Hunt group evictions?

We lost an older camp member this past year, my uncle - my father's brother. I never got to hunt with my father, he passed many years ago but hunting with my uncle was equally as great.

He retired himself last year, after several strokes, and other health issues (not to mention, 80 years old). He fell off the ATV twice, fell down a hill once (all unarmed of course), and even "disarmed" a potentially expensive conversation with a conservation officer. He also managed to drink us under the table, and walk away with all the poker winnings.

Last year he told us it was his last year hunting, and he wasn't going to see the next season; he was right, he passed away last summer but left his legacy behind in his nephews, and grand children. He also left all his gear, guns, fishing equipment, and photographs of years gone by - to the camp.

We retired his deer stand this year and raised a large cedar cross (about 12 feet high) in it's place, and we plan on hanging his favorite orange hat on it for the season - forever on watch. He was also our dog man, and had been a dog man for 50 years; I only hope we can push as hard as he did this season without him.

Got rid of someone once for littering all over the place, leaving plastic bottles and other garbage everywhere and then fighting with group members when told repeatedly not to do this. Nothing worse than a slob hunter who thinks its their God given right to have other people clean up after him.

Hmm.....ever heard of evicting yourself from a hunt camp? That's what I did when I was 22 years old. After countless events of "shenanigans" and hunting with a couple of trigger happy idiots, I left my fathers group of friends. The last straw was when I was pushing the bush and I kicked out the biggest buck I had ever seen. It ran out of the gully and right to my dad's friend. In my head I was screaming "shoot!" "shoot!" "shoot????". The buck ran 20 yards past this individual. I headed towards him and found that he was sleeping under the tree with a bottle and his sandwich in his lap. That was the end of it!

Later my Dad started to get fed up and quit hunting with those guys. He's joined my group since then and never looked back.

We don't tolerate drunks. You drink during the day you don't hunt with us. We have a pretty good party the first night in camp which is the Saturday before the Monday morning opener so you have all day Sunday to clean yourself up while doing pre hunt chores. When the hunt starts we are in bed by 9:30 pm and up at 5:00 am every day. If you feel the need to get hammered you have 51 weeks a year to do it, I won't be doing it with you.

I too removed myself from a group when I was 21..years back.. I was always asked to come out since I could call well (ducks) and one day after some aggressive kill em all routines, a group of birds pitched on my side of the shooting lane and the fella beside me shot..blew the front of the brim of my hat off with the edge of the shot charge and my left eardrum for 2wks was torn and hearing shot for months. I walked out to my decoys..picked them all up and basically left him there after walking out to my truck with him upset I didn't want to stay. Ill never forget that BS...never went back.

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Originally Posted by terrym

We don't tolerate drunks. You drink during the day you don't hunt with us. We have a pretty good party the first night in camp which is the Saturday before the Monday morning opener so you have all day Sunday to clean yourself up while doing pre hunt chores. When the hunt starts we are in bed by 9:30 pm and up at 5:00 am every day. If you feel the need to get hammered you have 51 weeks a year to do it, I won't be doing it with you.

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We're the same.

A couple of beer, or a glass of wine or two in the evening, no problem. You get off your face, you're parked the next day.

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Originally Posted by Bluebulldog

We're the same.

A couple of beer, or a glass of wine or two in the evening, no problem. You get off your face, you're parked the next day.

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Anyone in our camp that drinks so much that they can't hunt the next day gets "fired"....permanently.

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Originally Posted by trimmer21

Anyone in our camp that drinks so much that they can't hunt the next day gets "fired"....permanently.

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Your one miserable SOB and nobody wants to hunt with you anyways .;) You would be the one fired permanently with that attitude . ;) If your not ready and clear headed in the morning you become camp beatch with us for the day . No sleeping it off . You do all the chores etc . Pretty well hunted with the same guys and some have been with me 40 years . Sometimes lads imbibe a wee bit too much after shooting a smasher etc . Not going to evict them just for being excited and letting loose .

TD

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Originally Posted by trimmer21

Anyone in our camp that drinks so much that they can't hunt the next day gets "fired"....permanently.

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If it became a habit, then we'd probably look at it.

The guys I hunt with are a pretty decent bunch, I doubt it would ever be an issue.

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Originally Posted by 400bigbear

Your one miserable SOB and nobody wants to hunt with you anyways .;) You would be the one fired permanently with that attitude . ;) If your not ready and clear headed in the morning you become camp beatch with us for the day . No sleeping it off . You do all the chores etc . Pretty well hunted with the same guys and some have been with me 40 years . Sometimes lads imbibe a wee bit too much after shooting a smasher etc . Not going to evict them just for being excited and letting loose .

TD

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LMAO! Letting off some steam is one thing,but,getting piss drunk to the point where you can't hunt is quite another for us.

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Originally Posted by Bluebulldog

If it became a habit, then we'd probably look at it.

The guys I hunt with are a pretty decent bunch, I doubt it would ever be an issue.

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We've never had any issues,either. We don't have near the amount of carved-in-stone "rules" that most camps have and we have a reasonably "laid back" group,but,this is a rule we do have that's pretty much a "biggie". Clear heads hunt safely and we make sure everyone goes home in one piece.