ridgetops
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I need to set things straight.
After making a post on MM the other day and getting attacked by the same guys that threaten me and my group three years ago to stop hunting in ?their? area.
These guys have used several insulting adjectives to describe my friends and my character in the past few days.
Such as:
- Cutthroat
- Disrespectful
- Shady
- Untrustworthy
- Chicken ****
- Passive aggressive
- Wolf pack
- Dbag
It all started after my friend Corby killed a giant once in a lifetime buck on the last day of the 2012 season.
The buck had been wounded from the muzzy hunt.
Corby reached out to the MM crowd to see if anyone knew about this buck and the hunter that wounded it.
A guy came forward with info. about the buck and the area where he had wounded it.
Through a phone call, I even asked him if they were hunting the area again in 2013.
I was told that they didn't know where they would be hunting because they had several areas they hunt and had camps stashed away in those other areas.
In 2013, two of my friends through a lot of scouting of their own found another huge buck the week before the rifle hunt.
They then relocated the buck the night before the hunt and camped within a few hundred yards on the backside of the canyon it was in.
It just so happened to be directly across the canyon from these other guys camp. (about a ? mile)
We didn't know where these guys were camped at the time and they didn't see anyone that evening.
They ended up seeing the big buck at first light but didn't get a shot.
Meanly, the other hunter killed another nice buck which I shared trail cam pictures that I had of the buck.
I traded several pleasant emails with this other hunter over the next several months but then in July 2014, this other hunter?s partner sent me a couple threatening messages and the other hunter supported what his partner was saying.
Things really got nasty from there.
In 2014, we never hunted the same spot where we had seen the huge buck. In fact we only hunted the area once in 2014 and that was on day 7 of the rifle hunt.
In 2015, on the 4th day of the rifle hunt. I went back to the same spot where the buck was in 2013 and killed it.
Now these guys are mad as heck that I went in there and killed a buck they had been hunting for a few years now.
Now they are trying to smear mud on my friends and myself and question our character.
If any of you have seen the post, I'll admit that those guys have made the situation sound bad and that I'm not a very ethical hunter.
I'm embarrassed that the thread got so out of hand. Most of what they are saying is misleading and simple untrue.
If you haven't seen it, please don't go read the lies.
If anyone now has questions about my friends or my character, please PM me and I'll share the emails I exchanged with them but I won't do it over the open forum. (The real truth of what happened is in those emails)
This is a great example how trophy hunting can get totally out of control, which is very sad.
I hope most of you believe what I'm trying to say because it's the truth and I'm willing to answer any questions anyone might have. I have nothing to hide. (except the location of where I have been hunting) ha ha
There's not always next year
After making a post on MM the other day and getting attacked by the same guys that threaten me and my group three years ago to stop hunting in ?their? area.
These guys have used several insulting adjectives to describe my friends and my character in the past few days.
Such as:
- Cutthroat
- Disrespectful
- Shady
- Untrustworthy
- Chicken ****
- Passive aggressive
- Wolf pack
- Dbag
It all started after my friend Corby killed a giant once in a lifetime buck on the last day of the 2012 season.
The buck had been wounded from the muzzy hunt.
Corby reached out to the MM crowd to see if anyone knew about this buck and the hunter that wounded it.
A guy came forward with info. about the buck and the area where he had wounded it.
Through a phone call, I even asked him if they were hunting the area again in 2013.
I was told that they didn't know where they would be hunting because they had several areas they hunt and had camps stashed away in those other areas.
In 2013, two of my friends through a lot of scouting of their own found another huge buck the week before the rifle hunt.
They then relocated the buck the night before the hunt and camped within a few hundred yards on the backside of the canyon it was in.
It just so happened to be directly across the canyon from these other guys camp. (about a ? mile)
We didn't know where these guys were camped at the time and they didn't see anyone that evening.
They ended up seeing the big buck at first light but didn't get a shot.
Meanly, the other hunter killed another nice buck which I shared trail cam pictures that I had of the buck.
I traded several pleasant emails with this other hunter over the next several months but then in July 2014, this other hunter?s partner sent me a couple threatening messages and the other hunter supported what his partner was saying.
Things really got nasty from there.
In 2014, we never hunted the same spot where we had seen the huge buck. In fact we only hunted the area once in 2014 and that was on day 7 of the rifle hunt.
In 2015, on the 4th day of the rifle hunt. I went back to the same spot where the buck was in 2013 and killed it.
Now these guys are mad as heck that I went in there and killed a buck they had been hunting for a few years now.
Now they are trying to smear mud on my friends and myself and question our character.
If any of you have seen the post, I'll admit that those guys have made the situation sound bad and that I'm not a very ethical hunter.
I'm embarrassed that the thread got so out of hand. Most of what they are saying is misleading and simple untrue.
If you haven't seen it, please don't go read the lies.
If anyone now has questions about my friends or my character, please PM me and I'll share the emails I exchanged with them but I won't do it over the open forum. (The real truth of what happened is in those emails)
This is a great example how trophy hunting can get totally out of control, which is very sad.
I hope most of you believe what I'm trying to say because it's the truth and I'm willing to answer any questions anyone might have. I have nothing to hide. (except the location of where I have been hunting) ha ha
There's not always next year