Stupid Hunters

G L Drew

G L Drew

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Looks like we got a lot of emotion stirred up on the "Is This Hunting" posting but it brought up some great horror stories about stupid hunters. Let's hear more of these.

Let me start with a trip I took with an ex-buddy to Alaska. The pilot dropped us at a small lake on the tundra and said " I will be back a week from Wednesday...about a week and a half alone for three of us. He also said not to take more than three caribou because that was all he thought he could carry out in the plane in one trip. I was camp cook and the only meat we had was one can of spam. I told the other two guys "if you don't want to become a vegetarian, shoot something!" At sunrise the first morning we took a nice young cow with the one rifle we brought (we were supposed to be bow hunting). Later that day my ex-buddy walked into a herd of caribou with the rifle and took two more small cows. It filled our pilot impossed quota for caribou the first morning. I had hunted a lot with this guy in the past and he was the type that thought that if he wasn't killing something he wasn't having any fun. And if he got skunked on a trip it was a slur on his manhood. I though he was starting to get over this as he gained more experience at hunting and was going to start enjoying just being in the woods. obviously he just lost control of himself when he saw so many animals and had to kill a couple. So here we were in the wilderness for more than a week trying to keep entertained by picking blue berries and watching the birds.

Everything worked out OK because I decided I would pay for a second trip for the plane if necessary and spent an enjoyable week by myself passing up several small animals that I was able to sneak within bow range. I took a large, record book bull the last day there. I used the rifle.

And do I need to add that I have not hunted with this guy again?
 
Stupid is as stupid does and I think we all know that there are slob hunters out there, but lets not give the anti's ammo in writing on a public forum. It will just come back to bite all hunters on the ars.
 
G L Drew said:
I had hunted a lot with this guy in the past and he was the type that thought that if he wasn't killing something he wasn't having any fun. So here we were in the wilderness for more than a week trying to keep entertained by picking blue berries and watching the birds.QUOTE]

Soo he is not the only one bored while not killing stuff?
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I second Longbow, if you want to talk about bad hunting stories, talk about how you hiked 25 miles up hill in 15 feet of snow to realized you brought you bow and no arrows. We don't need to be talking about slob hunters and such give the anti's any more to work with.

My story is how I went on a hunting trip and forgot all my clothes, had to really improvise, overcome and adapt. Needless to say, I haven't done that again.
 
Went hunting with relatives in early November when I was younger , was not supposed to rain or snow or anything.
Snowed , tried to make it to a Boy Scouts cabin but got lost , spent the night sleeping on pine branches and freezing my ass off.
I was young enough to not know jack ok , so before sleep I told my uncle something was wrong, that my balls had disappeared , you should have heard the laughter in that makeshift camp.

I sill get flak over that !
 
rebeltf said:
Went hunting with relatives in early November when I was younger , was not supposed to rain or snow or anything.
Snowed , tried to make it to a Boy Scouts cabin but got lost , spent the night sleeping on pine branches and freezing my ass off.
I was young enough to not know jack ok , so before sleep I told my uncle something was wrong, that my balls had disappeared , you should have heard the laughter in that makeshift camp.

I sill get flak over that !
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Did you ever find them again?:D
 
+1.

I look at it like the philosophy of the bumper sticker... "A bad day fishing is better than the best day in the office".

A unfortunate example of the ego out of control. I don't care if I dont' get anything. I'm out and about on my days off and in the wilderness and alive on the earth. Extremely greatfull and appreciative of that.
 
We went camping/hunting with a relative of a relative, he would get back to camp, open his little collapsable lawn chair and start reading and taking a few pulls on his bottle of windsor. Never helped make supper, never helped clean up, never offered to do anything, and if asked would just say, "in a minute". By the third day, no one told him supper was ready and we just made sure it was all gone by the time he got out of his chair. He got pissed and stomped around and yelled alot, but his closest relative, my cousin, his wife's brother in law, told him to grow up, or leave, seeing we were three days in on horse back, he did not have much choice.

