Mentorship

Category: hunting-ethics
Topic keys: mentorship

Current guidance

As of 2026-04-12, the most recent claim on this subject.

In their most recent statements, Don and Terry frame mentorship as reciprocal debt-paying: having been shaped by mentors, they now try to shorten others’ learning curves. Don advises listeners to take advice only from people who have already achieved what they’re pursuing, and says a mentor like Wes, at 33, already knows more about setting up properties than Don did at 43. He credits teachers such as Aaron Gaines and Bronson Strickland while describing himself as a lifelong student rather than an expert. Terry credits Don’s encouragement with pushing him into consulting despite his own reluctance. Both cite outside sayings on experience over book knowledge, an Amish man’s ‘knowledge without mileage is worthless’ and Gene Wensel’s bicycle analogy, and describe aiming to pass on roughly forty years of hard-earned lessons.

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