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Outdoorsmen as an occupation
Posted on 8/21/12 at 11:02 am
Posted on 8/21/12 at 11:02 am
The more I think about my future, the more I wish there was some way to just hunt and fish as an occupational lifestyle. Don't we all?
Are there any OB ballers who make a living from hunting, guiding, etc? Do you know of anyone who is just, simply, an outdoorsman?
I know a few and I highly envy their jobs.
Are there any OB ballers who make a living from hunting, guiding, etc? Do you know of anyone who is just, simply, an outdoorsman?
I know a few and I highly envy their jobs.
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Posted on 8/21/12 at 11:21 am to tigah headache
I know a guy really well that owns an archery shop and now has a hunting show on a local TV station. He retired from the Power plant and does this all full time now.
Posted on 8/21/12 at 11:24 am to tigah headache
one of my fishing buddies(could be my grandpa) wrote articles for magazines and a few books. always got free gear, boats, ect. Also had a full time job, but basically fished fo free
Posted on 8/21/12 at 11:29 am to tigah headache
I know a guy that ran a couple thousand acres for a corporation. They would send clients to him a few weeks out of the year to hunt deer or turkeys. He could hunt it as much as he wanted and they paid to plant whatever on the property. He killed some monsters off of it. He also probably made over 100k a year doing this. Truly a dream job. He put in his time to get there though
Posted on 8/21/12 at 11:38 am to Rebman601
The guys that I know are duck guides on the Delta Plantation. They don't own it, they just manage the hunting land year round and guide hunts during the season. Think they all make over 60k a year if not 6 figures for some of them. My dream job.
Posted on 8/21/12 at 11:47 am to Rebman601
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I know a guy that ran a couple thousand acres for a corporation. They would send clients to him a few weeks out of the year to hunt deer or turkeys. He could hunt it as much as he wanted and they paid to plant whatever on the property. He killed some monsters off of it. He also probably made over 100k a year doing this. Truly a dream job. He put in his time to get there though
Want. Dream job there.
Posted on 8/21/12 at 11:56 am to tigah headache
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. Think they all make over 60k a year if not 6 figures for some of them. My dream job
lots of cash tips
Posted on 8/21/12 at 12:12 pm to Rebman601
I've hunted with Jim Jones from Hunting Across America a couple of times
Posted on 8/21/12 at 12:16 pm to FriscoKid
Though i've got a real job like most of us, I've managed to get involved in outdoor media, both for fun and to help offset costs of hunting and fishing. Doing so allows me to write off things like mileage, shells, clothes, misc other equipment from Mojos to ThermaCells as business expenses. It's not a full time job, but it pays me to go hunting and fishing which was always a dream in itself.
Guiding can take the fun out of hunting and fishing for a lot of guys and it becomes WORK. I'd rather play guide for friends and family, no pressure and no money on the line, we all have more fun.
Guiding can take the fun out of hunting and fishing for a lot of guys and it becomes WORK. I'd rather play guide for friends and family, no pressure and no money on the line, we all have more fun.
Posted on 8/21/12 at 12:23 pm to tigah headache
I've guided turkey and hog hunts before. I've worked for an outfitter and also freelance. I've guided TV hunters and have shared camp with David Blanton, Bill Jordan, Tred Barta and others. I'm still on the "Pro Staff" of two major camo manufacturers and have done a trade show or two.
That said, in most cases being a guide sucks. Its a customer service industry, and many customers cant shoot, wont listen or want to get drunk as opposed to harvest game. Its very frustrating if you pride yourself on tagging the big one. There are some very high quality operations which generate a lot of money from very wealthy clientele. These guides make money, the rest barely get by in most cases. Their profits are eroded to liability insurance, the cost of leasing hunting rights and the skyrocketing cost of feed/grain.
That said, in most cases being a guide sucks. Its a customer service industry, and many customers cant shoot, wont listen or want to get drunk as opposed to harvest game. Its very frustrating if you pride yourself on tagging the big one. There are some very high quality operations which generate a lot of money from very wealthy clientele. These guides make money, the rest barely get by in most cases. Their profits are eroded to liability insurance, the cost of leasing hunting rights and the skyrocketing cost of feed/grain.
