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<blockquote data-quote="TexasPride" data-source="post: 2944245" data-attributes="member: 126165"><p>Myself and four friends went on our first "guided" elk hunt ((5 days) in Idaho this year. We paid $4500 a piece for a pack in drop camp with one guide for the five of us. This is an unusual arrangement I know. The guide sent with us was a 22 yo kid who was being paid $150 a day. He was a wrangler, who the outfitter decided should guide us (his first time as a guide). We all had bull elk, buck deer, wolf and bear tags. I personally saw five mule deer (does). That was it. That's all we saw the whole trip. We covered about 20 square miles in five days of hiking. We brought and cooked our own food. We cut and split firewood. </p><p>The guide, poor kid, worked hard, but had no idea why there weren't any animals in the area. We tipped him $1000 total anyway. Would have been double that if we'd had a few opportunities to shoot something. </p><p>Personally, I feel like the outfitter didn't do his job, and let us all down, including the "guide".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TexasPride, post: 2944245, member: 126165"] Myself and four friends went on our first “guided” elk hunt ((5 days) in Idaho this year. We paid $4500 a piece for a pack in drop camp with one guide for the five of us. This is an unusual arrangement I know. The guide sent with us was a 22 yo kid who was being paid $150 a day. He was a wrangler, who the outfitter decided should guide us (his first time as a guide). We all had bull elk, buck deer, wolf and bear tags. I personally saw five mule deer (does). That was it. That’s all we saw the whole trip. We covered about 20 square miles in five days of hiking. We brought and cooked our own food. We cut and split firewood. The guide, poor kid, worked hard, but had no idea why there weren’t any animals in the area. We tipped him $1000 total anyway. Would have been double that if we’d had a few opportunities to shoot something. Personally, I feel like the outfitter didn’t do his job, and let us all down, including the “guide”. [/QUOTE]
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