Have you ever wondered why or why not, you have been invited to someones camp?

All these friends I "think" we have, all have camps to go to, but why don't they invite me?

I can think of as many reasons not to invite me as reason to do the opposite:

1.Been to Africa too many times, and they think I won't fit in.
2.Perceived as having too much money, or not enough.
3.Don't drink, cuss, or chew like the rest of them.
4.Turn the radio off or go home when I walk into a camp. Not going to listen to some bar room noise all the time.
5. If they are not SCI or DSC members, what fun are they to be around?
6.I'm a "stick in the mud" as my ex-wife says. I would rather just hunt, eat, and sleep, quietly, no need to make noise.
7. Pure envy of the trips we take and the time off each winter.
8. I tell it like it is, been there done that.
9. No semi-auto 3006's with see-thru mounts allowed in camp.
10. Actually go to the Deer blind instead of staying in camp and playing cards all day.
11.Don't bring more Beer than Bullets.
12.Zero my guns before coming to camp.
13.Don't want to argue whether a 30-06 or 270 is a better Deer gun.
14. etc, the list goes on.

Anyone want to add to this?

Nobody wants to hunt with me!

How about:

15) shoots the best deer ever taken on the property the first time he hunts it (it happened to me, and I was NEVER invited back )
16) has the best hunting stories
17) has the nicest rifle/scope/camera
and finally,

18) knows Terry Blauwkamp!!!!

George

Greg, too dangerous?

[ 10-17-2002, 19:14: Message edited by: King Baboon ]

No I just have snakes following me around. I just can't figure it out!

19) I generally limit out early. They never see anything.
20) Also knows Terry Blauwkamp. Guilt by association.

21. A few years ago, the camp owner told me to sit in his wife's blind as she had not been there for days, and no one had gone near it.

Well........... I killed the nicest 12 point ever taken in that camp after sittiing there less than an hour.

Two years later, the same thing happend, last day of athe season, and they sent me to that blind again. Sure enough, killed a nice 8 point at 3:00 PM after a 10 minute sit.

Since then I have been banned from that blind.

Next year, on a rainy wet morning, when no one wanted to leave camp, they sent me to "Ron's" blind because it was the closest to camp just to get me out of their hair.
Sure enough, killed a 4 point and was back before most folks even knew I had left camp.

[ 10-17-2002, 19:38: Message edited by: Terry Blauwkamp ]

I find that if you have a reputation of a hard charging hunter that is that what you live for would rather hunt then drink beer and watch tv. There are a lot of camps where one doesn't fit in makes every body else feel guilty.

Some people just view the annual "hunting trip" as a vacation of sorts. I've ended up in camps like this a few times. If I'm a guest, I just go with the flow, mostly. Unload the drunks guns, and defuse the arguments, there's not much else to do except leave, and on occasion I do that. It depends on the circumstances, and where I am. - Dan

They nicknamed me "Game Hog" in West Texas. I didn't, and still don't, have much patience with the hunter-wanna-bees. They generally wanted the hard-chargers to slow down to their pace. Since their pace was affected by hangovers, lack of sleep, poor planning, inexperience, it was pretty damn slow.

I move-on and move-out. If you're not ready, you walk. I took orders while hunting up until I was about 18, then I started giving orders; or hunted alone.

Anyone going on a hunt with me knows to pack a lunch. When I'm in a "zone" nothing else matters; not the weather, hunger or anything else. Keep up or go hang-out with the wanna-bees.

Gee, I thought it was my "Hillary Was Right" bumper sticker.

Terry, Here is my take on it. Our camp is fairly exclusive, no one has made the invite other than family ever, even close friends. Hunting camp to me is a pretty serious thing and if you don't mesh then the experience isn't the same. Our camp has no booze and limited cussing, because of one of the members doesn't go for that, and even when there was an occasional beer it was only after sun went down and guns were put away, and never enough to get ripped on. I don't think many would like me in their camp either because I am pretty picky about the way I hunt and don't care to tell anyone about it if they are gonna be around me with a deadly weapon. just my .02 gabe

I leave before dawn and don't come back before well after dark- eat, sleep & hunt. Very quick at cleaning, skinning & quartering the kill- in the ice box in the blink of an eye- out of sight, out of mind. Prefer to kill a doe on an invitation to someone else's lease.

Don't drink, play cards or BS in camp.

