Ain't never figured out people getting jealous over a deer. I've been lucky enough to take one or two good deer where I hunt. A neighbor friend gets tore up whenever I kill one. I've helped him scout his place and hung stands for him that he never hunted. I show him every deer pic I get, cause we hunt the same deer. I showed him some pics of bucks last week hoping he had pics were maybe he would kill one. Found out tonite he had pics of them and got pissed that I knew they was around. What makes people like that? I ain't mad but damn. It ain't no competition. I've tried my best to get him on one. I ain't no expert by no means but it ain't my fault he can't kill a deer.

Deer hunting brings bad things out of people. People get bored sitting in a tree, while thinking about the 10,000 things everybody else did that is keeping them from seeing deer.

Not seeing deer is never anybody's own fault.

Some people are just assholes.

^^^^^THIS^^^^^

Never truer words have been spoken....

Don't know what his problem is if he can't killem anyway. Sounds like he needs to put more thought into his hunting and less in yours.

On another note... I've been in clubs where people get pissed and slam their doors the minute a good deer is brought in....
Where I'm at now.... It's totally just the opposite....couldn't ask for a better group of people to hunt and hangout with.... Period....

Deer hunting, turkeys, women, and money will bring the dickhead out in a man pretty quickly.

This is true.

It's like anything else in life. It's competition.

I wouldn't hunt with anyone that acted that way.

You need to go hunt with the mailman then

Nope.

Deer hunters seem to be the worst. Most turkey hunters I know and hunt or hang around are not dickheads about turkey hunting or the success of others. Liars yes, dickheads no.

I'm good looking, he's bigger than me so I'm afraid he might rape me!!

HA so true Brent, think I've been in fight's over all of the above

Yea, he's on his own for as I'm concerned. He is a friend but hunting buddy, nope.

It's just a damn deer.

The way I figure it, it's us against the deer, not each other. (at least in my lease) Some people don't believe that.

Sounds like your screen name would be better suited for your friend rather than yourself.....just sayin.

Yep I was nice enough to tell my uncle where I had been seeing a big 7 point coming out at and what times I had been seeing him coming out at. He put a ground blind 10 yards in front of this hole I had been seeing him come into this field at, I wish I had a pic it was so stupid. Ruined everyone's chances, a guy on here ended up killing him bout a mile away. No doubt in my mind my uncle scared that deer off.

Lol! X2 other than turkeys. I'm a loner when it comes to turkeys for the most part. Ain't jealous about no damn animal other than someone shooting over the limit and it hurting the population, or doing something unsafe. That's the only 2 concerns I have.

hunting camps...making grown men act like little boys for generations!!

i've never understood it, either

My absolute favorite favorite form of hunting jealousy is when a kid kills a small buck and are as proud as they can be, then a grown man starts throwing off on the kid about it. They say they are kidding but they are jealous.

x2. Life's too short for that mess.

I can't stand that.

You want to see the worst in people just kill a few good deer. You'll figure out who your friends are.

If you want to see a 360 degree personality change in some folks, just let them put some camouflage on.

X a bunch! A grown man that belittles a kids deer is a jackass.

A guy did that to my son once when he shot a small buck. The guy had about a 120" 8 pt in his truck at the processor. Told my son if he'd a let it go it might have been a bigun in a couple years. My son was about 10 at the time, and shot back "if you'd let that one go he mighta been a 150"er in a couple years"! All the guys at the processors place had a big belly laugh over that one.

Only if you refused to share your donuts with him!!

They need to be kicked in the nuts.

Repeatedly

It's like anything in life - many people feel like success is a limited commodity and since they are unwilling to do the work, then they are robbed by those that put in the effort. Work, sports, hobbies - most people believe that certain people are just lucky. More often than not - hard work and a positive attitude leads to success.

If my so called "hunting buddy" did that, we wouldnt be hunting buddies any longer.

And for the jealousy part, i dont get it either. Im not jealous at all, I get just as excited when a friend kills a good deer on my place as i do when i kill one.

many years ago I hunted with a guy that would get all wound up over anyone within 20 miles of his place killing a good buck. He told me once that those bucks COULD of traveled to his place if they hadn't killed them. I blew it off for years till.....

I found a good 8 point on his place, patterned him pretty quick.I told him how and when to kill that deer, told him he was a five year old, 135" deer. He hunted him once, opp of how I told him to kill him and quit hunting there. He said he didn't think the deer was big as I said it was. Two weeks later I caught the wind right, slipped in and killed him. Five year old. 134" eight. 200 pounds. Better than any deer buddy had ever killed.

This friend was an excellent photographer, so I asked him to take some pics for me. He basically told me to eff off...he was pissed that I killed that deer. I quit deer hunting with him after that.

This man speaks the truth.

Shoot.

Shovel.

Shut-Up

I have one of the greatest buddies teaching me about deer hunting. Other than telling me I could tell the size and sex of a deer by putting one of it's pellets in my mouth he has passed along a ton of good information and been very patient with me. It's been a real blessing meeting him and his family they have gotten me back into hunting after a very long break from it. and no I didn't fall for the poo thing.

