What is your Pet Peeve when hunting with others?

[GilpinGuy]

Another pet peeve: those who whine about not getting an elk. Hay Zeus, I think the success rate is about 20% or so (average), so don't get all but hurt if you didn't get one after 2 hours in he woods while hung over, stinking like bacon.

[Hummer]

I don't like it when people point guns at me.

My brother in law found a new hunting/shooting buddy. They went out on the prairie to sight in their rifles when new hunting buddy picked his rifle off the hood of BILs Chevy truck and blew a hole through said hood and out the front grille, taking out the radiator along the way.

Booger hook on the bang switch.


Well, that partnership didn't last much longer and my brother in law was so pissed about the bullet hole in the hood that he sold the truck instead of fixing it.

[Holger Danske]

During elk archery season when the guy that doesnt wear a sidearm wants to be your shadow because a couple if bears walked by. Ditto for turkey season.

[SamuraiCO]

So geeked up about the hunt they shoot hens and miss the roosters cause they shoot at the tails. Need more range time.

Muzzle awareness in the field.

Unload shotgun before putting away.

If you shoot over my dog at least let the bird rise enough you don't hit my pup. Thankfully that has never been an issue.

After the day is done help with cleaning birds or make dinner, unload gear, care for dogs. Plenty of work to go around and we are all tired but not as much as our dogs and they need care and feeding.

Meat hogs who consistantly put themselves in the best shooting position not taking into account others in the party especially those with kids.

[bruceleroy]

+1 for the hunting buddy being late and people that dont know what stealth is.

[Scogin]

Noisy people. I hate spending my day sneaking through the woods tracking elk and having someone with me that steps on every stick, scraping against branches and kicking every rock jutting out of the ground.

I don't mind guys that want to turn a hunting into a drinking trip. I hunt with three guys and four days into a 10 day trip they are usually ready to start drinking. They stay in camp and have a good time while I hunt. That just gives me more time in the woods alone which I prefer.

I don't hunt with any smokers, but I do know a guy that hunts that way. He takes a tripod chair, a gun, a six pack, and menthol cigs into the woods and gets an elk every year. Don't ask me how he does it but I am impressed by it.

[Jamnanc]

So geeked up about the hunt they shoot hens and miss the roosters cause they shoot at the tails. Need more range time.

Muzzle awareness in the field.

Unload shotgun before putting away.

If you shoot over my dog at least let the bird rise enough you don't hit my pup. Thankfully that has never been an issue.

After the day is done help with cleaning birds or make dinner, unload gear, care for dogs. Plenty of work to go around and we are all tired but not as much as our dogs and they need care and feeding.

Meat hogs who consistantly put themselves in the best shooting position not taking into account others in the party especially those with kids.

add to this, no shooting bastards who take the edges of a line and folks who can't hold a line while pushing birds.

Guys who stop walking fifty yards short of a corner you've walked half a mile to funnel the birds into.

Shooting at rabbits when dogs are working.