Well the gloves come off now.
I am re-opening this post know because of a phone conversation my dad had with our guide last night.
Big Sky you want his name?? it is Ken Baker.
Over the last few weeks we have had a countless number of people come in my families shop and ask us how the hunt went. All of them are apalled when they hear that we didn't see a single animal. All of them also think that there should be some kind of a refund.
In the past I have been hesitant to talk bad on this guide because I really thought he did his all. Since I have been back I am getting more and more upset about this deal.
Dad talked to the guide last night hoping he could get some form of a refund. The guide immediatly told him that since we left 2 days early it was our own fault. Now I know that we would have been ahead to stay the entire time but after 7 and a half days of seeing nothing larger than a raven in one of the most sought after hunting locations on earth we were all more that frustrated.
Dad asked him why he wasn't concerned about the large fire that had occured within a mile of our hunting area only 3-4 weeks before. He said that he thought this would move more animals into our area. Now common sense would tell me that animals wouldn't stay in an area where a large amount of their food source has been recently BBQ with 4 feet of snow only a month or so away.
He told my dad that he did not hunt good because he did not go hunting 2 mornings. Now my dad is 50 years old, doesn't hunt, and just donated this *** 20,000 dollars for a 7 day camping trip. Also, my dad was not that interested in killing a moose himself, primarily he wanted me and my brother in law to kill them and he just wanted to go on a hunt with us before he got to old.
He then told my dad that the week after we left he flew back in to a lake just south of us and killed a large bull himself. Well congratulations!!! The only problem with this is that he told us that the week after we finished hunting he was going to guide some hunters in ALberta, so either he didn't kill the moose or he is not booked a deeply as he makes out to be. AND BY THE WAY why he didn't move us to the southern lakes where there was no fire and probably better hunting.
After we got back dad received a phone call from a guide service in ALberta offering us a moose mule deer combo hunt for 500 dollars cheaper than the Sask hunt. Dad told the guide about or crappy Sask hunt and told him we hunted with Ken Baker and he said he never heard of him. Dad told him that he called in the #2 Pope and Young record several years ago. Again he had never heard of him.
So there it is, sorry for ****ing and moaning so much but I just really thought this guy would apologize or something for this crap but instead he chose to blame us instead. So there's my rant, take it for what its worth .
Take it easy
Steve
