Friday, October 11, 2013

Hunting Being A Career

By George Dodson


A job that has something to do with the outdoors is usually a job that many people are looking to consider. There area actually dozen outdoor jobs you can find and you can opt for one depending on your job requirement. One of those is hunting. How do you go about establishing hunting as a career?

This has a few approaches available. For starters, you can start your hunting career by working at hunting stores or outlets that provide hunting gears, equipment, rifles, bows and others. This job is really good for you if you're looking for more information about hunting and if you want to know of people who can help you with this sport or activity.

You can also start out as a hunting guide. This can also be approached differently. If you have the experience in firearms and hunting skills, you can open up your own guide business. People with less experience will come barging in with offers.

Signing up to a guide school is also beneficial for you. Being trained by actual hunting professionals will provide you with better chances of getting good paying hunting related jobs. Your skills will improve. There are a lot of new information and skills to know about. You'll find books, reports and other documentations to back these up. Then you can eventually put up your own hunting guide program.

You can specialize in this field by becoming such things as a white tail deer hunting guide. Your skills with regard to hunting will be further polished especially when hunting the whitetail deer. However, your skills can only be limited to hunting the whitetail and not the other animals. Therefore, you'll need a set of better skills.

In these hunting guide programs, you'll learn such skills as horsemanship. This is because having to journey some terrains in a hunt requires riding a horse. You'll need to understand trail riding. Some trails can be rather treacherous and you need to have both the confidence and the skills to help others in this area.

You will also need to have orienteering skills. You need to be able to find your way with a compass or perhaps a GPS. This involves understanding terrain, train symbols, how to read a map, how to orient it toward true North, and how to move from point to point successfully. This skill is vital as a hunting guide.

A hunting career would also mean that you have adequate survival training. Depending on the areas where you hunt and the elevation, you could run into trouble quick with the weather. You can never always predict the weather and areas with different heights have different weather conditions. In case of storms you will need to have a plan of action. This would involve seeking shelter, creating fire as well as finding help.

You'll definitely need to know first aid. You need to be able to provide first aid when necessary. You need to be familiar with the wounds and how to treat them. This is extremely important in a honey environment. There are places that you need to travel by foot. You have to know how to stabilize and treat problems it can happen along the way.




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