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Why Come Predator Hunting?
Why Come Predator Hunting?
If you would have asked me 5 years ago to choose between hunting giant bucks in western Wyoming or hunting wolves and coyotes on the winter range, I would have struggled to pick only one. In all honesty, I likely would have chosen predators. Why?
Predator hunts are the only hunts that I am aware of that give you repeated opportunities to test and develop your shooting skills on a daily basis. Hunting predators puts precision shooting, quick shots, multiple targets, long ranges, short ranges, pistol shooting, stalking, glassing, and calling all together in one package with a high level of successful harvest. There are very few hunts available where you hunt your game for 6-8 hours a day and have daily shots fired. Shooting skills are perishable. If you don’t continue to practice and hone those skills, they will fade away. Predator hunting is to shooting skills, as multiple reps and sets are to weight training.
Predator hunting for me was a solid addiction. From 2001 to 2015 I was on the winter range predator hunting 40-60 days a winter. I often took 4-10 coyotes a day. There were some years I was taking 100-200 coyotes a year when my addiction was at it’s peak. The ability to make many set ups and stalks each day on a super intelligent quarry strengthened my hunting and shooting skills like no other thing on the planet. I couldn’t get enough. Some of the most adventurous hunts in my life happened during this time and I cherish those memories. In those days, no matter what my wife and I had planned, if the conditions were right on winter grounds, I was gone hunting. Looking back it was ridiculous how addicted I was.
As a recovering predator hunting addict, I went through a transformation between 2016 and now. I went through a realignment of my priorities, which is a long story for another day. In short, I now want to share this crazy amazing hunt with our NTO clients! Many of you have heard stories from me about the winter range and have had an interest in coming along on one of these adventures. My goal is to share this experience with others and help them develop their own skills. I love the idea of sharing and teaching these valuable skills!
Predator hunts are ripe with opportunities to successfully prepare you for future hunts. If you can come to the winter range and successfully kill predators, taking that once in a lifetime deer, elk or antelope trophy under pressure will be easy by comparison. Your time on the winter range will teach you to perform under pressure with very low stakes compared to a once in lifetime big game hunt. Most hunters only get an opportunity to shoot at big game several times a year at best. Multiple shot opportunities can happen several times a day, or even an hour, during a predator hunt. Chasing a wolf on the winter range produces a level of adrenaline dump that is dangerously addictive. Learning to operate at this level of adrenaline is completely over the top for a lot of hunters. If you can learn to function well under that level of adrenaline and stress, your hunting success will be vastly improved in the future.
If you have any interest in an intense, adrenaline filled adventure, while honing your shooting skills to a fine edge, give me a call to discuss predator hunting. Let’s schedule your adrenaline dump today!
