how to make a living hunting - where and what

[Moose Guide]

If you are serious, disregard my last post! Start by applying with outfitters in B.C. and you will be able to make some of your living as a guide, the only other option is to buy a good outfitting area ($300,000-$2,500,000) and become an outfitter!

[brian]

Thanks to the one person (maybe two) who provided a serious answer.

Unfortunately nobody gave you a serious answer until Gatehouse gave his reply. If you are at all serious, take his advice.

[markomoose]

Good luck Mikethenewhunter!It won't be easy?Get a hold of Cody Robbins??

[604redneck]

Sure you can make something of a living. Go get a job as a wrangler, get some experience, become a guide. Work guiding 2-3 months in the spring for bears and 2-3 months in the fall for ungulates. Fill in the summer with a job doing fishing guiding or trail riding or whitewater rafting or whatever. Spend the winter trapping or hunting yotes for thier pelts. It's not a really lucrative lifestyle as you could make twice as much money working half as hard in the oil patch, but you can do it if you really want to.

Totally possible if u work for multiple outfitters

[finngun]

how to make a living hunting - where and what .....i,m sorry..but ya are about 100years too late..get a living out of hunting today,,hmm not with a big family anyway..maybe some extra money,,out of hunting and fishing..guiding..be creative..

[J_T]

Being a professional takes time to earn a reputation. Especially in the hunting world. Of course you could buy a territory. It would be wise to have some business knowledge going in so that you make wise financial choices. Typically the North and the Kootenay provide the broadest range of hunt opportunities. A lot of the territories in these areas are tied up.

Hunting and Trapping are managed under different regulation in BC. The licence for either is separate and distinct.

My recommendation would be to marry well and use your hunting as a write off.

[mikethenewhunter]

so based on the answers provided, it seems like the way to earn a living hunting/trapping is by working as a guide or for an outfitter or something like that. My question was more about actually selling things that I hunted/trapped

[Pioneerman]

It might help to understand what you actually meant in your first comment. Earn a living hunting? Do you mean get paid to go kill animals like a bounty? The guiding outfitter is the obvious way, but takes a lot of years of experience and knowledge , plus you do not hunt or shoot the animals. You do all the grunt work, the set ups, the packing the cooking and so on

[RoscoeP]

Don't do something you really like for a living, it just becomes a job.

[Wild one]

Work as a guide for an outfitter and trap in the winter is the closest I can think of

This is not something you are going to make a lot of $ at but if it is the life style you are looking that is the way it is.

The trapping aspect will involve getting a trappers course and buy a trapline and gear to get set up is not cheap. To sell fur you just need to ship it to auction

Might be better off to pick one and work a job in the off season