Stories of hunting partners that quit

[jamie_wil]

lots a softies out there

 

[Tilzbow]

Had a guy leave on the morning of day 2 or 3 of a Desert Bighorn hunt I’d drawn a tag for in my home state of NV. I’d hired an outfitter and he asked to accompany me. I was driving the guides SxS to our morning hunt area, he was riding. The SxS caught on fire (small fire under the seat), the fire was quickly extinguished and before we could get our gear loaded into another guide’s SxS he’d put on his pack, headed back to camp and when the group returned to camp from the days hunt he’d pack his gear and driven his own vehicle home south of Vegas to Reno (500 miles). I guess the little fire shook him up but we never discussed why he left, I never asked a rarely talked to him afterwards. I’d only known him a few years at the time but he seemed pretty hardcore when I first met him (he’d killed a Stone and Dall with a bow, along with several other real good animals and finished the Western States 100 in under 24 hours multiple times). We didn’t hunt together after that.