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Poor Guide Service #6130286 01/11/16 04:42 PM
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What would you do?

I had some family come in from Iowa to go pig hunting. They wanted to do a stand hunt as well as hunt with dogs.

I got a guide, who will remain unnamed, to do the stand hunt. They put 6 of us, 2 to a stand, in 3 stands that couldn't have been more than 300-400 yards apart. They told us the feeders for each stand had motion lights and then gave us a viridian green flashlight for our guns.

The stand I got dropped off at supposedly had 50 lbs of corn put out the day before. I walked over to the feeder in the daylight and saw two pig tracks and tons of deer tracks. There was no other pig sign other than that. I know pigs travel, but figured we would have more sign.

Then about 9:30 I texted the guides courier to and from the stands to make sure there was a motion light and he said there should be. Also, when the feeder went off at 4 pm it only spun for about a quarter second. I decided to get out of stand and make sure the feeder had a motion light on it and nothing lit up. I texted the guide that the motion light didn't work and he never responded.

Finally at 11 pm we decided we had enough. We texted to get picked up. When the courier picked us up, I told him about the feeder only spinning a quarter second and that there wasn't a motion light. The other two groups of guys didn't have motion lights like they were supposed to either. The courier just said "huh" and took us back to the lodge where our trucks were.

We gave this guy $900 to basically sit in a stand with very little sign with equipment that was either not present or didn't work properly other than the flash light for our scopes and got a "huh" as the response when we told him about it. These guys drove all the way from Iowa for that to be their stand hunt and I was embarrassed.

Luckily, the next day, a buddy with dogs in Jacksboro got us on the hogs for free.

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$900 to hunt hogs one evening?


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Re: Poor Guide Service [Re: DuckKiller2010] #6130298 01/11/16 04:48 PM
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Yep. $900. They let me know a week before they were coming down and I was scrambling to get something put together for them. There wasn't a whole lot of guides who had openings and this one is one I see on here a lot and is supposedly reputable.

At least the dog hunt worked out with my buddy.

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Buyer beware...that's why it's called Hunting, not shooting.

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$900 for a pig hunt for one night and 6 people is astronomical.

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Did you hunt in Bellavue?

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Re: Poor Guide Service [Re: DuckKiller2010] #6130357 01/11/16 05:24 PM
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Yes. Bellevue

Re: Poor Guide Service [Re: DuckKiller2010] #6130383 01/11/16 05:37 PM
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$900 for a pig hunt for one night and 6 people is astronomical.


Yeah, I only charge $50 a person to not see hogs. roflmao

That sucks that there are people out there that set up hunts like that.

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Re: Poor Guide Service [Re: coolie] #6130415 01/11/16 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted By: coolie
Buyer beware...that's why it's called Hunting, not shooting.



That has nothing to do with it. Not when you get somewhere where they either don't maintain their equipment, or they lie about it. I'd be saying the same if everything had been done right, just no pigs. But $900 is a joke unless they got a nights stay in a first class lodge, and breakfast lunch and dinner by a good chef.

Unless the guide is communicating now, and trying to remedy the situation, I wouldn't have any issue putting his name out there.


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The guide should fix it unless it was all communicated prior to hunt. I can't see why it was 2 to a blind either if each person was paying. There would be a slim to no chance of getting multiple hogs from a single stand in one night.

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Name the scoundrel.


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Sure its called hunting but when you're lied to or equipment isn't supplied as promised then you got screwed.

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Originally Posted By: Cast
Name the scoundrel.


x2, just to give ample reply time from the accused scoundrel

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Surprised you didn't get an offer to come back for free - well, not totally surprised but for that much I would have hoped that would be the case. Sorry to hear about the bad experience. Pretty sure I know exactly who you hunted with.

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I would see if he can offer you a hunt to make up.

Did he offer to discount the price?

You can always give hin a 1099 for his services and at least he would have to pay taxes on that part

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Originally Posted By: talkturkey
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Name the scoundrel.


x2, just to give ample reply time from the accused scoundrel


Yep, name him.

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Post name and send 1099. Promising something will work and then it doesn't requires a refund, discount, free next hunt, or a sincere apology.


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He never promised we would kill pigs and I completely get that. But the [censored] not working or not being present is what really irked me. I'm gonna call them and see what they I've to say.

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Just got off phone with his office manager. She said she would call me back and sounded like she felt bad. Not gonna post any names unless I never hear back because that wouldn't be fair to them.

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One thing I have learned in hunting is that there are some down right dirty rotten scoundrels in all corners of the hunting business and if you let them take advantage of you, they will. I wouldn't pay $900 to shoot a hog anywhere ever in the State of Texas unless they stopped selling bacon at Kroger's or Brookshire's.


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Please name him. You are only hurting the rest of us if you don't. And that will give him the opportunity to tell his side of the story.


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I've run into more scoundrels ( for lack of a better term...that wont be censored) with pig hunts than with any other....constantly on the lookout for a truly good pig hunt.

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I think most of us know who it is.

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Please name him. You are only hurting the rest of us if you don't. And that will give him the opportunity to tell his side of the story.


Not to mention the entertainment factor if all his relatives and friends come on here and promise to kick everyone's butt like that one incident a while back. Man, that was fun.


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