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September 9th, 2014, 12:04 PM
#1
Hunt group evictions?
Just watched the video of the "nightmare" hunting accident video and it got me thinking, has anyone here ever banned/evicted/removed a person from their hunt group for one or multiple offences?
Our group has, we don't put up with chronic bad shot cripplers. Mistakes do happen, but when someone shoots and hits multiple deer and has nothing to show for it (and then boasts about how many "hits" they made) resisting the urge to tie their gun around their head like they do in the cartoons, we show them the door. We have done this 3 times in the 22 years I've been hunting. (Each one repeated this activity 3 consecutive years in a row, basically 3 strikes you're out)
So has anyone else done this for whatever reason with their groups? What was the reason for the removal?
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September 9th, 2014 12:04 PM
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September 9th, 2014, 12:08 PM
#2
Only one, the guy would use the bathroom and every time there would be poop everywhere, seat , sink, floor, towel.
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September 9th, 2014, 12:09 PM
#3
Never been an issue for our groups.
A "friend", not so much anymore, was checking his traps, so tagged along, my other buddy drove, he got out to check the first one, loaded his gun, got back in truck, continued on, hopped out, left gun in truck, noticed it was still loaded.
Unloaded, left bullet on the seat.
Get to the next trap, he re-loads, gets out, gets back in, leaves it loaded, this played out 3 times.
Finally the last time my buddy who was driving said "I guess you don't get the hint do you, three times we unloaded your gun in the truck, you're done."
Think that was the last time either of us saw him, he has since moved back to southern Ontario.
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September 9th, 2014, 12:10 PM
#4
Not banned, but put on the backburner for expecting game while bringnig very little to the table and then getting angry when the hunts didn't yield and abundance of game.
"I may not have gone where I was supposed to go, but I ended up where I was supposed to be"
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September 9th, 2014, 12:13 PM
#5
We had a boozer and his friend who always got carried away with their drinking, late nights, loud, obnoxious. Next morning they'd always sleep in when they should have been on the stand hunting.
The following year they weren't asked back.
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September 9th, 2014, 12:14 PM
#6
Hunted upland with a guy awesome shot but a bit to fast to the trigger and hunted with a little too much intensity of letting nothing get away. After a couple of warnings that his shot decision was for a lack of words too "aggressive" decided not to hunt with him anymore.
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September 9th, 2014, 12:40 PM
#7
First fella - Kicked a fella out of my first gang a few years ago for holding off for "trophy" shots - we're meat hunters, and we had plenty of doe tags but he admitted to not shooting a couple different does during the week because he wanted a buck. He got his buck with a different gang the next week.
The next year rolled around and we formed a new gang, and a brand new camp, and new land - this fellow spoke personally with owner of the land at the time (which changed hands for the final time the last week of rifle season) without us knowing it and got himself invited to the gang. We found out and were a bit shocked but figured, if we laid the law down he'd play by the rules. (1) he was supposed to hunt the whole week, he showed up on the Thursday; (2) He was asked, when he finally DID show up to get ready for the afternoon hunt on Thursday - he snapped at the dog man and told him "Settle down I just f**king got here!"; (3) He was put on a watch and proceeded to wander around during a dog push, the dog man and dogs pushed deer right to his stand and he wasn't there.
We spoke to him after the remainder of the week and told him he wasn't welcome back. Three weeks ago we got a call from him telling us he was excited for the season and even got a doe tag for 63A - he was told again, he was not hunting with us and was not welcome back, he said he was going to speak with the dog man (in our gang, the dog-man, who is also a camp owner, is a hunt-boss -- who make final decisions if necessary) and they exchanged words that ended up in a fist fight.
Needless to say, he's still not coming back.
Second fella - shooting at sounds - "I heard one in the bushes so I shot at it", "I heard one running down the trial, so I shot at it". He lasted two days before we asked him to leave.
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September 9th, 2014, 01:34 PM
#8
One guy would bring a flask with him into the bush, he was told once and did it again, he was out, no drinking in the bush for us.
We had other issues and left the gang rather then deal with them.
The weird thing is that the son of the guy who would bring booze into the bush would sit on stand with his 30-30 cocked and used the no-trespassing signs on our own property as target practice, not a bad pair to lose.
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September 9th, 2014, 03:16 PM
#9
Has too much time on their hands
The hardest one I remember was when a long-time and well-respected member of our deer camp had to be told it was time for him to hang up his gun for good. For the safety of all, the effects of dementia could no longer be ignored.
"What calm deer hunter's heart has not skipped a beat when the stillness of a cold November morning is broken by the echoes of hounds tonguing yonder?" -Anonymous-
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September 9th, 2014, 03:50 PM
#10

Originally Posted by
ninepointer
The hardest one I remember was when a long-time and well-respected member of our deer camp had to be told it was time for him to hang up his gun for good. For the safety of all, the effects of dementia could no longer be ignored.
That would be a tough one.