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I am turning 16 in june, and am interested in becoming a hunting guide when I’m older. Are there any programs/schools that I can attend during the summer? Please help. My dream is to become a Hunting guide, and eventually open an outfitter. Thank you.

-Chase

there are thousands all the time all over the place.

contact your local parks and rec department, they can point you in the right direction.

P.S. telling your city/state would help

When wolves are no longer hunted by humans they lose their fear of humans and attack, see us as food etc, obviously hunting wolves to extinction is bad as they have a crucial role in the natural world but maybe small Hunting of wolves here and there would be a good thing?

Your thoughts? Just my opinion on things. I like wolves but see a balance, I think wolves should be in every state we need a balance hunters can help.
Did any of you even read my question? You are saying what I am saying about balanced hunting then saying I am wrong, weirdos.

Actually what your referring to is called imprinting. If the predator such as a bear or wolf encounters humans and finds food such as you providing a pet dog, livestock etc for wolves and garbage, the fish you caught or a cooler of food for the bears; they now see humans as providing food. See humans; must be food. But if they have bad encounters with humans such as being shot at, being tasered, chased by Hunting Dogs etc, they develop fear and are imprinted; humans= danger.

I have been in extremely remote areas of Alaska where animals have never seen a human, never heard a gun shot and they walked right up to me. If I moved suddenly they would back off and come back. Not only the moose, deer and small game did this the bears and wolves did also. One big brown bear kept coming after several of us fired warning shots. He made several passes towards us despite magnum rifles going off. It was an unnerving situation and gladly we didn’t have to kill the bear. But I have been in areas where brown bear cubs grew up that got to see other game shot by humans as well as brown bears. Fire a rifle there and that bear runs for its life. Because it was conditioned to do so from human contact.
So if you have a park in Montana where you cant shoot bears they could become dangerously imprinted that humans are nothing to fear.
http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/dispatches/post/2010/07/bear-attck-campers-grizzlies-montana/101635/1

Wolves are just as smart if not more so than bears. We had a school teacher here in Alaska killed by a pack;
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/12/06/1934931/dna-samples-confirm-wolves-killed.html
Those wolves didn’t fear her and they killed her for fun. I have had wolves attack my sled dogs with me standing there with a rifle. I have had them follow me in remote areas.

Wolves are important in nature. But they only fit their role in remote wilderness areas. Turning them loose with an unlimited supply of livestock to eat will cause an over population. This will soon be the case in a few states of the lower 48. Hunting them to control their numbers is already being done by the Feds. But unless they are hunted enough to keep their numbers in check; things will go bad.

The state will begin offering permits for game hunters to use silencers on their guns, effective Sept. 1.The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission adopted rules in March that permit the use of silencers for the hunting of alligators, game animals or game birds. Such devices already were legal for the Hunting of exotic animals, including feral hogs.
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On Monday, May 14, the anti-gun California Senate passed two guns bills that are detrimental to California gun owners.  Senate Bill 1315 passed in the state Senate by a vote of 21 to 14 and Senate Bill 1366 passed by a vote of 23 to 14.
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Harvard historian Jill Lepore has a piece attacking gun rights in the latest New Yorker, and a follow-up post on the magazine’s website. Most of it is basically what you’d expect: some numbers about gun violence, some horrifying anecdotes about people who’ve misused guns, some reporting from a gun range, some artsy writing (“a gun is a machine made to fire a missile that can bore through flesh”), and an overarching history of the gun-rights movement.More irksome, however, is Lepore’s analysis of the Second Amendment’s meaning. By leaving out or misrepresenting key historical details, she shortchanges the idea that the Second Amendment protects an individual right.
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Yesterday, House Bill 1048 had its hearing in the Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee and was postponed indefinitely by a 3 to 2 vote, effectively killing this bill for this year.  HB 1048, introduced by state Representative Mark Waller (R-15), would eliminate the duplicative state-run Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) InstaCheck system for the purchase of firearms and solely utilize the existing National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). 
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I just got my Hunting license and I did not know what to do after that, I took the hunting safety course and received the hunting license card. How do I apply for big game hunting in multiple states? Preferably online. How much will it cost for the tags and how does the pickings work? Thanks in advance.

Hunting in multiple states is expensive. Out-of-state licenses can be ten times the price of an in-state license.

For example, in my state (SC), it costs $25 for a Resident Combo License- that includes small and big game hunting, fishing, and with the proper stamps, turkey and migratory (non-waterfowl) bird. It’s an extra $5.50 for a duck stamp.

For a non-resident, just the big game and small game licenses would cost $225.

A commercial freshwater license for a resident is $50. For a nonresident, it’s $1,000.

Just so you can compare prices, it costs $500 for a LIFETIME hunting/Fishing combo license for a resident in SC. Compare that to the one-year $225 cost for hunting licenses for a nonresident.

You might want to stay in your own state for the time being… Especially since you seem to have no idea what you’re doing. Start out small.

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I finally got my gun in Washington, D.C. I brought it home today from the District’s firearms’ registry office.After months of aggravation, hundreds of dollars in fees, countless hours jumping over hurdles, I am now a gun owner and finally exercising my second amendment right to keep arms (bearing arms is still illegal in the nation’s capital).
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State lawmakers are poised to advance a bill that could financially punish cities that require the timely reporting of lost or stolen firearms.House Bill 1523’s sponsors say it’s an issue of governance: Municipalities cannot adopt ordinances that supersede state laws. Forty eight municipalities statewide   including Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Allentown, Reading, Lancaster and Erie   have local laws requiring the timely reporting of lost or stolen guns, or have passed resolutions asking the state to do so, even though state lawmakers in 2008 rejected such a proposal.
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