This has been discussed before, but who is on the short list of people you would like to have hunted with. Living, dead, even fictional. It is hard for me to put them in order, so I won't.
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John McDonald
Jim Reynolds
Paul Schafer and Bart Sheyler
Jay Massey
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In no particular order
Warren Womack
Robert Carter
Wensel brothers
Dan Infalt
Or any of the guys from The Hunting Public
I got to hunt with him a lot, but if I were to make a list my Grandpa would still be at the top. Wish he was still around.
Chuck Adams
Fred Bear
Fred Eichler
Jared Shefler
There was a similar post many years back. I just remember that I had Robert Carter on the list, and was fortunate enough to hunt with him. I would like to again. I still have plenty to learn. Alot of others I could name, as well, because there are so many great hunters that I could learn from. Just not enough time.
Aron Snyder comes to mind, gonna hunt with Jerry Russell in August, but there is nobody that I would rather share camp with than my friend Dave Sisamis. We would do it more if life wouldn't get in the way.
Love to hunt with Wensels and Fred Eichler also think hunting with Aaron Snyder be fun!
Charlie Lamb, Terry Green and the rest of the Bowhunters of trad gang
Fred Bear
Roger Rothhaar
Barry Wensel
Gene Wensel
But most of all my brother Bart who passed away in 2002.
For me it would be my dad and son together.
Paul Schafer
Fred Bear
Fred Bear
Glenn St. Charles
The Wensel Brothers
Teddy Roosevelt
But truth be told, I could lay down my bow and be content for the rest of my life if I could just share one more hunt with my dad. Best days of my life.
Monty Browning
My Dad who passed away in 1994.
Theirs others, but, I would start out with Howard Hill.
In camp he would have to shoot his bow so I could learn something.
Head Hunter;
Many of us have family that we'd like to hunt with again. Sorry for your loss.
For all wishing they could have one last hunt with a loved one, my condolences.
Mr. Kelley;
That is right was cruising the history and thought I'd bring it up again. Just thinking about my Dad, grandfather and uncles. Lost my Dad's hunting knife when my truck was broken into and TS III stolen, but have his bone handle pocket knife that has been sharpened allot.
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It would be my dad, for sure. He passed way too young.
Aron Snyder
Jared Scheffler
Wensels
Paul Schafer
Mike Mitten
Ron R.
The list goes on!!!!!!
My old hunting partner, Willie Caudill
Bob Swinehart
Fred Bear
Wensels (If they take me to their special place and stick me in a good tree)
Pope and Young
Ishi
From the past
Howard Hill
Fred Bear
Dean Torges
Maurice Thompson
From the present
Clay Hayes
Kirk
Dale
I'd like to hunt with Lethalflight57 again. I'd really like to hunt with my son again, with my dad again, my uncle Gene again.
There are lots of guys I'd like to hunt with from Tradgang.
I'd like to hunt with Ryan Derlago again... oh, wait I am hunting with him again this coming spring 😁.
There are at least a dozen trad bowhunting friends that have passed away that I wish I could hunt with again. Man, we sure had some great times.
The only one who you all may have known was Andrew Harper of Wild Things.
Just like everyone else, another hunt with my Dad, and Grandpa. As for past people, it would have been great to tag along with Fred Bear, Howard Hill, Ishi comes to mind also. From the present, I would love to be able to spend some time with Ron LaClaire at his Shrew Haven camp. I would also love to sit around a camp fire with Fred Eichler, Steve Turay, The Wensel brothers. Someday, when time permits, I would love to share a camp with fellow Tradgangers on one of the many hunts offered through here. And many more hunts with my usual camp cohorts that I hang around with.
Jason
Since I've only bow hunted alone for the last 20 years, any like minded, ethical bow hunter would be fine. I'd love for my son to pick up a bow. I don't need a celebrity or pioneer.
