Loud Partner

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I love my dad, love hunting with him but he is loud. From closing truck doors to hitting every leaf, to squeaky shoes, to just loud. We're bow hunting and I'd rather drive him to his spot in my truck than try and walk quietly to it. He understands that deer hear very well. He doesnt and I dont think he knows how loud he is. I try to tell him (in a gentle way) to quiet down but to no avail. Any tips besides saying "shut up old man, move quiet" that I can try? Love hunting with him and I'd take him and no deer than deer without him.
 
Puff puff....cou: I just put my finger up to my mouth. They seem to get it then.
 
Try some ear plugs.
He won't seem so loud then.
Or call it a walk with your dad.
Just packing a rifle just in case.
When their gone, their gone.
 
I don't have this problem with my Dad....It's with my wife.

With my Dad, I could tell him to shut up if I had to, (which I don't), but I find it really hard to diplomatically tell my wife to close her pie-hole...

Why not? said:
I understand, and wish I could go on another hunt with my dad...........

Ted
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I got into hunting later in life than I should have, and while my Dad is still around and hunting with me, I know one day he won't be. I dread that day.
 
Life is too short to sweat spooking a deer when spending time with the old man. Ever since the cancer ordeal mine went through it has become zero to do with whether or not we see a deer and more to do with not worrying about anything. Its going to be gone one day, as others have said, embrace it.
 
There are things you can do... For example... Clear the path to his stand so he doesn't break branches underfoot.

And, we are using ladder stands for the first time this year... When climbing into them, the 'stiffin-ing' braces between 4 foot sections of ladder RATTLE if you climb with wreckless abandon... My wife was climbing into her stand on Sunday & was rattling them... A totally unnatural sound as we all know... I hissed for her to climb silently, which she tried to, but I knew it was my fault for not zap strapping or stuffing someting in between those braces to prevent the sounds... I know better now.

Luckily, for us, it didn't matter, my wife harvested her buck 2 hours after she got seated.

Enjoy the hunts with your dad & what you can't mitigate by doing it yourself, don't worry about it! You'll chuckle about it later, I guarantee it.

Cheers
Jay
 
I do some waterfowl hunting with my Dad, he is practically deaf in his left ear so he talks too loud for his own good, swears too much, and doesn't like stiitting still.

But I love the time we spend together now cause I never got it through my childhood.
 
The first few years of hunting with my dad were filled with him saying "PICK UP YOUR ####ING FEET" hahaha

I've told him the same thing in the last few years, it goes back and forth :p
 
Your louder then you think too, you just can't hear it. Years ago I was hunting with my buddy, he was as graceful as a bull in a china shop. I swear he was aiming for every crunchy leaf and branch, and I was just about to turn around and say somthing when he said "Would you be quiet! God your noisy!"

I was surprised to say the least. I thought I was being quiet, but I think from our angle we assume everyone else is being loud. Who'da thunk it?

Enjoy the time with your dad, hunting isn't about the kill.
 
As stated by others, enjoy the time with dad......HE put up with you when you were a young bull disturbing his hunt in various ways....but he cherished the look in your eyes when you nailed your first animal. I remember screwing up and dad just shook his head. Yea he sometimes got really pissed but I learned. I now enjoy my sons company. He is still learning, and I find myself shaking my head the odd time. We all had to go threw the learning curve.

Dad one day will be gone, but not the memories. ENJOY NOW YOU WILL REGREAT LATER WHEN HE IS GONE........HE WILL BE MISSED.......
 
pharaoh2 said:
Your louder then you think too, you just can't hear it. Years ago I was hunting with my buddy, he was as graceful as a bull in a china shop. I swear he was aiming for every crunchy leaf and branch, and I was just about to turn around and say somthing when he said "Would you be quiet! God your noisy!"

I was surprised to say the least. I thought I was being quiet, but I think from our angle we assume everyone else is being loud. Who'da thunk it?

Enjoy the time with your dad, hunting isn't about the kill.
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I was going to say almost exactly the same thing... :)

I was out hunting with my ow 27 year old son we were walking beside each other when I stated "WOW" are you ever loud he looked at me in surprise and told me he couldn't believe how loud I was.

I'm now a lot quieter because I now know that I am louder than I ever dreamt I was.

So OP start listening to yourself you maybe surprised how loud you are.

Also like all the others are saying be happy to be able to still hunt with your dad my dad is 77 and even though he is extremely healthy he will not be around for that much longer I'd rather have him clutzing along kicking every rock or snapping every branch than not be here.

Also who taught you to hunt?

I've been taking my son he is 4 1/2 since he was 2 1/2 he kicks everything around that he can talks louder than he needs to oh man it is a pain but I would rather have him out learning to hunt and being noisy than have him sitting at home watching TV or playing with dolls...

I've shot 5 deer since he started hunting with me not bad experienses for a young man...
 
When hunting with my two grandsons (6 & 9) after awhile they will of course start to get noisy.....so I will hoarsely whisper in my best Elmer Fudd voice " We have to be vewy, vewy quiet ."
Works for 15 or so minutes .
I also use that phrase on my noisy hunting partner....who also has a short attention span .
 
Hey from a medical person's perspective,

When I hear your Dad is older and hunts, I wonder if he's one of the many,many old school hunters who have some degree of hearing loss as they get older? Snapping twigs and small higher pitched sounds are the first sound range to go. The conversation range is next usually. For alot of people they can live just fine for many years with some damage, but when conversation gets more difficult, it's then they come in for testing and we find a well progressed hearing deficit .

Seriously, if he doesn't hear himself, he may wonder what your 're talking about and disregard what you're saying about being loud.

For many people born before hearing protection was considered for safety, this is the legacy of being exposed to percussive events repeatedly in their younger days.
 
As I said in my OP, I'd take my dad without deer than a deer without him. I'm 33, he's 55. It's his first year hunting and I'm teaching him. We got his first turkey this spring, his first geese this fall and now trying for a deer. Geese hunting with him is great, we just sit and talk waiting for birds. I had my best goose hunt, with him this fall. Only three birds, but it was our first three together. The men in his family don't make it much past their mid sixties, hearts, so I take every chance I get to go out with him.
You guys can tell me to enjoy it, you'll miss it. I know I will. I'm just looking for ways to stress the idea of a quiet walk. I will pass on something I heard the other day, deer can hear an apple drop at 100 yards. May drive the point a bit. When we started turkeys this spring he was thinking they were dumb and he'd be able to walk out and get one no problem. He spent the first few mornings getting busted and quickly changed his mind about the birds. When he spooked a bird, he knew it. I think he may spook deer but since he isn't seeing them, isn't getting the feedback to know he's doing it.
 
safety first said:
Hey from a medical person's perspective,

When I hear your Dad is older and hunts, I wonder if he's one of the many,many old school hunters who have some degree of hearing loss as they get older? Snapping twigs and small higher pitched sounds are the first sound range to go. The conversation range is next usually. For alot of people they can live just fine for many years with some damage, but when conversation gets more difficult, it's then they come in for testing and we find a well progressed hearing deficit .

Seriously, if he doesn't hear himself, he may wonder what your 're talking about and disregard what you're saying about being loud.

For many people born before hearing protection was considered for safety, this is the legacy of being exposed to percussive events repeatedly in their younger days.
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His hearing has been damaged. He misses a lot of sounds in the bush. I'm sure it doesn't sound as loud to him.
 
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