emptied our guns, then we repeated it 3 more times. Freezer full of geese but it just didnt seem fair. I mean what fun is it when you have a bunch of people just blowing away birds at point blank range just standing there.