Our Onsite, Custom Guide School is a full service program focusing on building the knowledge and skills required to establish a successful career in the Outfitting Business. Unlike many programs that typically emphasize one speciality such as packing, or wrangling, or outdoors-menship, our program covers the full spectrum of:
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Hunting strategies and tactics (elk, deer, bear) - game movement and habits, reading terrain, planing your hunt, stalking, still hunting, blinds, trails, parks, wallows, bedding, use of thermals, tracking, and a verity of do's and don'ts.
Livestock (horses) wrangling, packing, managing, and controlling for a safe and timely experience.
Camp set up and management
Customer (Client) management and success - maximizing customer satisfaction, outfitter returns and personal gratuity - hunter introductions, understanding personalities and preference styles at the onset of the hunt (Myers-Briggs style matching), when to listen, when to assert yourself and how to do it, don't-guide-the-guide principles, teaching-not-telling, getting your client in position, shots and no-shots, post hunt correspondence.
Working as a "guide-team"
Business Basics (marketing, booking customers, growing revenue, managing expenses).
PCO guide school is a low volume, high impact, hands on cirriculum conduced onsite at the Fish and Cross Ranch and Routt County National forest. Class sizes are 6-8 and the school lasts 4 weeks, with 90% being in-field training and 10% lecture. The price is $4,000 which includes; tuition, lodging, food and all necessary equipment. The top "2" of guides from each class are offered a paid internship the following fall, with the ability to join the PCO guide team full time during the 7 week season.
Contact Tyler Snyder for more information:
Tyler_Snyder@PackCountryOutfitters.com
719-650-9090
With their extensive experience, knowledge, and personalities, our guides are essential in making our elk & deer hunts fun and successful. They also put in a lot of extra time to insure the customers have a fantastic hunting adventure.
Nick is a family member who has lived on the FISH AND CROSS RANCH since our purchase. He known for his quiet, methodical approach to hunting. HE LOVES TO SPEND TIME WITH CLIENTS AND IS NOTED FOR his patience and his desire to please his clients.
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