I was thinking about my Dad who passed in 2018, my uncles and my grandfather who's been gone 25 years, when I brought this back up. Seems many have family they'd like to hunt with again.
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Its Fred for me. There are a number of folks (gone) I would like to see in the woods again including my Dad and my Great Uncle, brother to my Dad's mother. At my age, I hope I will see them again.
An eastern woodland Indian. Pre contact. In Tioga or Lycoming county PA. The lived almost entirely on game. I'm not sure if they were Seneca, Susquehannock, Genesse, Mohawk or what tribes. I wonder if the deer still use the same travel paths? I know they took advantage of salt licks. Was his bow practical only? Was it decorated? What wood did he use. How long was his draw? Was his arrow a shoot from 1 year's growth or a pine split?
Did he care at all about antlers or shoot the closest animal? Did he get a pass thru on elk? Just how big were Pennsylvania elk compared to Rock man elk?
There is a book by Phillip Tome. The first white man to settle and live there. That books gives some insight into to the wild land and quantity of game at that time. He is hunting with a flintlock and hunting for survival. The mountains were infested with mountain lions, wolves, bobcats, fishers and black bear. The settlers called the panthers "Painters".
Tedd
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From the present
Clay Hayes
Kirk
Dale
I would hardly consider myself worthy, but it would be an honor to share a hunt with you, Dave!
I'd give up all the greats for one more hunt with dad. I can't put to words what his showing me to hunt has meant to my life.
Either of the Freds (Bear or Eichler)
Either of the Wensels (Barry or Gene)
I truly miss hunting with a few of the buddies I have moved away from... Matt and Blake are sorely missed in my everyday life.
My Little Brother... gone but never forgotten.
OkKeith
Gonna go with my 13 year old nephew Cody that was killed in a motorcycle accident training on his dirt bike which he rode so well but he loved the outdoors and hunting...besides him mike mitten mike is the Real deal!
Lots of good stories and a good list of family and archery legends, it would make one heck of a hunt but the game would not have a chance with all these great hunters in one place.
For me it would be Jay Massey. I had spent a cold winter in Alaska isolated with no electricity reading by propane lantern and a diesel lamp. I had a handful of archery books. In one of them I figured out Jay Massey was down in Matanuska Valley closer to Anchorage. I was up the Yukon river in the Circle Mining District which is a hundred miles over the mountains east of Fairbanks, the gates of the Yukon Charley. I was out of touch with civilization and reality too. I started making plans to go and meet Jay when I came out in spring, I had mail every few weeks and remember sending letters to an Alaskan Bowhunting Club in Anchorage and found out Jay had passed away a couple years before I had ever read about him. Thats one of the biggest disappointments of my life, A man I was alone with in Alaska, I was cold then warmed next to a fire in my old camp with a book, who became my friend through his writing, that I would never meet because he was already gone to the next hunting camp.
By that time I had already made it to Berrian Springs to the Sportsmans Club, been kicked out of Canada on my way to Isle De Antipasti to hunt deer in August, been a hunting guide, and shooting a longbow since I was 6. I had hung out with Jerry Hill at gun shows where he used sell bows, drank lots of beers with TK and Mike, old friends, as I made my way from fishing in Key West to my hunting grounds in Arkansas every year.
To this day Jay Massey is an inspiration to me, still gets me excited about Archery, If I didn't know better, I would swear he was right there with me on those long cold nights but it was just his words in a book I read next to a fire waiting for breakup that winter in Alaska, in some ways he is here in this hundred year old pine floored cabin tonight, with a warm fire, a good dog, and ice nipping at the door............ I never met Jay, but he is a good friend.
Paul Schafer
Roger Rothhaar
Bart Schleyer
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Quote from: Captain*Kirk on December 17, 2019, 07:50:33 PM
Quote from: Petrichor on December 17, 2019, 03:41:33 PM
From the present
Clay Hayes
Kirk
Dale
I would hardly consider myself worthy, but it would be an honor to share a hunt with you, Dave!
