Royal Tine Big Game Hunting Guide Training and Packer School

Husband & Wife Teams

Bring your spouse and get $500 off!

Royal Tine offers a $ 500 total tuition discount, if taking a 4 week class, for husband and wife or boyfriend and girlfriend teams attending the same dates Guide & Packer School and Camp Cooking School.

A perfect way to spend time with your significant other while learning about and enjoying the great outdoors. If you're looking for an outdoor adventure that both you and your spouse can enjoy, this is it! Please contact us with any questions you might have or for references of teams we have had in the past, they've all had amazing and wonderful times!

In 2001 my wife and I decided to quit our jobs and start guiding and cooking for a living. Doesn't sound like much if you are 19 years old and working in a factory, or Walmart making $18k a year. Not the case for us. I was 27 years old, and had been a mechanical engineer for seven years. My wife was 32 years old and a manager for Verizon Corp. We made $80k the last year before we went to guide and cook school. In my search for a guide school I spoke with many guide schools.

At Royal Tine, Cody and LeRee were the most honest and helpful in getting us the important information that we needed to make educated decisions about getting into the business. They did not try to sell us on the dream, they just told us the truth. Guide school was hard work, but so much fun. We were in school for four weeks, and by the third week, we already had a job lined up for the coming fall hunting season.

Our first job was in Kansas guiding deer, duck, quail, and turkey hunting, where Maria was the lodge cook. The next job we took was managing the upland hunting division for an Orvis endorsed lodge in southern Illinois, where Maria managed the kitchen. Next we decided that we wanted to go to Alaska. That wasn't quite as easy as it would seem, so we took a job in Arizona managing a lodge there. Finally, last year we made our first trip to Alaska to guide salmon and trout fishing. I also guided a moose hunt in western AK. Every year I go to Kentucky to work for Trophys Unlimited where I am the head turkey-hunting guide, then down to Colorado to guide elk hunters!

About Royal Tine
If it were not for Cody, LeRee, and John at Royal Tine and all their help, my wife and I would still be sitting behind a desk in an office with a terrible view. I must say that my new office has a great view all the time. Cody and LeRee have been so much more to us than just than just instructors. They have been friends to us for the past three and a half years. They have always been there to help us out with any questions or concerns that we have had, through the good and the bad.

We all know that this business is a dog eat dog line of work, and you will never do it for the money. You will do it because it will get in your blood and you can't ever imagine not doing it. I cannot think of myself working at a computer ever again. My wife and I are now working on getting our own lodge started. We look forward to the day coming soon when we can work for ourselves. Thanks so much, Cody and LeRee, for all your help during and after school.

Your Friend,
Josh Kugler

Josh and Maria Kugler went thru the school in July 2001. They are operating their own business now in Angola, Indiana called Aardvark Sign Company. Josh still does guided fishing trips on the side. They have guided and cooked in Colorado, Kansas, Alaska and Indiana.