The person that I am going to interview for my Blog is Jim Dieckmann. He is a P.H. in Australia, where he owns his own hunting operation called Havago Australia. By the way, a P.H., or professional hunter, is another name for a guide. My family and I have gone hunting in Australia with Jim and his wife Debbie and, to this day, still remain good friends with them. Jim is a very experienced guide and hopefully by asking him some questions I will learn some good information in becoming successful at being a hunting guide.
Questions:
How did you get into this line of work?
What made you want to become a hunting guide?
What is the worst part of the job?
What is the best part?
What education do you need to have to do this job?
How many years of experience do you feel you need to have to be proficient at your job?
- I found this post to be very interesting. I also am a hunter and experienced fisherman so it was very easy for me to relate. Although I have never been lucky enough to travel and hunt in a place as far as Australia, I too have a family friend named John who is a P.H out in South Dakota. My dad and my brother have I have taken several trips out there to hunt. This reason I chose to respond to your post is because I noticed that if I were to ask John any questions about his job, they would be very similar to yours.
ReplyDelete-As a read earlier on your blog, I found out that to become a P.H you do not need any specific completion of education. I found that interesting due to how much knowledge most P.H guides have. John had a plethora of information to tell us about every aspect of each bird we hunted.
- I am very jealous about your trips to Australia.. what kinds of animals did you hunt? I will continue to follow your blog, you have lots of interesting information on your site.