Loaning out equipment.

[thinhorn_AK]

Even worse is the hunting dog-less friend that has a lapdog breed and suggests "we should go pheasant next weekend with your dog." Better be a really great friend to ask me that one.

Yeah I bet. I don’t know much about bird dogs but I can’t imagine always asking a buddy to use his. The only times I’ve gone with people who used their dogs, it was their idea and I was just invited along.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

I’ve also had a guy at work bug me to load up Ammo for him. Of course he didn’t want to supply the materials or hang out while I was using hours of my time doing it.

 

[PredatorSlayer]

Maybe I am a dick, but I never loan anybody guns. Only way I would consider it is if I had a cheap loaner gun that I wouldnt care if it got beat up or never seen again.

I would however loan a friend some ammo.

 

[MikeyJG62]

For my good friends, I’ll lend almost anything they need. Rifle, binos…
I remember when I was a casual fisherman, my buddies loaned me everything. Finally one day I said I’m going to stop borrowing stuff and get my own gear. I also said to myself then that I would be as selfless with my gear as they were. I’ve helped a lot of guys and gals get started fishing and also hunting. Nothing that I have can’t be replaced.

 

[Zappaman]

Its all about trust... but when someone askes about "borrowing" I'll lend it out when I'm hunting WITH them. We've been on several hunts when a gun becomes a problem- it happens. But we (usually) all bring TWO firearms to any hunt in this case. So, (in the circle of friends I've hunted with for 30 years)- "take my gun" (and here are the ballistics with this load!)

Family and GOOD friends get this service from me (rarely) as I make it CLEAR they must respect the firearm I'm letting them use. If they can't make it to the range (several times if needed), then they aren't THAT real about it all. Participation is the key... if your on your iPhone at the range you ARE wasting my time- savvy?

 

[DenverCountryBoy]

Never loan anything to a friend unless you are willing to lose it or them.

 

[crich]

For a friend I would loan them anything but my wife. For a buddy or aquiantce no.

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I think too many people get this twisted. Big difference between the two.

 

[Actual_Cryptid]

I'm on the other end here, borrowing an climber from a friend this season. He offered, it's my first time hunting from anything other than the ground or a homemade blind. If I break it, he gets a new climber, no excuses.

I have a friend I'm trying to talk into joining the brotherhood of deer assassin's. I would let him borrow one of my rifles in a heartbeat, but we'd drive out together and I'd be there to make sure he could hit a damn thing with it at the range well ahead of time. If he was soloing but didn't have enough ammo to zero it I'd jump on the press and bang together a 20 pack or head down to the store and buy him a box. I've seen how bad some folks shoot when they do practice, I'd be real worried about how they do without zeroing the gun.

 

[Gatorgrizz27]

I have borrowed and loaned stuff before. Most of the time it has been fine, but a handful of bad experiences can sour you to the whole thing.

It used to be common knowledge that if you borrowed something, you should clean and return it immediately after being done with it, (don’t really want somebody else cleaning my rifles, but please don’t shoot my muzzleloader and then stick in in a case for a month), and if you borrow it more than once or twice, you need to go buy it for yourself.

Now it seems like you have to go ask for your stuff back several weeks later and “oh yeah, let me see if I can find it, or I let so and so borrow it” are common answers.

I’m much more likely to loan stuff I have multiples of (you can borrow by Leupold binos but not my Zeiss’s), and when I’m hunting with a group I’ll often bring a backup rifle in the truck in case somebody has an issue with their stuff.

My main hunting partner has a good sized John Deere tractor at their ranch, don’t know model numbers but the rear tires are about 6’ tall. They let somebody down the road borrow it to run a batwing mower who then didn’t return it. A couple weeks later they wanted to plant and asked the guy to bring the tractor back. He told them they could come pick it up and my buddies brother spent an hour fighting to get the mower unhooked.

I’m not as nice as he is and probably would have just torched the tabs off it after trying to do it the right way for awhile.

 

[Boarmaster]

I have hunting friends to whom I would loan out equipment to without any reservations. Surprisingly those same guys never ask….I will loan equipment to reliable newbees that are going to be with me on a hunt. But I let them know the value. I do not loan out my processing equipment like my grinder. But I will grind their cut up meat for them if they bring it over.

 

[Hoghead]

I think too many people get this twisted. Big difference between the two.

I agree I have a few friends and a lot of buddies.

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[GringoBling]

I loan guns and gear out to people that I trust will treat it properly.

On that subject, I will never again let anyone drive my Polaris Ranger unless they own or have previously owned a UTV. I have spent several thousand dollars in damages caused by people who don't know how to properly operate them. Pisses me off just thinking about it.

 

[Q child]

Interesting question. I'll loan stuff out. What's mine is yours.

 

[Holocene]

I have a few close, trusted hunting partners that I loan/borrow items from often. We help each other out.

When I say trusted, I mean that I've shared family dinners, meat, gear, sleeping quarters, and hundreds of hours with these men -- both in the field hunting and with their families when not hunting. I'm confident loaning/borrowing gear from these guys.

Just this month, I swapped my Ithaca M37 turkey shotgun for a buddie's Browning Superposed so he can deer hunt the rut and I can try the Browning. He's also loaning me a 0 degree bag for my Nevada cow elk hunt in exchange for my tree stands which we set up yesterday for his deer hunt. Win-win, because we both save money and don't clutter the house with one-time use gear.

Frankly, I'd loan these guys items without any sort of collateral. But, it does help to know that you've got something of theirs to grease the tradeback if you know what I mean.

Loaned a buddy my meat grinder with no collateral and had to wait way too long to get it back. Never again.

 

[WCB]

Some of you guys must have some sh!tty friends... I have friends and acquaintances. Anybody I call my friend/buddy I would let watch my kids and borrow almost anything they want they are essentially trusted family.

CO-workers or other acquaintances...nope.

 

[emath]

Depends on how good of friends they are. That said i may be borrowing a buddies muzzle loader end of this week if its raining and we dont archery hunt like we plan on. I just ran outta time to shoot it this year. it didnt help that my house got flooded and all my powder and primers got ruined. But we will be hunting in the same area and we have hunted together for 10 years so he knows how i treat my equipment.

Ditto

 

[Opah]

My take on this is be prepared to have your equipment take forever to come back or for it to come back in worse condition than it left.
This is a definite plan for the worse and hope for the best.

 

[cgasner1]

I loan stuff out all the time. I don’t have a bunch of nice stuff but a lot of it is pretty decent. Everything from a kifaru pack, to swaro spotter, to a model 70 rifle to a traditions muzzleloader. I just got my ML back from a friend who wanted it for an elk hunt. I figure nobody can mistreat my stuff as bad as I do when I’m hunting.

I have a buddy that said I chose the wrong career and should be testing gear for a living


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[ChrisInAK]

To good friends I’d loan just about anything. I’d probably have to write it down though, since I’d forget who and what I lent it too though.

 

[catmanran]

I loaned a fishing rod lathe to a friend to try before he bought his own. I got it back from his wife when he died 17 years later.
I had another friend stop by unannounced to borrow some gear. I let him take it even though I didn’t really want to. Some years later I was looking around for that gear and realized that it was borrowed. My friend claimed he never borrowed that stuff. We’ll we are not very close anymore