Lrac

I’m hunting a elk preserve this year in Utah and could use some advise on tips for guides, cooks, camp help etc. I know a lot of you out there are totally against preserve hunting. You need not respond. I’ve never hunted using an outfitter or guide so I’m unaware of the customary gratuities. In this case the camp permanently located so there’s no hulling of equipment into the woods. This is a 5000-acre ranch, which provides tent cabins for shelter and meals and ranch personnel as guides. When I booked the hunt I explained that I was only interested in a meat hunt and the owner suggested a spike bull. He indicated that $50 for a spike was a reasonable amount. That seems low to me. The hunt price is $1500.

mez

Tip the guide 10% the price of the hunt and the rest of the staff about a third of that amount, depending on what they do.

DreaminBoutElk

Mez hit it right on the head. 10% is the rule of thumb. If this was a open land hunt I' d add that you consider what opportunity your guide provided, not whether or not you killed an animal. The guide can only get you on the animal not kill it for you. Since you are hunting on a reserve, you will generally keep hunting until you get an opportunity, but I suppose the same guidlines apply for tipping there too. In my experience, most outfitters don' t pay there guides so much that they have problems carrying thier wallets around. Guides gotta eat too!!

Good luck on your hunt!!

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gleninAZ

I was so excited on my first guided elk hunt on public land that I gave my guide a new Burris spotting scope and my new Alaska guide tent for my 6x6 bull! He was a great elk hunter and busted both our butts to get the job done. If I would have missed I would still have given him at leat $50 per day. I was one against the preserve hunt but that was 65 acres. You got nothing to apologize for with elk on 5000 acres. They can definitely get away from you. Good hunting.