Just to have some humour to a season soon ending. 3 times this year i have went hunting with a freind or buddy and we would walk in and part ways to different stands and just as i was settling in..BOOM!!!!!! that early morning shot goes off from your bud! i always try to hang in there and hunt but my couriosity always gets the better of me and i text him and low and behold hes draggin one towards you. Im always happy for them but deep down im like DANG!!! why cant that be me for once. Anyone else had this happen?

Why don't you agree with your partner to lay low for an hour after the shot if he knows the shot was good and the deer is dead? I usually like to field dress pretty quickly, but it won't hurt too bad to let the deer lay for an hour, will it? Not all deer run away just because they hear a shot. A lot do, but some don't. By getting up from his stand/blind, and dragging the deer to you, he's cementing the fact that you're not going to get one.

It usually happens the other way around for me. LOL! Last time I hunted with a buddy, he got settled in and he hears... BOOM! LOL!

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Id just make a rule that you don't drag out your deer until everyone is ready to get out of there stands unless the weather is too hot. Most opening mornings of gun season someone gets a deer pretty early and unless they see it fall, you let it lie. No reason to go walking around the woods spooking game for everyone else. Plus, if you watch it fall, the more eyes the better for a blood trail. I'd just tell your buddies that if they take a shot, wait til everyone is ready to get out of there stand to go looking or at least if they go look for it. Look for a 100 yards or so, if you don't find it, let it lay. If you do find it, mark it, go back to your stand and wait til everyone is done hunting to drag it out. Plus, if you wait, you'll probably have a little more help dragging it out!!

Actually I am known in many parts as "Mr. BOOM".

Just decide ahead of time that you'll stay in your stands until a set time, or if one of you needs to track, they do it alone until a set time. And what's the point of dragging toward another hunter in a stand? No graggin until a set time. No big deal.

I set my brother up to hunt in my stand 10 years ago when he was home from college. I had put in a new spot about 2000yds away in the same pasture. I had missed a big buck there but given up on him earlier in the season.

Fairly early on, I heard BOOM and it sounded like a hit. Not 15 min later, here comes my brother driving right up to my blind and running off all 7 does and little 10 point I was watching. "Come help me find this deer! I think I hit it! /snicker"

We found him, alright. laying there deader than a door nail right under the feeder. I ran back to camp to get a camera, my girlfriend because she needed to see this buck, and....his wallet with his liscense in it (doh!)

I got back and he had gut it right where it laid. Oh, I was....upset. Oh well. That was 10 years ago but at the time, it was like rubbing salt into a fresh wound. I get to see that buck every time I walk into my brother's office right next to mine.

Eh, oh well. I've got a big 9 on my wall from the same location, several years later. Completely different antler look so I'm dubious on the genetics being all that close. Still.....that's the one that got away...

The last two years I have had that problem, I bought property and let my wife, a buddy and my father in law hunt it with me. Well my wife and I have not taken anything on our property, father in law 3 buddy 1 us 0....not that we havent had our chances, we just havent had the right chance, they are always too small or bad shots for us.

Had a deal sort like this earlier this year.Rifle season but had friend hunting with a bow,I had taken a couple with bow so I was on "meat duty".I was watching from open field in rifle stand but could observe the bowhunt going on and send text if I saw something to watch for.Well I saw a buck rambling down road we had walked down coming in,sent text"buck in road behind you!"He turned and could see him coming...problem is buck was acting like he was going to turn and head to other property and bypass bow range.I took it upon myself to bypass the whatifs and define what was going to happen....I put a 25 caliber bullet through his lungs at 150 yards! Next text "buck dead in pasture" the reply was "that deer wanted a arrow!" I text back...."well run down there and sic em and stick em".I let deer lay and we continued to hunt for another hour in case he got a shot...nothing happened but there was meat on the ground. And the other hunter is a member here.

I feel your pain brother