Honor would be all mine sir. It would be great fun. I imagine that in the next couple seasons I'll be making some trips up north to do some hunting. Even a stumping session would be worth the trip.
My old hunting party, including my dad. They're all gone now. I'm the last man standing, but hunting was much more fun when they were here. I keep the tradition going with my son. But, damn, I miss those guys.
The caveman with Raquel Welch in 10,000 bc movie [emoji16]
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All my grandchildren, my son, daughter, and son-in-law.
I have five GC. I've hunted with 2 of them so far. Three are moving to my property next summer. I'll have all 5 plus my son and daughter to hunt with on the farm.
If not by myself or with family, I'm not going.
My pal Donnie that passed away this year.
I would give anything to share one more deer hunt with my dad.
Oh man,....I've had the opportunity to hunt with so many I can't count, and I still have so many I'd like to hunt with I can't count!
Without a question......Monte Browning
Whoever I hunt with on the next hunt.. That's the one.
I miss my father but we never hunted together much. He was too busy when I was growing up but always saw to it that my oldest brother took me along. When he retired, he had long since lost his desire to hunt. I doubt he ever drew a bow in his life.
My brother is fun to hunt with for 3 or 4 days, but then one of us becomes too much of an arse to get along with. I suffer through it because he is my big brother. He suffers through it because he thinks I need the guidance :) (not hunting guidance, but life guidance!)
There are too many people to list. Fred Eichler comes to mind though. I've had the good fortune to spend some time chatting with him on several occasions and even put a beaver tail grip on one of his Hoyt's. Super nice guy and always seems to remember be somehow.
BigJim
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Charlie Lamb, Terry Green and the rest of the Bowhunters of trad gang
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Bc, while you and the caveman go hunting, I'll stay in camp with Raquel and keep her company! :campfire:
Pathfinder from "Last of the Mohicans"
Lance Goodwin. Haines Junction, YT
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My Dad. He's been gone for 12 years now.
It's a bit strange I guess, most of my life I hunted alone, I've spent a lot of time alone in the woods and outdoors.
I have hunted with different groups and different friends over the years. I just really found I enjoy my lone adventures.
I have always been open minded though, opportunity knocked and I had an awesome time 2 seasons ago with a couple of guys from work. They all bow hunt and asked me to go with them to Ohio. I had a great time it was a real adventure for me! 20 hours of driving and we were on a public land hunt for 10 days. It was soooo hot we mostly hunted in shorts lol the deer activity was zero.
Billy the driving force of the hunt filled a tag on the last day, the rest of us went home empty handed.
It didn't matter to me I truly enjoyed the company, the food, the laughs and butchering that deer in record time to drive home that afternoon.
I truly hope to go on another adventure with these fine outdoorsmen
Billy, Danny and Scott.
I don't ever think of this in terms of hunting with anyone notable or iconic...and I've been around more than a few of those guys in my life. I'd much rather share a hunt with someone I know and enjoy spending time with. The 4 qualities I enjoy the most are 1) humor, 2) intensity, 3) humility and 4) lack of ego. In a world full of "look at what I do" people, it's refreshing to find the guy who hunts for the pure pleasure of the experience, and it ends there.
I'll never get to hunt with my dad again. I do plan to share a campfire with him someday.
Fred Bear, it would be an honor. My Dad was not a hunter .
We go back a long way.
The American Sportsman,Curt Gowdy. Come to think of it Curt could go to and narrate.
Larry Ball from OKC who I introduced to archery in 1964 and my brother-in-law, Curtis Austin.
