Why are any of us surprised by this?? You see the same behavior by guys over women, houses, boats, land, trucks, jobs etc..........it's not like this is unique to hunting. I had a "friend" get super pissed at me a couple months ago for winning a small Hold 'em game........the reason he was so mad was he said I didn't "need" the money. I guess he thought I should just fold because I have a better job then him. Same twisted logic for deer I guess. When a guy already has some nice bucks and most dudes don't they see it as "unfair" A liberals mind is not something I care to try and figure out.
You were far from innocent also atlas, lol....but I can honestly say I enjoyed the debates and headbutting, it was fun.
Lol this thread is awesome. I thought I was only one. Mine is worse its amongst family. I don't think a single kill in my life didn't somehow create drama that day or shortly after. Same thing jealousy selfishness etc. it's nuts. I've killed and called all the boys. Not to come drag I don't care ill drag it a mile. It just makes it fun when every one comes out and we get it out and hang it in the garage and have beers. Always I mean always there's the guys who don't even come cause there so mad. And the others who come and make it seem like your kill was no big deal, lucky, something condescending. Meanwhile when I'm called to a kill I leave my wife in a restaurant and run out to go. I love to be there. I love seeing a dead deer that my buddy is so excited about. I don't care if its a 50" or a 150". My wife always yells at me cause she's like why do you keep going when everyone always gives you a hard time. I always say same thing. I go cause I love it for myself. And if those can't do same for me, well that's too bad. Because IMO they miss out. Cause when they see it on the wall later they will regret not being a part of the "night".
This is part of greater syndrome! People think that all the deer on a place, a home range and county are theirs. You see it when a kin God bless him shoots a big buck during youth season that somebody has a picture of and he jump down the kids throat saying that is his buck. Guys you do not own the deer, you love them, feed them and nurture them, but you do not own them. When your brother or sister shoots a big deer that does not mean there is one less out there, but that there are big ones out there. Scotty
I think a lot of us on the board are here and we take hunting a little more serious than others and therefore they feel kills come easier to us. I hunt mostly alone as well now. Not worth the drama. Kilboars Hunt Club
It sounds to me like a campfire discussion needs to take place the next time you are all in camp together. It should be easier to ask your friends that question than it is to ask strangers and acquaintances on this forum. You might actually teach them something. I'm glad you posted the question here because we can all learn from it and work at not being that way ourselves if we are. It's nice that you take others hunting and help them out. Do it for your own satisfaction and the feeling you get from doing it and you'll never be disappointed.
I would say that is a fair, if not VERY generous way to describe my participation..........and yes, I agree it was fun. Typing this from my stand BTW........man it feels good to be back!!!
Sitting watching a 6pt and 4 does eat my summers work. How could anyone let hunting make them miserable??
Geez. I haven't read all of this, but I will say it sucks when people are like that what was posted in the original post. I've arrowed some nice bucks and some great does. In the end, it's all good. And more than a few times, they've run onto my neighbors' land. On one occasion, the one neighbor slapped me on the back and said great job, I enjoyed helping you, this is what it's all about and proceeded to show me his new method of zipping a deer open with a utility knife. He did it before I could even say anything and I was like, do you want to finish the rest? Another time, a neighbor helped me blood trail for almost a half mile. And another yet helped me recover another one. Sucks when people get all jazzed up about "their bucks."
It's the game cameras. A guy gets a picture of a buck and be thinks be owns it. We love the deer, we feed the deer, we manage the deer but we do not own The deer. You see it the most when a kid kill a buck in the youth season and somebody says that was my buck. Just. Because you got a picture of buck does not make it yours, I had poster Farrah Fawcett over my bed, did not make her my girl friend. PS
I love taking people hunting. I take "friends" to our family farm, to our club land, and any private land I'm allowed to bring guests. Of all the people I've taken there are 2 that reciprocate. They are the type guys that will call after a great hunt and say take off work tomorrow and get out here and hunt. They know I'd do the same. Unfortunately they are the exception with many of the other folks it seems like they are basically one way. If it helps them or benefits them they're all for it. It's not to hard to identify so I just try and remove myself from it. I hunt to unwind and have little patience for petty drama
I offered a friend my stand... he shot a doe. I went to hunt it a few days later and guess who was there already? Maybe this is what people are afraid of? I didn't mind... well some maybe... but not enough to lose a friendship over. I just moved the stand about fifty yards (which is why I was going in there when I found him in it) ... then shot an eleven point from it a few days later.
Here I just thought it was people from Pa that were like that. My neighbor just about all but stopped talking to me because I've killed 3 nice bucks behind our houses in the past 5 years.
Maybe I'm just weird but when I find out people are killing lots of big deer I want to talk to them more, not less. Maybe they can share some secrets with me.
Like NEW, I don't have time for the drama. I just hunt. I don't get into the rat race of trying to steal some guys secret honey hole or trying to find secret info. I feel more proud when I go out on my own terms and kill a 100" buck as compared to using someone else and killing a 140". That is just me.
x2 there are a lot of guys out there that want to share property but don't want you to have success. Before we all got older went to college moved away and got our big boy jobs I used to make my buddies that I allowed to hunt my family's land buy corn and minerals, a few of them donated stands to the property ect.. because I wasn't running a guide service and I didn't want to do all the work for some1 else to come take out my deer, buck or not.. So maybe your buddy (the one with the uncle's land your sharing) needs to tighten the noose and make sure everyone is pulling their weight around the property, so that EVERYONE deserves a good MATURE buck or doe. When you start asking guys to dig in their own pockets to help manage the herd I guarantee that some drop off!