I dont understand it either... When I moved to Montgomery from Idaho I was really excited. I was back in god's country first and foremost but secondly I had a family friend that I had hunted with since I started huntin. I even shot my first deer there. Well It was december of that first year being back. I was huntin at stand that I put out that I scouted and a place that this guy couldn't even hunt. Me and my brother went in and hunted. At 0900 the biggest deer of my life walked out and I smoked him with my 22-250. I took the buck up to the land owner and he was all excited for me and glad I got that buck. I sent the pic out to all my friends (including the guy that got mad) A few days later I was walking into Bass pro with my family and my phone rang. It was the guy. I answer and he said somethings and I though he was just giving me shucks and I was laughing. Well he was serious. He started making some threats and I asked if he was mad at me. He said yes and that he had a bullet with my name on it. I tend to lose my temper and I flew off and said somethings to him. But, my wife got the phone and calmed me down. I was ready to go find him and see what was what. But, that ended me hunting there. A place that this guys doesn't own he is just a family member of the land owner. Its shitty that this guy was mad because I killed a bigger buck than he had ever even seen and threatened to shoot me over. Never will I understand that.

That's super weird. Some people have issues.

its funny to me how folks act when somebody kills a decent buck. I have found that most of the time when people get a little attitude, they are the ones that ALWAYS find an excuse to not go hunting. had too much to do around the house, HAD to watch the ball game, went shopping with the ole lady, its too cold, needed to wash my truck, had to cut the grass, the wife wanted to go to dinner, got drunk last night, the wind wasn't right , blah blah blah blah blah. I get cussed at for just being plain lucky. whatever, I will take luck every day but you cant kill them sitting on the couch.

the ones that grumble either can't shot or can't hunt . not my problem pluck'em.

Agree but, you left off the part about lazy and not willing to put in the time and effort to be successful.

thats the truth if ive ever heard it.

It isn't your problem that he doesn't want to put time and effort into being better than you.

Some people are just stingy. Really. Nothing makes me happier than seeing a deer we've scouted, patterned and have been chasing go down. No matter who killed it. You may spend more time, sweat and money into getting everything just right than the person who ends up killing it but that's just part of it, and to some people that just doesn't register to em.

That's BS!! I'm an asshole and I don't care how many deer or what size anyone kills....just do it legally.

Over a pine goat? Lol, never understood that. Plenty of deer for everybody out there, lol. It's like out of stater tourons headed to the beach here. They drive fast as hell through my little hometown pissing off the locals, I guess cuz they think the beach is running away from them. Some folks just got a bad case of they 'tards.

Quote from my grandfather "Hunting can turn a preacher in to a sumbitch" And over the years I have learned that he was true.

I'll chime in.

A good friend of mine joined a club once. He was fairly new to hunting and was really gung-ho about scouting and doing his homework. Read alot about how to kill a big deer. Well he got invited to join an old established club on about 2500 acres east of Montgomery in some prime hunting area. The guys were older and mainly enjoyed sitting around the camp, drinking beer, smoking cigars, hunting close to camp for a couple of hours and calling it a day. They hadn't killed a mounter deer in about 5 years on this club in the heart of black belt.

Well my buddy gets after it. Finds some hot spots that no one has hunted in a long time. Hung a climber and kills an 8 point with a 20 inch spread the first morning he hunts it. Guys are pissed!

Well, he gets kinda shunned that night at the campfire so he just says to hell with it and goes to bed. He gets up the next morning and hunts another climber on another area and kills a helluva nice 10 point the next morning. The other members went nuts! I mean completely psycho! Cussing him for filth. It was bad...really bad.

Anyway, a few weeks later, he went back to hunt and killed ANOTHER great deer and that was it. They told him to pack his crap and he wasn't welcome back next year. He was fine with it. He killed 2 mounters and another buck he put on a plaque and called it a year.

We did go back that spring and we both killed 2 gobblers on the place. We left the breast feathers in the cabin door jam for 'em!

I also know a guy that has been kicked out of club for killing 3 gobblers in one season off a place when no one else could kill one. Was told he killed too many turkeys. Really??? But I'll leave that one alone.

Having said all this, nothing tops folks in MS/AR on public water hunting ducks. There have been many an ass whooping over a freaking mallard. Stupid folks out there.

I don't believe that!!!

You ain't kidding neither. My first time on the black river I didn't know if I was gonna have to shoot people or ducks.

Several years ago, my brother would invite his BIL to hunt our place. This guy only got to hunt maybe once a year, and he really wanted to put some meat in his freezer. So, being the nice guy that I am, I sent him to my honey hole. Keep in mind, I was the king of this place, most deer, several really good bucks. Anyway, I hear him shoot. After the hunt, I come walking back to our camp, and there is the biggest buck ever taken on our little piece of land! BIG 9 ! He's grinning ear to ear.

