Passing the Outdoor Tradition on to the Next Generation

Avid hunter and outdoorsman, Aaron Oberschmidt.

Aaron Oberschmit, a Mississippi banker, has been an avid outdoorsman all his life.

“Basically, as soon as I could walk up a ladder into a deer stand, I’ve been an outdoorsman,” he said.

During deer season in Mississippi, Oberschmit goes hunting at least three times a week. He enjoys both bow and gun hunting. While most of his hunting is done on his family’s land in Mississippi, he has stalked deer all across the United States. Oberschmit was a college baseball player. A few years ago, he and his former teammates started traveling to Illinois where they bow hunt whitetail deer.

“We’ll spend five or seven days up there, and it’s a real good time,” he said.

However, Oberschmit is looking to expand his outdoor horizons, and he believes he may have stumbled upon the perfect solution.

Aaron Oberschmidt and his son Slade Oberschmidt share their love of hunting.

He recently discovered Global Outdoors – a website and app designed to help people discover, rate, and review outdoor experiences.

“When you’re looking to do something or you’re looking to go somewhere and you aren’t familiar with a particular area or particular activity, finding something of quality can be really frustrating,” he said. “But with Global Outdoors, all these outdoor experiences are in one place. It just seems like a perfect solution to me.”

Oberschmidt says that he has always been interested in mule deer hunting and plans to use Global Outdoors to find the best places to hunt.

“I want to go out west, but I’m not familiar with that area. Global Outdoors is going to be a big help in not only finding a place to hunt, but it makes me feel more confident that whatever I end up booking will be a great time for me and my family.”

His excitement for Global Outdoors extends to not just hunting; he’s really interested in using Global Outdoors to go on a trout fishing trip.

“Not having a contact makes it really difficult to find a good area. Having that source there that tells me who is a great trout fishing guide or where to go is just going to be huge,” he said.

Just as his father had done, Oberschmit is passing his love of the great outdoors on. His son, Slade, is nine years old, and is already following in his father’s muddy footprints.

“There’s a lot of life lessons in those woods,” he said. “I’ve never really known too many bad kids who love to fish and love to hunt. I think it helps kids learn how to be grounded and learn how to be down to earth. Plus, he just really enjoys it.”