Art Eatman
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Radios are fine if some common sense is used. A click-check during a five-minute "On" period at even-numbered hours is no big deal. Not worth bothering with if not in inherently-hazardous country, IMO.
Most irritating behaviors in the field..
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Cob
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I agree that every couple hours is fine, safe, and good practice... i have taken a kid hunting before, and even numbered minutes were a little more irritating. I found that it was easier to sit with him.
Cob
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Sitting in a box stand and seeing that plastic bottle 3/4 full of yellow foamy liquid sitting on the nearby shelf. you northern guys might not know about box stands?
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langenc
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touch off a couple and dribble a few pellets onhim.
I recall when I was in grade school the neighbor and relative took me along duck hunting. We set 60-70 LARGE cork deeks and then this jacka55 comes alone and sets 6 about 75 yards away. He finally shoots a duck circling our deeks. The duck drops nearer to us than him. The friends friend, shot the duck when the wing flipped a little. The duck was so close that when shot it was blown sideways over 1'. Told the other 'hunter' he anchored it for him, it was going to fly away. The dude picked up his duck and dekes and left-good riddance.
I recall when I was in grade school the neighbor and relative took me along duck hunting. We set 60-70 LARGE cork deeks and then this jacka55 comes alone and sets 6 about 75 yards away. He finally shoots a duck circling our deeks. The duck drops nearer to us than him. The friends friend, shot the duck when the wing flipped a little. The duck was so close that when shot it was blown sideways over 1'. Told the other 'hunter' he anchored it for him, it was going to fly away. The dude picked up his duck and dekes and left-good riddance.
in addition to general safety violations, I can't stand it when I'm hunting with someone and they don't show up on time, or don't show up at all, especially if I am hosting. If I'm going into the woods I want to be there early,i don't want to have to sneak to my stand while it is getting light outside. I was hunting with a friend once on his family land. I called him when I woke up that morning to verify we were still going. He was still drunk from the night before. I gotta give him credit for not going hunting drunk, but he certainly ruined my morning. I would have stayed out with everyone else at the bar the night before if I had known that.
That not showing up thing is a pain. My stepson does that too. Getting ready to drive 180 miles to shoot PD's and he doesn't show up. 45 minutes late and I called him and he says he is juts "too tired"!!
I killed over 100 dogs that day by myself. The best shooting I've ever had there!!
Greg
I killed over 100 dogs that day by myself. The best shooting I've ever had there!!
Greg
Cob
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Getting Stuck
I personally hate getting stuck, and have had a vehicle in that predicament too often to remember... sometimes it's me
, other times i wasn't the one driving...
it doesn't just happen hunting either, sometimes fishing as well... posted pics of a mud boat ramp that caused some real fun... I had a bass tournament as bachelor party before the wedding, and still wonder if these guys didn't do it on pupose...
I personally hate getting stuck, and have had a vehicle in that predicament too often to remember... sometimes it's me
, other times i wasn't the one driving...it doesn't just happen hunting either, sometimes fishing as well... posted pics of a mud boat ramp that caused some real fun... I had a bass tournament as bachelor party before the wedding, and still wonder if these guys didn't do it on pupose...
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pikid89
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^ he prob just wanted to fish out the back of the truck and needed a pier
my peeve when on public land is when your in a nice spot a little ways off the road in your ladder stand that you came out on the early scouting day to set up 2 days prior
All is quiet and and the sky is changing colors and the birds are starting to make noise and...
here comes they guy who got up late, tearin down the dirt road in his big dodge turbo diesel with un muffled stacks...you can hear him from about a half a mile away, and thats with my relatively poor human hearin power...not to even speak of every damn deer for 5 miles
my peeve when on public land is when your in a nice spot a little ways off the road in your ladder stand that you came out on the early scouting day to set up 2 days prior
All is quiet and and the sky is changing colors and the birds are starting to make noise and...
here comes they guy who got up late, tearin down the dirt road in his big dodge turbo diesel with un muffled stacks...you can hear him from about a half a mile away, and thats with my relatively poor human hearin power...not to even speak of every damn deer for 5 miles
Zombiphobia
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I think this one is the winner, or tied with the every half-hour radio checks.
