ZR that graduated stuff doesn't fly!! had a guy say it was a bunch of BS yesterday, felt bad, really wanted to take him after a bull. I wasn't in the mood to explain why we operate this way, im pretty sure he will read this so i hope he understands.
We operate on a flat guide fee that is more than fair. But this is where i lost him we have a graduated trophy fee that starts at a thousand, and for every ten inches gross past that it goes up a thousand. IE 350=$1000 360=$2000 and so forth up to 5000. We have this because the unit we hunt is not known for truly exceptional bulls, they are there, but few and far between, it is known for very good bulls.
So, we implemented this to protect us as well as the client, our average bull is 350, great bull but its not a $5000 bull. So this keeps it reasonable. Now if we do happen to get into a monster bull 390+, its there to protect us. For some reason this fellow thought that this graduated fee would cause us to not wanna kill the biggest bull possible, i dont understand because if it was about the money, than wouldnt we wanna kill the biggest bull available to us?
Anyway sorry for the hijack but here is my two cents, you have the property and they wanna be on it. So the price should reflect the quality, its just like supply and demand, if the demand is high then you can get a little more out of it.
Wildlife population control specialist