Raghorn
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This is a long one, but I would appreciate your opinion on the service I received.
About three years ago, I went with an outfitter in Colorado. It was a standard 2 on 1 guided hunt. I got kind of lucky, in a sense, because the other guy I was paired with had to go home on the second day of a seven day hunt, due to something unfortunate happening at his home.
Anyway, I had a great time and came pretty close to some great animals, but no shots. This was my first trip west, and I was archery hunting. On the second to last hunt day, another guide and my guide decided that the other guide and his two hunters would hunt with us. This wasn't discussed with me at all. That meant two guides and THREE hunters together. Here are my thoughts on this, and I would like your input.
We all paid a good price for a guided hunt, and a chance at harvesting an elk. While it is certainly unrealistic to expect everyone to harvest one, I do think that the guides should try to get us opportunities. There was no way more than one of us, hunting all together, were going to get the chance to shoot at an elk.
The way they worked it, each guide had a territory to work. These guys went in the territory that we had been hunting and they sat us all, about 75 yards apart, by a wallow. Sure enough, a nice bull comes out and comes by one of the other guys before getting to me, and he killed it. My guide then spent the rest of the day helping that guys guide clean and quarter the elk.
Now in my opinion, I think that was BS. Had we not joined, I would have, at the very least, had a clean thirty yard shot at that bull. Plus, even after the guy killed the bull, I was paying to watch my guide clean someone elses elk while I sat there. In my opinion, they were trying to get one killed so that their kill statistics went up for future marketing, rather considering me as an individual.
Anyway, that has been my only experience with an outfitter. Was I given poor service? or is that standard?
Now that I have corporral tunnel syndrome and can no longer type or move my wrists, I would like to hear some of your thoughts.
About three years ago, I went with an outfitter in Colorado. It was a standard 2 on 1 guided hunt. I got kind of lucky, in a sense, because the other guy I was paired with had to go home on the second day of a seven day hunt, due to something unfortunate happening at his home.
Anyway, I had a great time and came pretty close to some great animals, but no shots. This was my first trip west, and I was archery hunting. On the second to last hunt day, another guide and my guide decided that the other guide and his two hunters would hunt with us. This wasn't discussed with me at all. That meant two guides and THREE hunters together. Here are my thoughts on this, and I would like your input.
We all paid a good price for a guided hunt, and a chance at harvesting an elk. While it is certainly unrealistic to expect everyone to harvest one, I do think that the guides should try to get us opportunities. There was no way more than one of us, hunting all together, were going to get the chance to shoot at an elk.
The way they worked it, each guide had a territory to work. These guys went in the territory that we had been hunting and they sat us all, about 75 yards apart, by a wallow. Sure enough, a nice bull comes out and comes by one of the other guys before getting to me, and he killed it. My guide then spent the rest of the day helping that guys guide clean and quarter the elk.
Now in my opinion, I think that was BS. Had we not joined, I would have, at the very least, had a clean thirty yard shot at that bull. Plus, even after the guy killed the bull, I was paying to watch my guide clean someone elses elk while I sat there. In my opinion, they were trying to get one killed so that their kill statistics went up for future marketing, rather considering me as an individual.
Anyway, that has been my only experience with an outfitter. Was I given poor service? or is that standard?
Now that I have corporral tunnel syndrome and can no longer type or move my wrists, I would like to hear some of your thoughts.