Was I jealous of that deer? Damn right I was! Was I jealous that he killed it? Hell no! It did make me sick when we took the deer to the processor and he tells the guy to cut the horns off! The processor looked at him, then looked at me and about couldn't make himself do it! I'm not talking about cutting the base of the skull, I'm talking about each individual antler!

Sometimes nice guys do finish last.

What was he supposed to do? Have a shoulder mount done? Some guys don't do that or care about that at all. Good for him for enjoying the hunt, though.

You are probably right about the jealousy factor most times, but have you looked a little deeper into the other party's perspective? What I mean is how did they view what you did, versus how you view what you did?

I made a fool of myself one time about 10-11 years ago, and to this day the other folks involved would tell you I was jealous, but that wasn't what it was (sincerely). Me and two other boys leased a 770 acre tract for two seasons, and it was VERY expensive. Truth is we should've never stepped out like that. We were paying roughly $3,000 apiece just to lease the land, then we still had all the extra costs of having the fields limed, buying fertilizer/seed, tractor fuel, and so forth. At that time none of the three of us could truly afford that, it was a serious weight on my conscience, I couldn't enjoy it.
Well, we had a "no guest" rule, but one of the guys hunted with his adult wife EVERY time. Which would've been fine if they sat together, but he would place her in one of our good spots, and go somewhere else himself. In my eyes that was a 4th full-time adult member, they should've paid TWO memberships. Furthermore, his wife would shoot any small buck she saw, and we had a "mature mounter only" rule, even if it was just a gentlemen's agreement.
The 2nd season we opted to get a 4th guy (a cousin of the guy who's wife hunted). This 4th guy NEVER showed up one single time for a work day, NEVER came scouting a single time, nothing. The first day of gun season that year we had the most awesome cutover ever with a shooting house on it, but had the totally wrong wind to hunt it, so I played it safe and didn't go there. A few mins after daylight I heard shooting from that area, only to find out this 4th guy had showed up and went to that shooting house, and shot 3 racked bucks running together. I lost my temper and ruined a couple of friendships that day. In the end I can look back now and realize that I took all of that more seriously than they did. They thought I was hacked off that someone killed a deer and I didn't, but from my perspective that's not at all what it was. I was in too deep anyway, too emotionally strained over the money and how much work I put in, and how little they put in. But to this day, I guarantee you they'd say I was "jealous" of them killing deer (even though I killed the two biggest bucks that we killed off that land in those two years). I don't think they would have ever had any thought about it if I had been the one doing all that other stuff, but my personality was such that it ate at me continually. Again, it wasn't about the deer kills, we all killed deer off that land and that was fantastic! It still bothers me that they think I was jealous.

I've taken a lot of pleasure telling someone to sit in my climber & where to see a big-un that I just haven't been able to kill, whether they get him or not as long as they see him.
Never understood the jealousy thing.

Killbux, did it bother you that he killed 3 racked bucks in one sitting after not pulling his weight during preperation. or did it bother you that he hunted when the wind wasn't right, with a potential of screwing the spot? Not stirring the pot, just asking.

In full honesty, both. And I'm willing to admit that I would've probably killed more than one buck as well if I had been there---two of em were grown' uns! I think the worst part was that I had every chance to go there, but chose to do it right and not booger that spot up, yet if I had known someone else was going there I would have gone myself (just to keep someone else off, even though I knew the risk). That guy had the most awesome hunt, and (in my mind that day) had done nothing to earn it. He didn't even have the "fancy hunting expertise" to know it was the wrong wind. I knew where the other two boys were going, and it never crossed my mind that this 4th guy would even show up, I had never even met him before that morning. I mean, I had literally chomped at the bit all week hoping to open gun season from that spot, and was SO disappointed when it became obvious we would have the wrong wind on Saturday. I wanted to be a titty-baby and just quit the whole season after that! LOL...that was so spoiled and silly!

He told me his wife wouldn't let him have a mount in the house. He regrets it to this day. He does have a very nice set of rattling antlers though!

This is why I could never be in a club in the normal sense or at least if I was, I would try not to take it too seriously. Chances are there would be someone in that club that I just didn't like for whatever reason - kind of like you ikillbux, you already didn't like the guy for not pulling his weight in the off season. All of the sudden, he shows up, hunts like an idiot and has the hunt of a lifetime. If that had been someone you truly liked or if you had told them to go hunt there, you probably would have been ecstatic for him. That's why I hunt with a very small group of guys that we all get along great, all pull our weight, have trigger restraint, agree on following the same set of rules and just enjoy hunting and being at the camp...if big deer drop, it's a bonus for everyone, no matter who pulled the trigger.

^^^THISx1000^^^

I've been saying for years, and I learned it from that incident, that I'm not made for hunting clubs. I like a personal lease with just a close buddy or three.

everyone has their pet peeves when it comes to deer hunting. I do really enjoy when anybody puts horns on the ground.
matter fact, I`m bout to start a thread about it

Amen