Introduction / Newbie needs some advice
Hi everybody,
My name is Oliver, I am from Germany.
I'm shooting bows since about four years, my current bow is a PSE X-Force HF, 29", 70#.
While I'm doing OK with the bow, I have no hunting experience at all.
All I know about hunting is theoretical or from the 'International Bowhunter Education Program (IBEP)' course, which I did 1.5 years ago.
My wife and I went to the Big Bend Ranch in Texas four weeks ago, during our vacation and greatly enjoyed our stay there. Because of this experience, the friendly hunters we met there and this forum here, I thought that Texas might be a good starting point for my hunting career.
I would like to get into hunting and therefore could use some advice on where and when to go, how to prepare myself and especially if this idea makes any sense at all, as I can spend only one or two days for hunting during our next vacation.
As I have no experience yet, I will need a place where I get some advice and where somebody is available to help me field dress the (hopefully) harvested animal. A guided hunt might also be of interest. I have no specific idea of what I would like to hunt. The only trophy I am currently interested in, is the hide.
Therefore, hunting boars or javelinas would be absolutely fine with me.
We are pilots and will travel with a plane, so that a ranch with an airstrip would be most convenient. Horse back riding is another thing we like to do, this and the airstrip are however just optional.
Do you think it makes sense for a newbie to start off with only one or two days of hunting? I saw that there are many recommendations for hunting ranches in the forum - which could you specifically recommend to a newbie?
I am looking forward to your answers.
Cheers,
Oliver
My name is Oliver, I am from Germany.
I'm shooting bows since about four years, my current bow is a PSE X-Force HF, 29", 70#.
While I'm doing OK with the bow, I have no hunting experience at all.
All I know about hunting is theoretical or from the 'International Bowhunter Education Program (IBEP)' course, which I did 1.5 years ago.
My wife and I went to the Big Bend Ranch in Texas four weeks ago, during our vacation and greatly enjoyed our stay there. Because of this experience, the friendly hunters we met there and this forum here, I thought that Texas might be a good starting point for my hunting career.
I would like to get into hunting and therefore could use some advice on where and when to go, how to prepare myself and especially if this idea makes any sense at all, as I can spend only one or two days for hunting during our next vacation.
As I have no experience yet, I will need a place where I get some advice and where somebody is available to help me field dress the (hopefully) harvested animal. A guided hunt might also be of interest. I have no specific idea of what I would like to hunt. The only trophy I am currently interested in, is the hide.
Therefore, hunting boars or javelinas would be absolutely fine with me.
We are pilots and will travel with a plane, so that a ranch with an airstrip would be most convenient. Horse back riding is another thing we like to do, this and the airstrip are however just optional.
Do you think it makes sense for a newbie to start off with only one or two days of hunting? I saw that there are many recommendations for hunting ranches in the forum - which could you specifically recommend to a newbie?
I am looking forward to your answers.
Cheers,
Oliver
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