Author Topic: Ever do all the work only to have your buddy show up and kill something?? (Read 8339 times)

KimberRich · « **on:** February 05, 2010, 03:03:40 PM »

Let's hear the stories about how you did all the work or scouting and someone showed up and killed something..

Here's mine.

So a couple years back I scouted a new area a bunch pre-season and figured it out and cut some trails and made some blinds out of logging slash and was ready for the season. My hunting partner of many years had recently had his first kid and wasn't able to do any scouting pre-season so being a nice guy I let him hike in with me opening weekend and showed him the areas. I hunted hard the first 7 days of the season and saw a bunch of deer and passed on a tiny spike. I had to work the second saturday of the season and he decided to drag his fat lazy Dad out to my spot where he, of course, shot a nice buck. Sat a total of 15 minutes after daylight..

I got pretty hot with him and said that I didn't work my butt off for a month so his Dad could show up and shoot a deer.. If it would have been him I would have been ok with it but bringing someone else into an area like that is just not right. I wouldn't do that to anyone.

MtnMuley · « **Reply #1 on:** February 05, 2010, 03:16:15 PM »

I am thankful that my friends and I respect each others areas, and always discuss issues that might be of concern.

Sorry to hear about your hunt KimberRich.

bobcat · « **Reply #2 on:** February 05, 2010, 03:34:32 PM »

I've had that happen with a duck hunting spot. I'd taken a couple friends into a spot that only I and maybe one other person knew about, that we had found and learned how to hunt. Then one time during the week when I was working I just happened to be in the area and decided to drive by and see if there were any ducks around, because we planned on hunting it again on the weekend. Well you guessed it, my friends who I had just shown "my" spot the weekend before were parked there. They had never mentioned anything to me that they wanted to hunt there during the week. Probably because they knew I wanted to let the spot rest so it would be full of ducks for our hunt on Saturday. This was a public spot but nobody else ever hunted it that I know of. Oh well, that was 20 years ago, now you can't really hunt it because of the new houses around there. It did take me quite a while to get over the fact that I couldn't trust my friends. It wouldn't have been so bad if they had said something to me first about going and hunting it during the week. Of course I would have said no, wait till Saturday when I can go, and I'm sure they knew that...

wapiti hunter2 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 05, 2010, 04:25:37 PM »

Sort of. Years ago when I lived in Nevada my best friend drew a coveted Nevada desert bighorn tag. It was for a unit in southern Nevada northeast of Las Vegas that I knew fairly well from doing a lot of geology in the area. I knew that there were some good rams in the area. We started scouting and spent many days and many, many hours looking through spotting scopes and hiking ridges. We located one absolutely huge ram. Easy record book. He lived on a ridge that was isolated, steep but accessable if we were willing to do the effort. We were jazzed, his tag but you know how it is, partnership hunt, time with your best friend, blah, blah. We planned a four day hunt beginning on a Saturday. I was a student at UNLV and couldn't start till the weekend. On Friday morning he calls me up and says 'I got one". I'm disbelieving, "You did not, did you go alone? Lots of questions. Turns out he was going back out to scout on Thurs. evening and saw a barley legal ram right off the highway (like 200 yards) and decided to shoot it. It was legal by like 4 points and I almost felt embarrassed for being involved at all. He said he just wanted to get one and didn't care how big. Why didn't he say so in the first place. All that time spent..........I was so pissed I couldn't talk to him for weeks.

bobcat · « **Reply #4 on:** February 05, 2010, 04:29:58 PM »

Oh man, after that I'm not sure I would have EVER talked to him again!

What the hell was he thinking

markts · « **Reply #5 on:** February 05, 2010, 04:36:57 PM »

I dont blame you for being pi$$ed. That would end a friendship for me if he didnt ask about it first.Mark

huntnphool · « **Reply #6 on:** February 06, 2010, 01:20:15 AM »

Over the years I have done lots of hiking, scouting, research, planning, spent thousands and been fortunate enough to tag some trophies. Anymore I get just as much fun and joy out of helping my kids, brother and friends get their tags filled as myself, even though they have not put the same effort into it. Sometimes circumstances don't allow them the same free time or abilities, I don't mind sharing in these situations.

markts · « **Reply #7 on:** February 06, 2010, 09:48:07 AM »

If it would have been him I would have been ok with it but bringing someone else into an area like that is just not right. I wouldn't do that to anyone. Nuff said. Mark
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monster · « **Reply #8 on:** February 06, 2010, 10:03:20 AM »

Never show a friend your hot spot. Because they will always bring someone and that person will bring someone and so on. Years ago i showed a coworker/friend a hunting spot and the next year he had a camp set up with 4 other hunters.Never again, I always hunt by myself.

