Thread: Why do people use a guide?

Originally Posted by 257weatherby

I wrote up what I really wanted to say a couple of times, chewed on it for a bit and deleted........a couple of times.

The guided hunting has it's place for a variety of reasons, always has. Maybe now it will become affordable until the overseas wealth is back and flexes it's monied elbows to shove kiwis back to one side again. Might take landowners a while to get a grip on adjusting cost to suit the new client base pockets though.

I would do it to achieve a specific purpose if pricing was aimed at kiwis, but I'd want a guide who knew his onions and wanted to be there doing hard yards if necessary. Till then, I'll bumble along keeping my freezer filled just as I always have.

So you want someone else doing all the hard yards for you so you can achieve your specific requirement for very little effort??

This is exactly what I have trouble with understanding. Where would there be any satisfaction in getting your trophy like this? To me it just seems like plain laziness.

Sorry not having a go at you personally 257weatherby but just my opinion.