Article: So You Wanna Be a Guide? Forget the three R's. Camping, calling and critter care are the three most important classes at guide school.

Byline: Brian McCombie

IN 1990 SCOTT BOULANGER MADE ONE of the biggest decisions of his life. Just 26, Boulanger was already a master electrician who owned a 10-man electrical contracting shop in Vernon, Conn. A lifelong hunter and angler, he had always dreamed of making his passion for the outdoors pay.

So Boulanger enrolled in a hunting-guide school, the Russ Willis School for Guides in Noxon, Mont. During four weeks of instruction, Boulanger learned the fundamentals of working with horses and mules (including how to pack and shoe them), how to set up a wilderness camp and what it takes to guide hunters on successful elk hunts.

"It was ...

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