STIKNSTRINGBOW · « **Reply #9 on:** February 06, 2010, 10:48:24 AM »

This season I am showing some guys a new area.
I hunted area alone last year and would only hike in 3 miles because I had no help if I got an elk.
I want help when I get an animal down, the same as I help my friends when they get an animal down.
I am too impatient to hunt from a stand myself, I like to explore and when I get an animal it requires more work on the recovery, so it evens out.
So I will be building blinds/stands for them to use this upcoming season.
My freinds wont go hunt the area unless I am there, so it doesn't worry me.
And with 3 different gates to walk in, with multiple roads behind the gates and plans for building 3 Stands near well used trails.
I dont mind doing a lot of work and having someone else reap the benifits.
I count animals hung in camp, and the high spirits and comraderie successful hunts provide.
Also, 2 of the guys I want to come along cannot walk very far (one older hunter and one with leg problems), so I have to make allowances.

If it is Elk season and I am not there, I hope they have a memorial service because I am dead!
So I wont worry about them abusing my efforts.

MAVsled · « **Reply #10 on:** February 06, 2010, 08:52:37 PM »

similar situation happened to me over 14 years ago, I've never forgotten it....and have never made that mistake again.

an area we hunted for years, I had scouted an area for muleys for the past 2 weekends prior to the rifle season, a 6 hour drive each way to do so.
Opening weekend; I had gone over early to set camp, cut wood for stove etc on Thursday b4 opener. Friday eve, My usual hunting partner showed up in camp with his friend from work...I'd never met the friend before. Not wanting to be rude, I didn't say much as he tagged along for the 4 day trip. At least he had his own tent to stay in.

3rd day: A muley I'd spotted scouting pre season showed himself on "my" ridge, 170+ class Twisp buck. As I waited for the buck to clear some brush for a clear shot, a shot rings out right above me. And then another shot as I watch the now wounded buck run down the ravine and a 3rd shot the buck falls over flopping and soon dies. Whoops of celebration followed as the friend had followed me up the ridge without my knowledge, shot the buck right out from under me. His first shot hit the buck dead center in the paunch, 2nd shot hit in the rear quarter and miracle 3rd shot (270 yds) hits in the ribcage. he later claimed that after seeing nothing for 2 days, he decided; "to follow you since you appear to know your sh_ _".

I had a pretty serious talk with my usual hunting partner after that trip! We talk about it now and laugh but wasn't so funny that first year of his friend, who never hunted with him again but...
The next season this guy shows up with 3 other friends, geesh there goes "my" area. After 2 seasons of getting blanked, they never came back. But they did get plenty drunk those 2 seasons. At least they camped across the road from us.

STIKNSTRINGBOW · « **Reply #11 on:** February 06, 2010, 09:00:09 PM »

Strangers in camp can cause problems, I guess I am lucky that most of the guys that my friends have are not jerks like that.
We are a bunch of Trad Archers and we dont bring guys up that aren't willing to spend a little time getting to know the group before hunting with us.

383man · « **Reply #12 on:** February 06, 2010, 09:58:00 PM »

So when I was younger I used to go backcountry elk hunting with my dad in the selway unit in idaho where i grew up. pack back on horses about 20 miles. well on this trip my much older cousin wanted to go so we brought him along, no biggy. well we got onto elk the first day at my dads favorite spot to bugle, the bull was coming in as fast as it could and we were just waiting to see him pop out of the trees so I could shoot my first bull. well when he got closer to us the crashing in the timber stopped and you couldn't hear him anymore. well my cousin was unable to sit still and was moving around a lot trying to see the bull, it spotted him, and rolled out.

not the end of the world since there was still a week ahead but still very frustrating. The next morning he decided he wanted to get back to that spot, and me and dad decided we didn't want him to step on our toes all day so we let him have dads hot spot and we took off in a differant direction, only to hear shots ring out soon after. He shot a bull, which i suspect was the same bull from the previous day, in no time after getting to our usual spot. not impressed, and I ended up not getting a bull that year.

oh well, such is life ehh...

Shootmoore · « **Reply #13 on:** February 06, 2010, 09:58:25 PM »

I have no friends so no problem!

I did take a supervisor from my old job one time to a nice quail and chucker spot I had been hunting since I was knee high to a grasshopper. It was landlocked by private land and I had been carefull to make sure the flocks in the area were not over hunted. I caught him on the spot tresspassing across the private ground. A discussion on the difficulty of hunting when castrated took care of that issue. Since I would no longer take him hunting anymore the lazy bum gave up bird hunting a couple years later.

Also no sweat at work, I think he knew better than to muck around with my job.

Shootmoore

Sneaky · « **Reply #14 on:** February 07, 2010, 09:50:17 PM »

In 06 I shot a nice 5x6 muley in a spot I hadn't scouted, just been hunting the general area for years. The buck came over the hill, Boom, dropped it. I went over to check it out and two dudes came down the hill right where the deer had come down. They yelled across the canyon, "is it a 3 or a 4?" I yelled back "4" (it was a 4-point frame). The guy yelled "oh...." and turned and left.

I guess he bird dogged it right to me.

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