Over Thanksgiving this year I will be going to Saskatchewan, Canada to go hunting for white-tailed deer. The place that I am going to is a guided operation so I will be able to see how a guide does his job. I believe that I will be a great experience to see first hand a guide doing his job. It is to be hoped that in the process I will be able get some tips first hand on what it takes to be a good guide. Now since it hasn’t happened yet and by the time I do go on this trip this assignment will already be over I wont be able to explain how getting hands-on experience was different from learning only from me being told or reading about it. I have though already experienced hands-on learning from other trips that I have already taken. I have come to learn and probably will interpret that every guide has there own way of doing things. A main part of this is that the ways different animals are hunted are never the same, so each guide has a particular way to hunt the animal that you are after. In saying this I have never been on a guided whitetail hunt so I don’t really know what to expect from that. Hopefully I am able to learn a lot from this trip about being a guide. When hunting before I wasn’t intently looking at the way a guide works, but now that I have been researching this career in the interest of being one I will be able to learn more then what I have just happened to notice.
Oh my goodness did we just become friends. I am most definitely a hunter and am currently extremely jealous that you get to go hunt white tail in a few weeks. I haven't gotten to go out often, only twice over the past few weeks for bow season. Where do you hunt? Biggest rack? I'm also guessing that you want to be a guide. I know some people in Montana who my dad and I have hunted with. They have an outfitters camp in Yellowstone.
ReplyDeleteThis is interesting I did not know you were into hunting or what a guide even was. This gave me a little insight to hunting and guiding. Where are you going for your shadowing and understanding of how guides work?
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