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Hunting buddies

^^^^^^^this. I gotta trust that person with my life. Period.
I’ll add a bit more. They gotta bring value to the partnership. I don’t mean that in a mean way but it’s a hunting buddy, not a mentorship or kin. I expect you to be able to conduct yourself in the woods accordingly, show woodsmanship skills and not be a strain on the relationship. I hunted with a guy who had horrible buck fever but was a ninja in the woods - that wasn’t a problem for me cuz we worked on that and he got better. On the flip side I quit hunting with a guy who was a great marksman but was an absolute bull in a China shop in the woods - we hardly saw deer he was so loud and he refused to work on that.
 
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For me it has to be someone who is "on the same page" as me and my style of hunting. They also have to be able to play their cards close to the vest, so to speak. By this I mean keep quiet about good bucks we are after.

I currently don't have anyone exactly like this. I have buddies who hunt, but no "hunting buddies".
 
It depends on the hunting. I have a couple of friends that I hunt ducks with, but I deer hunt pretty much exclusively with family.
 
Likes to hunt as much or more than me - which means he’s more likely to actually want to go, in spite of all going on in life.

Next is one who would never leave me to handle portions of a hunt because he got bored or lazy with it.

Someone who understands the leverage increase two people have over one.

Fun to be around at camp.


And last, but will be number one going forward - I can trust with my daughter’s life. If she’s going to come in the woods with me, having an extra person I trust to guide and take care of her is top priority.
 
I have a number of different kinds of hunting buddies. Some are mostly about talking hunting, some are the kind of peeps I’d call on to help drag a deer, some are the kinds that iid party hunt with, some are the kinds I’d track with, some I have shared lintel - tactics - hunting areas - and work as a team. I don’t show all my cards to any of them. One of my hunting buddies and I collaborate to hunt a specific piece of woods - we work as a team to scout, shed hunt and hunt that area, but we only openly collaborate on that one specific piece of woods.
 
One of my favorites is long passed. He told the best jokes. Twas my father's mentor, but it was my brothers and me that kept him going with our drive for adventure and big bucks. We knew it, and it kept us going too.

You'll never shoot as many bucks as that guy. I won't neither.
 
The guys my age I grew up hunting with are not physically able to hunt the way I like to hunt. I will still do a hunt or 2 each season with them and we share a camp, I just hunt on my own. Another reason for moving to the hunting setup I use with a frame pack, I seldom if ever will have any assistance getting a deer out from anywhere I hunt.
 
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Someone that can help keep me going during the grind. Intellegent coversation, not afraid to think outside the box. Shares the load.
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That sums it up right there for the most part. Only thing I would add is someone you can trust not to flip out if something goes bad sideways like a significant injury or other potentially threatening situation.
 
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