Hunting Invite

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I am thinking about inviting myself to go with you. I know you would make a great hunting partner. I want to be a great partner too, but I am not sure I have all it takes. Please advise me on your priorities, and the minimum levels of competence you expect me to have. I have 10 criterion I want you to prioritize in order of importance, and to rate from 1 to 5. A one will be for having very little needed, or expected and five is very high. I would assume the higher the priority the greater the level I will need to attain. It is important to know just how hard I need to work to get ready.

1. Shooting skill
2. Elk hunting knowledge
3. Woodsman ability
4. Ethics, including law abiding
5. Physical condition
6. perseverance, Maximum means hunts every day and all day.
7. Patience, Will wait for the right situation
8. Fun to be with
9. Helps with camp and other tasks including packing
10 Equipped and supports the corporate efforts
 
1. Shooting skill
2. Elk hunting knowledge
3. Woodsman ability
4. Ethics, including law abiding
5. Physical condition
6. perseverance, Maximum means hunts every day and all day.
7. Patience, Will wait for the right situation
8. Fun to be with
9. Helps with camp and other tasks including packing
10 Equipped and supports the corporate efforts

okay..my list. FUN!

8. Fun
4. ethics..i dont want to find you on the wrong side of a tresspass fence or burying a rare unicorn.
9. helps.
2. elk skills would be nice, since mine are lacking.


the rest are difficult. it\'s your trip too..if you want to sleep in, no biggie.
 
1. Shooting skill............Just don\'t shoot me.
2. Elk hunting knowledge...........You\'ll need to find an elk for me to shoot.
3. Woodsman ability..........Lots.
4. Ethics, including law abiding.........Don\'t get me busted.
5. Physical condition.........Good enough to haul out the meat from my kill.
6. perseverance, Maximum means hunts every day and all day..............Every second until I get a kill. After that..who cares?
7. Patience, Will wait for the right situation.........Wait until I shoot first.
8. Fun to be with......Laugh at all my jokes.
9. Helps with camp and other tasks including packing.........Can you cook?
10 Equipped and supports the corporate efforts........Huh?
 
I\'m going to add 11) Share with finances appropriately. Took a guy once that whined every time we stopped for gas or a burger. And the food he brought to share was minimal and marginal at best. So when planning a trip I am up front EXPECT TO PAY \"X\" AMOUNT AND DON\'T WHINE!!!
 
1. Shooting skill
2. Elk hunting knowledge
3. Woodsman ability
Patience, Will wait for the right situation


I would group these as 5\'s:
- ethics, including law abiding
- physical condition: just be in good enough shape to be able to hunt all day. You don\'t have to be a fitness freak, but staying in the tent not hunting drives me nuts
- perseverance: as I mentioned, I don\'t like it when people skip hunts. You don\'t have to go hard from dawn till dusk, but at least be out hunting during the prime times. I think perseverance also means continuing to stay positive as time progresses and you haven\'t filled your tag.
- fun to be with - my hunts are too short and too few to be shared with someone who doesn\'t have a good time
- helps with camp and other tasks
- equipped and supports the corporate efforts

The remaining four are important, just not as important. Patience would be a five also if the person was hunting with me in the woods. I would expect someone to be able to shoot their weapon, but if they miss or wound an animal, I\'m not the one feeling guilty. Elk hunting knowledge and woodsman ability: I feel those are learned through hunting and can also be taught.
 
If you are invited to hunt with me:

1- Shooting Skill
2- Ethics, law abiding, know the regs!
3- Helps with camp and other tasks including packing
4- Fun to be with
5- Patience, Will wait for the right situation
6- Perseverance, Maximum means hunts every day and all day
7- Physical condition
8- Elk hunting knowledge
9- Woodsman ability
10- Equipped and supports the corporate efforts

#1 - #7 & #10 is on you.
#8 & #9 can be taught during the hunt
 
I see I was not clear on what was intended by \"supports the corporate effort\". The idea is shares in expenses, brings groceries, has equipment available for use by the team. We expect a teenager and a few others to have nothing, but most adults should have something to contribute to the hunt, and camp.
 
Even thought I was obviously joking. It was also my way of saying I prefer solo hunting. Your list shows why.
 
I would never invite myself to go on someone\'s hunt, but have any of you ever had someone do that to you? How did it turn out?

Many years ago I was partnered up with a couple of guys for an elk hunt. Before we knew what was happening another fellow, from another Ranger District, invited himself along. He was a constant braggart. He took advantage of the rest of us every time he could. He was instantly the hunt boss.
On opening morning he said he was going to let a nearby camp know where we were hunting. The three of us said \"leave them alone\", but he insisted and left us waiting for him in the meadow. The hunters in that camp were already gone, so he snuck out from behind their camp and left us waiting for him in that meadow. One of the things he told us was, as soon as he got his elk, he was heading home. He got two hunts with us all at one time. His first and his last.
 
Yeah, i\'ve been asked many times over the years. I don\'t find it hard to tell them I prefer to hunt solo.

What I have done is help by going on someone else\'s hunt. I enjoyed that, but i\'d hate to have someone on my hunt. I\'ve only hunted with my dad, and i\'m sure it will stay that way.
 
\"cnelk\" said:
If you are invited to hunt with me:

1- Shooting Skill
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So you are saying you might not be invited to your own camp Brad? :haha: Sorry, couldn\'t resist!

We all know that even the most experienced shooter has their misses, but I understand why that would be important to you with how you like to hunt. In my case, I don\'t normally have anyone hunting with me, so it\'s on them if they get a shot and mess it up.
 
You know, it\'s difficult to say that any of those are more or less important. I can tell you that finding someone deficient in any of them can (not \"will\") place a burden on the hunt.

Do your best and forget the rest.
 
I\'ve been thinking about this. I have great partners and some not so great.

I couldn\'t put a finger on why or how you fall on which list.

Glaring deficiencies are easy to spot. Minor ones I try not to worry about. In the end everyone is different. I try not to get bogged down on any hunt code. If someone is tired and wants to sleep in. Cool! If they want a solo day, cool! Whatever. I love hunting with a friend. I define a friend that likes me for whatever. Faults and all. And I feel the same way in return.
 
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