Ruined Friendships / Lost Loves / BabyMama Drama

[quiksilver]

Since most of us are pretty serious hunters, I'm sure we've all had some events in/out of the deer woods that have affected our personal lives...

Just wondering if/what/how y'all have been bitten by the hunting bug.

[130woodman]

I have lost 2 girlfriends over hunting.The first was in high school I was going to take her to home coming dance and I got the dates mixed up for an Elk hunt.She never spoke to me again. The second was in college when I had a bowhunting trip planned and then gun season was a week later. She never spoke to me again. It's all for the best because it would have been a fight every year.

[whitetailbowhunter]

I have lost a few friends after telling them that I hunt some of them after a while accepted it.

[quiksilver]

I've definitely got a checkered past when it comes to hunting buddies and family. There's a pretty extensive list of guys (family members included)who I avoid and no longer talk to - as a direct result of hunting. From my experience, usually, it's a result of one party doing something to damage a hunting area... "Unilateral" dissemination of information... Keeping secrets... Monopolizing areas... Lies... Differences in philosophy... Hunting guests... Schadenfreude... Jealousy... Surreptitious stuff...

I think once you get burned so many times... You just tend to take an isolationist approach. You don't say anything that doesn't need to be said. You choose your words carefully around others. You lie when you have to, but tell as much of the truth as possible.

In this regard - a lot of times - I view hunting as a curse. I wish these things weren't part of the game... But you can't change the rules.

[GMMAT]

I think once you get burned so many times... You just tend to take an isolationist approach.

I have found this to be true. I've said it before.....My "fellow hunter" rarely misses a chance to disappoint me.

[Schultzy]

I've lost some people that I thought were friends. These people I'm talking about were mostly women who thought what I was doing was cruel and disgusting. A few of them have accepted me for what I am but there's always a few that still lip off to me when I see them out partying or something. I don't hold back when they say there stuff, I shove it right back in there face and usually its me who has the last word being the whole neighborhood knows what kind of person I am and usually the person doing the bashing doesn't get hardly any support from the on lookers who over hear the uneducated tounge lashing towards me. As for my g/f she don't mind the hunting I do, every once in a while she gives me the guilt trip on being gone to much while bear hunting and I always tell her you knew how I was before we got together. It usually doesn't get into an argument after I say that.

[wallhangr]

Haven't lost any friends/girlfriends due to hunting, if anything I've gained more friends. I have on occasion found myself with a little extra cash on hand which got dropped on hunting gear - only to have something break down immediately after. Truck, air-conditioner, new roof......

[magicman54494]

My search still continues for a good hunting partner. I've been hunting for 33 years! Drinking, Lies, stealing, inviting new people into your hunting areas. The list goes on and on. My last partner is still trying to patch things up with me. I would enjoy having a good partner but I don't have a problem hunting alone.

Concerning women and children: I have always placed my relationships ahead of my hunting. I screened my women BEFORE getting in a relationship. If hunting was going to cause relationship problems I avoided them from the start. I also accepted my role as husband and father and made sure my hunting didn't interfere with my responibilities.

[stikbow26]

My first wife left me because I was on the road hunting all the time!! Well she ended up having an affair with my ex best friend and now is married to him!! The ironic part is he gave up hunting and I found my new best friend and wife number two and she doesn't care how much I am gone hunting or fishing so I personally think I won!!!!

[racewayking]

I lost my first wife due to hunting. Not a bad loss considering she would rather spend half her life in a bar or nightclub. It was a blessing in disguise as I remarried someone I have known for years, the one I should have the first time around.