4 Day Hunters Course

Western game hunting can be expensive and it appears to get worse every year. Success rates are higher for first-time hunters who hire outfitters, but this comes with a big price tag. Do-it-yourself hunting offers the satisfaction of knowing your success rides on your hard work. There’s an appeal to both. Unfortunately, DIY hunters, on average, take two-to-three years of out of state attempts to fill a big-game tag. With the cost of fuel, hotel rooms, the tags themselves, etc, the expense of a successful DIY trip becomes comparable to that of a professionally guided hunt. This has a lot to do with a hunter’s ability as well as their experience with the species they are pursuing.
Online courses are helpful but much like e-scouting they don’t give you the on the ground confidence of time in the mountains honing the skills and gathering the knowledge to be successful.
My courses are considerably cheaper than using an outfitter and don’t require you to burn a tag. All of the information taught is an accumulation of a decade guiding big game hunts across the Rocky Mountains.
Courses cover but are not limited to Glassing, Stalking, Butchering, Skinning and Caping, useful knots, field scoring, weapons manipulation, gear, basic navigation, Ethics, Understanding bullet selection, Calibers and trajectory/kinetic energy, Ungulate Anatomy, Game animal Behavior, Basics of tracking and blood trailing, Emergency survival and much more.
I try to make it as fun as informative and you’d be hard pressed to find a prettier place to spend a week watching elk, deer, and bears and learning how to hunt them

Meals and Lodging are provided throughout the course.

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Day 1: The Itinerary flows with a first day of classroom teaching on ballistics and downrange effects and a range session to identify any shooters error and also build your confidence as a shooter in the field, as well as answer any questions from the classroom portion in a real shooting environment. The second half of this day will be focusing on butchering a local goat or sheep where I will teach the Skinning process as well as quartering and deboning the meat and how to care for it in the field after a kill.

Day 2: Entry into the mountains where we will test and employ the gear necessary to be a capable backpack hunter, discuss the factors that make a good hunting campsite and finish off the evening with a Glassing session and in depth discussion on elk and deer hunting tactics.

Day3: A morning "hunt" a glassing session and in depth discussion on Stalking, alternative uses for a rangefinder in the field, wind and thermals, more shelter designs, common game violations and ethical boundaries, etc. Finishing the evening with a Glassing session.

Day 4: A morning glassing session before pulling our camp and returning to the lodge, once at the lodge we will finish the evening by covering any uncovered topics or questions you might have and elaborate on topics like e-scouting, reading maps, etc.