2 November 2007
Need Private Land To Hunt? Become A Teacher!
Posted by Darrell under: Tips & Ideas .
The other day I was in a local taxidermist shop and I noticed that a bunch of pictures of HUGE bucks on his wall all featured the same hunter. So, I asked him about the pictures.
It turns out that the guy in the pictures just started bow hunting 5 or 6 years ago. During this brief time he has taken over a dozen P&Y class bucks. I saw the polaroids so I believe it! Anyway, he has an interesting story.
He is a junior high teacher in a small rural school (in a farming community). He has hunting pictures displayed in his classroom. His students are told about his hunting adventures from the first day of class onwards and apparently they are all eager to get involved. It would seem that many of his students (remember he gets a new crop each year) have families with large farms. From day 1 of school onward this hunter/teacher has students telling him about BIG bucks they’ve seen on their property.
As soon as he hears about one of these big bucks he actually calls the students parents and asks if he can hunt on the property. He calls right from school. From what this taxidermist told me, he gets permission 99+% of the time. I mean, really, who is going to deny their kid’s teacher permission for something?
Anyway, these kids put him on monster bucks. And, he gets a fresh crop of kids each year, not to mention contact with all his previous students. So each year, he passes bigger and bigger bucks in search for a monster. I would be ecstatic to even see a buck of the caliber this guy takes 2-3 times a year.
The last buck he took is massive. The horns were at the taxidermist along with pictures of the buck. He was hunting out at one of his student’s homes while the kid’s family was having a cookout. He could see the family and their friends sitting on the back deck and smell the smoke from their grill from where he was sitting in his climbing treestand when this gargantuan buck came in. He took that monster buck from within eyesight of the family whose land he was hunting on.
The moral to this story is that if you would like to take some monster bucks and find a plethora of private land to hunt upon “become a school teacher”.
4 Comments so far...
deerPhD Says:
2 November 2007 at 11:40 am.
Hmmm…maybe it’s the psychologist in me (child psychologist at that), but I guess I have issues with this method. I’m sure the kids are eager and the parents are willing…anything to get an “A” right? Now, I know most kids probably don’t do it to get in good with the teacher (or do they?), but even if just one does it, it could be considered a violation of the teacher-student authority relationship.
Anytime someone has authority over another, you can be getting into a sticky situation by having external relationships with them…major conflicts of interest.
That being said, if it’s working for this guy, I’m sure not going to stop him. I’d just encourage him to be very careful.
Arthur Says:
2 November 2007 at 11:41 am.
Now. I actually work in a school system, but I’m not a teacher. I’m going to have to pass this on to one of my teaching friends that bowhunts though! Pretty good plan!
Matt Says:
4 November 2007 at 12:34 pm.
Pretty funny. Reminds me of a radio conversation I picked up on opening day of bow season. Two guys hunting some property behind a school had caught a teacher from the school trespassing to hunt.
Kevin Says:
5 November 2007 at 2:07 pm.
I let everyone in the world know that I hunt and I am always looking for great land to hunt on and great people to hunt with! I like his style and his tenacity. I agree that it might be an ethical issue but I doubt it, heck I am jealous.. The great thing is that each of these kids is learning that an upstanding pillar of society hunts and is a part of the process managing the herd and they are learning that first hand……
ANYTIME KIDS LEARN FIRST HAND THAT HUNTING IS COOL, IS GREAT NEWS!
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