Stories of hunting partners that quit

[wapitibob]

Never had a partner quit. Only had a few over the last 55 years and I've been blessed with darn good ones.

 

[Wallace]

Ive got a buddy who ive been on a couple short hunts with. He isn't going with me bird hunting this year because his wife complains the whole time hes gone. Im not driving 20hrs on a 10 day trip for him to start trying to convince me to leave on day 3. Told him why he didn't get invited and he got a little pissy about it

A group of 4 us drove about 26 hours to freelance duck hunt 15 or so years ago, 1 vehicle. It was supposed to be a 10 + day trip. One of them had to fly home early, we knew ahead of time that we would be taking him to the airport, no harm in that. After we dropped him off (around day 5 or 6 of the trip), the two remaining guys got a little home sickness induced by their girlfriends after a couple days of slower hunting ... I got outvoted, we left 3 or 4 days early. I basically slept in the backseat of the truck the entire ride home, didn't talk much, I was hot. Haven't hunted with those two guys since, and one of them was my main hunting partner for waterfowl up to that point. The guy who flew home is still one of my best friends and we hunt together all the time.

Ironically, I was the only one married, and the only one with kids ... I was also the only one who wanted to stay.