Off to Native Hunt!

Well, it’s another weekend and time to head back to the woods. This time I’m off to Native Hunt to help out with some pig hunts before the big dove hunt on Monday.

Yeah, I know, the dove season’s already well under way, but we haven’t shot at them down at the ranch yet so it promises to be a great time! Along on this trip will be Hank Shaw (Honest Food Blog) and Holly Heyser (NorCal Cazadora).

Among other things on this hunt, we’ll be working on a cool new project at Native Hunt. I hope to be telling you all about it both here, and at the new Native Hunt blog (launching soon).

So hang in there… hunting season is in full swing, and I’m making the most of it while I can!

mike

Posted September 19, 2009 at 12:16 PM

Hi I worked at native hunt and was a so called “guide”.
and i can tell you, that place is nothing but a spoiled rich mans little Hobie. that ranch isn’t eavan 500 acres. hunting ? no, more like a shooting a bunch of pet hogs….
i culled walk up to them hell eavan kiss the lil buggers… trust me that’s no hunt out their just a bunch off drunk guys playing hunter, if talk with nessen schmidt mark Williams or willaby all registered guides in California.

Phillip Loughlin

Posted September 19, 2009 at 1:15 PM

Sounds like some sour grapes from someone whining about a lost job.

I thought about deleting this comment, but why? I’d rather counter with a fact or two.

Fact… the fenced portion of the ranch is about 1000 acres, not 500, with an additional 400 acres semi-fenced out front. Honestly, though, for many people, 500 acres of this terrain is more than they can handle.

In addition to the fenced ranch, Native Hunt runs feral hog hunts on several thousand acres that have never seen more than a four-strand barbed wire fence.

Fact… the hunting IS easy on the fenced ranch. Unlike most public land hunts, the animals are scarcely pressured and very abundant. I don’t know about walking up and kissing the animals (except the fairly tame ones at the lodge), but they can make for a pretty easy hunt. That’s why some people do it… because they’re unable or unwilling to do what it takes on a free-range hunt. That’s just how it is… everybody is looking for their own experience. And if they want a hard hunt, we can sure accomodate them out at Priest Valley or San Ardo.

And if you’re jealous of rich folks because of their privileges, you’ve got a bigger problem than I can help you with.

Fact: The lead guides (myself included) are all licensed and registered. Mark’s son, Colby, is working with us, and Mark is a regular guest at dinners and events up at the lodge.

Sorry things didn’t work out for ya, Mike, but you know… sometimes we have to look inside to see where the problem really lies.
mike

Posted September 21, 2009 at 5:50 PM

well I quit that job for a job where i made half as much… you see my morals just couldn’t let me work out there.
You should know a lill more a bout mike, but please dont take any thing I say for the truth. and may i qoute?

“And if you’re jealous of rich folks because of their privileges, you’ve got a bigger problem than I can help you with.”
well no sr. I am not jealous of any rich person. see im not the one that needs to make my self feel good with an easy hog kill..

“Fact: The lead guides (myself included) are all licensed and registered. Mark’s son, Colby, is working with us, and Mark is a regular guest at dinners and events up at the lodge. ” well i dont blame you ther both damn good guys.

“Sorry things didn’t work out for ya, Mike, but you know… sometimes we have to look inside to see where the problem really lies.”

oh yes sr. things have worked out great for me in life…beleave me…
T.Michael Riddle

Posted September 21, 2009 at 8:16 PM

Some people just are gonna’ have sour grapes no matter what you say or do to try and make things better for them Phillip.

This “anonymous” Mike, who does not have the cajones to disclose his true identity, is very well remembered as a lazy, piece of dirt who got fired because he couldn’t handle the pressure and hard work out there.

He went to work for another outfit (which he mentions, not me) and got himself fired from there as well.
Then he had the nerve to call us back up for a job after he did nothing but bad mouth us to the persons/outfits he was working for at that time. L.O.L.!
Little did he know that the outfitters whom he mentions in his diatribe, have been good friends of mine for nearly 25 years and both have already called me to tell me about this child, that can’t even spell his own name, and his big mouth.

Some people, can’t live with em’ and ya’ can’t kill em’ either, what do you do with them?
Ignore them………………
Phillip Loughlin

Posted September 21, 2009 at 8:24 PM

Some people, can’t live with em’ and ya’ can’t kill em’ either, what do you do with them?
Ignore them………………

Sounds like a good direction for me.

Our boy, Mike, should speak only of what he knows, because shooting in the dark is as dangerous to the shooter as it is to the target.
mike

Posted September 23, 2009 at 7:44 AM

well god damn mr. riddle how are ya? well I recon you have me mixed up with someone.. its either that or your a bigger lie’r than i thought.
..and may I say the work out there wasent all that hard…
Jarred Huston

Posted September 23, 2009 at 8:44 AM

wow you guys AR hysterical I haven’t heard many good things about native hunts but this really takes the cake…hahaha and Michael riddle arnt you the owner?
in that white lifted truck with the boxes on the back?
T.Michael Riddle

Posted September 25, 2009 at 5:36 AM

Well “children” You both know how to get in touch with me (just click on my correctly spelled name here).
Or come on by and see me

Stop picking on Phillip here, grow a set of “NUTS” and stand up on some hind legs and visit me sometime to talk, Man to Man!
T.Michael Riddle

Posted September 25, 2009 at 5:38 AM

Or should I say: Man to “BOY”
Phillip Loughlin

Posted September 25, 2009 at 9:20 AM

For the first time on the Hog Blog, comments on a post have been disabled.

Suffice it to say that sufficient questions have been raised that I really want to get to the bottom of, but I do not believe that this is the appropriate forum to suss them out. The discussion is far too complex, and I believe that many aspects of it are private business, and not for the world to see.

For the time being, I will leave things at this:

Native Hunt makes no bones about what it is… primarily a high-fence, exotics hunting ranch. There is no lie or deception about it, and clients are aware of what they are booking when they arrange a hunt (or they should be).

It’s fairly unprofessional, no matter how well-intentioned, to speak poorly of your employer on a public forum while you are still taking that employer’s money… and especially if you have never discussed the issue with the employer first. Likewise, it’s not a great idea for an employer to discuss personnel issues on a global forum in any situation.

I apologize for not nipping this one in the bud before individual feelings got hurt, but I thought it was going in a different direction. My bad… the risk I take for trying to leave the discussions as free-range as they can get.

Off to Native Hunt!

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