Hunting Pet Peeves!!

I don't know if it's just me, but I wanted to express one of mine and hope you share yours as well. One of my biggest pet peeves, is when I watch a hunting show and the guide always grabs the rack before the person who shot it. I've always stood a distance and waited for the hunter to get there first. Is it just ME or does someone else feel the same way? I just feel it's the sacred time between a hunter and his game to give respect and admire.
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sneekeepete
I completely agree with that one. One of my worst pet peaves is this... When I am out hunting and I run into a hunter who has just made a kill and they have no idea what to do once they kill it. That happened to me in 2008. A "hunter" from california had shot a big 3x3, that he shot right up the butt and ruined an entire hind quarters was pacing back and forth next to his deer when I walked up to him. He asked me what he was supposed to do next. I was so disgusted I told him to gut it and drag it back to his truck and just left. Same day I ran into one of his buddies who had walk off a ridge below the road and got lost. He asked me how to get back to the road!!! So I guess my pet peave is "Hunters" who draw a tag and have no idea what they are doing. It is dangerous for them and a complete waste when they don't know how to take care of their game. :>/
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BIG R
Gutpilz your exactly right.I have never touched one of my clients kills until they were ready for it to be taken care of,except this one time when I had a gentleman from California out on a hunt.This guy hadnt killed anything bigger than a forkinhorn his whole life so I located a 165-170 class 4x4 with a 5" dropper.He killed the buck,we walked up to it and he said what am I going to do with that thing,I dont want it, you can have it.He just shot the biggest buck of his life by far and it wasnt big enough.I couldnt even get him to take a pic with it.Its guys like this that have no respect for this sport and that is one of my biggest pet peaves.
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NotEnufTags
I realize that public land is just that, it belongs to the public. That said my pet peave is searching for a public land hunting spot, finding a nice deep hard to get to place, and having another camp set up right near you. I can live with other hunters. It's expected. What I hate is when the chain saw comes out or a kid sits and plinks all day long with a .22. Our camp in in the middle of awesome deer country. I've seen great bucks run through the area where this other camp sets up and acts as though they are miles from any deer. Again they can be there because its not my land. I just wish they would try to be a little more quiet.
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AzRednekRabbit
I'm with notenoughtags. I hate when I put in a bunch of time and patience trying to be quiet, especially when bow hunting, and some numb skull comes tearing up and down the road on a quad. I'm not against using a quad while hunting but find a spot and get off the dang thing and walk or sit. Typically, I see the same guy or guys numerous times a day driving back and forth in the same area. Same goes for the people out there shooting their rifles or pistols all day just because they want to shoot. To each his own though. I just have to deal with it and do my best.
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sneekeepete
Here is a funny story about hunting on public land. On the second day of the hunt last year I saw a great 4x4. He was quartering up a side hill that was so steep it was no vegitation. Well I kneeled down to take a shot and I didn't even think that with my muzzle elevated so much that it brought my scope to almost touching my eye. Well in the excitement I didn't even think to adjust for the angle and shot right over his back as well as split my head open. Needless to say I ran into another hunter about 30 minutes later with blood all over my face and and down my shirt. lol. The guy was all freaked out and kept asking if I was ok and if I could make it back to camp alone. Here is a pick of my dad cleanin me up once we met back up.
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killerbee
my biggest pet peeve. ROAD HUNTERS!!!! :>/
2nd on my list: people who think they can take 80 yrd shot with a bow on big game :>/
3rd: people who bag on other for shooting small animals [ meat hunters] :>/
4th: ticks that think it's o.k. to crawl on me :>/
5th: oh i'll stop there
"BIG R" wrote:Gutpilz your exactly right.I have never touched one of my clients kills until they were ready for it to be taken care of,except this one time when I had a gentleman from California out on a hunt.This guy hadnt killed anything bigger than a forkinhorn his whole life so I located a 165-170 class 4x4 with a 5" dropper.He killed the buck,we walked up to it and he said what am I going to do with that thing,I dont want it, you can have it.He just shot the biggest buck of his life by far and it wasnt big enough.I couldnt even get him to take a pic with it.Its guys like this that have no respect for this sport and that is one of my biggest pet peaves.
 that is a pretty bad one too.
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AzRednekRabbit
Coming to theaters near you, Sneekeepete is..... Scopeface.

I think a lot of us have had to learn that lesson the hard way. I know I've busted my eye pretty good with my rifle. I have a buddy with a bad scar from it and we actually call him Scopeface all the time. We're rough on the poor fella.
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NotEnufTags
Thanks for the story Sneekee Pete. Your not alone. I watched the Eastman's DVD "Due North" last week. Ike Eastman take a very steep angled shot at a mountian goat and splits his eye. His is on a DVD for all to see. That should make you feel a little better.

