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<blockquote data-quote="Ronald W Schaefer" data-source="post: 2944635" data-attributes="member: 109378"><p>Troutslayer, I'm a boomer and a very generous tipper (for services in general) respecting the amount of work the guides put in, also at age 68 I'm in pretty good shape--if you need a jogging partner gimme a shout. I hike Colorado 14ers with my son. I worked hard to go from a po' *ss in my youth to having the discretionary income I enjoy today and so I get the 10K hunt is totally an extravagance and a blessing for which I am thankful--so I spread the love. To answer OP question, I usually give $150 per day to the guide for the total number of days I booked the hunt, even if we tag out on the first afternoon because I blocked that guy's time. I do the same thing with other staff and usually go about $40.00/day per person depending on what services are provided. My business partner and I always book a 2X1 guided hunt, we hunt together, and we both tip our guide/staff the same amount each. So, we tip our guide about $750 ea. for a five-day hunt and about $200.00 to the staff each. Last season we collectively tipped our guide $1500.00 and the staff $400.00--the cost of the hunt was *8K each in Northern New Mexico. We were lucky and tagged out in two days, first afternoon hunt and next morning. My hunting buddy (also a fit boomer) is a doctor (flight surgeon) and I am the CEO/President of a US Govt contracting organization that I founded and before that I spent 26 yrs. in the Air Force as a fighter pilot and that's where I met my Doc hunting buddy. Most of the crowd I run with are generous with their time as mentors to younger folk and generous with their fortunes, supporting charities and non-profits, young entrepreneurs launching a start-up...and in pretty good shape. I've seen your "boomers" in camps too, and some young entitled smart *sses too so, I hear ya...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ronald W Schaefer, post: 2944635, member: 109378"] Troutslayer, I'm a boomer and a very generous tipper (for services in general) respecting the amount of work the guides put in, also at age 68 I'm in pretty good shape--if you need a jogging partner gimme a shout. I hike Colorado 14ers with my son. I worked hard to go from a po' *ss in my youth to having the discretionary income I enjoy today and so I get the 10K hunt is totally an extravagance and a blessing for which I am thankful--so I spread the love. To answer OP question, I usually give $150 per day to the guide for the total number of days I booked the hunt, even if we tag out on the first afternoon because I blocked that guy's time. I do the same thing with other staff and usually go about $40.00/day per person depending on what services are provided. My business partner and I always book a 2X1 guided hunt, we hunt together, and we both tip our guide/staff the same amount each. So, we tip our guide about $750 ea. for a five-day hunt and about $200.00 to the staff each. Last season we collectively tipped our guide $1500.00 and the staff $400.00--the cost of the hunt was *8K each in Northern New Mexico. We were lucky and tagged out in two days, first afternoon hunt and next morning. My hunting buddy (also a fit boomer) is a doctor (flight surgeon) and I am the CEO/President of a US Govt contracting organization that I founded and before that I spent 26 yrs. in the Air Force as a fighter pilot and that's where I met my Doc hunting buddy. Most of the crowd I run with are generous with their time as mentors to younger folk and generous with their fortunes, supporting charities and non-profits, young entrepreneurs launching a start-up...and in pretty good shape. I've seen your "boomers" in camps too, and some young entitled smart *sses too so, I hear ya... [/QUOTE]
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