Larry, who enjoyed a rack of HH and Jerry Hill bows, became Pres. of the Oklahoma Longbowmen at one time before he had to quit shooting due to arthritis. A real people magnet. The son of a professional caddy, he grew up poor and we made friends when I worked in a golf shop. We started deer hunting together in 1964 camping in a pup tent, driving up lod rocky log roads in my '57 Ford, and eating greens and beans. When we went to town to get something good to eat, I found a piece of german choclate cake that saved me from those old beans and turnip greens. Since that day the cake helped me through those poorly cooked camp vitals, german chocolate cake has become a favorite. Years later Larry would come up with deer camps full of rough old cowboys characters, and wow, were those fun. Larry passed, but I've never known someone with a better appreciation of life.
Curtis, my brother-in-law, who joined us in those deer camps lived with my wife and I when he was a teenager. He coon hunted with hounds and mules then with one of his uncles, so knew his way around the woods, so he was a natural for bow hunting. On one of our first hunting trips when he was young, we argued about which way to the car. Thought, what does this young greenhorne know, but his directions were right on. After that, my wife always ask Curtis to make sure I got home. He sure knew his way around from all that coon hunting. Curtis went on to managed a duck camp in SE Texas in his younger years and later, passed when working as a foreman, traveling, and cleaning those oil refineries. Curtis was plum crazy and loved to embarrass his sister and grand-ones, so he was a double character and well loved. One of his sons went on to be a good sportsman nd was once on Forged With Fire.
I loved hunting and shooting with my brother of blessed memory who died September 2012. Jawge
Another one would be my dad. He will turn 60 next year. I got him into hunting more so than him getting me into hunting. Although he did get me into fishing! He got his first deer with a bow this year and I was hunting 100 yards from him. It was very memorable and super fun to share that experience. He was always intrigued with bowhunting cuz I've been doing it the last 13 years and I was glad to see him shoot one with a bow.
These guys - Bow Doc and Gary Hall.
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My wife Chris who went to heaven 9 months ago today.
Fred
Ben
Howard
Bob Swinehart
A group of Fred's buddies at Grousehaven
A group of Fred's buddies at the Little Delta region
My dad who died 9/29/88
Monty Browning
My hunting crew for over 55 years has been my Dad and three brothers, adding nephews, nieces, friends along the way. I was blessed to hunt this fall with my Dad, 85, and older brother; it was our first fall without my youngest brother, Joel, who died this spring. He was a good bowhunter, never hesitated about putting arrows in the air and completely comfortable hauling a huge thermos of coffee on every hunt, usually accompanied by a cigar or cigarette...I swear they attracted deer. I thought of him often while I was in the woods this fall, so I guess I did get to hunt with him.
TJ Conrads
Clay Hayes
Ishi
I would like to hunt with my friend Michelle Cook again, she is an awesome hog killer. Still waiting on an all female hunt...
My oldest son Ken Jr, he's been gone 11 years now...
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For Moose-Monty Browning
Grizzlys-Fred Bear
Whitetails- The Wensels
Elk- Larry D Jones
Mule deer-South Cox
Any or all sheep- Marv Clynke
Cape Buffalo-Paul Schafer
Blacktails-Glenn St Charles
Yea I'd say RC from Georgia. Also Chris that hunts with him at horse creek . I wish I could go to Ron Laclaires camp . I would like to have hunted with Fred.
Ishi
Fred Bear
Rodger Rotthar
Fred Asbell
Fred Bear
Byron Ferguson
Jose Miller
Jack Menges
Thats a no brainer; Jed Clampett
Esau, Ishi, and Donald Trump Jr. all at the same time.
Raquel Welch
Earnest T Bass
Interesting question from a guy that bailed on a hunt cause he claimed he couldn't afford it, yet goes on another hunt, inquires here about a $400 custom hat, then a bow, then wants free strings. Get a life man.
Just dreaming. Only hunts I'll be doing are free, IF I can get the time and place to hunt. Was not able to get out this season at all. Already talked to Gary about the bow and it is a pipe dream. Hope to trade for the strings. Keep the wind in your face, walk softly and slowly - in my boots.
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I'm with Snag. My dad was my best hunting buddy all my life . I could only imagine how fun it would be to walk through the woods with him again.