Who ever had a nightmare hunting partner.

We were hunting partridge and chicken a few years back and bring a newb out with us. I am standing in a summer fallow field at the end of a slough so I wasn't exactly hidden. A bird pops up and flies directly at me. Protocol says I let the bird get past me and I shoot once it flies by and is going away from everyone.

Newb lines up on the bird with me in the direct line of fire. I was about 80-90 yards away. The pellets rattle off the barrel of my gun and hit me in a few spots on my heavy wool coat. I hit the dirt and lie flat on the ground after the first shot and the SOB fires two more rounds. Thanks to the distance and the heavy wool coat I was fine but my blood pressure sure wasn't.

I start screaming a long list of every nasty word I know and the fellow says

" I guess we screwed up " I got in my truck and drove home. Never have or ever will hunt with him again.

IMO the most dangerous newbs to hunt with are adults. They think they hav to act like they know everything rather than admit they need to learn. I really enjoy taking youngsters out because they are eager to learn and listen to what they are told. I feel safer with my 12 year old with me than a lot of adults I've hunted with.
 
I've had many. some dangerous some just inconsiderate. accidental discharge in truck, outside truck and on trail. however these are a valuable tool for teaching as long as nobody gets hurt. we all start somewhere and i was a rookie once also. my truck fared o.k. when my long time partner had his parker hale 270wby discharge while entering the truck, leaving a nice hole leading directly into the cab mount cookie. we were way back in camp wainwright and i thought he may have hit the trans or a tire or possible oil pan. i still hunt with him when we have time and he is more careful now. another buddy, an older fellow and a friends neighbor was invited out as he had a cow draw. there were three of us and normally we would split the kill three equal ways. he was insistent that he take half and we split the other half as it was his draw. i was supplying the fifty four thousand dollar truck and doing almost all of the cleaning not to mention the driving so i didn't think that was a fair trade for a thirty dollar tag. i haven't invited him since. another good friend was invited to come with us to rock lake north of Hinton. we arrived at an agreeable spot and exited the truck to start our hunt. this guy gets out and unloads his 10/22 into the bank of the road yelling "woohoo!" i am quite sure there was an unexplained mass migration of game from the immediate area. i was invited to hunt anothers property and was given the layout and where everybody would be. we were using the truck as a ground blind and watching a field bordered with dense brush and willows for about two hours. i caught movement on my left and watched four does running at a nervous gate from our left to our right. istepped out of the truck with my 375 h&h (yes thats right 375 h&h) and waited for them to clear another hunter on a tree stand. when all was well i lined on the lead animal, swung through and fired. it was a beautiful shot and i am glad i had witnesses. they were directly in front and out of their zone watching us and the same field of fire we were. that scared the shisen out of me when the headlights of their quads came on. it was a good thing i was shooting down a slight hill or i would be telling a different story here as a deer will not stop a 375 h&h. this is just a few of them, there are more i remember and some i forget. my worst rookie mistake was "dry" firing a thirty o six in the house without checking the chamber. this is a very loud noise in a confined room for a sixteen year old. i almost had to change my underwear that day. that was 30 years ago and i have not done it since.
 
I went hunting with 2 buddy's for the first time and one of them was trigger happy and wanted to shoot at everyhting that moved. After telling him repeatedly "no you can't shoot that, it's a mulie and your tag is a white tail" we finally found a few whitey bucks to shoot. Well then he was trying to line up does in a doe draw WMU so I had to run over the regs with him to prove I knew what I was talking about. That was the first day. Next morning we are gearing up and heading out. We hit the road out to our spot and he yells to stop and promptly gets out to shoot at a group of deer that were in a field. Needless to say it was before official sunrise and not even 25yds off the road. Again, I had to explain the regs and produce the sunset/sunrise table for reference. In the end it worked out as we parked, circled the field and came upon the same group and took down a good buck. Well for this years hunt I hace sent the pdf Regs to him early and have printed out a few copies in addition to the magazine so that he can study them ahead of time....At least it wasn't anyhting to serious.
 
The guys I hunt with have been friends long before we started hunting, some just come along for the walk - no gun. I enjoy spending time with them, big buck or not.