35 Whelen
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Mmm....I gotta morons on ATV's who are too lazy to walk, so they disturb the peace of the woods with their noisy rides.
35W
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230therapy
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I don't hunt often. I do like to go after rabbits with my beagle. I thought the whole point was to go out there and walk around. If people are that lazy, then why bother?
I don't even care so much if I get anything. I just like working the dog and carrying the gun around. Next time I'm taking the Ruger 10/22...
SWAT1911
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People laying their rifles against fences or trees after I have explained to please not do that.
Liberty1776
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People who see you, and then set up next to you anyway. Guys who don't have a clue about muzzle discipline. Guys who kill something just to kill it (Orcs do that, not humans.) And I'm not talking pest or predator control... Guys who shoot small deer and then don't want to put their tags on them!!! (We don't hunt with him anymore...) and finally, guys who tell you that you are doing it wrong when they've never actually done it themselves...
Perhaps not hunting but fishing. Some jerk off parks on top of you when the whole darn lake is open. Lets thier dogs loose to come over and harrass you. The owners just say don't worry they don't bite and walks off.
Sorry happened a couple hours ago still pissed. Fishing with my wife and 4 kids don't need a strange dog in the mix.
Sorry happened a couple hours ago still pissed. Fishing with my wife and 4 kids don't need a strange dog in the mix.
grubbylabs
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^^ Had that same thing happen to me. Only one of the dogs was very aggressive, we had to stand still or the dog would get even more aggressive. The owner could not figure out why I pulled my pistol. My brother and I were in waders in the middle of a creek, in other words we were sitting ducks.
lkbenson
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About 8 or 10 years ago a friend and I were hunting elk in north central Colorado. We had been hunting 2 or 3 days and hadn’t even seen fresh sign much less anything shootable when the local game warden decided to check out licenses.
Everything checked okay and the g.w. was a very personable guy so I asked him where all the elk were.
He points across the valley and says that there are about 300 head over on that ranch and says that there are another 200 head over on Jack Schmuck’s spread as he points in the other direction. He goes on naming another three or four big ranches and how many head were on each.
This warden is getting more and more animated the longer he talks and goes on to explain to us that the game and fish dep’t had asked (pleaded) with these ranchers to scatter the elk onto public (national forest) land so that the general (poor) population could hunt them. The elk were very plentiful that year but the game and fish were trying to thin the herds to help cut down on the expected upcoming winter kill.
These same ranchers were, and still do, charging $500 to $5000 for the privilege of hunting on a ranch where you were almost guaranteed success. All it took was a pocket full of money and evidently there are people with more money than me.
The GW goes on to tell us that after hunting season when all is said and done these same ranchers that have been collecting thousands of dollars to hunt “their elk” turn around and submit claims worth thousands of dollars more to the state for the damage the elk have done to their ranch land and the state pays them.
We spent almost an hour talking to this game warden and I honestly believe that he was more upset that me. That was the last time I went elk hunting as every time I drove by or saw a rancher I think I wanted to hunt ranchers instead of elk.
I had pretty much put all of this behind me as it had been a few years and like I said, I don’t hunt elk anymore but we were deer hunting last year when a local rancher stopped by camp and asked if we had hunted up such and such draw and if we had if we had seen some stray cattle he couldn’t find. We told him we hadn’t seen his cattle but would keep an eye out for him. As he was leaving one of us ask him about hunting on his land. He comes back with “PEOPLE PAY TO HUNT ON MY LAND” and all of the bitter feelings toward these land owners came flooding back.
So I have to say that one of the most irritating hunting complaints that I have is the people that own the private land and think that they own the game that is on it.
Everything checked okay and the g.w. was a very personable guy so I asked him where all the elk were.
He points across the valley and says that there are about 300 head over on that ranch and says that there are another 200 head over on Jack Schmuck’s spread as he points in the other direction. He goes on naming another three or four big ranches and how many head were on each.
This warden is getting more and more animated the longer he talks and goes on to explain to us that the game and fish dep’t had asked (pleaded) with these ranchers to scatter the elk onto public (national forest) land so that the general (poor) population could hunt them. The elk were very plentiful that year but the game and fish were trying to thin the herds to help cut down on the expected upcoming winter kill.
