guided schmided! personally, im not a trophy hunter. im a meat hunter, i love being in the woods, and i really like guns! thats why i hunt. i would get the shakes if i saw a doe or some freak of nature buck. it doesnt matter. with that said, i wanna be romanced, i wanna be wined and dined, i wanna dance, i want to be toyed with. think of it as foreplay i guess. you walk into the woods with expecting the unknown, am i going to even see a deer today? am i in the right spot today, has a deer even been here in the past 4 months? you sit for a while, thinking you should find a better spot, but your experience tell you to stay. you look around, you finally see something moving. you cant tell what it is or if its even coming your way. 10 minutes later you think its gone. a few minutes pass by and you have givin up hope, all the sudden you see 4 more, might even be 5 if i counted legs right. they mill around a little jsut out of range. staying behind trees as if they are playing mind games with you. your legs hurt because your trying to stand SO still, your face has 3 misquitoes on it but you refuse to swat them. you tell yourself you take a few lumps on your forehead for that big ol doe. they move a littel closer, then a littel closer, then a littel farther, one looks right at you for what seems like a week, your sure your busted, but then it looks away. they move back a littel closer, a littel closer and then BAM! stuck em' !

now isnt that a littel more exciting than, " ok, climb right up there. at about 8:23am there will probably be 6 deer come in beteen these two trees. you should shoot when they reach this point or this point. we' ll see ya at 8:30. good luck."

however, i would take a guided hunt if i was trying to learn another type of hunting like elk or ram just to find out how to do it.