field dressing responsibilities?

[medvedyt]

All good questions to sort out before the hunt.

Personally, I sure wouldn’t pay an outfitter for their company, charm and quick whit and still be required to pack my own caribou because camp was short handed. If it’s ok to require clients to pack a caribou, do they need to take an additional week off work, or bring their nephew as a pack mule, if a moose is down. Should I fly my own in horse for goodness sake? Do 90 year old clients need to suck it up and kill themselves because not enough twenty year olds were available. It must be different in some places that can over book clients for the number of helpers. Lol

if a guide telling you to shoot an animal that is illegal will it be the specy or the location, do you think it will be explainable and acceptable in court? at least in the yukon some paid hunters got fined and horns/skulls/antlers and skins sized because taken at the wrong time and/ or the wrong location ... if you pull the trigger it is comes with responsability and the most funny is im seeing some hunters still recommending some outfits that got convicted in the past ... but that is your money ...

 

[AZ_Hunter_2000]

All good questions to sort out before the hunt.

Personally, I sure wouldn’t pay an outfitter for their company, charm and quick whit and still be required to pack my own caribou because camp was short handed. If it’s ok to require clients to pack a caribou, do they need to take an additional week off work, or bring their nephew as a pack mule, if a moose is down. Should I fly my own in horse for goodness sake? Do 90 year old clients need to suck it up and kill themselves because not enough twenty year olds were available. It must be different in some places that can over book clients for the number of helpers. Lol

Should a hunter have to? No. But the hunter should be prepared to just because things happen.

You and a guide can be in BFE and he twists his ankle during the initial pack out. Weather sucks so no Super Cub coming to give you a replacement guide and/or packer. It is the hunter's choice to step it up to get everything to camp or risk letting another predator take the rack, cape, and/or meat.

Can be a desert bear and it is hot AF. Guide gets heat exhaustion, the hunter hikes to get cell coverage, calls the outfitter, and the outfitter tells you help is 4 hours out to your vehicle and how ever long from there to get to the guide and/or bear. Sucks that the hunter will likely lose the hide and meat due to not wanting to step up.

Best to step it up if required and see what the outfitter can do after the fact rather than throwing a fit in the woods about it not being the hunter's job.

 

[TaperPin]

Should a hunter have to? No. But the hunter should be prepared to just because things happen.

You and a guide can be in BFE and he twists his ankle during the initial pack out. Weather sucks so no Super Cub coming to give you a replacement guide and/or packer. It is the hunter's choice to step it up to get everything to camp or risk letting another predator take the rack, cape, and/or meat.

Can be a desert bear and it is hot AF. Guide gets heat exhaustion, the hunter hikes to get cell coverage, calls the outfitter, and the outfitter tells you help is 4 hours out to your vehicle and how ever long from there to get to the guide and/or bear. Sucks that the hunter will likely lose the hide and meat due to not wanting to step up.

Best to step it up if required and see what the outfitter can do after the fact rather than throwing a fit in the woods about it not being the hunter's job.

Agreed - in emergencies everyone does what they can to make it happen. However, poor planning and understaffing on purpose are a different ball of wax altogether, unless that’s the agreement going in.