hunting rival

[VaTuRkStOmPeR]

You never know when hunting will turn a friend into an enemy and that enemy will go after your access.

No one has a higher interest in my success than my brother and no one has a higher commitment to his success than me.  That's a time tested fact.  If he ain't with me, I prefer to be by myself.

[beakbuster10]

I've gotten three guys into turkey hunting and duck hunting. All of them were my best of friends. None of them knew jack about turkey or duck hunting and really still don't. Two of them hunt the same clubs as me. Last year they up and decided to turkey hunt on their own and basically said to heck with me. They have caused me more problems in the turkey woods and duck swamps than I could have ever imagined. Moral to the story don't get your deer hunting buddies into turkey hunting especially if they have just as much right to hunt as you on half of the land you can hunt. The other guy is my best friend to this day. We hunt my club and farms some days and his club and farms other days. I don't step on him and he doesn't step on me. I'm just as happy when he pulls the trigger as I am when it's me. And him and I both kill more birds every year than the other two anyway, so it doesn't really matter. Just losing two good friends to birds really sucks.


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[Jtpeagle41]

I agree that some of you guys need to pick better friends.

I prefer hunting with a buddy. I usually do the calling and recently have started running a camera rather than a gun. If I get to call a bird into range and play the game, who takes the shot doesn't matter in the least. Don't get me wrong, I still fill my tags but that's usually because our schedules don't line up with I go alone a couple days.

My buddies and I are all lucky enough to have family farms to hunt. And we go by some unwritten rules. Mainly, we don't hunt one another's farms with out the other there. So, I can hunt my farm alone but won't hunt theirs unless they can go. Also, whoever has not taken a bird for the longest amount of time gets to shoot first.

We didn't have to discuss these rules and they aren't written down. They are simply the right way to do it.

[Rick Howard]

LOL if you buy land that is connected to public land... Said public land is not yours alone.  I had some fellas irritated because they perceived my presence as encroaching on their territory.  Its public land.  Your gonna run into the public.