Hunt area etiquette

[SecretSpot]

Hey guys curious what your thoughts are on bringing people to spots you personally use, have discovered, keep secret, and are public land. Say you bring said person to spot, what are the respectful unwritten rules that guest is expected to abide by? I understand it is not law, yadda yadda, I know. Just want your experience on the topic?

Example 1:. the area is off limits unless you are present or give blessing

Example 2: they are not welcome to bring anyone else to said spot without your blessing.

Example 3: it's a free for all, bring your friends, family and whoever, whenever you please without asking

This being said,do you make this clear in an open discussion before entering the field with said person?

Thanks for your input

 

[Selway]

If you show anyone, you've shown everyone.

 

[BBob]

Hey guys curious what your thoughts are on bringing people to spots you personally use, have discovered, keep secret, and are public land. Say you bring said person to spot, what are the respectful unwritten rules that guest is expected to abide by? I understand it is not law, yadda yadda, I know. Just want your experience on the topic?

Example 1:. the area is off limits unless you are present or give blessing

Example 2: they are not welcome to bring anyone else to said spot without your blessing.


This being said,do you make this clear in an open discussion before entering the field with said person?

Yes to 1 & 2. It is absolutely verbally clear beforehand. I vet super hard before even thinking about someone new and they don't ever get to go to prime locations or get any prime info until they've been vetted for quite awhile to prove they are worthy. New people are rare for me, been doing it too long and already have a reliable very small core group and even then not everything is discussed freely. Most of this applies to Coues deer and mby not quite as strict on other species.

 

[SecretSpot]

If you show anyone, you've shown everyone.

Really starting to believe that one

 

[FlyGuy]

1 & 2, but I wouldn’t show your best spots to anyone that you don’t plan on being a real hunting partner for many years. If you are trying to teach someone, then have them pic a spot, help them out, but from them on its “their” spot. If you are trying out new partners, I would suggest to go to a spot that’s new to both of you.


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[j_volt]

I won't even take my wife to good public spots.

 

[Proeliator]

I would say if you have to ask yourself those questions just don't bring anyone in the first place.

 

[BBob]

I'll add: I have those rules I wrote for a reason. When younger and nicer I got burned, many others I know got burned. We all got burned by so called friends. If you don't get yourself some strict rules you will get burned, no doubt.

 

[Meshnasty]

#2 in my case as we typically hunt together and most of our favorite spots were found while scouting together.

I really only hunt with three people including my wife. Our scouting, spots, and success/failure is an open book between us, but hunting with either friend is seperate (one is midwest based hunting while the other is western based). Both people are my closest friends and have been for well over 10 years. If either person ever wanted to bring someone else out such as friend or even their own family they would ask first just as I would if I wanted to bring someone new. Last year my one buddy wouldn't go out to our spots, even with the ideal conditions, because I was coming back to hunt in a week and he didn't want to burn the area. I told him multiple times to go out there, but he never did. It's not uncommon for us to argue with each other trying to get the other person to go to the better spot. He'd rather see me get a shot and I'd rather see him get a shot. I don't think we would ever let another local person hunt with us. We just have too much time and too many miles devoted to the areas we like to hunt.

In general I would trade my own valuable information (not something I scouted/hunted with a friend) in an out of state area for information that is valuable to me. That being said I have only done this twice. In both cases they were people I have never met in person. I've only used one person's information so far and I won't pass it on to anyone since they are still applying for that hunt/it isn't mine to share. I hope someday they will use the information I gave them.

 

[NJDiverDan]

Everyone thinks #1, but it typically is #3.

 

[WCB]

If you show anyone, you've shown everyone.

If you have shitty hunting partners. Guys I hunt with and have brought to spots avoid them like the plague if I am not with. Even out of states spots that I don't have a tag for I have to almost fight my one buddy to go to spots I showed him because he feels guilty.

Where most guys get in trouble if the friend of a friend or relative of a friend. I personally just don't get my self into that situation.

 

[MThuntr]

1 YES
2 Never to Rarely...I've also gone to say no girlfriends EVER because they'll either blab to their friends and before you know it Jerry from down the street hunting there or when she bails and takes her new dude there. I showed a spot to a friend who wanted to take her dad hunting...he could get lost in his backyard with a map. To this day he thinks he was hunting nearly 100 miles from where we actually were and has not interest in coming back because the hunt was much harder than his body could handle.

No spot is free for all though agreed if you show 1 person without a doubt they're going to bring someone

Spots found together remain unspoken to others and variations of rules 1 and 2 apply.

 

[def90]

Hey guys curious what your thoughts are on bringing people to spots you personally use, have discovered, keep secret, and are public land. Say you bring said person to spot, what are the respectful unwritten rules that guest is expected to abide by? I understand it is not law, yadda yadda, I know. Just want your experience on the topic?

Example 1:. the area is off limits unless you are present or give blessing

Example 2: they are not welcome to bring anyone else to said spot without your blessing.

Example 3: it's a free for all, bring your friends, family and whoever, whenever you please without asking

This being said,do you make this clear in an open discussion before entering the field with said person?

Thanks for your input

What would your friend do if you just told them that you broke up with your girlfriend? Would they be hanging with you putting down some beers or would they be texting her for a date?

Might be an indicator of what they may do if you show them your spot.

 

[TheGDog]

Not only a problem of whom you directly tell or bring.. but also if you don't hide the carcass/gut-pile... OR... if you leave TrailCams up where they can be easily visible, sure enough... you'll then start to see curious new roaming figures showing up in your cams. So remember, that carcass and those cams do just as much talking as you ever could.

 

[orionsbrother]

If someone brings me to an area, I don’t advertise it to anyone. No one. No buddies. Not my wife.

If I bring someone to an area, I expect them to respect that.

Perhaps that’s unrealistic.

 

[spike camp]

Don’t do it.
You’ll regret it, somehow, eventually.

 

[Elkangle]

I won't even take my wife to good public spots.

I showed my ex one of my archery spots after 3 years...and she slipped up after a month

I also slipped after like 5 years and my inreach had the location on my best Idaho rifle spot...she literally was using that as leverage when we broke up

Trust nobody with the good spots

 

[Sanchez]

My experience is they will almost always eventually violate any agreement you make when you show them a good public land spot.

They might hunt a slight different version of the same basic spot, they might act like a statue of limitation exists and if you do not hunt the spot for a year or two it is wide open, they might tell their friends who will act like they discovered the area on their own, etc..

As soon as you show them it is as much their spot as yours.

 

[dieselchessy]

For me its "Never go back to another persons "spot" unless invited by that person".

For that reason I hate to have folks show me places, cause I don't want to exclude places that I might have some day discovered on my own. Having someone show me a place more or less wipes it off the map for me.

But in my experience my behavior is rare. Therefore I don't show anyone any place I'm not willing to walk away from. Just like loaning money. Never loan out any money you expect to get back.

 

[Kilboars]

Don’t show it to Joe Rogan. JRE inside joke.

Just know people/friends will show their true color. I’ve lost “ what I thought was” a good friend over something similar.

Got permission/lease to hunt some private land from a guy, then had a guest/friend of my own go behind my back to lease it himself.


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