pre64hunter
Active Member
I know the short answer is it all depends, but how much in what situation?
There's different hunts like a morning goose hunting on the Eastern Shore from a field blind, then there's outfitters and guided hunts for everything from pigeons to elephant.
I want to go on a moose hunt and New Foundland seems the most practical destination. I sold off most of my gun collection after retiring and time is creeping up on me. I'm not a rich guy but I have enough cash in my budget for a hunt.
A moose hunt with a reputable guide runs around $5-6000.
Do you tip 15-20%? This is where it starts to get detailed.
Who do you tip? There's place with a main cabin you hunt from. Some places have spike camps on a lake that you fly into and stay the week.
Some places you drive to, some you drive into the area and they pick you up or fly to and they pick you up from the airport.
So you tip the guide, if its one hunter or two do you split it. The guide might shadow you all day or could drop you off and point you in a direction and wait for a shot or pick you up at dusk.
How about if there's a house keeper and/or cook?
The spike camp pilot, the drive from the airport, the outfitter/owner, the butcher, the helpers. Some guides do it all and that would make it simple.
So 20% would be $1200 and you ride into camp and shoot a moose the first morning near the truck OR you hunt hard all week and have the worst luck ever. Naturally you would vary the amount accordingly.
So do you vary 15-20%, $100-200 a day to the guide, leave $100 for the cook, give $1200 to somebody and let them divvy it up or split it up between who earned it?
Does anybody know how it works?
There's different hunts like a morning goose hunting on the Eastern Shore from a field blind, then there's outfitters and guided hunts for everything from pigeons to elephant.
I want to go on a moose hunt and New Foundland seems the most practical destination. I sold off most of my gun collection after retiring and time is creeping up on me. I'm not a rich guy but I have enough cash in my budget for a hunt.
A moose hunt with a reputable guide runs around $5-6000.
Do you tip 15-20%? This is where it starts to get detailed.
Who do you tip? There's place with a main cabin you hunt from. Some places have spike camps on a lake that you fly into and stay the week.
Some places you drive to, some you drive into the area and they pick you up or fly to and they pick you up from the airport.
So you tip the guide, if its one hunter or two do you split it. The guide might shadow you all day or could drop you off and point you in a direction and wait for a shot or pick you up at dusk.
How about if there's a house keeper and/or cook?
The spike camp pilot, the drive from the airport, the outfitter/owner, the butcher, the helpers. Some guides do it all and that would make it simple.
So 20% would be $1200 and you ride into camp and shoot a moose the first morning near the truck OR you hunt hard all week and have the worst luck ever. Naturally you would vary the amount accordingly.
So do you vary 15-20%, $100-200 a day to the guide, leave $100 for the cook, give $1200 to somebody and let them divvy it up or split it up between who earned it?
Does anybody know how it works?