No scope eye for me yet but I have felt the action of a .45 smack my thumb when the second hand of my two hand grip was a bit too high.
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kinzysdad
For xmas my 14 year old son got a 270 wsm synthetic. Two weekends ago we were out at the ranch and he wanted to put a few shells through it. After his 6th shot he was hitting around 2 inches at 100 yards, Not bad I thought. When I looked down at him ( I was spotting for him) He had a huge welt over his right eye. Man did I laugh, no blood, just a welt.

So big old tough dad wants a turn, I've never shot and it looks a whale of a good time to shoot. Now mind you, I shoot a 7 mag and have for years. How bad could it be? I wish I had a camera that day, we both got scope bit by that hideous monstrocity. Thats what I get for laughing at him. :thumb
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While hunting last year I came upon a hunter that was in the military. He was hunting elk and had braught along a buddies young son. The buddy was deployed to IRAQ so he was playing surrogate (spell) dad.

Amazing how the military members take care of each other aint it!!! :not-worthy :thumb 10sign:

Anyway we were standing at his truck when we noticed another hunter walking up the tank trail (we were hunting on base). When he got up to us we noticed a rough bandage on his hand. Turns out that he had shot a bull and while starting to field dress it the knife sliped and he slit his thumb clear to the bone at the joint nearest the hand.

I carry a field first aid dressing with me when ever I am out hunting so we rinsed the wound with clean water and bandaged it up. I then drove him to his truck so he could drive himself to the hospital.

Neither I nor the hunter with the boy thaught to ask the hunter where the bull was so that we could dress it for him. It was very hot that day. I ran into the hunter again about 7:30 pm while checking out at range control. He had just gotten out of hospital. He had some nerve damage and the docs had kept him all day.

I bring this up because my biggest pet peave myself.

I could have not only helped the hunter but could have saved that bull from rotting. I should have thaught to ask where the bull was. #-o :>/

I am still kicking myself for that.
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TheGreatwhitehunter
Dont really care for the people who see you shoot at something and then run down into where it ran too to see if they can get it. Happened to a friend of mine last fall he shot at a big Muley and thought he hit it, (He Missed) but we were searching for blood and this teenager gets dropped off by his Grandpa and was told to run down the hill and get below us to see if we would kick it to him. They were in the truck at a Oil field road overlooking the drainage and saw my firend shoot and theb tried to hijack his buck.
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# 1.People who hunt deer with dogs. #2. When I don't see anything but horn and hind end. Most stocks just hind end.
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NotEnufTags
"TheGreatwhitehunter" wrote:Dont really care for the people who see you shoot at something and then run down into where it ran too to see if they can get it. Happened to a friend of mine last fall he shot at a big Muley and thought he hit it, (He Missed) but we were searching for blood and this teenager gets dropped off by his Grandpa and was told to run down the hill and get below us to see if we would kick it to him. They were in the truck at a Oil field road overlooking the drainage and saw my firend shoot and theb tried to hijack his buck.
 Shame on that Grandpa. Let me tell you about a grandpa that did it the right way. My brother was 16. His first deer hunt and none of us could make the trip. He shot a 4x3. Not a perfect shot but it would have been lethal with a small wait. The buck ran down hill about 150 yard and then slowed to a staggering walk. The blood trail down to him was significant. A father and a son had heardhis shot. They were in the basisn below my brother. When they saw the staggering buck they shot it. When my brother got down to it they ignored him. They just started gutting it. My brother said hey guys thats my buck. The dad said I don't think so!. So my brother, completely dejected hiked back to camp. There was a grandpa sitting on a four wheeler near our camp site. He asked my brother if he was alright becuase of his discouraged look. My brother proceeded to tell the story. He said the grandpa got irate. He said Boy if I ever get a hold of the guys that did that to you they'll be sorry. My brother went over and laid in his tent with his feet hanging out the tent door. About an hour later, he felt somebody grabbing his foot. It was the dad that had told him to leave and took his deer. The grandpa was his father. When grandpa told him what my brother had said they presented my brother with his buck. Field dressed and packed out. He didn't get to experience his first field dressing experience but he came home with a nice buck.

