Bad hunting manners!

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Leave your camp site and the land you hunt on cleaner than you found it. Don't shoot towards buildings/livestock/etc. (should be obvious but don't know how many times our livestock, buildings, blinds, and us were dusted or heard bullets zipping overhead).
 
Isn't there a flat rule that once you touch alcohol you're done hunting for the day? Most people I know enforce it.
 
When they started yelling "ALCHOHOL, TOBACCO, AND FIREARMS!" I thought they were making a delivery.:mad:



















I've only been hunting 5 or 6 times and I've never had any problems. The people I hunt with are great.
 
My father went hunting with someone once, a newbie. The newbie, my father, and Papa's friend were all sitting in the stand, trying to get the newbie to shut up, when a buzzard perched on a limb outside the stand.

The newbie just wouldn't have it. He reached out, grabbed the vulture by its legs, and jerked it into the stand! The bird puked on everyone, and this guy was blacklisted for all eternity as a hunting buddy.

But this one's better...

My father and I went dove hunting one year, and this pack of noisy yuppies was across the field from us with unplugged shotuns, practicing spray and pray on every bird they saw, and not just the ones which were safe to shoot. Every time a bird came into their vicinity it sounded like the Civil War. I was mopping up their missed doves with a 20 ga. Remington 1100, not doing a bad job of it, either, and they started shooting at me! They were 150-200 yards away peppering my father and I.

I was glad when the game warden hauled the lot of 'em off.
 
From the wife perspective:

Let your wife know where you will be hunting so if you don't return home at a reasonable time, she can tell the police where to start looking for your body.

Also (and this is one my husband came up with) leave a boot print behind for tracking just in case a search party is needed.
 
When they started yelling "ALCHOHOL, TOBACCO, AND FIREARMS!" I thought they were making a delivery.
Around my parts they go ahead and call themselves CSR "Coors, Skoal, and Remington".
Anyway, I was hunting with a family friend one time and we got waved off Hisproperty by a poacher. I don't think he got any deer that day because we emptied our 1100's about 50 yards from his spot and then called the cops.
 
If you've already filled your tag shooting another critter and using my tag isn't only uncool it is illegal.
Not necessarily so. For example , in NYS, a hunter legally can transfer his/her unfilled Deer management Permit (Doe Permit) to another hunter.
 
And always remember!

G'day everyone,.....

What a great thread,....

everything said so far I can't find fault with,.

One thing also,....when you get back to camp or return to camp after 'going for a walk'....
WASH YOUR HANDS!!!!!! :fire:

Don't just stick ya dirty mitts into the fridge and grab food or drinks etc.
Nobody wants Dissentary!!

We always keep a bowl with water and disinfectant to wash your hands when you get back into camp,...
.you don't wash hands---you don't get fed!!!!!

Camp rules!
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Aussie.
 
When they started yelling "ALCHOHOL, TOBACCO, AND FIREARMS!" I thought they were making a delivery.

I've always wanted to own 3 stores right next door to each other....
 
good thread.....again, it seems anybody with any common sense would not need these suggestions, but most of us can identify with the aforementioned situations.

from Mrs. Hoppes....
From the wife perspective:

Let your wife know where you will be hunting so if you don't return home at a reasonable time, she can tell the police where to start looking for your body.
good one...I also leave a map on the dash of the area I'll be hunting when on large tracts of public land. It helps to give them an idea of where to start looking.


On public land if you leave your portable temporary stand in a tree overnight, you DON'T have a reservation on that spot in the woods the next day, unless you're IN that treestand when another person shows up.
Here in Wisconsin, other than the Friday before opening day of regular gun season all treestands must be removed at the end of the day. If not, they are considered abandoned and the removal and/or use of such is deemed permisable. You can put them up in the morning and then leave them up until you return in the evening, but you must have your name attached and visible from the ground....again if not, they are considered abandoned This is to keep
some from posting their spot or reserving it as Loyalist Dave stated. I know of folk that have acquired a nice collection of tree stands over the years thanks to this rule.

...and last but not least, group hunting is legal here in Wisconsin for gun deer season too. But before you legally bag someone elses deer, you best have their permission first, at least in the group I hunt with.....and even with permission if you shoot two, you best be taggin' the little one or the gut shot one yourself and leave the better of the two for the other guy. Don't assume that everyone wants you to shoot their deer for them.....not at $100 bucks a crack for processing.


It's funny how many good friends I have that are not my hunting companions..............
 
f you are deer hunting with a group (either dog or still hunting),
STAY ON YOUR STAND UNTIL RELEASED Almost shot a guy once because he strayed off assigned stand, then pulled out his hankie (white, of course) to blow his nose.

It's also important to know what you're shooting at! People get hurt because others fire at rustling bushes and white flashes.
 
Another good safety tip (especially for those with a GPS and a tree stand) . . .

In addition to telling my wife where I am going and letting folks at deer camp know where I am, I also email my GPS coordinates to my wife when I get up in my stand.

That way, she knows pretty clearly where I am (she already has the GPS coordinates for my basecamp) and if I fell I am right there or if I shot a deer within a couple of hundred yards of there.
 
DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, eat my Twix candy bars! I brought elk pepper sticks to share . . . some things are sacred . . .
 
DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, eat my Twix candy bars! I brought elk pepper sticks to share . . . some things are sacred . . .
I was always under the impression that if this law was broken, the victim is legally obliged to shoot the culprit.
 
the victim is legally obliged to shoot the culprit

Soaking their underwear & socks in a cold mountain stream has since been adopted as a "civilized alternative." Star-thistle pods in the toes of their hunting boots is optional, as is removing the toilet paper from the privy immediately prior to their next "moving experience." Lordy, I can be a rotten bastrich . . . but, if ya dance, expect to pay the fiddler . . .
 
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