Finding hunting partners - app input

[Rifleman86]

I see a potential business model here.

"Rent a buddy" for DIY hunts.

Think of how many guys don't want to hire a guide but would just like someone to be with them in case things go sideways. A guy could make several hundred a day to just follow a DIY guy around and keep his mouth shut and help when asked. A guide license required for this? Your not guiding, your just being paid to be there.

A lot of guys don't go by themselves because they cant afford a guide and their wives wont let them hunt along. "Rent a buddy" would be way cheaper than a guide service.

$300-$500 a day to just hang out and keep a guys wife from bitching.

"Rent a buddy" coming to an app near you. lol

Haha I’d probably pay a young fit college kid $100 bucks a day to just follow me around the mountain, not bitch, keep my wife happy there is someone to call for help when I keel over and most importantly, have a young back/legs ready for the pack out.

With one notable exception, everyone I’ve taken elk hunting has been more trouble then they are worth.

Most eastern hunters like the “idea” of elk hunting. After about day two, when faced with the reality of what kind of effort it takes to actually put an animal on the ground, suddenly they are spending all day in the tent texting on the inreach and wanting to bail to town or worse home.

With the exceptions of my sons, I’ll never take a new person elk hunting again. I’m not opposed to partnering up, but it’s going to be with someone who has actually put elk on the ground before and they are going to have their own vehicle.

 

[MallardSX2]

Everyone has one of those stories.

A buddy of mine was in his late 60’s and took some dipshit (that I went to high school with) with him on his unit 76 archery elk hunt.

That putz bailed on him on day three.

He got a small bull 16 days later.

 

[bigbassin]

If someone posted on here that they wanted to help pack out animals, and they lived near where you hunt. Would you call them to help you out, knowing they were doing it to learn where to hunt?

Interesting thought. I’ve never considered you could steal a spot from helping with pack outs, but I have offered and given help dragging deer out so I could see how it was done/any tricks that were used, gauge how difficult it would be in the terrain, how the person gutted the deer, etc. Never gone back to the spots where I helped.