Ever do all the work only to have your buddy show up and kill something??

[ICEMAN]

I have on several instances bought a new bow and a new gun and loaned them out only to have the folks who borrowed them take game with them before I did...

So is this good or bad?  Are you saying that you've helped others with their success and are happy about it, or that you've been bit by loaning out equipment that has damaged your success.?

What he is saying is that someone else got first blood, and it really sucks when that happens. Killbilly will help anyone hunt, but losing first dibs on the gun is the crappy deal... At least that is my take...

[rosscrazyelk]

I know a guy who was working out of state and was getting updates from his buddies about a big buck.. When he showed up a week after season opened and his buddies could not close the deal on the monster buck. He decided to go meet them one morning. This was his first day home after being gone for 5 months. Dismissed the wife and went hunting and on his way there the monster showed up in front of him . He closed the deal. His friends were pissed

[high country]

my pard asked to bring his buddy steve with us on a early bowhunt for elk. we were 3 hours into the first day when steve (from now on "the *censored*" or td) shoots a "monster buck". there is blood and we track it. td says he already tried and it has not been killed. well, 300yds later pard stumbles on td's "monster buck".....a yearling doe, with an arrow stuck in her arse. td gives up this BS story that she must have jumped in front of the buck. I wanted to feed td his teeth, but pard calmed me down. we elected to cut it short and haul td out before he learned our hole. that was 10 years ago and remembering it still pisses me off.

[high country]

I was hunting with a buddy of mine close to my house when he spotted movement 350 yds across a brush choked reprod. we glassed it for hours and I thought I picked up a buck. as darkness fell pard got up......I spazzed! I could see the buck and he was walking to us. my pard thought I was joking. I had him in my leica's for an hour after dark and watched him wrk out on thi ridge and work a doe.
we returned the next day and pard went right back to where he saw him.....I went back to where I saw him. I shot the deer not 50 feet from where I saw him the night before. I did give him the satisfaction of "servicing" a doe before the end.

[NWBREW]

I really don't mind helping friends out. Only once did something happen that really struck a nerve with me. A group of us always hunt the late hunt for whitetails while staying at my cabin in stevens county. We go for a week so there is plenty of time to get a tag filled. About the forth day my dad (he was 76 at the time) and I were hunting a area I had scouted earlier. I killed a small 4x4 (my dad couldn't find him in the scope so I shot) but I knew there was a big 4x5 running around there. We hunted that evening and came back to camp...decided we would give that area a rest for a day then go back after the big boy. I wasn't worried about any one else hunting there...it was a little hidey hole. My other buddy showed up that night so we filled him in on what was going on. He knew the spot and knew we had planned on giving it a rest for a day and then have my dad get a chance at the big buck. Well he went right up there in the morning and shot the 4x5 and left the next day. I felt horrible for my dad as you could tell he was pretty bummed.

Say what you want but I feel a shot at that buck was taken away from my dad. We did all the work. Maybe we should have gone up there in the morning or not said anything about it at all. No one else at my camp even thought about going up there. Yes it rubbed me the wrong way and I let him know it. Others at my camp felt the same. He has not been back since. He has been invited but has not come. Everytime I think about it ...it still gets to me.

[bobcat]

NWBREW,  That would bother me too, a lot!  I'm surprised he was invited back.

[hirshey]

NWBREW,  That would bother me too, a lot!  I'm surprised he was invited back.

I'm sorry that you had to experience that... those kinds of things bother me, if for nothing other than trust and respect seems to be violated.

[Kowsrule30]

Wow.... Some of these stories are worth fighting over!!!!!      I've taken a few buddies hunting in some of my areas and vise versa.... We never had any issues but also communicate about what we plan on doing the next hunt before that hunt is even over....    If somone can't make it or has other commitments for hunts with family or friends... It all gets worked out.... He doesn't take anyone into my places (only his Mom... she's very hot)  ... I don't take anyone into his places except my Dad and Uncle... (he's hunted with a lot them) So we have never had any problems... On another note... It's been a very long time since my Uncle has killed a deer.... 20 years or so.... So I always try to get him into game and will set him up in my favorite spots and take the less desireable one.... And I either end up shooting a nice one or passing a small one that he would have loved to take....     So one time he tells me to go to my spot and he'll go to this one.... You guessed it.... Shot the biggest BT of my hunting career or anyone in my family...      Now he just does his own thing....     And almost got one last year.... 

[seansfire]

Got a buddy to go with me to Sequim to hunt this airport that was " over run " with deer. Only thing that place is over run with is pissed off homeowners who hate the idea of shooting the pet deer sleeping on the dam runway. Anyway , i get him hooked up so he can hunt with me there as we had to have written permission and were confined to a small area , and on our 2nd trip the guy shoots a doe cleans it , loads it and i don't hear a word from the guy for a couple months and he says the meat was great. Never offered a scrap.

[DOUBLELUNG]

If you pick your friends very carefully, you and one buddy MIGHT be able to keep a spot a secret, at least from people you know.  The only way three people keep a secret, is if two of them are dead.