>Guys, the big beef Jray has
>with me lies within his
>post #4.
>He's upset that we blew the
>bucks out of the canyon
>before his hunting partner could
>hunt the area two days
>later during the 2013 rifle
>hunt.
>He claims we never set foot
>on the mountain before that
>opening day.
>In fact we had spent several
>days up there on the
>2013 archery hunt, the first
>three days of the 2013
>muzzy hunt were spent within
>a few hundred yards of
>where Jray killed that 34"
>buck.
>In 2013, one week before the
>rifle opener, my friends found
>and video taped my 2015
>buck for the first time,
>within 100 yards of where
>I killed it.
>In 2012, I spent several days
>scouting and hunting during the
>muzzy and rifle hunt in
>the same area.
>I first hunted it in 2009.
>
>So I in no way was
>I a first timer to
>the area but Jray flat
>out doesn't believe me in
>any way, shape or form.
>
>Since he never personally never saw
>any of us up there
>on the mountain, well then
>we must of never been
>there.
>Those are the facts.
>I've tried so hard to work
>with Jray over this whole
>hunting the same area with
>no results or compromise from
>him at all.
>Anyway, I'm done trying to work
>things out with him.
>I actually almost sent him an
>email about a month ago.
>Asking if he had any
>regrets with the way him
>and his partner handled the
>situation a couple years ago
>and threatening us, if
>they ever saw us in
>"their" canyon again. Well, I
>guess not.
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>There's not always next year
You love to leave out crucial facts. Either that or your personal character is just so far off from mine that I don't think you (or your buddies) see any issues with things that I find major problems with, and I believe that is the case.
You have not mentioned once that your good friend Corby, got on this site a couple years ago after killing an already wounded, once in a lifetime 226 inch buck asking for answers and that I came forward, as heart breaking as it was for me already to lose a buck like that, I thought I would be nice and share pics and info of the buck. I shared WAAAAAY too much info with yourself and Corby originally thinking that the buck had to be killed in the same area with how he was wounded, not 5+ miles away! Corby quickly told me it was killed a long ways from me but still to this day, none of you shady guys were ever even decent enough to tell me where it was killed and if you did I wouldn't trust you now anyway! The only reason I opened up as much as I did to you guys is because you 2 seemed like good, honest, respectful hunters. Not saying your not good guys off the mountain, but I wouldn't trust you guys as far as I could throw you on the mountain.
So after sharing all the info, I certainly didn't expect the following year, the night before the opener, to see your huge group come up on the mountain a little before sundown and camp 500 yards directly across from me! I glassed you guys through the spotter and was 99% sure it was you as much as I didn't want to believe it. You can say you hunted that spot a bunch before but years of boot tracks don't lie! In this case, there wasn't any, or at least I never seen any! With a hunting party like that I would think I surely would've seen something, no? I believe you hunted the extremely easily accessible area nearby and your lumping the area into a whole.
So opening morning I know that you guys have now royally screwed over any chance of me getting something in that area so I moved to plan B which is a nice little hidden vantage point I've liked to use to glass from that also makes a great place to shoot from as well. So long story short, at first light I shot a great buck from the vantage point. I get over to the buck, you and a couple of your buddies come walking up on me. My hunch was then confirmed that it was the guys I thought I could trust. I was excited about the buck and didn't show any anger with you guys but deep down was very disappointed. My disappointment peaked when I seen that the other half of your party had now followed my tracks through the snow to go sit at the very same vantage point I had just shot my buck from. You guys were nice enough to snap some pics for me and even had someone stop by my camp and throw my solar panel in my tent for me. For that I'm grateful and it caused me to have very mixed judgements of you guys.
Had it all ended on that note, I may have been okay with you guys, but around Christmas time, you send me an email to clear the air stating that you guys intended on moving into that area before you learned that both I hunted there and that it was where Corby's buck lived. That made my blood boil. It was proof you hadn't hunted there before and that you guys clearly had zero respect for me after I had been kind enough to share so much. I told my good friend and hunting partner and he was more pissed than I was as well as my lifelong hunting partner, my dad. Apparently they have the same respect for fellow hunters that I have, unlike your party.
I have a couple examples to show how different our opinions are on respect for other hunters and the "unwritten code" I've mentioned to you multiple times:
1. I'm pretty troubled by your comment about your buddy going up to check on my camp to know if I was still hunting there. I guarantee it was Tom since he sent me an awkward message asking me if I had a tag or not. I told him yes and he told me to beware of rattlesnakes in the area as if I was the newcomer to the area and didn't already know that there's a ##### ton of rattlers! Was this his chickenshit way of telling me he was hunting there again instead of asking if I was still hunting there? Fact is I moved my camp because some dirtbag decided to rummage through it.
2. You said the least you could do was help your buddy (which I guarantee is Tom again) since he helped you try to find a once in a lifetime buck for much of the hunt. Funny part to me is, instead of helping, you find the buck bedded at first light and shoot it! If my friend had scouted a buck of that caliber, no way I would shoot it, especially after he just spent days helping me try to find a big buck. I would keep an eye on it, get ahold of him and tell him to come shoot it. Back out and come back later if I had to. A weird little fact about that Tuesday you killed your buck was that I came off the mountain Monday night helping my dad with his buck and Tuesday was the only day I was not on the mountain. Suspicious? Damn sure is to me.
3. I had a friend tell me just the other day that we should go checkout a certain area sometime. I told him that I think so and so hunts over that way. He said, "well they would probably do it to you". I told my buddy, "Ya maybe, but I'm not like that". END OF CONVERSATION!! But see, nobody in your group has a backbone or any respect for other hunters that you know work their ass off to hunt a specific area. When I was having heated discussions with your buddy Corby about the whole deal after your BS email he said, "what do you expect me to tell my buddies that because Jayray hunts there, they can't?". See, that's the difference, the guys I associate myself with wouldn't have to be told. Once again, UNWRITTEN RULE!! If you view someone as a friend or have respect for them, you don't hunt on top of them. I just don't understand how that's so hard for you cutthroat guys to grasp. But that's right, according to you, 90% of people that know "your story" agree that I'm the #####.