Behind Every Great Hunter is a Mentor and Hunting Partner

Am Shooting Journal ^ | 8/30/2019 | J Lund

[w1n1]

Two weeks before I started my teaching career, my mentor teacher asked if I had any questions. I replied, "I don't know enough to know what to ask." It was true; I had never student-taught, so without being in the classroom I had no idea what to expect, nor did I know what needed clarity. The same goes with hunting. The more you hunt, the more you establish a hunting program. How you prepare. What you take. How you handle adversity and the amount of risk you tolerate.
Then there are the specific logistics pertaining to the quarry. You’ve hunted the alpine, but have you been on an unfamiliar mountain in fog? You’ve been cold, but have you been cold and wet? You've hunted bear in Washington, but that's not Alaska. Same goes for deer, etc., and even for a new hunting buddy.

Often you don't know how this new buddy will pan out because a hunt is more complex than who gets first shot at the first shooter critter. You can be great friends off the mountain, but what happens when your buddy trips on a root? Do you say, “You OK?” every time? Or just when it looks bad?
Your buddy is packing out a huge bear he shot with his bow. His pack is heavy. He is out of shape. Do you say, "Hey, you're almost there! Doing great!" on the pack out, even though he's putting you on schedule to reach the dock four hours after the sun sets? Do you walk ahead to pull him, or walk behind?

Some people don’t want encouragement. They just want to be left alone. They don’t think it’s funny to play the Rocky theme song to motivate. Others need it. These sorts of things ruin hunts. Along with attitude, communication is important. The plan was to meet at the back of the muskeg and decide what to do from there. You don’t have radios.
You don’t have cell service. You’re back at where you pointed to on the map. It’s a half-hour after you planned to meet. What’s the move? Assume your buddy is on a deer? Assume he is lost? Wait? Search? Or just assume he’ll meet you back at camp if you don’t hear a shot? Read the rest of hunter mentor partner.

[This_Dude]

I’ve volunteered to teach numerous nephews and nieces how to hunt, but most look at me like I’m some kind of barbarian butchering Bambi. There are many, MANY people out there who will quickly starve once the SHTF. Im 34 years old and I’ve had two people willfully learn to shoot and clean an animal. That’s two out of about 30

[real saxophonist]

A brother-in-law took his son, my nephew, hunting. They got up in the stand, he brought his coffee and newspaper.

He stood up and urinated off the side of the stand, then wondered why they never saw any deer.

[This_Dude]

WOW. That’s pretty bad. Your brother in law must have never been taught to hunt to begin with

[ConservativeDude]

hunting, as this article points out, is civilization itself

I’d love to shoot/kill/clean, etc. I’d be eager to learn, if I had time....too many other life urgent priorities now, however :(

But in principle, I’m hugely in favor of all of this

[real saxophonist]

Nope, the only thing he knows is the Georgia Bulldogs.

[Verginius Rufus]

Who was Nimrod’s mentor?

[This_Dude]

While nothing really substitutes for hands-on, I’ve found that YouTube has some pretty good material for reaching people how to skin and cut em up. Even ways of doing it without guts if you’re ever inclined to give it a look

[ConservativeDude]

that’s awesome

but with the commies in charge of YouTube, I just hope those videos last ......

[This_Dude]

Well, there’s always bitchute, at least

[gundog]

There is something to learn in that.