These same ranchers were, and still do, charging $500 to $5000 for the privilege of hunting on a ranch where you were almost guaranteed success. All it took was a pocket full of money and evidently there are people with more money than me.
The GW goes on to tell us that after hunting season when all is said and done these same ranchers that have been collecting thousands of dollars to hunt “their elk” turn around and submit claims worth thousands of dollars more to the state for the damage the elk have done to their ranch land and the state pays them.
We spent almost an hour talking to this game warden and I honestly believe that he was more upset that me. That was the last time I went elk hunting as every time I drove by or saw a rancher I think I wanted to hunt ranchers instead of elk.
I had pretty much put all of this behind me as it had been a few years and like I said, I don’t hunt elk anymore but we were deer hunting last year when a local rancher stopped by camp and asked if we had hunted up such and such draw and if we had if we had seen some stray cattle he couldn’t find. We told him we hadn’t seen his cattle but would keep an eye out for him. As he was leaving one of us ask him about hunting on his land. He comes back with “PEOPLE PAY TO HUNT ON MY LAND” and all of the bitter feelings toward these land owners came flooding back.
So I have to say that one of the most irritating hunting complaints that I have is the people that own the private land and think that they own the game that is on it.
jleyring
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AMEN!
35 Whelen
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That is EXACTLY why I couldn't care less how many points Joe Schmoe's buck or bull scored or whether or not it made book. All it takes these days to kill a big bull or a big buck is $$$$.
You're much kinder than I, as my response would have been "PEOPLE PAY ME TO TELL THEM WHERE THERE CATTLE ARE". I know that's probably wrong....
35W
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langenc
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Buddy and I were frequent hunting/fishing partners. we had lots of spots to hunt/fish.
Buddys wife invited her lady friends wife to go fishing w/ us.
Didnt catch anything that night, they just weren't biting. Of course the place we fished, we had never fished there before.
Buddys wife invited her lady friends wife to go fishing w/ us.
Didnt catch anything that night, they just weren't biting. Of course the place we fished, we had never fished there before.
SleazyRider
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I don't like people who stink. I've hunted with self-proclaimed "experienced" hunters who smell like cigarettes, after shave, BO, fried chicken, car fresheners, laundry detergent, et cetera. If I can smell you, surely the deer can.
RonDeer10mm
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When I go on my first youth hunt and I see a nice buck and have to pass it up because the "guide" I was assigned couldn't see it, or because one of the bucks only has half a rack
so what if it only has half a rack ...
so what if it only has half a rack ...grubbylabs
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That is exactly what I was thinking 35w
Nothing like the Hay give me a hand and oh by the way screw you attitude.
I almost forgot one of my favorites.
O dark thirty in the morning your almost a mile or so off the road and suddenly you hear the loudest diesel truck in the universe come rattling down the road, it comes to a sliding stop, you faintly hear the door slam shut, and then to cap it all off, you hear the cheesiest bugle ever done by man kind. Then not 30 seconds later you hear the truck door slam shut again and the truck bangs to life and you can almost imagine the rooster tail as you hear him red line it while he is pealing out. Only to hear the same thing about a 1/4 mile down the road.
Nothing like the Hay give me a hand and oh by the way screw you attitude.
I almost forgot one of my favorites.
O dark thirty in the morning your almost a mile or so off the road and suddenly you hear the loudest diesel truck in the universe come rattling down the road, it comes to a sliding stop, you faintly hear the door slam shut, and then to cap it all off, you hear the cheesiest bugle ever done by man kind. Then not 30 seconds later you hear the truck door slam shut again and the truck bangs to life and you can almost imagine the rooster tail as you hear him red line it while he is pealing out. Only to hear the same thing about a 1/4 mile down the road.
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so the guy was a jerk... shoot his cows if you found them.. do whatever you want...
so if your "poor" your entitled to whats on someone elses land... that sounds like stuff I hear coming out of our white house.. donald trump shouldn't have to give you a ride on his yachts or airplanes either... "poor" is a fun word to throw around, but I bet many people fall into a much poorer class than you or I(and I really don't make much)... NO ONE IS ENTITLED TO ANYTHING... I wish I was but I know I am not...I wouldn't scatter teh elk either... it's business...
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