What is your Pet Peeve when hunting with others?

Got to have bacon and eggs...I just precook the bacon and hardboil the eggs when I am hunting, ATVing or backpacking.

They need to make bacon flavored pop tarts or something.

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Originally Posted by newracer

I only hunt with very close friends and family.

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This. ^^^^^

I always take a trip or two for camping/fishing/scouting with new hunting partners(friends or relatives), before heading up for tagged hunt.

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Originally Posted by ray1970

Haven't had this issue when hunting, but when I do ATV rides with groups of people they like to get up, drag out a bunch of cooking stuff, make and eat breakfast, clean up their mess, and then get ready to hit the trails. Usually means we aren't heading out of camp until 8:30 or 9:00. Then they act all disappointed when we don't have enough time to cover as much distance that day before we have to start heading back. I don't mind waking up and having a little breakfast before we head out but they could save us about an hour if they just had cereal or whatever instead of cooking eggs, bacon and whatever.

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They can still have eggs and bacon. I can have breakfast cooked and cleaned up by 7.

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Originally Posted by Irving

Sorry your dad did such a good job Ray.

I've not hunted before, and am ripe to make mistakes that will piss people off. I will be reading this thread intently and taking notes.

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I havent hunted before either. We should get up scouting together. Gotta start someplace, and I know not a lot of people like taking newbs like us out.

Probably nearly everything that's been said prior to and following my post.

People that I have to put my foot in their ass to get them going in the morning. If we are not well settled in on point by first light, I am pissed.

P.S. NOBODY should be smoking out in the field. If anyone smokes around me (ex smoker) I'd be pissed to be out there smelling like an ashtray. Thankfully, we don't have any cig smokers in the crew. maybe a cigar in the evening, but then we're out of the hunting gear and always outside.

I took a buddy and a couple of his friends from Ohio elk hunting. They had all just recently got out of the military and hunt whitetail at home. I get the first guy in on his first bull, he makes a nice off hand shot at 100 yards, bull drops within 50 yards, all is going great so far. We get ready to start cutting up the bull and out of 4 of us I was the only one who had knives. So the guy who shot the bull and I get to work and I send the other two guys to the truck to get pack frames. When they get back they had brought my pack frame and two day packs. I asked where their frames where and their response "oh we needed to bring our big packs". So no gear or the wrong gear is my big complaint

I love the guy who brings his son, who needless to say, is hyperactive and the kid spends all day talking and throwing an axe into trees.
To top it off they both tell you all day and night how great they are in the woods and could shoot the pecker off a mosquito then when they actually get a shot they spend the whole time asking you what they should do....needless to say I told my brother-in-law not to invite them EVER AGAIN!

I have an extremely limited group I hunt with. The friends who think a hunting trip is also a drinking trip don't come on my hunts. If I have a little time and want to get out, I'll go with them with the intention to go camping and drinking, if we make it out to hunt then it is just a bonus.

I grew up in hunting and fishing in Michigan. My 2 biggest pet peeves were those who did not show up on time. An those who were not prepared with the equipment they should have.
There's more I can add, but I am having difficulty getting my computer to print what I am typing.