The anti christ of upland bird hunting

[rjbert2]

How about asking everyone to take a 30 minute break so his girl friend could run into town to get a hunting lisence (because this hunting thing was kinda fun) and oh BTW does anyone have a spare gun she could borrow.

NO we did not wait, we left right after they headed to town and went to land belonging to another hunter in our party that was unknown to them and yes they got the message.

All I can say is "WOW" !!!!

 

[rjbert2]

ok here goes:

1. being late 2.5 hrs when asked to go on a hunting trip. We were trying to beat a blizzard forming in south dakota and it cost me the drivers side mirror of my truck.

2. Wanting to tresspass and trying to get me to cosign it

3. Talking to your wife and family more then a couple times a day

4. Constantly being on your i-phone, or what other device you have. I am tied to that thing when i am in town, we are hunting for god's sake

5. telling me you have a hunt all set up and it is great, only to find out that it is a shitty little trailer and public ground that has a thousand people on it

6. having to explain to people what a decent tip is at a restaurant

7. having to ask for gas money

8. getting so tanked at night that i have to be the alarm clock every morning

9. Wasting game that you take

10. Being disrespectful of land, littering, tearing up fences

11. people constantly yelling at their dog, or constantly laying on the whistle

12. those damn locator beepers. I hunt for relaxation, being out in nature a little. Those things make me feel like i am hunting next to a backing bread truck all day.

Do you mind if I print this, Laminate it and post it on the dash of our pickups when we go on our SD trips. This is GOOD!!! Ya know maybe a copy for all involved to "sign off" on would be a nice touch.

 

[rjbert2]

One of The most unsafe things I've run into is untrained kids with shotguns. If there fathers would just not carrie a gun themselves and walk with there children showing and telling how to hunt safely around other people, the world would be a nicer place.

Also very well said. The pay off is much better using this approach. It's just as much fun watching the dog and the kids. Think about it....that's plenty to do anyway!!!!

 

[Roosterslayer]

1. Safety Issues
2. Etiquette

First opening day trip to SD a few years ago. Scout out the public land starting at 9 in the morning. Decided on a field with multiple food plots and lots of seen birds. Our two vehicles parked in the drive from 9:30 on waiting on noon. Other hunters hitting the same field from different road/access points but no big deal as there were multiple plots to hunt and this is what I expected on opening day in SD. Five minutes to noon and truck pulls up next to us. Grandfather, son and grandson along with a dog (I use that term loosely in this case). Ask the oldtimer what he is planning on doing. "Hunting right here" he says. Respond: you can't be serious. The son and grandson both have enough sense to tell pops to move on to other land but he is dead set on hunting on top of us. We tell him that there is a food plot beyond the horizon that they can access via the fence row two hundred yards from our intended hunt zone. No problem he says and we set out to hunt the plot that we had been eyeing. We finish the plot, having had good success, only to see the three of them and their dog traversing the hunt zone that they had agreed not to. Waited for them to leave and then went and hit the plot they had just completed and picked up a few more birds.

Talk about not setting the example for future generations.

 

[PointnLab]

Guys that "Cheap Out" on shells...and cripple most they shoot at. Of course, they have no dog, so you end up wasting time chasing their cripples rather than hunting. Grrrrr! Then comes the inevitable, "Let's just keep going, there's more birds ahead!"

"Hope you enjoyed the hunt and dog work...'cause it's the last time you'll do it with me!"