I would say the biggest for me is not taking a shot your sure you can make. There is really no excuse for it these days with rangefinders and newer sights. You can even pace distances off when you set your stand if you don't have a range finder. I hate hearing people say, "I think I hit him?" or "I think it was a good shot?". That drives me crazy. Sure everyone will miss at one time or another, but some just fling arrows at anything and hope they hit it. And if you had proper form you would see exactly where the arrow hit the deer any way.

Another pet peeve would be those that are not qualified to even be in woods with a weapon. You hear how they missed or wounded one or something. Then you get the opertunity to see them shoot and they are horrible. No where near good enough to be shooting at live game from a tree stand. They shoot a week before season and expect to hit everything they shoot at. I sort of understand with a bow, but with a gun, c'mon, it's a freakin rifle. If you miss it was your fault pure and simple. You either pulled the shot, shot at something that was too far away, or need to practice more.

Gun season is the same way. I sit in my blind during the first week of gun season and I hear a shot, then five more a few seconds later one right after onother. There is nothing in my area that requires six shots in 10 seconds from a shotgun to kill it. I think you should be limited to two shots at the most. One to shoot at the animal and another in the off chance you need a quick follow up shot to finnish it off. I use a inline ML for gun season though. If I can't get it done with one shot I'm done pretty much.

Another one would be people that hunt much later than they should. They come walking out of the woods saying they could still see well enough to count points if they had to. And it's dark out, not twilight, but freakin dark out. Bull crap. Your just asking to miss or shoot the wrong thing when your doing this. The hunting time are outlined very well for you, you should know enough to follow them.

Paul