Tipping your quide

[dilleytech]

When I was guiding, a couple hundred was pretty common.  And if it wasn't quite that much, no big deal.. After a week with these guys, you got a good sense of what they could afford.  Seems like Joe Blue collar always tipped better than the guys who were more affluent. Never could nail down why.  Don't forget your wrangler  and cook. They work hard too.

 Unless the guide was a total bum, no kill shouldn't mean no tip.

     Please, don't give your guide your knife for a tip. It's insulting!

Sorry but the attitude of a knife as a tip is insulting should not be if that’s all they have that’s all they have

The last thing a professional guide wants or needs would be what someone else thinks is a good knife. That’s like me taking someone fishing and they give me one of those red and white round plastic bobbers to use for fishing. G thanks now I have to throw this away or find someone else who wants it.

Terrible attitude for a guide to have
Maybe that red and white bobber is all they have to show their appreciation
If you’re only in it for the tip get out of the guiding business and I know most guides are in it because the love doing it

Big game guides I have talked to all do it for the money. I have a few friends who have guided deer hunts. They got paid like 150$ a day. For guiding people who spend 7k for the hunt. Tips are huge. The guidings generally not fun and really stressful. Most people who pay for guided hunts don’t really know or understand hunting or how to shoot. At least when it comes to a Wyoming deer hunt.

Talking to guides we’ve gone out with they do it because they enjoy doing it and helping people.
The first guided hunt we went on our guide was great his gear not so much he had a spotting scope the eye piece was duct taped on and the tripod head would not lock down.
It was one of the best hunt’s we’ve been on
I gave him my brand new spotter on top of a tip and he said he actually appreciated the spotter more because he wasn’t going to be able to get another before he headed out again.
So I know we can go back and forth about this my attitude and experience and yours are different that’s all

You mean the guide your paying to take you hunting didn’t  tell you they do it strictly to get your money? Shocker lol

[follow maggie]

I agree with 10% being a good starting point. I’ve only done 4 guided trips in my life- 1 fishing in Alaska, 1 fishing out of Westport and 2 pig hunts in California. The fishing trips I didn’t tip the business owner driving the boat because I’ve already paid him a bunch of money. I tipped the deckhands $200 per day. On the pig hunts the guide who spent the days with me was an employee, so I tipped them $250/day. My last hunt I filled both my tags on the first day, I still tipped him the $250 for both days of the planned hunt.