Thread: Why do people use a guide?

Using a Guide is no different than any other "professional" service you might use. You are paying for the things/skills you don't have or aren't likely to require except occaisionally.

Hobbys are different....For example I walk my dogs in a certain area each night and have done for 10 years. If you want to shoot a pheasant I could find you one within 10 minutes from my door and if you wanted an older bird that would take about 20 minutes. Would you find them on your own (even if I told you where to look) maybe but you would have to be real lucky where I could find them regardless.

Learning to be a Hunter like most things requires both time and practical experience out there doing it.
In our modern live's this can be difficult to achieve. I have no problem paying others to benefit from their experience/skills we all do it every day.

Its funny 3 of the guys at work all want to "shoot a deer". After talking with a forum member here who recently did a meat hunt, I suggested we organise a group meat hunt @ $x per animal.

No way were any of them interested in "paying to shoot a deer" so I suggested we could go walk into a hut locally one weekend on DOC land for a look and learn where the animals were (shoot one if lucky) but most likely would need to make a couple (or more trips) to get everyone there deer. None were interested as they "could not get away from home for so many weekends".

None had proper gear and when I got one to the range he was happy to mostly hit an A4 sized page occaisionally with his 30/06 at 100m as he reckoned it would be good enough to 300.

So...................I gave up.

I think what they wanted was me to take them to my spots...........shoot the deer.............get me to gut it etc and they take the meat home................NOT Happening

I should add I am a meat hunter only, I hunt when freezer is MT I am not interested in trophies at all but can see no difference between meat and trophy hunting in any case. What ever floats your boat