Some know I was a ambush specialist in Nam(who would rather hunt the enemy). Some know I was an infantry sergeant- they're afraid I might yell at em or give em an order

captjack would be a ideal hunting partner for me!
Do the hunt and leave the Socialing for when the hunt is done.

I hunt alone mostly and I do not beleive Beer belongs at a camp site and I would rather not go to a camp that had drinkers.

When i hunt I want to hunt I am not going to a camp to party so There is no need for noise.

ask LDHunter about me I am hard to hunt with, Getting to old and set in my ways I go to hunt.

[ 10-22-2002, 05:45: Message edited by: mikga ]

I was invited to a friends lease 2 seasons ago in the Texas Hill Country. There were 10 guys in camp, and only 3 of us brought guns. Of the 3 with guns, 2 of us were guests! They did have the best stocked bar I have ever seen in a deer camp, though.

I took them out to spot and stalk does because the place is literally overrun with deer. They have leased it for 7 years prior to then and were shooting about 2 deer a year on 1,100 acres! We shot 9 does and 2 spikes in 1 day, plus 2 nice 8-point bucks (we get lots of tags, and some of the guys without guns were hunting with our guns, too). It was all cool until I ended up having to do not only the gutting, but all of the skinning and quartering!

Most of these guys hadn't killed a deer in years, and a couple had never killed one despite being on the lease the whole time! I don't mind gutting. I am an outfitter and do hundreds of animals a year. It literally takes me about 2 minutes. The skinning and quartering really sucks, though. I get invited back all the time but never go. I don't need the trigger time that bad!

Greg,
Next time you go shoot your deer(plural) and then trip and fall(on purpose) and claim to have injured your knife hand! Then talk someone else through the cleaning!
Keep in mind if they get to whining, play the "We can't let them go to waste" card!

My Uncles think I am weird. I don't get invited to that camp. I do have them come to me when they need help to sight there rifles in. Instead I go with my "weird" friends to their camp.

Is a 25/06 Weatherby with Vari-X III that shoots a 90 grain X bullet at 3400 or a 480 with 425 grainers weird?
Is hunting from opening to closing wrong? Not going to strip clubs wrong? Shooting my rifle year round, instead of a box before season wrong? I handload ammo, is that bad?

Maybe I am more "extreme" or am I just a better sportsman?

Hcliff

There are two crews I hunt deer with. All are serious hunters. Don't mind a couple of beers at night, when the guns are away, but everybody better be up and at 'em in the morning.

The moose camp is a bit different. Couple of the guys like their beer, but they are also just as serious as the rest of us, so they hit the sack plenty early to be sobered up and ready to go the next day. Neither of them are stupid drunks, either.

Matter of fact, at moose camp, I was the only one who didn't make it out for a hunt one day. I had Cuban cigars and a buddy brought a bottle of really good scotch. We agreed we wouldn't touch them till we had a moose on the ground. So, the night we got our moose, out came the scotch and cigars.

Now, I'd only drank scotch twice in my life, and both times, it had ill effects (I think I'm allergic to it ). So, at first, I declined, but they talked me into toasting our first moose as a camp.

Well, it was downhill from there, and as I said, I didn't make it out to hunt the next morning.

Scotch has officially made the top of the list of "Things that make me feel like I want to die."

I will NEVER touch another drop of scotch. Three times in one life is enough.

I can relate to a few of the posts here. My problem is I switch to pursuit mode the night before open. My mind gets alittle to focused and I have a hard time doing anything other then think about my hunt. This is why I mostly hunt alone. My freinds cant take me HAVING to be in place 3-4 hours before light, and unfortunatly my dad is to old to keep up anymore.

I also live on the bare minimums. Just enough food to survive, not splurge. No doughnuts, candy, pop or beer. Just water and jerky for snack.

One more thing is I get very obsessive about my guns. I work em very hard, so they are well mantained between hunts. My grandfather taught me that if you take care of your gun it will take care of you. I know many here have heard that before, I just think some forget it.

Eat, sleep and hunt.

[ 10-24-2002, 01:21: Message edited by: JAG ]

I guess the reason I don't get invited to allot of camps is the following:
1. I don't want any beer etc in camp.
2. I don't go hunting to visit or play poker
3. I go to my stand before daylight and
don't come back to camp until after dark or I
have an animal harvested.
4. I have my gun sighted in all year and don't
plan to waste ammo betting on who can shoot
a water jug at 400 yards.
5. I work all year and when season opens I hunt
and when I get tired I sleep.
I guess some guy's just can't understand that some of us hunters are hunters and not campers and football watchers.