The hunt camp a**hole.Do you have one?

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I have hunted in quite a few camps and there always seems to be one in every camp.
Some think they are king and dont do their share.While the have no problems barking orders.
Then there are the cheapo members who take a 12 of beer and a few bags of chips an drink all week and gorge like a starving animal.
I have seen alot of them and thought I was away from it with the gang I hunt with now.A coupe years back one of the members brought his brother to hunt.This guy has the best of everthing,and lets you know what he has is better than yours.He knocks everything from your make of gun to your choice of caliber to your scope.His truck is better.His ATV is better.He has better boots.When talking to him you might think he was raised by wolves with his vast knowlege of wilderness and hunting.It gets old really fast.Fact is he cant hunt worth ####.
His brother is a great guy so we put up with the dunce for a week.The second week is great.I guess you gotta just bite you lip sometimes and carry on.
Tell me about your camp dunce.
 
Ya know,

I'm pretty lucky. Never had an arsehole in camp yet.

Had a couple of guys that needed the camp rules explained off and on but no real idiots.
 
It is usually not a problem. I leave them behind "in camp" I come back when I got my sheep.

This type of person you are describing are not normally good or effective hunters. They spend to much time BS'n. A good hunter is much to busy to be playing one-up-man-ship.


nutz
 
We have youngsters and women hunting in our group, families and friends that have been together for decades. Fathers and older brothers are the best medicine for young hunters who need an attitude adjustment. Invariably the lessons learned in a hunting group are lessons that serve you well in life.
The organized hunts we enjoy are social events that are fun and safe for everyone involved and there is no place for any swollen egos or selfish behaviour.
 
About 10 years ago I watched our camp go to hell in a hand basket because of one guy's son.

The kid is a ####, unsafe, know it all, a drunk and all around irritating. Only a few guys had the balls to say anything due to the kids dads being a really good guy that everyone likes.

The older guys who I enjoyed hunting with have all but stopped going in for the hunts. (Unless the dimwit inst going in then we have a full camp)

Pretty sad to see a hunt camp started in the 30's die off because of one guy. Maybe the end was already comming and this guy was just the final push, I dont know.

It has worked out for some of us as we have formed a new camp of tight knit guys and have had some excellent hunts. Our number one rule is "No Mikes allowed!!!!":D :D :D
 
Not sure about a$$holes, but we definately have our share of pisstanks!!

Oooh.....the liquor flows like wine at camp. (Not during the hunt however)

Mind you, one of the guys was puking out the window of the Jeep on the way out to our spot one morning...it was quite comical.

We have one guy who can be really, REALLY annoying at times...almost to the point of a$$holish....but one of the guys put him in his place a couple years ago.
He's better now.
 
I'm not involved with a hunt camp, but there are a few of us that hunt geese together arround here. One of them's a little prick. He don't like me, and I don't like him. I initially thought "I'll just not go" if that particular asswipe is going (cuz he's friends, for some reason) with my buddy who has permission on the property.

This guy's unsafe, thinks he's a calling champion (in his second year of hunting) and shoots from the lip at people like me. I don't take that #### from anyone. He also gets laid-off arround the start of goose season, for the winter (since he lives at home, he can afford toys) so he doesn't have aclue what it's like to value the few times you get out for a hunt. You don't need a guy in a blind (who's no better than you) telling you to "shut up" with the duck call (when it's obviously working).

Eventually, as I was still getting invited along with the other two guys, I had to tell my buddy: "Just don't bother inviting me when said asswipe is going, and don't ever let me find out that you brought him in the fields where I'm taking you." Simple enough. He knew I was pissed by the occasional "Go fudge yourself" that I'd give the little prick.
 
Well said Dan! I know your not hard to get along with, so that guy must be an idiot!!!

Cheers
Jay
P.S. I still don't get along or hunt with Roger, Willie's "buddy" that messed up one of my opening day duck hunts years ago...
 
Guided a guy and his 19yr old son once....according to the dad, this kid could do nothing right. The kid was trying to help out every chance he could (stacking wood, cleaning the boat unasked etc) just to be useful and his dad crapped on him about everything. All week long, the kid was getting abused by his dad.

The kid was polite and seemed like a good kid but I didnt know him or his history so he might have been a real pain in the ass at home but at the spike camp he was a good kid. Finally I got a chance to take the kid out by myself and I called him in a nice 45" moose and he made a great shot.

Dad had little to say after that. Mainly because for some reason he didn't get his moose. I spent a fair bit of time trying to pick this kids ego up off the ground. Dont know what their story was but I wouldnt have treated a dog like that.

I hunt with my buddy who is 67 and although I get asked to take other guys out, I am always hesitant about it. I take my little guy with me alot and he is better than most adults Ive guided.
 
HAD one a few years ago, no longer invited back.

I should have known something wasn't right when the guy showed up with a Mickey Mouse print pillow in his gear. I needed some wire for tying the stovepipe so I sacrificed one of "his" hangers. He #####ed and complained about that until someone reminded him that he was a guest and that I had supplied all the hangers the previous year... The final straw was when he confronted me for shouldering his new semiauto shotgun that was on the rack, without first asking his permission.
 
yorgi said:
The final straw was when he confronted me for shouldering his new semiauto shotgun that was on the rack, without first asking his permission.
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I don't know how I would deal with that. I just don't know. (well, I have an Idea) I am glad it happened to you instead of me. Unbelievable!


nutz
 
A buddy invited an old pal along to camp several years ago just to visit. Fortunately he didn't hunt too, but he was a major pain in the ass, mostly with the lecturing.

We couldn't do anything right, he'd done it all before, and better, etc. etc.

One day we went trout fishing for the heck of it and after an hour with him, one of my regular buddies said,

"Boy, am I ever relieved, I've been fishing completely wrong for the past 30 years, but Max straightened me out and told me how to do it right."
 
We have one guy, he is a great shot and a very good hunter but it seems like he gets out of doing any work. He is always late when we meet to hunt from home then at the camp he sits around. I am only 21 and realized at a very young age that if you close your mouth and listen to people you learn a whole lot more but this guy is bad. I get in on wednesday night because of school and as I walk in he is telling me to do the dishes. We draw cards as to where to sit on the line, if he is unhappy he #####es like a little kid, then if he gets picked to drive he says his back or leg or something is messed up. I was hunting for 3 days of the rifle hunt last year, chased 2 days did some of the cooking, cleaned the deer and helped pack up the camp, he would not even pack his own gear into the truck he was getting a ride home in. Makes you wonder why people stop calling this guy to go hunt.
 
Fox said:
he would not even pack his own gear into the truck he was getting a ride home in. Makes you wonder why people stop calling this guy to go hunt.
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I would have left him and his gear at camp. He would start packing his stuff after that
 
There is this one guy that hunts in the fall and always calls us up. Wanting to go hunting and stuff. In the pass everytime all he talks about is how upset his wife is that he's going hunting yadda yadda and how he doesn't want to upset his wife. Cry me a @#$%ing river, you either hunt or you don't.

When ever he see something to shoot and does he gut shoots them every single time and his follow up shot is even worse the rear quater!!! He says he sights in his rifle but I highly doubt it and the bullets he uses just fricken tears up the deer. Blood shot everywhere. Just steams me......needless to say we don't hunt with him anymore.
 
Since 1988 our camp has had to turff 2.
It's pretty simple when a guy has had enough complaints King Pin (camp owner) simply says last year!
As far as work that's not a problem either, you don't show up for work w-ends or help around camp you camps fees will be substantually higher than some-one that does :D
 
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