Is it normal to pay for non-refundable deposit.List of references and call them. Outfitters are trying to put food on table and are business men. They’ve probably talked to hundreds of potential clients and know nerve to hit. Call the references provided and ask them your most important questions.
Also, if someone is selling a 4500-5000 otc elk hunt and claim they regularly shoot 320+ Class elk, be skeptical. If any outfitter is legitimately only harvesting big bulls, odds are they will be charging 10k at a minimum…
Is it normal to pay for non-refundable deposit.
If the guide DIDNT have that rule I would be skeptical.Ask about the “wounding policy “. Some guides have rules on this kind of thing.
I hunted with one guide who had a “48 hour rule “. If you hit an animal and it wasn’t immediately recovered, you had to spend the next 48 hours chasing that animal and only that animal. I respect that… until the animal goes over to an area we didn’t have permission to hunt.
I have a hunt booked with a guide with a “you draw blood and you’re done rule “. It can be the first hour of the first day. Doesn’t matter. If I draw blood, and we can’t find it, my hunt is over. Again, I respect it, but it seems unreasonable to me.
Whatever the policy is, better to know up front instead of after it might happen.
If the guide DIDNT have that rule I would be skeptical.