Guide companies looking for a hand?

WestNDMuleys

Active Member
Messages
209
LAST EDITED ON Jul-27-16 AT 03:13PM (MST)[p]Is there ever different guide companies looking for a hand? Currently I am just a hobby hunter but am very passionate about it. That being said it would be an absolute dream to spend the year scouting for deer/ helping at camp/ skinning and quartering game or even helping hunt mule deer. Is there ever people that are needed year round or even just for the hunting season? Growing up on a farm I am a very hard worker and not afraid to do the hardest of tasks. I am very good with clients and people as I am in sales right now. Any information or advice would be greatly appreciated.
 
Most likely no, you will not find a year round job like that. I guided full-time for just under a decade in the backcountry with horses and wilderness areas of Idaho and Wyoming. Along with teaching horse packing at a guide school in Montana for a few summers as well. The fact is, unless you have the money to become an outfitter, its damn hard to make a meager living as a full-time guide. I had to pick up B.S. work to pay the bills every winter. Being in the backcountry with horses, helped extend my season because I ran a pack string all summer in the hills before packing in hunting camp. I dont want to step on your "dream" i guess, but in all reality coming from someone who did everything i could to make it work, the fact is, you will not make a living trying to be a guide because it is seasonal work and it just gets you by. I now work on Powerlines, and guide every once and a while when i can. But now i get to focus on my own hunts for the first time in a decade. You lose basically all your own hunting time and there are many days where it is not that great of a job..long hours.. difficult clients etc...You can check out royaltine.com...Cody and LeRee are amazing people and great friends. Their school is hands down the top school you will find in order to get your foot in the door with backcountry horseback type outfitting. Whatever you decide, good luck, but just realize that being a guide and a die hard hunter are two very different things.
 
Very well said, mntnguide! Guiding is something that your better off doing as a hobby, IMO. Maybe going full time for a couple months each fall if you can swing it with your current work. Just about have to be self employed the rest of the year to be able to do that, though.


2a0fcsk.gif
 
LAST EDITED ON Jul-27-16 AT 09:56PM (MST)[p]Go out and hold Tristates hand for 30 mins and that will cure you.
 
Thank you very much for that insight! That's exactly what I was looking for, an experienced guide who has first hand knowledge.
 

Click-a-Pic ... Details & Bigger Photos
Back
Top Bottom