As for bad hunting partners, two of these guys snore so bad that we almost (almost) decided to pillow smother them.:D
 
captonion said:
One Overted,
#2 Met a guy on here(CNG...now banned) to go on a moose hunt.It was short notice, but the guy started making demands, and wanted to know who was in charge. Once he was told there was no BOSS we were all partners(equals) and didn't need a leader, he appointed himself(all done on the phone). Rather than spend the better part of two weeks with him we decided we didn't need that kind of company.DISASTER OVERTED.
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Did he start a thread on that that went to hell fast?
 
haha I went out with two buddies. I didn't take long before his shotgun jammed. Trying to un jam/#### it he pointed the gun at the both of us with shells falling and him bending over sticking the barrel in the ground. Then he was going to flush game out of the bush ahead of us after we said not its getting late in the day. So about an hour later and no friend we assumed he was lost. Awsome I now have to go after a numpty through the bush knowing he has a loaded shotgun:) Also the funniest part was that it has just snowed abit. I had been double timing it through the bush "FOLLOWING HIS TRACKS IN THE SNOW" when i came across fresh bear tracks. I thought what have you got me into as i had left the gun behind so i could run. Anyways I finally found him after running and tracking in the snow patches. Some people are just dumb.
 
Last year went out with my brother and a friend. It was my brothers first year with his first rifle and after days at the range and weeks in the field we come across a very decent 4 point mule deer for his first kill ever. He lines up the shot and fires, the deer doesn't even flinch (a clear miss) but before my brother can load another round a shot comes out from behind us dropping the deer in its tracks. My brother and I turn around looking for answers.

"You missed so I was acting backup" says the friend.

My brother was a little upset but he let it go after getting up close to his first deer ever.
"I guess this is your deer now" my brother says to him.
"No it's your deer" the friend replys. "I'm already tagged out, I was only backing up your shot, but because I shot it i want the rack when its all said and done"

This guy was being such a bully and an ass that my brother caved just to get the situation over with.

So now my brother loses his opportunity to get his first buck but still had to tag out on this animal.

They decided to split the cost of the butchering but when the time came the "friend" never showed leaving my brother with the full bill of an animal that he never even got to shoot. Meanwhile this "friend" is collecting a boat load of praise on his facebook for shooting the largest deer of his life, with pictures of the rack he took.

I see now things that we could have done differently, but at the time we just wanted the fiasco to be over with.

At least the deer was good eating!
 
illbuyourcatfish said:
Last year went out with my brother and a friend. It was my brothers first year with his first rifle and after days at the range and weeks in the field we come across a very decent 4 point mule deer for his first kill ever. He lines up the shot and fires, the deer doesn't even flinch (a clear miss) but before my brother can load another round a shot comes out from behind us dropping the deer in its tracks. My brother and I turn around looking for answers.

"You missed so I was acting backup" says the friend.

My brother was a little upset but he let it go after getting up close to his first deer ever.
"I guess this is your deer now" my brother says to him.
"No it's your deer" the friend replys. "I'm already tagged out, I was only backing up your shot, but because I shot it i want the rack when its all said and done"

This guy was being such a bully and an ass that my brother caved just to get the situation over with.

So now my brother loses his opportunity to get his first buck but still had to tag out on this animal.

They decided to split the cost of the butchering but when the time came the "friend" never showed leaving my brother with the full bill of an animal that he never even got to shoot. Meanwhile this "friend" is collecting a boat load of praise on his facebook for shooting the largest deer of his life, with pictures of the rack he took.

I see now things that we could have done differently, but at the time we just wanted the fiasco to be over with.

At least the deer was good eating!
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Best thing to do in that situation is to tell the guy that "he shot it, so he tags it. No tag? I guess I can call the CO's..."
 
riden said:
Did he start a thread on that that went to hell fast?
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All his threads seemed to go to hell fast. He just got banned again within the last few hours. He was Weebull,Blindside,Laughingfool, and now Niftyfifty.He never gets to hang around long before he if found out. I guess once an a$$ always an a$$.
 
captonion said:
All his threads seemed to go to hell fast. He just got banned again within the last few hours. He was Weebull,Blindside,Laughingfool, and now Niftyfifty.He never gets to hang around long before he if found out. I guess once an a$$ always an a$$.
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I remember a thread where a guy in a similar situation was complaining about buying a quad trailer for moose camp and complained and complained and complained and got banned about 45 min later.
 
When we first moved west in 2001 we met these two guys from Ft Mc. One guy portrayed himself and a bit of an expert. Not really knowing any better( I had only hunted a couple of seasons in Ontario) we hooked up(muy son and I).

