Hunting Immersion Program

One of the biggest challenges for the beginning hunter is the overwhelming array of obstacles in the form of important ethics, regulations, hunting-tool proficiency, identifying good hunting habitat, effective hunting techniques and the entire process of bringing an animal out of the woods and processing it into food for your family

Join master hunter Tom Prang for a course on the practice, ethics and regulations of subsistence hunting. This program takes place over a series of evenings and weekend.

Ethics and Regulations

Learn how to respect state game regulations in regard to locations, hunting tags and ordinance. This course thoroughly covers these topics while also correlating them with an exploration of hunting ethics that focus on progressively sustainable and humane harvest.

Outdoor Skills

Learn to choose and cultivate different hunting sites for different game. Setting up blinds, stalking techniques and all the points necessary for closing the gap between hunter and prey. Develop practical sign tracking skills and trailing capacity for large game and assessment of habitat for a variety of animals.

Finally we address packing out, butchering and processing of game insisting that every possible part of the animal is utilized in a respectful manner.

Firearm Safety and Skills

While we cover pragmatic skills for hunting applicable to any tool or weapon, we focus on firearms for beginners to insure early success and more humane and expedient dispatch of animals. We provide basic rifles to learn hands-on rifle safety and maintenance. Participants are strongly encouraged during the course of the program to come equipped with their own rifle so safety, maintenance and targeting are customized to their individual gun.

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About Tom

Tom Prang has lived as a subsistence hunter, fisher, gleaner and trapper for nearly 30 years. He is a Master Hunter certified by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Tom is also an experienced educator in the natural sciences, blending his academic backgrounds in archaeology and education with a diverse work history, including backcountry guide, wild-land firefighter, naturalist, researcher, park ranger, flint knapper, bear monitor and field archaeologist. Using both prehistoric and modern technology, Tom works with materials such as jade, mammoth ivory, bone, slate, wood, shell, fur, antler, and chalcedony to create museum-quality replicas for educational programs.

M.S. Curriculum/Instruction, Southern Illinois University, 1996
B.A. Anthropology, SIU, 1992
Northwestern University Archaeology Field School, Evanston, IL, 1988

In Regards to Bow Hunting

Since our focus is subsistence hunting for beginners and learning to dispatch the animal as quickly and humanely as possible, we are not initially offering a bow hunting program. Such a course is a possibility for a later date.

Student Responsibility

This course is a thorough immersion on how to hunt and not necessarily a fully guided expedition. Participants are responsible for acquiring their own license and tags, adhering to all relevant state regulations.

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