How do you guys go on these cool hunts?

[lil' bear]

That's the worst advise I've ever heard.

Then you don't work construction.
Where the divorce rate is pushing 70%
I work with guys in their 80's on their 3rd, 4th, and 5th wives.

I stand by what i said.. ditch the woman. Get yourself a dog and a fleshlight.

 

[wind gypsy]

Then you don't work construction.
Where the divorce rate is pushing 70%
I work with guys in their 80's on their 3rd, 4th, and 5th wives.

I stand by what i said.. ditch the woman. Get yourself a dog and a fleshlight.

You work with guys who dont prioritize their marriages and are dumb enough to keep getting married anyway.

 

[TSAMP]

Did anybody suggest selling feet pics?

 

[Trapperkid]

Shift your content then. Keep it outdoor adventure related. Not all hunts needs to be big game either. Folks still like small game hunting, and the Ozarks are overrun with hogs.

Get after it. How about a 3 night backpacking hog hunt?

That’s a pretty good idea

 

[Geewhiz]

Then you don't work construction.
Where the divorce rate is pushing 70%
I work with guys in their 80's on their 3rd, 4th, and 5th wives.

I stand by what i said.. ditch the woman. Get yourself a dog and a fleshlight.

Actually, I do work construction. It has nothing to do with your career choices, it has to do with your priorities and keeping the commitment you made to your spouse.

Also, guys who are in their 80s and still working construction with a half dozen x wifes obviously have made a plethora of bad choices through their lives. But hey, I'm not here to judge.

 

[Kevin270]

The friends that I know that hunt a lot are all self employed and they just started going on hunts in their 40's and 50's.I would try a side job or work over time when you can.You could go on a Hunt every few years if you wanted to.I know people who spend 6 figures every year on hunts.I can not Hunt with them.Hunt what you can hunt and try to be happy.A guided duck hunt in AR is not cheap these days! Good luck !!

 

[Trapperkid]

Oh boy

What’s wrong with trying to make money from the thing I enjoy with a skill I’ve acquired through photography while trying to tell a cool story?
Who knows it may get some people into hunting.

 

[chasewild]

I actually have a YouTube channel which is the reason for asking the question I was hoping the channel would pay for trips but what I realized is I need the trips first so the channel can have videos and I need money and time for the trips

You just smashed any good faith you were getting with one post.

 

[Trapperkid]

So you started this thread to have YouTube video clicks fund your hunts? Or you started this thread because your YouTube channel wasn’t getting enough clicks?

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I’m missing adventure and at the same time looking to hopefully grow a channel as a young guy but keep laughing. I’d honestly prefer if just the people looking to help a young guy would respond to this thread but that’s the internet for you.

 

[Trapperkid]

You just smashed any good faith you were getting with one post.

I hate that I love this forum and I got some really helpful advice from some people on here if it’s that bad I’ll just not post anymore sorry for seeking advice.

 

[MallardSX2]

Did anybody suggest selling feet pics?

 

[Truck24hr]

I don't think you did anything wrong. You just mentioned your channel because someone else mentioned filming your hunts.

You asked about making more money and how to become able to take more hunting trips.

One of the guys who thinks there's something wrong with you mentioning that, thinks shooting his biggest buck of the year outta the road is ok. Whatever

Hike your own hike, don't worry about the naysayers

I hate that I love this forum and I got some really helpful advice from some people on here if it’s that bad I’ll just not post anymore sorry for seeking advice.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

Did anybody suggest selling feet pics?

I won't post pictures of my feet. I don't want anyone to throw up.

Back on track. Try setting a small amount of money out of every paycheck into a high yield savings account, and tell your wife. At some point, you'll have enough for some kind of cool hunt.

 

[Maverick1]

I hate that I love this forum and I got some really helpful advice from some people on here if it’s that bad I’ll just not post anymore sorry for seeking advice.

Anyone that’s been a member here since 2021 can’t start a thread like this and then turn face to play the victim with the responses above. Especially since - after 11 pages - it comes out that making money on YouTube has an angle to the whole thing.

 

[Rich M]

I need some help and I don’t know who better to ask than the guys doing it so here goes. How do you guys achieve the time freedom and the financial freedom to go on these cool hunts. I’m in Arkansas working at a factory I have no kids but I have a wife and a mortgage and I pretty much only get to hunt what’s local to me like whitetail and ducks. I’m looking for adventure.

I read a book in 1978, decided wanted to go out west to hunt antelope and mule deer.

Booked a combo hunt in 2006 and lost my job. Had to cancel and lose deposit.

Went in 2017 and shot 2 doe antelopes. Had 4 shot opps at bucks but no tag. That was a mistake trip - poor company and had only doe tags.

3 middle aged guys went in 2019 and shot a 160-inch muley. 1 guy left early, other guy missed 2 and passed on No. 3.

Same 3 guys went in 2023 on a guided antelope hunt - finally got antelope buck - all 3 of us each got a buck. Figured the $ was worth the years of my life that would be wasted trying to get enough points for a good hunt. We actually tried for 3 yrs to get a certain unit. Went up a point every year. Screw that.