Pet peeve: unethical hunters.
Kudos to that grandpa.
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sneekeepete
That is a great story notenough. I wonder how little that Dad felt after realizing the unethical lesson he had taught his son. Good on that Grandpa! :thumb
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killerbee
thats the way it should be! he was a true role model
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I have two pet peaves, both realy yank my chain, First is people that shoot wild game for the sake of shooting. I have seen people over and over shoot and wound or kill and leave the game lye were it falls, I have seen this with geese, pheasant and deer, People shouldn't be allowed to buy a license to shoot game if they are not going to harvest it. If they don't want to eat it, it should go to a kitchen or something. Second pet peave is those that have to use the biggest gun posible and create the most damage posible thus runining most of the animal they are killing. Example would be using a twelve gauge shotgun on rabbit and blowing it all to pieces or a 45-70 on deer and blowing both quarters all to pieces! Nuff said.
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NONYA
"harvey" wrote:I have two pet peaves, both realy yank my chain, First is people that shoot wild game for the sake of shooting. I have seen people over and over shoot and wound or kill and leave the game lye were it falls, I have seen this with geese, pheasant and deer, People shouldn't be allowed to buy a license to shoot game if they are not going to harvest it. If they don't want to eat it, it should go to a kitchen or something. Second pet peave is those that have to use the biggest gun posible and create the most damage posible thus runining most of the animal they are killing. Example would be using a twelve gauge shotgun on rabbit and blowing it all to pieces or a 45-70 on deer and blowing both quarters all to pieces! Nuff said.
 Propper bullet placement with the largest of calibers wont create any excess meat waste.My Pet Peave is outfitters who make every attempt to ruin hunting for the common man while trying to run a buisness off of public land and public wildlife.I run into it EVERY YEAR along the front,half ass outfitters with no private land access that ty to threaten,coerce and confuse the guys that are doing it on their own.They post public land,they completly ignore the law,tell hunters they are tresspassing,harass them with 4 wheelers,disrupt stalks,move cattle into public ground to haze wildlife,leave behind game that their clients kill and dont want to tag,ect,ect.They act like people should stay out of their way because they choose to work 2 months out of the year and dont want joe blow getting in the way of their overpriced joke of a buisness,using public land and public game to make more money than most blue collar guys make in a year.WTH should they be allowed to run a buisness off public land yet their little organization limits the number of people who can do the same?If I didnt have anual run ins with these jokers I never would have formed an opinion,but I have and I do,they wont intimidate me and they wont keep me off land I have hunted since I was 12,most hunters are afraid they have committed some kind of crime and never come back to the area after a run in with these goons,I make sure to pay them a visit every year.
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killerbee
"harvey" wrote:I have two pet peaves, both realy yank my chain, First is people that shoot wild game for the sake of shooting. I have seen people over and over shoot and wound or kill and leave the game lye were it falls, I have seen this with geese, pheasant and deer, People shouldn't be allowed to buy a license to shoot game if they are not going to harvest it. If they don't want to eat it, it should go to a kitchen or something. Second pet peave is those that have to use the biggest gun posible and create the most damage posible thus runining most of the animal they are killing. Example would be using a twelve gauge shotgun on rabbit and blowing it all to pieces or a 45-70 on deer and blowing both quarters all to pieces! Nuff said.
 as said. a lung or heart shot ruins no more meat with a 300 weatherby than it does with a 243....-- unless you eat the heart, i dont, but then a smaller gun might help.
"NONYA" wrote:my pet Peave is outfitters who make every attempt to ruin hunting for the common man while trying to run a buisness off of public land and public wildlife.I run into it EVERY YEAR along the front,half hind end outfitters with no private land access that ty to threaten,coerce and confuse the guys that are doing it on their own.They post public land,they completly ignore the law,tell hunters they are tresspassing,harass them with 4 wheelers,disrupt stalks,move cattle into public ground to haze wildlife,leave behind game that their clients kill and dont want to tag,ect,ect.They act like people should stay out of their way because they choose to work 2 months out of the year and dont want joe blow getting in the way of their overpriced joke of a buisness,using public land and public game to make more money than most blue collar guys make in a year.WTH should they be allowed to run a buisness off public land yet their little organization limits the number of people who can do the same?If I didnt have anual run ins with these jokers I never would have formed an opinion,but I have and I do,they wont intimidate me and they wont keep me off land I have hunted since I was 12,most hunters are afraid they have committed some kind of crime and never come back to the area after a run in with these goons,I make sure to pay them a visit every year.
 if i had any of that b.s. ever happen to me on ground I KNEW was open, they would regret it. meaning i would public land bivy out with as many buddies as i could and hunt that country as absolutly hard as i could to screw them right back! that is B.S.! there are outfitters who do it right! they make their money by getting in farther with horses or whatever. trying to bully people off of public land is WAY overboard. and in the long run will come back to haunt them :>/
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NONYA
Once I tag out I make a serious effort to get my buddys up in there and take good trophy class critters,the ones that remember me dont mess with me any more but its fun as hell to see the dollar signs in their eyes when we come out with nice racks strapped on our backs.One of them approached me last year shaking in his lil sorry a s s cowboy outfit ,he says "my boss wants you to check your map,we think you might have been tresspassing on a bordering ranch and if he catchs you he will prosecute you to keep the rancher happy",I told him I was calling the game warden so he could come up and show THEM where the boundry was,(I made the call,left a message and the sob never called me back),its a joke.I know the boundrys better than any of these waste of space wanna Bs yet they use this tactic to keep people off the fringe of the public ground(it works) where the game holes up to get away from the OTHER outfitters on the private ground below,its a 3 ring circus,thats why i dont go up there any more till I have tagged out.They plant doubt in peoples minds and use veile threats to make them feel uncomfortable,one of these days they will find them dead and buried up there(lots of grizz up that high pilgrim).
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TheGreatwhitehunter
Propper bullet placement with the largest of calibers wont create any excess meat waste.My Pet Peave is outfitters who make every attempt to ruin hunting for the common man while trying to run a buisness off of public land and public wildlife.I run into it EVERY YEAR along the front,half hind end outfitters with no private land access that ty to threaten,coerce and confuse the guys that are doing it on their own.They post public land,they completly ignore the law,tell hunters they are tresspassing,harass them with 4 wheelers,disrupt stalks,move cattle into public ground to haze wildlife,leave behind game that their clients kill and dont want to tag,ect,ect.
 I have a couple of friends from Wyoming that have run into this situation almost on a yearly basis. An outfitter who blocks off a forrest service road that goes through land that he hunts. And a another outfitter who is always screaming land is private when it is as public as can be.

