Thread: Why do people use a guide?

I haven't used a guide at any point. Happy to do the slow learn myself. Took me ages to shoot my first deer. Turned out I learned heaps in the process and they came thick and fast after the first.

However in certain situations I 100% would consider a guide. I'm planning a Tahr hunt in the near ish future. If I didn't have much in the way of contacts down there I would 100% look at using a guide. Less about shooting a tanker and more about operating safely in an unfamiliar alpine environment.

Different people have different goals, different lives different levels of free time. If utilising a guide helps people get after it then why not.

I've put a couple mates onto their first deer now, one shooting a deer on his first ever hunt, on doc land as well and the other was a bit more gun shy so it took 2 half day hunts and an overnighter.
This was a fucking wayyyyyy easier path than I had, but why not? They loved it, I enjoyed it. Sure they probably didn't feel the same gratification I did after years of failier but still.