Same 3 guys are talking about 1 last hurrah. Need some points and/or some motivation. One guy is real close to retirement, I bought retirement property, other guy is buying property. This trip might never happen. But we're buying points just in case. In the interim, we hunt each others places for boring stuff like ducks and whitetails.

Trying to figure out what we want to do. I want to go AK fishing, one guys wants to go AK caribou (too $ for me), one guy wants a muley hunt, one guy's wife wants an antelope. I wouldn't mind another antelope hunt or maybe cow elk or meat buffalo. Trying to figure out AK fishing - probably do that and this hunt the year I retire. Grab lil momma and a camper - hit the road, come home a year or more later.

You do you.

In my opinion, the whole youtube thing is over-saturated. I won't click those links. Most of the videos all look alike - some guy talking for 30 minutes and showing 5 minutes of whatever he's doing. No-thanks. The guides we used in WY are the real movie makers - they live this stuff and then make movies for folks to drool over. Trick is to realize that most of them have real jobs the rest of the year and only guide during hunting season. The fellow we had was a licensed builder/contractor but he liked guiding. Real nice fellow.

Bottom line is you need some burn money. Keep working and when you have enough to go on the trips you'll know. You may have noticed the long gaps and then the quicker paced trips I mentioned.

Young guys have desire but no time or money, middle aged guys have money but little time, old men have money and time and are usually trying to just get it done while they can still stand upright. Pretty much the way of it. Guys who go all the time and say they hunt 2-3 months a year usually have a business someone else is running for them.

 

[WRO]

Don’t follow me for financial advice, I’m blessed to have a great wife who realized about a decade ago that it’s never going to any better. I do side jobs, take my kids on most hunts, and work remotely which gives me a lot of freedom.

That being said, I’m going to work until I’m 70, but I’m only 1 animal away from my super 10. I hunt 4 states a year to the tune of 40+ days.

Set your priorities and send it. You can hunt like a mad man and still have a happy wife and life.

 

[SloppyJ]

I go to Arkansas often to hunt whitetail on public land. My second and third biggest bow bucks came from there.

I sent an arrow through the brisket of the largest whitetail I’ve seen on the hoof while hunting in Arkansas.


Those hunts would be free for you essentially. Minus the time away from your family.


It’s an adventure for me because I make it one. I paid money to hunt in Wyoming by horseback for elk. It was amazing. But I have just as sticky of memories from my Arkansas public land whitetail hunts with good friends.

Shhhhhh!

 

[FranklinBluth]

I hate that I love this forum and I got some really helpful advice from some people on here if it’s that bad I’ll just not post anymore sorry for seeking advice.

I think it's fair to say we all pull for the young guy getting started in life trying to chase dreams of hunting big game. And you got pages and pages of earnest advice on how to get there.

But when it turns out the question is "how can I monetize this hobby" it elicits a very different response from people.

I don't think it's out of bounds to ask about your channel, but I'm much more willing to help a young cash strapped guy than a youtuber looking to make a name for himself.

 

[Q_Sertorius]

I don't think you did anything wrong. You just mentioned your channel because someone else mentioned filming your hunts.

You asked about making more money and how to become able to take more hunting trips.

One of the guys who thinks there's something wrong with you mentioning that, thinks shooting his biggest buck of the year outta the road is ok. Whatever

Hike your own hike, don't worry about the naysayers

Out of the road? No. On a hill in the middle of my farm. We hunted the mountain all day and my brother got his buck. I drove the truck up to the wood line to pick it up. While I was driving the truck down from picking it up, I was blessed with a beautiful buck that put his to shame. If you are going to disparage my enjoyment of a bit of dumb luck, at least read the post and get the details straight.

And, no, I don’t feel bad for being disgusted at the monetization of hunting. I won’t participate in that and I don’t consume that content. But I also said that if he wants to do it, go for it.

 

[Trapperkid]

I think it's fair to say we all pull for the young guy getting started in life trying to chase dreams of hunting big game. And you got pages and pages of earnest advice on how to get there.

But when it turns out the question is "how can I monetize this hobby" it elicits a very different response from people.

I don't think it's out of bounds to ask about your channel, but I'm much more willing to help a young cash strapped guy than a youtuber looking to make a name for himself.

This is understandable I simply want to tell stories and have on film some of the craziness that has happened on my adventures during this time. I asked the question not out of greed trying to make money but out of true lack of knowledge on how to go about these cool hunts as all week long I had been thinking about how I don’t ever do any of the western hunts I’ve always wanted to do like black bear and antelope and mule deer and elk that everyone here seems to do. I legit am just today trying to figure out how to acquire preference points and enter draws. The channel is a dream of if I show people all the fun I have out here ( I’m no good at it) and people watch it a bunch I could possibly pay for these cool hunts simply by showing the world these adventures and in the end have a collection of one man’s adventures in the outdoors.