$250.00 per day to go hunt somewhere with drinks, meals, blinds, feeders going year round, cameras on feeders, guys to take you in our vehicles to a blind and pick you back up, track your game, skin and quarter your animals, and all of this at all hours of the day and night. I don't think this is a bad price I think $250.00 per day is cheap. I look at prices and other peoples pictures, and I try to stay competitive on my pricing.
What I pay on my end: 150.00 per day for a guide, $9.00 per bag of corn, meals and drinks, wear and tear on vehicles and equipment, gas, insurance, $40,000.00 tied up in that lease and lodge each year.
This person makes it seam like we do not care about our hunters or that we don't try and go the extra mile for guys and this is flat out not true. You can look at what several other hunters stated in this thread. You can look around on the internet and I think you will be hard pressed to find something bad written about us. This is after thousands and thousands of hunters. I think we have a pretty dang good track record with lots of pictures to back that up.
We loaned our night vision equipment to these hunters at no additional cost normally my night vision hunt costs $450.00 per night. We tried to call in some guys to run some dogs (normally $500 per guy per night), but my guy who does this could not come, and I told my guys if they saw any axis they could shoot them at no additional cost. I want my hunters to get animals I want them to get plenty of animals I want them to be happy. But I can not control the weather and I can not make animals come in no matter how bad I want them to, and I can not shoot for my hunters.
If you think me or my guides don't care about our hunters we wouldn't be out all times of the night or tell our hunters if you see an axis shoot it, or loan our hunters thousands of dollars of night vision on the basic hunt package at no charge. We were doing everything in our power to get you guys on pigs. I just want everyone to see there is always 2 sides to a story and whoever reads this can make up their own opinion.
When people back out of a hunt it is a no win situation for me.
I book hunters and take a deposit so people do not back out of a hunt and leave me sitting without work. Does it happen yes it does and it throws a wrench in things especially when the other hunters expect to take that persons deposit. Then the hunters expect the same discount as well even though the number of hunters didn't show that got them the discount. This is a no win situation for me and this is part of the problem we had with this hunt. It does go both ways.
Me and my wife Holly own this business and she was up with y'all every day if you had a problem all you had to do is talk to her. When I don't know there is a problem I have no way of fixing a problem. If you felt we did that bad of a job why didn't you email or call me or talk to her or say something to a guide?