Was $325/hunter the deposit or the full price?

If $325/hunter is the full price, then its my opinion that you messed up for prepaying the entire hunt. I never prepay for any service in full, as you have little leverage should something go wrong. Lesson learned.

If however the $325 was truly a deposit and the remainder was charged to a credit card, you can always dispute the charge with your credit card company for lack of services. The problem you'll likely run into, however, is that the guide offered to make it right by rolling your funds over to next season.

You are likely out of luck

He might be out of luck so far as funds coming back to him. He can always go out there and tell his story. Let the chips fall down wherever they may.

If this story is 100% true, I'd be pretty upset.

Are you kidding me, no story is ever 100% true.

$325 was the deposit per person
The full price was prolly $250 times 5 hunts times 8 people
Daamn, thats a lot of cash...

I bet he took that $10k and invested it into the stock market

i have been guiding myself for 10 yrs in holland and belgium, 1 yr in Oregon and 1 yr only in Texas.

And i would never have put my hunters in that kind of a situation.

I know it sounds dramatic, but it is what it is.

No, he only took $ 325 x 8

He said he had to pay the farmer on our sat mud no hunt morning

Bullcrap! I know better!

I bet he took that $2.6k and invested it into the stock market

$2.6 thousand is not enough to invest in the stock market unles you are 2 months old.

I know of 2 groups this year that were told they would have their own group and own field.......grouped together and neither one happy and will never return. Amazing odds that I knew both groups. One group was told "I don't care what you were told, I make the decisions here".......said it sounded more like a calling contest than a goose hunt, if I remember correctly it was 11 or 13 hunters and killed 23 geese. Funny about the food sucking, they said the exact same thing, I think it was chicken spaghetti or something like that. My buddy called out the guide to walk back behind the layouts and discuss it when he started cussing, my buddy wasn't going to discuss anything......

both groups were firemen so they didn't lose 11 or so future hunters but hundreds, bad news travels very fast in those circles

We're looking forward to having y'all back!

That's the part most people don't understand is that prep work starts in the spring. Hell we are already game planning work and what we'd do different and this season isn't even over yet. We'll start meeting with our landowners in Feb to discuss what they will or won't let us do in the "offseason" to prepare property for next season.

True Story

Last hunt with the Stanfields. we pulled in the evening before our hunt, all excited. We asked "what's for dinner"? He said Hamburger Stew ( which was more like soup). Then the he said " shoulda been here last night, we had ribeyes" really???

in my opinion. there are TOO MANY "guides and outfitters" a bunch of really lousy ones who lease bad land with no game and gladly take hunters money and just say, "sorry, guess they weren't flying, biting, out, today...you shoulda been here last weekend we killed them."
There are also many really GOOD guides who do their homework. Lease great spots. These bad guides give the good ones bad names.

Also you get what you pay for.

and I will admit nothing is 100% guaranteed,

Also, it IS ON the client to do his homework when looking for a guided trip, ask for and call references. If the guide gives no references haul buns!!!

He's on your side on this guide deal

So how can those guys stay in business for 20+ years and suck so bad? Sounds like you guys might have gotten culled. Not all business is good business and the customer can get fired!

Tank turd with a solid point, kinda goes back to the pancake

Yo Beaver is it safe to say you ain't booking with 'stinchfields' anymore? lol I couldn't resist.

Anybody ever notice there always a "front" that moves in a day or few before sept 1st? "boy we were covered up before this rain/front moved them out" How can there be that many local doves hoarding outfitters field across tx? Then poof....they all in Mexico I guess.

I've had a couple of hunts so good I thought it was yesterday

Well said sir. Beaver has hunted all over the country and been on enough guided hunts to know when a outfitter failed to do his part. Im siding with Beaver on this one.

That aint right calling a man a moron. You might disagree with how he is but that doesn't give your the right to treat the man so disrespectfully.

Welcome to the forum.

Right on! Whatever happened to the brotherhood of Waterfowlers?!

It aint my fight but the forum has dropped attendance over the last couple of years. I think it is headed for the same fate as the other forum that crashed exploded melted and burned. It was a core group of people that started off as being funny but they went way too far. They got to the point where others couldn't even join in conversation. Lets face it. The forum sustains itself by advertisement. We are allowed to enjoy the forum for free as long as we follow the guidelines. When sponsors get the red hinder because the core group of people are just nasty to the others. The sponsors inevitably they start making demands for the money they paid. It is real simple, don't be rude to people. If your going to act like a jack arse I would just rather not read it. Send whoever you have a beef with a PM.