Easy to remember, $100 per day for your guide and $10 per day for each cook. THE fastest way to be invited back by a reputable (and quickly booked up) outfitter is to take care of his employees. If you are invited back by the owner/outfitter after a hunt, then you "took care of business", if not you did something wrong. The most common way of not getting a "re-invite" is under or non-tipping.

Don't get "cheap" with guys who are gonna put you on the game and take care of you. I hunted with one guide in the Gila in NM and his oldest brother (they were a multi-generational family of guides) was accustomed to tips that spanned in the $10s of thousands per hunt and one repeat customer even threw him the keys to his brand new Z-71 ext cab and took a plane home. Now thats obviously an example thats on the other side or the spectrum, the gentleman who give his truck away kills the BIGGEST bulls year in and year out. Who do you think the guide (who lives there and watches the animals year-round) is gonna take into his most prime areas, someone who he isn't familiar with or thinks might get cheap on him. Or someone who is gonna supplement his annual salary quite handsomely?

Hate to see how expensive things are gettin btw,
RA