I guess it's nice to see a few of you are so liberal with sharing hunting area. I am too but only to a few people like Raymond, Jim anmd my brother Rob! true friends and family with hunting ethics.
1. If your friend says that he is OK with you hunting the same area he hunts then you will both share the woods and the deer in the woods.
2. If he knows you'll be hunting there and is OK with it, there is no need to feel like you're killing his deer. If he is a true friend he will be just as happy if you kill a deer instead of him.
3. Respect and Trust are not only parts of hunting ethics but also friendship. As I said before, if he respects you and trusts you then he should have no problem with you hunting in the same area and he shouldn't be mad if you kill a deer there.
4. My father shot a 4x4 whitetail out of a stand I placed for us this past spetember. We had both seen this buck on several occasions in the previous months and we had both agreed that if one of us got a shot at him we would take it. I was extremely happy to see him get it, though i would have liked to have gotten it myself. The buck scored a little over 120" inches. I didn't get a buck this season, but knowing my dad got a nice buck was enough for me.
Question; I must have missed something in your story/questions... Why is it you feel betrayed?
1. The area is where I hunt, not the person I'm writing about. He shed hunts there but that all. There was no sharing because only I hunted there.
2. It's my hunting spot so when he found out I was coming in to hunt it he jumped in first. I wasn't OK with nothing. Probably did it just because he knows I'm good enough and would end up shooting the deer he claimed because he found it's sheds.
3. Respect and Trust.......I know what it means, it's the other person in this scenario that need to figure it out.
4. Can't comment on that seeing it would open up another big can of worms and I'd more than likely get booted from this forum. If I was hunting with my Dad, nephew, brother or my best friend than I agree with 100%. The thing is wasn't hunting with this person and haven't for the past 5 years.
Why is it I feel betrayed? THIS PERSON WAS FAMILY! If you can't trust family who in the #%!! can you trust? All he had to do was ask if he could hunt with us and it would have been a different story. Could have hunted all week with us and would have learned a few more AWESOME hunting areas. Instead GREED got the best of him and now look, he'll NEVER HEAR ANYTHING FROM ME AGAIN IN REGARDS TO HUNTING OR FISHING.