I only have one buddy that hunts up behind my house with me. He' s not a great shot or a very good archery hunter. For that reason, when I started seeing the big bucks as the rut rolled around, I didn' t tell him. He doesn' t practice scent control, comes and goes on a whim (spooking everything with it), and wounded a doe at 15 yards earlier in the season. I personally did not want him near my stands or the bucks and doing one of two things: 1. wounding them, or 2. spooking them away from the stands. The third option, him getting one of the bucks, would have been OK with me if I thought there was a better than 20% - 30% chance of that happening before the first two.

I kind of side with Parker1 on this. I don' t want someone who hasn' t done their homework or work as hard as I do ruining my chances if I can help it. Maybe I' m selfish.

BTW, really good friends and relatives are a completely different matter. I' ll bend over backwards to help them.