ignorethefringes
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General tag, public land. I can’t imagine a scenario with less claim to a spot/buck.
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Then go shoot it, f that jerk ! OK, now that I left this here for a while on to the real answer. As others said, he did the scouting, but the real issue is the WAY he approached it with you based on what you typed. He should have said, oh man, I'm glad for you and thw tag, but if you don't mind please don't shoot that buck unless....blah...blah...OR said let me help you find a good one too. Get a cup of coffee and talk it over is what you should really do. If he is still like what you typed, then I guess it's up to you how to handle him as a friend.We have tags for the same area. His tag starts a week after me. Basically, I get first chance on a hunt with way less pressure.
Thats a good one. Gallatin county is where ill have shot anything.The way I have seen it work they just creep on it, or treat it as their own. Unless someone has something to offer don’t take them hunting. Sucks but it’s best to tell everyone it came off of highly regulated private with no access. Or Gallatin county. I like that one.
I got him his first deer and elk. 90% of his spots are places I have showed him including his second target buck spot. He joined me on a hunt at that spot I had hunted before when he had no tag.Let's flip it. Everyone is focusing on how good a friend he is. And they're right. But flip it. How good a friend are you? People go through stages of desires in hunting. You both seem to want this buck, it's on public land, you both originally found the spot, so all fair
But he scouted this year, you didn't. Should he be happy for a friend to get the buck? Maybe, but given his view, are you the type of friend who overlooks his desire and does what you want thereby straining if not trashing, the friendship?
Oh, toss in he's a relative? That makes it bigger since you can't just go separate ways
Understood, and it's you're call. I am simply saying factor in his reaction. If that ends the hunting friendship, are you ok with that. If so, go for itI got him his first deer and elk. 90% of his spots are places I have showed him including his second target buck spot. He joined me on a hunt at that spot I had hunted before when he had no tag.
He asks me to look at his map points for scouting for my opinion. He wastes a lot of time on unproductive areas. He sends me his scouting pics because he’s bad at scoring deer and wants my opinion. He normally under scores deer. He passed on hunting a deer last year that was probably 170s thinking it was 140.
He scouted the ridge one day this year. Hasn’t been back since August 8th. He’s seen the buck once.
I could care less about the deer. It’s about 165”. He thought 140 again until I had a mutual friend throw in his opinion. Great buck but we’ll see what I can find. Last time I hunted the ridge we saw 9 bucks in the morning. I’m hoping I can do better in a week. I’m going back because it’s a good spot. We talk to each other each year to see if schedules work to hunt it together but it hasn’t. Suddenly, it’s his honey hole because he saw a good buck.
Are we talking whitetails here? Or is this really what mule deer hunting has become in the west?All this over a 165” that he originally thought was a 140”?
No it doesn't, but only @brymoore more truly knows the situation. Last year I pretty much dissolved a lifelong friendship with a family member over a little less than a thousand dollars. Sounds petty, but somehow it's how its presented. Something tells me this is the straw on the camels back or he wouldn't of posted this thread. That was certainly the case in my situation. Sometimes the more you do for folks the more they expect and you finally have enough. For the record this friend/cousin and I have been like brothers since we were toddlers. No regrets on my part other than I didn't do it sooner. Sorry to derail brymoore, situation just sounded all too familiar.Losing a good friend or a relative over a deer or hunting spot doesn’t make much sense to me.