As many of you will know, I'm mostly an armchair hunter (having bagged several armchairs

). Circumstances have prevented me from making any hunting trips until next year, probably. My question is this:

Rather than engage a PH for the usual package with X amount of trophies in X amount of days, is it possible to hunt simply in order to gain experience of hunting? eg spend a week or so tracking game and shooting one or two, but not for trophies, with maybe the meat going to the PH & his staff or local people?

If this is possible, would it be appreciably cheaper than the normal packages?

Any advice would be gratefully recieved. Thanks