Few advice for Newbies from a Newbie

[Blind Squirrel]

Make sure your hunting partner has the same fitness level as you or go alone. We pulled out of the woods after one day…one day… drove 20 hours one way… this ride home is going to be fun. Don’t let this happen to you. Pick your hunting partners better than I did.

 

[WHI13tan]

Make sure your hunting partner has the same fitness level as you or go alone. We pulled out of the woods after one day…one day… drove 20 hours one way… this ride home is going to be fun. Don’t let this happen to you. Pick your hunting partners better than I did.

Leave them at camp and you go out


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[wytx]

Yep , or get them a lower elevation hotel room and stay an hunt.

Sorry man, travel safe.

 

[BTLowry]

IF your hunting partner is worth keeping they would get themselves a plane ticket, bus ticket or hitch hike before they end your hunt
I would take a day off to get them to town but that’s all

 

[5MilesBack]

Leave them at camp and you go out

Yep. You don't need to be in good shape to sit in camp and have meals ready when you get back.

 

[WoodrowCall]

You’re better than me. I’d let them ride to town and leave me there. Come back and get me in a few days! Kinda crappy of your friend to make you leave…
Sorry about the bad luck.

 

[Jmoore]

That’s gonna be a 20 hr ride of pissed off. I’d make him ride in the bed barking at cars and hoping like heck it rained all the way home.

 

[id_jon]

With the exception of one buddy, everyone that wants to join me has to drive their own rig.

 

[Gerbdog]

Yup, been there, had more then 1 quit after one day, i always make partners drive separate. Happened this year also, but in this case my buddy pushed himself on an injury far more than he should have, i told him he should go home, a permanent injury and his military career isnt worth an elk hunt. Next year. He was > < close to getting a shot on a big cow but didnt get out in front of her quick enough and she caught his wind. The plan almost all came together. Almost dont count.

 

[isItFallYet]

I used to have friends that are not friends anymore too! I’d drop him off at the nearest enterprise car rental and bid him a proper farewell. Elk season is my once a year mental vacation, and nobody is wrecking havoc on that.

 

[Anglo-American]

Make sure your hunting partner has the same fitness level as you or go alone. We pulled out of the woods after one day…one day… drove 20 hours one way… this ride home is going to be fun. Don’t let this happen to you. Pick your hunting partners better than I did.

You should of made him camp by your locked truck whilst you finished your hunt.

 

[Anglo-American]

Yep. You don't need to be in good shape to sit in camp and have meals ready when you get back.

Camp wife.

 

[Whip]

No way I'd have gone back with him. Only way that could happen would be someone close would need to die back home. Or someone would likely be dying on the trip back.

 

[Maki35]

That's selfish of him to want to leave so soon because he wasn't physically up to the hunt. Why couldn't he wait in the truck/ motel until you were done hunting? Why couldn't he sit/hunt in one spot while you go off hunting?

I have a friend that I hunt with that has limited physical capabilities. He knows it & I know it. So he hunts near the truck and I'll walk off deeper into the woods to hunt. At the end of the day we meet up & all is good.

 

[Jakerex]

Sounds like they both wanted to leave or about 20 other viable options would have been exhausted before both packed up and went home.


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[banded_drake]

My scouting partner was like that a couple weeks ago, didn't take me serious the past 3 months I told him to get into shape. Let's just say he did a lot of sitting at the truck or camp while I went and looked at what I needed to

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[MnWildFan]

Can we hear what actually happened? Altitude sickness I presume?

 

[woods89]

Make sure your hunting partner has the same fitness level as you or go alone. We pulled out of the woods after one day…one day… drove 20 hours one way… this ride home is going to be fun. Don’t let this happen to you. Pick your hunting partners better than I did.

I think it would be worth $4-500 bucks to put him on a plane. I'd probably pay that out of pocket to keep going.

 

[Clowe12]

Agreed!

 

[Blind Squirrel]

At the end of the day, it’s my fault. I’m responsible for my own situation. I hope other beginners choose wiser than I did. A lot of people are willing to spend the money on gear, but that doesn’t mean they are ready for elk hunting in the Rocky Mountains.