The first guy(not the know it all) kept shooting deer in the ass or poorly that I had to track. I didn't really mind as he wasn't a bad guy.
The Expert though turned into a total bull####ter. He weighed about 350 pounds, was a decent shot at the range but when hunting was a very poor shot. He regularly gut shot deer that he "couldn't find after hours of tracking" .

I later found out that the deer my son had shot that they "lost" was only a couple of hundred yards into the bush. My son was 14 and didn't really know what he was doing (I was a day late that year), I found the deer about 15 minutes after I started looking for it the next day off a pretty clear blood trail, the fat guy hadn't really even looked I found out later.

He was so fat he could really hunt, he's back in NFLD now on disability. After he left, his buddy now totally has his life together.
 
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A few years ago my buddies went without me as I was sick and everyone had their vacation time planned. So as they were driving back to camp they picked up another hunter and Leon said he's cold so I will ride in the back and watch for moose. As they were driving along a rifle discharged the guy that they picked up did not clear his rifle, the bullet went threw the cab of the truck and struck my buddie in the lower groin. He did not survive.

The next guy, member of Vancouvers finest on the T.A.C. as a sniper him and a couple of other VCP's came to our place in central B.C. as it was a good location. I have to admit that these good ol boys could sure drink, the morning after and everyone is getting ready to go he throws his rifle in his ww 2 jeep and wow did we all get a surprise he had a round up the spout and boom through the passenger door. Thankfully he missed his dog who was sitting on the passenger side you could say that there were a few really upset people.

I'll make this one short. My buddy had a drinking problem (had) We were on days off and he had a dentist appointment. when he came home he told me that he was in a great deal of pain. But he said he had promised to take his wife to crib night at the legion snd he would not be able to go, so would I take her. I said sure, my girlfriend didn't mind so away we went.
I dropped my girlfriend off on the way home and continued to my buddies place. As we walked in I could see that he had bought a bottle and was drunk. He started to yell and holler at his wife as she had moved the shells the his .303. He had the rifle in his hands at the time. I could not belive that she went and got the bullets for him. I took the rifle form him and removed the bolt and gave it back to him. His wife ran out the back door with him chasing her brining the rifle up to his shoulder and saying bang your dead you #####. I was alone with there 5 kids who didn't know what was going on
the oldest was about 5. Mel came back, and I wanted out of there real bad there was also a nylon .22 hanging on the wall I have never even held one before so I took it with me I asked the dispatcher to send a cab and that I had a rifle with me, by now it was about 1 am. As I was leaving the R.C.M.P. arrived I told the cab driver to go around the block, and as we were comming down the street I saw Mel comming from a neihbers still with the rifle.
He entered his house and left the door open all the while yelling at the cops
as they were drawing their handguns I asked if I could go in first. They said sure. I went in and my buddie had the rifle sighted right at my head. He pulled the trigger and said bang. He was at the place across the street trying to borrow a bolt. He very calmly said sorry Bruce I did'n mean to shoot you. I took the rifle from him and the cops came in.
As they were trying to sort out what happened you would swear that he was stone cold sober it was unreal. He asked me what the problem was and I told him it was the booze, at this point he lost it and the cops had no problem figuring out the rest of it. We worked at the jail, he lost his job I tried to suport him but they moved to Alberta. It was their that he blew his brains out. Sorry no spell check just did not to read it all again.
 
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Mine isn't really complex. I had one hunt with a guy who would shoot at anything that moved. Leaves moving from the wind? Bang. Squirrel through the trees? Bang. Yes, because a deer will definitely be on a damn branch 15 feet up in the air.
 
I have definately had a bad run encountering bad hunters in my hunting circles.

I didn't so much mind the friends kid I could hear 100m away jingling loose shells in his pocket. I really didn't like the other friends of friends that were so bad I thought of calling the COs on them.

Why is it so hard to find a decent hunting buddy?
 
Wow! Some of those hunting partners sound awful. I mostly hunt with one other guy as none of my other friends have their licences (yet, though I've got a couple working on it). He makes a racket going to his stand, isn't careful with his scent or the wind, and is a pretty lousy shot. Atleast I teased him enough about missing 2 coyotes at ~25 yards to get him to re-sight in his bow.
 
I find this thread funny and scary. But I'm thinking it's not cool to air dirty laundry on the internet. People already stake hunters as drunken, yahoos shooting up the countryside.
Something to think about before you type.
 
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