One item that is not very important, is whatever knife you take along. The Newfie guides take it as a point of pride in performing all that sort of work, and so far, the guides I hunted with, were really good at it.
In AB after pics I dig out my knives and tell the guide to grab a leg. He says he'll gut the moose. I told him I've gutted LOTS of deer and better than a dozen elk, no big deal. He then very pointedly told me that was part of his job that I'd paid for. So I stepped off, grabbed a leg and let him go to work. Took about 30Sec of watching until I request he use my knife as his wasn't as sharp as I like mine to be. He obliged and all went well.