Here in Colorado I have talked to people that have run into outfitters in North west Colorado who setup there whole camp right in the middle of a forrest service/blm road to deny access to anyone else. Good luck to the people who get to call the local wardens to do anything about it.
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obxman58
we have hunted the same elk woods for years and have several fingers of timber and ridges where we like to do man drives.on several occasions some of the afore mentioned roadhunters[and always non-res] will see us setting up for the drive and actually shadow us.
two seasons ago this happened and the yayhoos shot a 5x5 that we shook out and then proceeded to hoop and hollar like a bunch of jackasses......i just like knowing where our shooters are.
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79Ford
"TheGreatwhitehunter" wrote:Dont really care for the people who see you shoot at something and then run down into where it ran too to see if they can get it. Happened to a friend of mine last fall he shot at a big Muley and thought he hit it, (He Missed) but we were searching for blood and this teenager gets dropped off by his Grandpa and was told to run down the hill and get below us to see if we would kick it to him. They were in the truck at a Oil field road overlooking the drainage and saw my firend shoot and theb tried to hijack his buck.
 Thats one of my biggest pet peeves as well. I've had a similar thing happen on more than one occasion. Another one of mine is when we get to a spot we want to sit way before it gets light and then right as it's getting light someone comes in and sits 100 yards away from us. Combine the two and it tends to make me pretty peeved. We had this happen once and about 5 minutes after they sat down a buck came walking out accross the meadow. They were closer to the buck so we waited for them to shoot. They never even saw the buck so when he was about 50 yards from the treeline I shot. I shouldnt have taken the shot because I was pissed at these other hunters and rushed the shot. I missed the deer, but as soon as those other "hunters" saw the buck run into the trees they were off and running. When I saw them get up out of their still cold dirt seats and started running I didnt even bother to get off of my comfortable rock. It's not worth my time fighting, i'm out there to hunt. If you really want to hunt that close to me then come up and say hi and we'll make a more strategic plan than just sitting there seeing who is a faster shot.
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NONYA
oH yHE my other pet peeve is when some jerk fires off a 12 guage with a retarded pattern master "choke" AKA BLAST ENHANCER right next to my head while Im trying to get lined up on a duck. :thumb
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BIG R
Nonyas just mad because he doesnt have one.Even when he gets lined up on a bird it doesnt help him lol He did kill 70 birds with 73 shots though this last season :))
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NONYA
nO UR just mad because your not allowed to use that damn thing around me any more,I did have a couple doubles in there and my misses were all because of that damn pattern master POS
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NotEnufTags
"BIG R" wrote:Nonyas just mad because he doesnt have one.Even when he gets lined up on a bird it doesnt help him lol He did kill 70 birds with 73 shots though this last season :))
 Another of my hunting pet peeves is just hearing that Nonya can take 70 birds with 73 shots. Lets just say that I spend alot more in shot per bird than Nonya does.
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I am going to have to agree with Killerbee on the road hunters, But my biggest Pet Peeve in hunting is during the archery season . Alot of the hunters that don't draw a muzzle tag or rifle tag buy a archery tag over the counter. I am not necessarily blaming the guys who buy the tags but the DWR for selling that many tags. Everyone has the right to hunt, but if you are gonna hunt with a bow make sure you can shoot it. Or a rifle, muzzle loader etc. I try to shoot my bow atleast once a week if not more, you don't have to shoot that much to be able to hunt , I do cause its my passion. I just don't like the reputation that bow hunter are getting. I have seen just as many people that can't shoot a muzzle loader or a rifle as a bow. If we all do are part and are ethical this problem would go away .
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