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30 October 2004, 12:31
hugh
Tipping your PH
Ok Folks,

Help me out. I would like your insights into tipping your PH. Obviously, I realize there are many variables in this formula. But what would you tip a PH per day of a successful plains game hunt? What about a successful DG hunt? I have booked a ten day Buff + Plains agme hunt in Tanzania (Masailand). If pleased with such a hunt what would you be tipping the PH?
31 October 2004, 04:06
vapodog
In some of my readings there's accounts of hunters giving their PH their rifle as a tip. I'd have been very happy to have awarded my PH my custom .300 H&H as a "thank you" because it's a far better rifle than he was using and it would have been a gift.....not a "payment"

Sadly the gun laws in so many countries almost prohibit this practice.....the paperwork is staggering and the fees the PH must pay to accect the gift is also unreasonable.

However if you take enough ammo along you can leave the balance of it as a gift and if you have non hunting folks flying with you they too can take the allotted 11 pounds of ammo.

I left my outfitter 50 rounds of .375 H&H ammo with 260 grain Nosler Particians, three boxes of 12 ga shells, and 20 rounds of .300 H&H loaded with 200 grain SAF.

I also awarded my digital camera to my PH sinse he didn't have one and I thought he could help other clients email photos home.

I suspect that I'm far more remembered for the gifts I left than the cash
30 October 2004, 20:15
mbogo375
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Hugh,

The Hunting Report has done a couple of surveys on tipping in the last few years. Results are available from them (your search engine can find their website).

I would say the S&S recommendation is definitely on the way high end, like about double.

jim



I agree!!! That's 4,000 for a 21 day hunt , and if that's expected (and when it is suggested you can be sure it is expected by all involved), it no longer falls under the true sense of tipping. It basically is just a way to "hide" part of the daily rate. I wish this would just be included in the hunt cost up front with no "tipping" allowed and there would be no awkward moment at the end of the hunt.

This is always the part of the hunt that I am apprehensive about from the time that I get into camp until the time that I leave when I am hunting with a new PH. I always wonder if I am tipping what he expects me to, and even on the rare bad hunt I still feel that I must tip since it is part of the expected (and depended on) income for the PH and staff. I certainly don't begrudge the income for all involved, but call it what it is, a wage supplement, not a tip and include it in the hunt price.

Sorry for the rant, but in the last 15 years (and especially the last 5 years) this "suggested tipping" has gotten out of hand and become expected regardless of circumstances, not just appreciated as a token of thanks for a good experience. I will get off the soapbox now .

Jim