What do you think???

[300MAGNUM]

I see this Spokane hunt on e-bay.  I talk to the guy, call his references.  Everything seems great over the phone, so I buy the hunt.

First:
He tells me that he leased 3000 acres north of Spokane.
He tells me that he only does a handful of hunts a year.
He tells me that he is going to send me a bunch of trail camera pictures.


Then:
He tells me that he doesn't have any pictures of bucks because it is to warm and they are nocturnal.

I tell him that I have a broken leg and I am on a knee scooter.

He tells me that it's ok because he is going to drop me off at the blind.

He tells me that he has stopped baiting 3 weeks before I get there so as not to spook the deer.  I offer to pay for the corn if he will just continue to bait.  He agrees.

He sends me 2 pictures of bucks taken with his cell phone off of his computer moniter.

I get there, then:
I go to Walmart and purchase 2 bags of shelled corn for bait.

He tells me that he has changed the plans and we are going to stop at the road and cut through the woods a hundred yards.  Ended up being about a half a mile through brush, over fallen branches, and over a fence.  He didn't have a flash light so he borrows mine.

He tells me that no sense hunting after 8:30 because all of the deer have bedded down until dusk.  We saw 3 does.

I ask him to put out the bait at the original hunting spot and he does.

He tells me that he is going to pick me up at 12:30 to start hunting by 1. He is late.  We get there after 2pm.

There are 5 guys 200 yards from my blind, and they are going to do a deer drive right now.

At dusk I see a buck, I shoot, I have maybe a 100 inch 8 point.  He guts the deer leaves the heart, lung, genitals, bladder, and a handful of feces in it.

He marks my tag for me by notching out the 7 and 11.  I point out to him that the month is on the bottom of the tag, and only the 7 and Nov. should be notched out.

I agree to meet him in the morning to skin and quarter my deer so I can take it back to Renton.  I get there and he has cut the cape in front of the shoulder on one side, and has made 5 cuts, inches deep into the hind quarters.  I am shocked and pissed.  He tells me that he has never skinned a deer before.

I take over broken leg and all, skin, quarter, and de-bone the deer myself.

He doesn't have 1 mount in his whole house???

I don't think he ever shot a deer in his life.

What do you think???

[PaleRider]

Wow what a lame guide. People who make excuses and can't keep their word piss me off.

Can you link to the auction or the seller's current auctions so the rest of us are aware of him?

[Broken Arrow]

I think if this is real you got taken.....and I would make it know the guy is a fruad.

[remington300mag]

I cant stop laughing! Sounds like an awesome hunt! LOL

[Ridgerunner]

Where's the pic of the buck?  Major bummer, sounds like you got taken, at least you shot a buck though.  Name the outfit so we are all aware of the joker.

[robodad]

How does that saying go, "Fool me once and you'll never fool anybody else" !!

[spur_ride]

wow. thats pretty bad for a guide service. i hope you didnt have to pay too much for that.

[Pathfinder101]

Let's see some pics of the buck...
Good thing you weren't holding out for a monster...
Sounds like this guy took the online ebay/hunting guide course

[300MAGNUM]

He didn't  have a name for his guide service.  His initials are S.S. from Spokane.  He is a Fireman/Paramedic/Plastic Surgeons Assistant.

I have had 4 people guess tell me his name since posting this.

[SpokaneSlayer]

Nice buck.  BTW - SS is not me. 

[NWBREW]

WOW....I don't even know what to say. Is he a licensed guide. I would name him so others on here won't have to go through that.

[300MAGNUM]

I don't know what the legal ramifications are, so I won't name him.  I have given enough information here to identify him. 

No he isn't licensed.  He said that it wasn't a requirement.

If I had know how inept he was, I could have just told him what to do, or did it myself.  I went into this trusting he knew what he was doing.

Live and learn.

[NWBREW]

 

Live and learn.

I geuss that says it best.

[MichaelJ]

I'm pretty sure you have to have a business license to sell guiding services in WA, so he is in the wrong.  I'm pretty sure by naming him you aren't doing anything illegal.  Just like saying you had a back experience with a certain fastfood chain or something a long those lines.  Too bad.

Michael

[dbllunger]

No license requirement in WA to be a hunting guide.  Anyone can do it.  Sounds like you paid someone to guide you to a deer, and you shot a deer where he put you.  In a way we completed his end of the bargain.  That being said he sounds like a serious loser who took advantage of you. You should post his name up if you feel it will protect another hunter from paying for these services.  There is nothing that he can do about that, and if he does not want bad press then provide a quality hunt.  Also please post up what you paid for the hunt.