Posted on 8/21/12 at 12:33 pm to tigah headache
I don't think I'd like actually hunting an fishing for a living. It would seem like work. I'd like to do conservation or something like that outdoors for work, field work and whatnot, and hunt and fish in my spare time. Keep it enjoyable.
I think I'll enjoy my current career path more, though.
I think I'll enjoy my current career path more, though.
Posted on 8/21/12 at 12:36 pm to tigah headache
I know lots of people who do this, but few are ballers. I have done it for several seasons myself. You have to make some sacrifices (where most people jump off the wagon) in order to make it happen though. If you want to reach baller status, it becomes an administrative job once again though.
Posted on 8/21/12 at 12:42 pm to tigah headache
I have a friend that guides hunts, manages properties, sells hunting real estate, and does hunting shows.
He was born into serious OT baller parents so he has had the world by the balls from the beginning and could have done anything money allowed
He was born into serious OT baller parents so he has had the world by the balls from the beginning and could have done anything money allowed
Posted on 8/21/12 at 12:45 pm to wiltznucs
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That said, in most cases being a guide sucks.
I know fishing guides who absolutely love it. Hunting guiding sucks, because many of your clients are questionable to begin with. Every hunting guide I know has been asked to do something illegal to make it easy for a client.
Posted on 8/21/12 at 12:55 pm to tigah headache
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Posted on 8/21/12 at 1:01 pm to treble hook
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I hunt nearby on Angelina.
I've heard alot of good things about angelina. I Would love to get a blind down there. We thought about it for this year but we bought a new ranger so we couldnt do it this year. May still do it within the next few years though.
You hunt by the elevators or by wild cow?
Posted on 8/21/12 at 3:40 pm to tigah headache
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Posted on 8/21/12 at 4:19 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Guiding can take the fun out of hunting and fishing for a lot of guys and it becomes WORK.
This. I paid my way through LSU and grad school guiding duck/goose hunts in the winter and between semesters....made enough money to not only pay for school, but also kept me from working during the semesters. I was the only one who wasn't full-time...full-time in the sense that the other guides made their money running fishing charters and used duck season to pay bills over the winter.
It was fun at first, but then became work for the all the aforementioned reasons: early mornings (3:00 a.m.) and late to bed...always had to have a smile on your face and hang out with the new customers in the evening...no one could shoot...a poor understanding of hunting vs. killing (most wanted you to be a magician and make limits appear from thin air any random Tuesday with 80* weather, 2 mph southwest wind and high gray liner overhead)...and general disdain for guides. Fact is, many thought that because they paid you they could talk down to you, tell you how the dummies were set, what we were doing wrong on poor days (can't tell you how many times I heard "well, I read that..."...shite you not). And many times you had to sit there and take them looking down on you if you wanted any chance of a tip.
That said, there's nothing like the gigantic, nonstop game of grabass that comes with living at a duck camp, and the days you don't have customers are epic. And you get to hunt every, single day...so there's that. And occasionally...just occasionally...you get that father and young son who "get it" and you get to put your gun in the corner and watch poetry in motion.
My last hunt was with a long time customer who brought a friend of his with him. My customer apologized before hand...I asked him what for...and he says "you'll see." Guy gets out of the truck looking like he stepped out of a Cabela's catalogue, literally rolls out a carpet to walk on and put his waders on while standing on it, turns to me and snarls "Do you know how to put a shotgun together?" and whips out a brand new BPS still in the box.
"Nope. Shoot my Hump." Never gained as much pleasure watching it bust his nose first crack of the day as I did then.
That was the last hunt I guided.
(as an aside, my long time customer tipped me $200.00 that hunt).
Posted on 8/21/12 at 5:34 pm to Kyrie Eleison
Great perspective, thanks for sharing. I hear all kinds of stories about the big "ballers" that don't even know how to load their own gun much less shoot anything. That said, I can certainly appreciate the fulfillment of watching a father and son have a good hunt. I "guided" a kid and his dad on my first youth hunt last year and really enjoyed watching the little guy darn near melt his barrel and even knock down his limit.
Posted on 8/21/12 at 6:27 pm to Kyrie Eleison
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Kyrie Eleison
With that being said I would still rather have a job as a guide than a normal 9-5 job. But I can understand where it could be straining to have to put up with non appreciative people.
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