What is expected of guide & should I input?
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RE: What is expected of guide & should I input?
ORIGINAL: royaltine
You can second guess this guides decison all day long. There are probably 100 ways to approach this bull and 99 of them would not have worked. The wind should always be first priority.
You can second guess this guides decison all day long. There are probably 100 ways to approach this bull and 99 of them would not have worked. The wind should always be first priority.
This is the type of information I was after, whether or not it is ok to give some input in a situation without offending the guide on my next hunt. I would like to hunt elk on my own, so that all mistakes are my own, if I could figure out the logistics; scouting, permit hurdles, game retrieval and so forth, on a very limited amount of time. Thanks for the responses!
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RE: What is expected of guide & should I input?
I think you've got the information you need. If it were me, in the future I would start the whole trip by talking to my guide and telling him that if I see something amiss or don't like the way something is going I'm going to speak up, but that I'm open to being coached and being corrected for not understanding something. Tell the guy you respect his knowledge, but that you may have different ideas from time to time and he shouldn't take it as an offence. In similar dealings in life I try to be very apologetic and say I may be mistaken but I'm still going to speak out if something doesn't look right to me.
The guy who is a guide who responded is probably right, there may have been special extenuating circumstances that led the guide to bugle even when the wind was wrong (a possible explanation occurs to me, maybe he knew there was another hunting party in the direction of the bugling bull and felt if he didn't take his chances calling the bull would be overtaken by this other party -- just a wild speculation. Sometimes there is more involved than what we see in front of our noses -- the wind isn't right -- is my only suggestion).
The guy who is a guide who responded is probably right, there may have been special extenuating circumstances that led the guide to bugle even when the wind was wrong (a possible explanation occurs to me, maybe he knew there was another hunting party in the direction of the bugling bull and felt if he didn't take his chances calling the bull would be overtaken by this other party -- just a wild speculation. Sometimes there is more involved than what we see in front of our noses -- the wind isn't right -- is my only suggestion).
#15
RE: What is expected of guide & should I input?
ORIGINAL: Garminator
Hunter, by chance did you ask him why he made those decisions???
Hunter, by chance did you ask him why he made those decisions???
#16
RE: What is expected of guide & should I input?
Your guide should be a professional, which means that "the customer is always right" should apply. If I were a guide I would try to explain my strategy quickly, take your point into consideration, give you the choice of what to do after adding my opinion, and then we would follow the course of action that YOU chose. I would make sure to give you the standard disclaimer, "This isn't the way that I would do it, so if you get skunked don't say I didn't warn you!". That is how I would handle it.
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