becoming a guide
#21
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Montana
Posts: 586
RE: becoming a guide
Ouch! That one stung a little.
I thought my guide liked guiding me last season. Maybe they get good at acting that way. Kinda like what a prostitute has to learn to do.
Take a guys money and then berate him for deciding to hire a guide. Wonder if he was just laughing as I drove away. Do they laugh even harder at a big tipper?
I thought my guide liked guiding me last season. Maybe they get good at acting that way. Kinda like what a prostitute has to learn to do.
Take a guys money and then berate him for deciding to hire a guide. Wonder if he was just laughing as I drove away. Do they laugh even harder at a big tipper?
#22
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Beautiful Western Montana
Posts: 2,308
RE: becoming a guide
don't know where your buddy worked, maybe he sucked as a guide.. but my guys will make 5k in a month..
#24
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location:
Posts: 241
RE: becoming a guide
To give the kid an answer, do it. Hard work will never hurt you. It may keep you in shape for a long life. Also, there will be a ton of people tell ing you there opinion on what to do and not to do. Have no regrets try it young when you haven't the responsiblities. If nothing else chalk it up to an experience. A dollar bill is not happiness. It would be the same as going in the service low pay, but you have what you truely need to live, not all the stuff you get and have to work really hard to keep. Just remember you are getting advice from somebody sitting in a comfortable swivel chair sitting on there back side. It dark where I am. From dawn to dusk and sometimes later I keep moving, doing my thing. Live everyday as if it's your last!!!! HAVE NO REGRETS!!!!
#25
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Beautiful Western Montana
Posts: 2,308
RE: becoming a guide
Well here we go again, one can hardly post on this forum anymore w/o it turning into controversy or a pissing contest. The advice that I gave the kid was to research what it means to be a guide, in fact, I posted that I wasn't trying to discourage him, just pushing him to thoroughly research it. It does neither the prospective guide, or perspective outfitter any good to have hopefuls show up without knowing what it means to be a guide. Wild Work you sound as though everybody sits on their butt, while you are braving the wilds. Great, but that doesn't mean its true, nor does it mean that others advice shouldn't be listened to. I cannot see how it hurts to reasearch any position one is considering.
#26
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location:
Posts: 4
RE: becoming a guide
"$800-$1000 a month", I would be embarrassed to pay one of my guides that wage. Now this is in Canada but a standard range is $100-$200 per day, maybe the market is somewhat different than it is in the states. Most guides up here do it part time and for the most part for their own personal enjoyment.
#27
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Beautiful Western Montana
Posts: 2,308
RE: becoming a guide
$800-$1000 a month", I would be embarrassed to pay one of my guides that wage. Now this is in Canada but a standard range is $100-$200 per day, maybe the market is somewhat different than it is in the states. Most guides up here do it part time and for the most part for their own personal enjoyment.
#28
Spike
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Posts: 51
RE: becoming a guide
I would not pay a rookie $200 a day, but a second year guy I would.
If they own a quad, they are paid another $250 a week on top.
There is deff. a difference, between outfitters, some pay less, none will pay less than $100 a day no matter what you know. I pay good, because I want good guides. Try and get a good guide for $100 a day.. not going to happen.
Better the guide = better the experience for the hunter = succesful business....
If they own a quad, they are paid another $250 a week on top.
There is deff. a difference, between outfitters, some pay less, none will pay less than $100 a day no matter what you know. I pay good, because I want good guides. Try and get a good guide for $100 a day.. not going to happen.
Better the guide = better the experience for the hunter = succesful business....
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