New hunter is a guide/outfitter the best option?

[gashunter]

Hello I have done my CORE and I'm also practicing in the use of a bow, and rifle. The problem with CORE is that most of it was written test and learning from what the instructor told me.I feel that the very short one day class "CORE" didn't prepare me for most of the practical stuff to do with hunting. Like the instructor didn't actually bring us to hunt a bear or even show us hands on field dressing an animal. It was mostly just the instructor pointing at a book for less than 15 minutes(somehow we're suppose to know how to field dress an animal). The instructor does not even tell us what is the proper tool for field dressing the animal. Also nothing about what to do with the animal after taking the harvested parts was mentioned or maybe I forgot.

I'm not going to point out which was the CORE instructor, I'm not here to make anyone's life miserable.
I notice that looking at here on the forum of the sticky threads there are no recent workshop or hunting camp for new hunters available.



Right now what I'm thinking of doing is signing up for something like this, and in hope the guide will teach me everything I could learn about hunting


https://www.bookyourhunt.com/Tour/13...earchTerm=Bear

https://www.bookyourhunt.com/Tour/14...earchTerm=Bear

https://www.bookyourhunt.com/Tour/8419?currency=CAD



I'm going to take a flight over to East Coast just to do this because hiring a guide/outfitter here in the West Coast is very expensive.
I'm from Vancouver

[Boner]

Sounds like you have it figured out, good luck!

[Fella]

YouTube was a good resource for me when I first started.

[dakoda62]

Taking a guided trip although helpful, will be extremely expensive, Transporter, a little less. You tube has valuable info, hours upon hours of field dressing, boning, quartering. My advice is find someone on here to mentor you, save your cash for your first hunt.

[Wild one]

Go join your local rod&gun club and meet hunters. Get involved in the hunting community and you will meet experienced hunters and build friendships that may result in invited on hunts. Even stick around here and to know people there is even a pub night done in the lower mainland

As for the CORE it is designed to make you legally capable of hunting not teach you how to hunt. Hunting is not something you learn by taking a course over a few days there is way too much involved

Personally I believe hiring a guide won’t do much for you expecially a guided hunt outside side of B.C. where conditions are not comparable

[Jordan f.]

Don't be embarrassed to start small either. Go for grouse/rabbits first. Get comfortable skinning/processing them before you shoot a big buck 10kms from the truck

[Wild one]

Don't be embarrassed to start small either. Go for grouse/rabbits first. Get comfortable skinning/processing them before you shoot a big buck 10kms from the truck

What fun would that be real men jump in head first balls out and learn through the trial by fire method

But I guess some are soft and sensitive so they have to take it slow

[Jordan f.]

^Wild One is dead on

Hunting takes years to get good at. I've seen more then a couple animals hit the ground, and I am still no where near "knowing it all".

Join local clubs, join organizations that align with your views (WSS, BHA, SCI, BCWF), be active on the forums (even if you don't harvest anything, post your trials and errors), use YouTube/Instagram/Podcasts.... If you love it... It'll work out.

Personally, I'd save money and pass on the guide. Put that money towards gear, gas, and days off in the bush!

[MichelD]

I took a young guy out hunting numerous times but we never connected while hunting together. Then he applied for an LEH doe draw and got it and went on his own. Shot the doe and to his good fortune a hunter on a quad showed up and helped him gut it and brought it to camp for him.

But he was totally prepared to take it on himself. Look at a lot of videos on Youtube. Save your money. Make friends here and elsewhere.

If you really really feel like you need lessons consider EatWild.

You don't have to go to New Brunswick!

They are local. I know several new hunters who have gone that route and been happy.


http://www.eatwild.ca/

[gashunter]

Hey everyone, thank you for all the suggestion one thing I'm uncertain about is the law when it comes to hunting. Yes the Hunting & Trapping Regulations Synopsis tell people all the areas you can hunt in but I'm worried about screwing up. Like I don't know if I'm confident enough to do it. I don't want a conservation officer to bust my ass because of a mistake. I'm worry I could go into private land without knowing, I'm worry I could kill an animal that is an illegal kill, I'm worry I could be hunting in an area that is no shooting allowed, I'm also not confident in my driving skill in rough terrain. I never drive outside of the city.

I took a young guy out hunting numerous times but we never connected while hunting together. Then he applied for an LEH doe draw and got it and went on his own. Shot the doe and to his good fortune a hunter on a quad showed up and helped him gut it and brought it to camp for him.

But he was totally prepared to take it on himself. Look at a lot of videos on Youtube. Save your money. Make friends here and elsewhere.

If you really really feel like you need lessons consider EatWild.

You don't have to go to New Brunswick!

They are local. I know several new hunters who have gone that route and been happy.


http://www.eatwild.ca/

Hi MichelD, and also someone named Chris who pmed me


I already signed up for the Hunter Field Skills Workshop May 2019, This will be my first time doing any of their workshop/courses.
I will meet Dylan and go to the Singing Lands Ranch in about a week. The only thing I'm waiting for now is car pool information from Dylan, I'm a poor driver.
yea if I know about eatwild earlier I would had definitely done CORE with them just from looking at their site their CORE course is longer and more informative.
I hope I could learn as much as I can from them during the long weekend. Even so with this I don't feel confident from this course alone.

Is a couple of days really enough?(on the first day we would arrive in the evening apparently) I understand that part of the course they would have someone to teach us how to spot and stalk deers like without actually hunting them, But is it different for bears? because bears are what I actually want to hunt