are there any bad hunters out there,just wondering if there is a camp that has bad person hunting with you .just dont ever hear talk about it out there in hunting land guys that just dont ever follow rules.

Like in some barrels of apples there has to be a rotten one, there is someone that is a pain in the rear to everyone on the place. I was on one place for years, that everyone got along, everyone pitched in with the work and it was more like a well knit family. But I have been on some places that I only stayed a year, because of the attitude and ethics of one or more of the other hunters. Another reason to buy your own place, you get all of the headaches, but you make the rules.

Hunters are like any other group of people, there are the good and the bad.

I don't know about hunters but I know of bad grammar...

What are the parameters being used to define a "Bad Hunter"?????

Bad hunter is old Indian word for vegeterian.

Oh Hell, if that is what is being looked at, there are a bunch of bad hunters out there.

Oh there are plenty....

For quite a few years my Dad and I hunted a pretty well known (for the area) day least outside of Victoria on Hwy 77. We hunted it every Saturday so generally got deer off it every year.

Anyways, - some real characters would certainly show up. Things I remember:

1) Fellow harvesting two turkey on opening Morning - well, Victoria County has no fall turkey season.

2) One fellow shooting a deer during the morning hunt, it then jumped the fence onto adjoining property. Instead of waiting for the lease people to come back and make arrangements to track the deer with the adjoining landowner - he trespassed. The other landowner did not take kindly to that. The people that ran the daylease then told him to ensure he stayed on their property. After the evening hunt the fellow had a 10pt buck when they came back to pick him up. Only problem, he hadn't fired a shot. He had trespassed again and retrieved the (by now) bug infested, bloated, rigored carcass from earlier that morning (it was a hot day)..he wasn't allowed to hunt there anymore.

3) They probably put out 50 hunters or more on a lease of 2000 acres. The blinds were spaced out good enough that you couldn't see one from another and you shouldn't be shooting towards another hunter. Hunters were insructed to STAY IN THEIR BLINDS - quite a few didn't. One hunter I remember we had to wait/hunt for his butt after the morning hunt. He was instructed to stay in his blind that evening - not to leave it. Sure enough, o-dark thirty comes along and the truck comes by to get him - he wasn't there again, another hunter never allowed to come back.

4) I can't say how many times I saw bloated, non dressed deer loaded into the back of the trucks. Some of the hunters either didn't know how to dress a deer or didn't seem to want to bother.

5) There was the fellow that shot 2 bucks during a morning hunt - problem, Victoria county was a one buck county.

6) I can remember at least 2 trucks that ended up with bullet holes through the cab roof or windshield from "unloaded" guns.

7) One opening morning I wasn't seeing anything. I attributed it to the hunter near me firing several shots all morning. I wondered what he was shooting at. When the truck came by and he was picked up - he had harvested half a dozen....squirrels.

God, don't ask me why we kept going back but we did! There were deer so there was that. Maybe the other thing was some side of me enjoyed seeing how damn stupid people could be. We probably would have kept hunting there but when the landowner passed away his sons decided to least the place to a group of Houston hunters instead of work it as a daylease.

Earl

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are there any bad hunters out there,just wondering if there is a camp that has bad person hunting with you .just dont ever hear talk about it out there in hunting land guys that just dont ever follow rules.

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Earl I think we have had some of those same hunters day lease from us. A few years of that was enough. There was some "real" winners in those few years. I would go to work on Monday mornings and everyone was waiting for the latest story of stupidity.

Around Brady you always here about the "bad hunters"...The ones that every time it rains decide to go mudding in all the fields and tear them all up....and Steve from Steve's Meat Market talking about all the deer that come in that still had the Balls on them because they didn't know how to gut one. Then you have the two guys on my buddy's ranch that shot 10 deer opening week and then lied to his dad about it. (He Left the deer camp another way and saw them all hanging up.) They have 5000 acres of prime Deer hunting land around Melvin TX that borders the Ford Ranch where the famos Brady Buck was taken and they don't lease because of the crap that those guys pulled. I can't say I am not glad because I get to hunt it for free now!! I shot a nice axis off of it a few weeks ago!

Putting bad with the word "hunters" seems ironic. Hunters respect the game, the laws, the other hunters, the property lines, etc. The ones that don't I call outlaws or worse names.

like stated before...i think we ALL have had our fair share of them, but i doubt an specific names will be posted on here..least i wont be in that category if they were called out

You mean like people that point guns at you in the cabin or getting in/out of the truck?

How about jerks that hunt your land without permission?

How about night hunting?

How about shooting does, cutting off the hind quarters, and leaving the rest?

How about the guy who shows up for a pheasant hunt and every bird that falls (even if it is 100 yards from him) yells "That's my bird!!!"?

How about the guy that shoots a 10 point mule deer when it isn't mule deer season, even after you tell him it is a mulie not a whitetail?

How about a guy that picks up your gun after you carefully lay it out of the way and he decides to move it "out of the way" and puts a big scratch in it in the process?

How about a guy that sees a bird on the other side of you and shoots right past you, close enough that your clothes move from the muzzle blast?

How about when you are driving on your land and you see a covey of quail under a mesquite next to your road. Everyone piles out of the car and while you have your head down looking at your shotgun to load it a guy shoots with his muzzle about 1 foot from your ear?

I've seem a few bad hunters over the years. Most of them weren't really bad all the time, they just had their moments. I didn't know all of them personally.

OTOH I've known some great guys, too. The guys that always insist that the new guy gets the spot where they are most likely to get a deer or quail. Guys that will give up their hunt to help you find that wounded animal. You know the kind.

i know the types, but tell me some things that have happend to you on a lease.And enough with the english teacher.[i dont know about bad hunters just bad grammer]txduckman.thanks

What about the guy who jumps in YOUR truck and runs over the brand new 7 Mag. you had propped up against the door, and then says, "Well I had to go get my pig."

And he's still one of my closest freinds. Believe it or not, the gun still shoots straight and the scope was only 1 inch off.