dumb a$$

[burnhamrandr]

Passing on good hunting ethics is something all hunters need to take pride in. Wheather you are passing it to a kid or someone who is less educated then yourself. Hunters need to make sure that they take the time to educate themselves before going into the woods, but if people like that are not doing the animal justice and the atnit's catch wind of this they use it against all of us. There is no excuse for being a dumb ass some people just can't help themselves, but you can help all of us by educating them on the right ways to take care of their animals.

[Slider]

No matter what their mentality is we need to help our fellow hunter's!!! Thanks for taking the time. I walked up to a guy in Clockum years ago that had just shot a Bull and he had no idea what to do? He didn't know how to gut an animal and didn't have a pack to get the meat out!!! WTF I spent the rest of the day helping him!!! Pay it forward.

[rasbo]

one of the best hunts of my life was last year,didnt get anything.I did pack a 5x4 out for an old man that no way he could have got it out.I made three good friend and thats whats its about

[bowsandhose]

thanks for doing the right thing and taking time to help the person   

[cohoho]

Agree fully on assisting folks in those situations.  Had similar thing occur on a Bison Hunt, guy and his son shot one, they waved us over almost panicking.  They couldn't figure out how to get started, let alone clean it.  We stopped for a awhile, field butchered it and helped pack it into their truck, 100yards away. They were new to AK hunting but shot lots of Deer elsewhere and really didn't seem to grasp how big a Bison was or where to begin.  He gave us about 75lbs of meat, which we gave to our friend in Delta, we used his cabin to hunt from.  Ran into the same guy a year or so later at TGIF in Anchorage while on lunch, he picked up the tab.  Too cool..

I would do the same thing here in a second if I saw someone in the same dilemma.  Besides it is all about be a promoter of the outdoors.  Had they not had your assistance they might have quit hunting forever and switched to the tree huggers side of life.  Count it as a good deed done.  The Karma game gods will look out for you, well maybe, haven't seen too much of them this season....

[jae]

logger....Welcome to Wa idiot hunters.  Crap just finished cutting up a spike for a guy and his kid.  They had absolutely no idea what to do after killing it.  They actually waved me over and asked me to help.  F*&^k they had not even tagged it almost an hour after shooting it.  God can only help us.  We need hunters, but damn do we really need the new ones.  

Nobody is born knowing everything, and yes we do need new hunters, and yes we should be willing to help educate the ones that are not fortunate enough to have been taught a lifetime worth of skills and knowledge. Take pride in the fact you shared with a less knowing hunter and probably impressed them. Every hunter starts somewhere and you just gave a couple of the a good start. They will probably remember you for a long time.

Well said. We should always be willing help a fellow hunter.

Well said by all! Sometimes I forget I grew up hunting and I was tought at a very young age how to care for game.

[Ray]

logger you must be a good guy. I don't care what they say about you. 

[spin05]

I remember when my cousin got his first elk, we were standing there as he was putting on his plastic gloves to keep the guts off of him and it was taking for ever, It was the first animal he had ever gutted. Afetr 30 min or so, he hadn't hardly made a cut and wimped out because it was messy, I finally stepped in and finshed the job in like 5-10 min. I couldn't stand to wait any longer
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Man this story made me cry i laughed so hard :chuckle:t just picture that is too funny...

[TheHunt]

Logger you did the right thing and you will have good karma for doing just that. 

[hard hunter]

Logger you defiantly did the right thing.

A couple of years ago, when I was in Idaho, I ended up gutting, skinning and butchering about 7 deer for coworkers and first time hunters.  Thank goodness my wife put up with having animals hanging in the garage for that long.  She did say "NEVER AGAIN" though.  This year all of those that got them were able to do it by themselves. 

[logger]

I re read my post and realized I may have been a little harsh, the guy and his son were actually real nice guys. they payed real close attention to what we were doing, the only major problem was his knife it was one of those ones that you could gut an elephant with so we just used our pocket knifes.

[deerslyr]

Thanks for showin them how to do it. I had to gut and skin my first deer with some instruction. Was the bull shot in the mashel?

[DeerHarvester]

taking care of the game should be part of the hunter safety program. 

[addicted]

taking care of the game should be part of the hunter safety program. 

some people dont take the hunter safety program because they were born before 73 or something

[Skyvalhunter]

Some people forget how it was when they first started hunting. Cut some slack.