RE: Would you tell your best hunting buddy?
 

MQ1 - sounds like you need to either get a new hunting buddy or take some time to teach this guy a thing or two about hunting.

I' ve been hunting and fishing with my best friend for nearly 18 years. We' ve hunted the same 40 for the past 8 years. We have several stands up and consider each of them either his or my location, but will swtich stands in a heart beat if the other guy already shot a deer and the other isn' t seeing a thing.

As for the big buck and not telling him, if you can' t share in what you' ve seen after the hunt, why even hunt with him at all? I see that as a little childish actually, seeing as a buck could literally be anywhere at any time within 300-400 acres or more especially during the rut. Just my opinion though.

RE: Would you tell your best hunting buddy?
 

I hunt with my dad. I not only tell him what I see but try to put him in a better position to score on a good buck. He' s disabled and needs to get exercise to keep the circulation in his legs working. So it motivates him to get out in the woods when he know s he has a good chance. My circumstances are different than yours obviously. I hear what the other guys are saying. But you need to ask yourself this " Would your buddy tell you about a monster if he saw it?" That' s the answer you need to live by here.

RE: Would you tell your best hunting buddy?
 

I' ve heard this reply on this board a lot also and am beginning to wonder how many buddies I would have if I dropped them for every transgression or character flaw they may have.

The buddy I mentioned in my post is a great pheasant hunter, I' m not. He tolerates my mistakes, and I tolerate his. There are some fields he hunts where he doesn' t take me along because there are not a lot of birds and I guess he doesn' t want to watch me miss half of my shots and not bag out. I take my deer hunting seriously, he doesn' t his. He takes his Pheasant hunting serious, I don' t mine. When I say ' take more seriously' , I mean that I read about and practice my archery deer hunting more than he does and he practices his shotgun shooting and pheasant hunting more than I do.

I just can' t drop a friend simply because he doesn' t hunt up to my standards. We do a lot of other things together outside of hunting to just turn my back on them because they have made some mariginal shots or come into the woods smelling like Taco Bell with greasy, leather boots and a Harley t-shirt on that hasn' t been washed in two weeks of wearing. However, that doesn' t mean I' ll encourage him to go into the woods when there is a big buck involved.:D

Also, while I' m ranting here, some people are not interesting in being ' tutored' by their buddies, so the argument of, " You need to take him aside and teach him how to hunt and shoot properly" just doesn' t hold water very often in my experience. There is almost always a pride issue involved, a competitive spirit that exists in almost all sportsmen, especially sportsmen of similar age, that really interferes with the teacher/student relationship between even the best of buddies.

RE: Would you tell your best hunting buddy?
 

I tell my Dad everthing, he would never move in on my spot, plus I often try to persuade him to hunt the buck also. I owe him that much for giving up several years of his own hunting time when I was kid just to take me every weekend. Now, my brother in law is another story. For the most part we are open with each other, however, if there is a particular spot that we both enjoy hunting, I usually keep the big buck sighting to myself. However, I would be thrilled for him to harvest the buck, but I' m not going to hand it to him on a platter.

RE: Would you tell your best hunting buddy?
 

I tell them everything. I just enjoy it when someone gets something. I' ll get mine... they' ll get theirs... and we all have fun.

RE: Would you tell your best hunting buddy?
 

by23856, an excellent resonse.

Though the thought (of " teaching him a thing or two" ) has crossed my mind many times, I do value the friendship and the comaraderie experienced on more " casual" hunts. I' ll let by23856' s comments stand for the rest of my thoughts on the issue (Man, if you only knew what a compliment THAT was, by23856! :D)

But when it comes to getting down and dirty and going after a wall-hanger I' ve been diligently pursuing. It' s time to go solo, baby! ;)

RE: Would you tell your best hunting buddy?
 

I thank you for the compliment, I think. ;):D

RE: Would you tell your best hunting buddy?
 

I would tell my buddy, as a matter of fact, I did. We respect each other and motivate each other to get out there. If he kills the biggun, I' ll smack him around a bit. But I won' t be angry when I do it;)

Are you lurking hazcon7?

RE: Would you tell your best hunting buddy?
 

Same here. I agree 100%

RE: Would you tell your best hunting buddy?
 

Amen Lefty,
anytime i am hunting and i can increase the chance of a friend espically a best friend on getting a buck, i would do it in a heart beat. There is great joy in seeing thier excitment over a deer.