Ultimate hunting partner

[turkaholic]

I've been at this for over 30 years. My intensity and focus on this sport is at times, a bit on the crazy side. My hunting partners have also been at it a long time ,but they just don't  have the same drive as I do. I often think about booking some out of state hunts but I would have to go it alone, most likely. I have to encourage them to go and get up it drives me nuts. It's hard to find anyone who is as nuts as I am. Am I alone here or do others feel like this? Maybe I just need to lighten up a bit? Or search out for other crazies like myself. Frustrating!

[Happy]

I could care less if anyone else gets up to go. There are way bigger issues to me than whether or not they want to get up in the morning. I am a pretty demanding hunter. I only throttle  back when kids are involved. But I will share camp with anyone as long as they show me they have respect for animals and the regulations. Good hunting partners are hard to find in this day and age. I like the people that hunt with intensity from the first day to the last. Can enjoy a sunrise or a sunset regardless of success. Someone to whom the process matters just as much as the result. Someone who has standards and ethics. To many are only worried about how many and how fast they can kill to fill their small egos. I want no part if that scene. I think I have just about lost hope in the modern "hunter".

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[Txag12]

I am right there with you...not many guys "get it" or so it seems. I will hunt sun up to sun down, scout every free moment I have, always messing with calls and my gun or gear...doesn't really stop! Most guys just wanna shoot one and be done

[Gooserbat]

It can be difficult to find the right nut.  It's doable.  Most of my hunting friends don't care enough to make an out of state turkey hunt, a few will, but I've found a tight network of hunting friends from several states who are willing to travel and go the extra mile.

[buzzardroost]

I'm with you. I have no one to go on my trips with me. No one can take the time off work or whatever. One friend went with me on a trip last year but said he'd never do it again because he didn't kill a turkey. Even  though  it's public land in Alabama, he expected to kill something so oh well.


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[ddturkeyhunter]

Its always hard to try something new some times, but I think its time to move on. People lives all change some slow down because there body won't take any more adbuse, and others just slow down. There are a lot of people like you out there, so break friends and go do it. I hunted for years with my older brother, were from MN and alway went to the Black Hills of SD each spring. Well for years we talked about going to Florida turkey hunting, and that went on for years. Around that same time My wife age 42 came down with and we were battleing cancer. And made us aware that life is to short do what you are able to do today life may not be here tomorrow. So I looked up a Management area in Florida decided where we would go and planed a trip . Well at xmas time my brother backed out from going, for no good reason said he can't handle mosqutos. So in March iboxed up a small tent and things and shipped to a UPS store in Tampa. Got onto a plane, flew down there rented a car. Drove out to the management area threw a tent onto the ground and hunted. That was in 2009, I didnt shoot a turkey that year. So even though money was tight my wife allowed me to go back in 2010 and I got my first Osceola. My wife passed in 2011 and i have been to florida two more times since then. Going every other year for now, tag out last year, and made WOUNDERFUL NEW FRIENDS down there. One even been up here pheasent hunting with me. Long story but just trying to say GO FOR IT LIFE IS TO SHORT.