How Picky Are You?

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How picky are you concerning who you hunt with? Do you have to be well-aquainted with someone before you share hunting space with him? Are you comfortable hunting with someone that you hardly know? Will you hunt with just about anyone that offers you an invite? Or are you pretty much a solo hunter?

I have to know someone pretty well before I hunt with them. Or at least have a good friend vouch for their character. Weather I hunt alone or in the company of others doesn't make too much difference to me.

So, how particular are you about hunting with others?
 
I have hunted with people I didn't know but I prefer to be by myself. I have turned down invites from people I've worked with but it was mainly because I didn't want to hunt where they hunted.
 
Very..........

Hunting, and fishing, are to important and to seldom enjoyed to risk having the experence messed up by someone who is.......well we all know how some folks are.

And if I do agree to let someone go with me, and they are late, or they have to stop at 4 AM to get a license or amunition or any of the other thing that should have been prepaired well in advance.....at that point they are most likely on their one and only trip with me.

And when hunting I am always worried about the other guys gun safety. In fact it seems a very good idea to go to the range with a guy before you actually venture afield with him.

Of course I'm saying all this from the standpoint of a still hunter who targets deer and hogs.

I may have a very different responce if I was hunting, lets say phesents or doves where it's just a whole differnt situation.

Still I am always cautious about how other folks handle thier guns. And if he wants a drink before the guns are up for the day I am 100% through with that guy!!!!
 
One other thing, regarding accepting invites from folks, I'm very skeptical of that, even if the opportunity is to go and do something new and different. If I've some experence with them and know them to be serious and sober then OK but without prior experience..........just don't feel comfortable with that.
 
I have to know someone pretty well. I have to know they can be safe and ethical and I have to know they aren't going to invite themselves and their friends over to hunt at my place. If I'm invited to go with someone to their place, I want to be sure that it's all legit. No slob hunters, baiters, etc.
 
I don't hunt but if I did I'm pretty sure I'd be fairly picky. I mean I'll give most folks a chance but one chance is all.

I'm the same way about who I'll camp/backpack with. Bring food into the tent ONCE while we're in bear county and that's all she wrote :eek:
 
Tis best ..

to know them up close and personal.
My main buddy we stated out hunting back in73, still doing.
Try his new brother -in-law, thank god for the divorce. Was not reliable or clear-headed.
 
I didn't think I was picky, until I realized that I have only hunted with the small group of guys (3) for the last 20 years. We might get one of thier sons or a younger friend in a hunt or two, since we've come to trust them, but mainly it's just us four.
 
At this stage in life, I'm picky about with whom I do anything.

However, things like riding, hunting, target shooting and dining require a certain amount of intimacy and trust. Besides, a hunting trip might require a party of guys to be together for several days. Heck, I can count that number of folks on one hand.
 
I guess I'm the opposite, I rarely turn down an opportunity to hunt. I went to Alaska in may with a guy I had never met for a Black Bear hunt, had a great time and he is a great guy. First time I met him was in Seattle at the hotel, I got invited because all of his regular hunting buddies couldn't make it last year. Beleive it or not I bought some reloading componets off of hin on another forum and out ot the blue he asked me to go when his buddies couldn't.

I went elk hunting last year with a guy from work I've been friends with for years and he totally ruined my hunt. It was the first and last time I'll hunt with him. I'll give everyone the benifit of the doubt once, if they burn me I doubt I'll go hunting with them ever again.
 
I have hunted with people I did not know if we were just going for a day hunt and someone I knew would vouch for them. At least on a day trip, if they turned out bad (unsafe, unethical, jerk), it was just a one day thing.

Hunting camp is strictly well-known and trusted...dang, that limits it to just one guy I hunt with :D
 
Very picky. I tend to get a bit anal about game laws and firearm safety. Also, absolutely no drinking and handling guns. And you gotta help out with chores and cooking, I'm not your Mommy.
 
I hunt with my best friend. I brought him into hunting when we were 10 his mother hates me for it since, lol. She was one of those types that wouldn't let him go outside for more then an hour or he might get sick type. He loves hunting and has shot more buck then me. I just get the bigger ones:D. I hunt with Him and family that's about it. I trust my family and him. I have given others chances and have been pretty pissed off with the results. They sound responsible and ethical and then they almost shoot your beagle or shoot your German short hair pointer because they rather kill the bird or rabbit and not pay attention to the surroundings. At this point I have all the hunting partners I need. I do like hunting with them because you have someone to share the experience with. I guess there is always room I guess as long as the individual show promise and shows some discipline, but as soon as they lose my respect its over.
 
Prefer to hunt alone. Being alone is much of the reason I hunt.

Which makes it quite odd that I'm constantly inviting people to go, most of whom never take me up on it. But even my favorite hunting buddy does stupid crap that makes me wish I'd not brought him along. Just the other day, dove hunting, after 15 minutes of not seeing anything, he's bored and wants to try another location. So I agree. After we move the decoys and ourselves, after just TEN minutes at the new location, he wants to go back to the original location. WTH? Just sit still and hunt...
 
Prefer to hunt alone. Being alone is much of the reason I hunt.
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Me too. Its a better experience. I hate hunting with someone who is oblivious to firearms safety or is just a loud mouth or tromps around like frankenstien.
 
I only hunt with a few select people. Some people are too careless with firearms. Years ago I was hit in the upper arm with shot from a shotgun. A few years after that a dumb a## cousin of mine shot a 12 gauge just inches over my head. Needless to say I avoid him and his guns these days.
 
I like to hunt with a few guys. If they invite someone then I'll hunt with them. We only invite people who are not er well stupid. I don't hunt with people who tromps through the woods with the safty off pointing their gun all around and taking crap shots with grannies house just over the hill... you get the idea :p

PS. I was reading a post or 3 up, said he prefers to be alone, but invites people all the time, no you're not odd or alone. I like to invite people to gun ranges or hunting, try to break them into the sports... rather have me do it than bubba with his ol shoty shooting a deer from the truck window while drinking his xxx, I like to think I'm responsibe, knowledgeable, and can make a good impression...
 
Back in my younger days (maybe not as smart/cautious/paranoid as now), when I was first getting into hunting, I ended up as a pusher on drives alot (you know - "new guy pays his dues"). After a couple of times pushing with people I was not sure about out on the ridges - I had to change who I was hunting with when doing drives. It is one thing to walk out of bow camp in a different direction from someone you may not trust as much, but a whole new level of scary doing close proximity rifle hunting.

My full-time hunting buddy is the one left that I trust to sit a ridge with his 7mm Rem Mag while I am beating the brush in the draw. We do have a few others that join us for deer camp, but it is only his mother (crack-shot with .257 Roberts) and his bro-in-law. Even they don't go with us every year. Soon, my boys will join us, and that is a whole new level of nerves...
 
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