Have you ever garholed or been garholed by your buddies at camp? I have always liked to help people setup to kill a good buck but there is always that one guy thats know more than anyone at camp and talks down to anyone who tries to help. I love to hunt trails better then feeding areas. I have found great setup on trails and when I would tell anyone at camp (even the good hunters that I liked) I could never hunt the trail again because someone else would always signout before me. People just can't help it if they think they can kill a deer they will do whatever they have to to get the best spots. I learned that I could find a area with no hope of killing a deer and make a bunch of scraps and scar up a bunch of trees to look like rubs and I could garhole anyone. All I had to do was act like I'm talking to someone on the phone about the honeyhole and big buck pictures while at camp where someone could hear me and they would be hunting that spot the next day. I could flag a trail in and they would climb the tree that I would pick. They can't help it, they would put out cameras leave their climbers on a tree and signout an hour before anyone else so they could kill the big buck. I was in two clubs a few years ago and I dangled the bait a got a sucker at both clubs. Some people would figure it out after a couple of weeks and some it would take more than a month. After they figured it out they would be so embarrassed they would never say anything about why the were hunting there.

Have you ever been garholed?

Loose lips sink ships!

A claw hammer makes the best rubs and a large deer footprint in a scrape seals the deal. It's not hard to make pretty good hunters hunt anywhere you want them to.

I never Hunt something someone is excited about, I get jacked just for someone to harvest. I do love talking about deer I scout because that is my favorite part of deer hunting but sadly I can’t with most people in our club because 3 people will be on it. Truly last year I had a decent buck locked down a for sure kill but I was on the fence and then I heard a guy in the club talk about that deer in a nearby bottom,so I backed off and he killed it and I was happy for him. People sadly put a kill way to high up on their priority list than being a true sportsman!

I usually put buddies in my best spots. I’d rather not invite someone than garhole em.

I like the way you think!

I've gave nighthunter the garhole treatment, least that what he says

We call it something else that is not quite as nice.

More than anything in the world, a buddy (a pretty good hunter) of mine hated people following him around the signout board. There was one guy in particular that chased and raced people for the spots they generally liked to hunt. One morning my friend signed out for an area that was basically void of deer and hatched his plan. He grabbed a couple of deer hooves and a machete and spent the whole afternoon creating scrape lines and rubs everywhere in this area. He then put up a tape line, very clearly visible from the road and marked it back in the woods probably around 300-yards.

The next weekend “ol Follow Me” was in there with his climber. Pretty regularly during the week my friend or another guy that was in on it would go back and freshen his scrape line and find newer and bigger trees to “rub”. That guy hunted that same area for the rest of the season and was telling everybody about this “Monster Buck” he was chasing. My friend said the funniest part was, when they would make a new rub - the guy would move his stand for a better shot at that area.

After the season was over - someone clued the guy in what they had done to him and he got out of the club.

Man the gar hole stories I can tell and the bad thing is when I carried the gar holers hunting I put em on the good stuff. My 2 favorites are when people put me somewhere the wind is completely wrong for the act suprised when I say I saw 0 or my all time favorite: Ben come up hunting with us, we have a 135 inch 8 pt that's been coming to two spots daily and it would be a good one for you to shoot. I arrive and they say you are going to field A I say okay where will yall be they say field B and field C I say okay where is this buck coming out, they respond field B and field C. Buck is dead in field B at 4pm so then they drive in and get me at 430 so I can clean their buck. Haha lesson learned

Buddy of mine was doing this poor bastard the same way in their club. Had him going for 3 weeks. Sumbitch took off work 3 days a week trying to kill this "monster" he was chasing. I told my buddy shame on yall the man is chasing a ghost n losing income for his family over yalls joke.


Joke was on them. Phucker ended up killing a 140's STUD in that same area nobody had on camera all year. 6.5yr old 215ish buck and that area wasnt known for either weight nor bone.

I was happy for him

Yea I had to do this before. Bad thing is we doctored up an area just like that and a big mature buck moved in and was pissed something was in its territory got brave and showed himself in daylight. After that I stopped, if I stick them in a crap spot they gonna kill a good one. If I put them in a good spot they won’t see anything

Very interesting. I figured someone had a “buck moved into the gar hole” story.
I been gar holed.
Basically a cousin moving me off places with deer I was hunting to put me in a spot no deer had been in years. I wiser up to that crap and said thanks but no thanks.

I’ve learned over the years that Trutalker is the garhole king. Anywhere you take him is a complete mess.

I've always asked to be put in spots no one ever hunts if I'm a guest. I told my brother to do the same thing several years ago when he got invited for a weekend on a good club. They happily obliged him by letting him hunt right behind camp in a spot that no one ever hunted. He killed a big 5 year old checking a scrape line at 4:30 the first afternoon he hunted it. I've always figured if it was a spot a lot of people knew about and hunted it probably wasn't a good spot to kill a mature buck.

always a big buck around the camp no one ever hunts.

I leave big rubs within sight of the road all over Skyline.

Heard a story of a guy one time not sure if it’s true or not. He had a big buck pegged, guy in the club went behind him in the weekdays and killed it. He came back the following weekend and they was outside shooting the bull, he went inside and took his caps off scope and turned it to no end. Guy missed coyote the next morning and re sighted. He was pissed as was I had been. Just hear say

Many years ago I killed two bucks in two days and was shooting beer cans off fence post at 250 yards the second afternoon. Couple days later I missed a 12 point, (I know it was because another fellow killed the next day,) 5 times at 250. Reloaded and shot twice more all while he just stood and watched. Shoot my gun at a target and couldn't hit a 4x4 piece of plywood at 100 yards. I resited. Then had a guy that was with me on each hunt tell me turned my scope because he was tired of me killing deer. As I was about to whip his ass he started shaking and claimed he was kidding but I'm quit sure he actually did it. I didn't hit him but I've not carried him hunting in over 25 years. And now I never let my gun out of sight now if it's not locked up. Hell I sleep with it at camp. Even take it to the damn bathroom of anyone is around.

I would bet money that he did it; if you ever want to see the worst come out in people - kill a couple of nice deer around them. I was in a club a couple of years ago, and there was this guy and his son that consistently killed the biggest bucks in the club and generally speaking the most successful hunters at the club. Everyone hated them, except me. I told a guy that was bad mouthing them to me one day, "They put in the work - they should get the rewards." He kinda snorted and walked away, mumbling, "yea, they're your buddies." - that's why I generally hate clubs, the competition and jealousy is unpalatable to me.

TC that would have dang mad. Don't blame you a bit.