But by the time we were riding out, every one was waiting for him to just explode. We found out when we got back, that while he was on the trip with us, his wife moved out of the house. Same thing, all he ever did was read a book and drink till he fell asleep in his chair.
 
In every job, hobby, vocation, trip, party, campground, etc. I've been involved with, there are always more than what I would consider a fair percentage of "stupid" people (more accurately, ignorant and/or selfish people). They always mope and wonder why they never get invited anywhere more than once.

Stupid hunters very often end up qualifying themselves for a Darwin Award.

I really feel sorry for the folks who feel that a day in the field just isn't worthwhile unless you shoot/hook everything that comes by. (These are usually the same folks that expect you to help gut, quarter, pack and drag their kill home for them) ;) I agree that the kill is quite often anti-climactic.

J-
 
For me the most exciting time is seeing the game I am after, after I pull the trigger, hit the release all the adrenaline goes with it.

I agree with you guys there are always slobs in every facet of life and I have had to deal with my fair share of people who "if I am not killing something I aint having fun" my little brother is this way. He just cant enjoy nature, he shoots whatever he can for fun, he doesnt want to sit all day and wait for his quarry or God help him if he has to still hunt or drive for someone else. I dont know where I went wrong but he just never got it(he's 17), then he wont drag the dang game out. That gets my blood running when someone kills something and they dont want to take care of it, you killed it, you field dress it, you drag it out(unless you need help) and you butcher it,if you dont know how I will help you but not do it for you. Pure laziness to not do so if your not disabled. sorry bout the rant lol.
 
barrabas74 said:
For me the most exciting time is seeing the game I am after, after I pull the trigger, hit the release all the adrenaline goes with it.
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Yeah, I call that the "meltdown". I'm relatively calm cool and collected until the trigger is pulled, then the heartrate picks up and I get the shakes. I don't get it, but it's a very unique feeling. That's one of the reasons I hunt.

But really I just like being "out there". I spent about 7 days in the Alaskan bush country a few years ago on a brown bear hunt and just saw one bear and didn't get a shot. It was without a doubt one of the best hunting experiences of my life and I never pulled the trigger other than checking zero on my 300winnie.
 
I find the analolgy carries over to girls as well. I like the pursiut, the getting the number and the getting them to the point of getting what I want. Once there, I know already what's going to happen. There's no need to prove it to myself.

It's then also that I pull back. The satisfaction of the hunt has caried me far enough. I've been at the point of the kill as well, but it's unnecessary. The chase was good enough
 
Maybe a better title would be "Stupid people who also hunt". There always have been and always will be a good percentage of unintellegent people who hunt as with any other field of endevour. I guess it goes along with the population percentages. Yes, it is a bad reflection upon the general population of hunters, but short of requiring frequent indepth testing and psycological exams, people who are prone to make unwise decisions will be a part of hunting as long as hunting exists.

Codger
 
Heres my horror story. Hunted with a guy for 16 years or so,we hunted well togather. We hunted my wifes cousins farm, he had the run of the place, do what ever he wanted to. The farm got extra permits he got his share of them, ate at the farmhouse,rested in their lazyboys,dried out our stuff in their drier.

He bought a few acres and a cabin, and i never heard from him again. Oh wait he did call one time to see if he could get an extra permit for the "farm' as he did not get any for his area . :jerkit:
 
I don't hunt, and I don't have a horror story, but one of the most impressive people I ever met was a man out hunting in the Cascades.

My wife and I were back packing, and we stopped and talked with him a bit. He hardly had any gear except a day pack and a rifle (and warm clothes) but he was just coming back from being out for a week.

He seemed the most peaceful content human being I have ever seen. The kind of contentment that Taoist monks look for. When ever I try t meditate, this guy comes to mind as an ideal to shoot for. :)

-Clint Hollingworth
The Wandering Ones webcomic
http://www.wanderingones.com
 
Clint,
I'll bet he had a well stocked permanent camp stashed in a holler somewhere. I know lots of hunters, my grandfather for one, that had a good amount of gear stashed in a favorite hunting spot. Chris
 
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