Who ever had a nightmare hunting partner.

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I am sure we all had one, or two.

My story.
#1.Had a fella move here a couple doors down,who seemed pretty decent. He had no place to hunt so I invited him to our camp. Long story, short he got drunk (brought no booze), ran over our generator, puked all over the camp, and tried kicking people out of the camp. He was never invited back, and I haven't spoke to him in two years.Good Stuff.

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.
 
yup been there, had a guy pretty much the same as your first one, no place to hunt and new to the area. We took him out just for a rabbit hunt and me and another guy were walking on the downside of a ridge and this guy got on the top, he knew where we were and still took all three shots in his 12 our way when a rabbit flushed.. shot hit the trees, feet above our heads, we hit the ground, he misse the rabbit at 20 yards and we sent him packin never to come out with us again.. no fun at all. We shouldn't need body armor and ballistic helmets to go rabbit huntin...
 
Who's in charge? Nobody? Anyone? I am now in charge. Is that alright with you? Its time to obey my orders, partner.
 
I hunted moose with a guy who made so much noise I considered shooting him!! Between loudly clearing his throat every 2 minutes and crashing like a bulldozer through the bush he insisted on a continuous line of conversation at normal talking level even though I would signal him to be quiet and only answer in a whisper. Never again!
 
Brought a neighbor goose hunting once, we had a few lessers land past the dekes just out of range. Offered to let him walk out, flush and shoot them. He said he didn't want to do it so I got up. I put them up and knocked one down then he lit into them from behind me. First and last time I hunted with him.
 
#1 was a friend of a friend (aren't they always). We get out of the truck to go grouse hunting and start to load our guns BOOM, as my ears are ringing and leaves are falling from the trees he says "Yeah, have to get that fixed sometime, it fires when I close the gun sometimes". Never hunted with him again.

#2 was a friend of my brother. This guy bragged about his hunting and shooting skills constantly (although his drinking skills were impressive) and managed to wound a deer two years in a row that was not recovered. We searched for these deer for days not wanting to leave an animal suffering. This guy hunted with a sporterized 303 and eventually confessed he couldn't remember when he sighted it in.
 
Ok
So I had two stories, but had to delete them because I know one guy spends lots of time in this forum, and they other one might as well.
And since they are my buddy's brothers in law, its best to just keep my mouth shut, than to potentially cause issues
 
Not a 'partner', so much, as a Camp experience.

Went hunting last year, invited to a Camp by a friend. Another fella there brought his bud and his teenager. They came back at lunchtime empty handed and the kid decided he needed to shoot a couple of the squirrels in the middle of the camp area, while I was having (trying to have) a nap. I was a little pissy with the kid. Nothing quite as manly as killing a habituated squirrel.

Same bunch decided to set up an impromptu 'range' and burn off all their ammo before they left. Loads of noise. Not necessary. No class. Dude got pissy when we would not hand over the road map, so he would not have to buy one to find his way home.

What happiness...:/ Not....

Cheers
Trev
 
Went a few times deer hunting with a friend of my father from college, un ancien quebecois, he would begin the day with 100-proof rum in his coffee and a joint, then stumble through the woods faster than the other pushers and then give up halfway when nothing was stirring. In the space of two years he destroyed a shotgun barrel after plunging it into the mud while pursuing a deer that he missed and then trying to fire without checking the bore and had a negligent discharge (in my direction) as he was getting in to position with the safety off and finger inside the guard.

This man is now over 50 years old and in all his years of hunting has only ever killed one deer ... with his truck.
 
LOL! This is the best thread! I don't have my hunting licence yet (studying for it) and my neighbour wants to take me out as soon as I get it. I was excited about the invitation until he told me that he and his hunting partner got in a fight over the one rifle and were trying to pull it out of each others hands to take the shot--while it was loaded! I can't find it anywhere in the CORE manual, but I'm pretty sure grappling over loaded firearms is a bad idea.
 
went hunting with a friend and his friend.... the friend that was driving started drinking beer after beer:(, I took over driving, and we get to a community pasture " loaded with deer", My foot hits the ground to get out of the truck and BOOM! gravel flies 4 inches from my foot. Dinglenuts behind me decided to load his rifle before getting out of the truck!!!! I still hunt with him, but now use the rule of thumb; when I can cover his whole body with my thumb stuck straight out, he's far enough away!!!
 
Took a rookie out duck hunting with me last year...we were hunting from a blind, about 10 feet from the waters edge...I went over the basics, arcs of fire, which bird to shoot at etc. I set him up on my left, with the birds coming in from right to left. First flight of birds in, and I can see his muzzle out of the corner of my eye, about a foot and a half from my ear (about 45 degrees outside his arc) and he lets all three shots go in maybe a second...misses completely. So after the hearing returned to my ear, I told him off for firing outside his arc, blah blah blah...He sincerly appoligized, so I chalked it up as a rookie mistake and he was probably a little excited. After an hour or so, and a couple cups of coffee later, he's gotta rock a squirt. He lays his shotgun (loaded) on his little stool with the muzzle pointed right at me! I lost my #### at that point, and ripped him a new one, asked him if he ever took the hunters ed course, or any firearms training for that matter...I really made him feel like ####.

There is a positive to this story...that rookie turned into a novice, and that novice is now one of my best friends and is always the guy beside me when I go hunting. I have never had another incident while hunting with him. I guess he learned his lesson...lol.
 
captonion said:
Enjoy it.You will be missing it when he isn't around anymore.
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Ain't that the sad truth going threw that this year missing my Dad big time when I'm out hunting. Its my first season with out him and its a though go.

That being said my Dad as a hunting partner was a disaster smelling of Garlic and smokes on stand....lol....but he shot lots of deer despite his misgivings.

Everyone has hunting partners who don't match up quite perfect with their views or morals and sometimes you have to part ways and other times you can work things out.
 
When I was 20 years old, I took a friend of mine's 9 year old son out duck hunting with a single shot 20 guage. He had a hard time cocking the gun, he had to use both thumbs to pull back the hammer. He wasn't a very big kid. We were sneaking up on some ducks and we were side by side. I told him to #### the gun and get ready to shoot. I He was standing to my right and I watched him straining with both thumbs to pull the hammer back. Once he got the hammer back he carelessly pointed the muzzle right at me from about 3 feet away. My heart just about flew out of my mouth and I yelled at him. He pointed the shotgun in another direction right away and felt bad about it. He was more careful after that but I still remember the feeling of having a single shot 20 guage pointed in my face with the hammer cocked back. In hindsight, I shouldn't have let him carry a loded gun. That was 20 years ago and now I bring my own kids hunting but the gun they carry isn't allowed to be loaded until we see something and we only bring the one gun between the two of us, and if they do load it, my hands are on either shoulder so that they can't turn around and shoot me. They do accidentally point it at me from time to time when they're carrying it unloaded and they catch a little hell for it. But it doesn't scare me the way that shotgun muzzle in my face once did.
 
Don't even know where to begin with this one. Hunted with a buddies brother for years, guy was and still is a potheaded, moody time bomb. Fortunately we quit hunting with him a few years ago and in fact his brother hasnt spoken with him in 4 years. Guy is an absolute jerk. Hope he is a memeber on here and reads this....he knows who I will be talking about......:D
 
I don't have any real nightmare stories, but for the record I have a couple good friends who are hunters but we just can't hunt together...It's tough to find a good hunting partner with the same disciplines, goals, etc...
 
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