It's time for me to find some hunting friends. I have three to four but they are in there 50 or higher. I started hunting when I was 13 yr old. My uncle and brother go with me or I more less go with them. I am 33 yr old and getting tired of pay for my way and being treat like a little boy and not a men. I think this time i goi g out on my own because most younger people do not have time or money. I am think about where to go. In Alaska i can go anywhere that I fill it's most efficient for money wise. Is there a y one in Alaska kenia peninsula that's what's to go hunting. I would mine looking for people out of state to go hunting with?

Having a good hunting partner and friend is valuable and beneficial in many ways. It's something that's built over time. Sounds to me like you feel mistreated by some of the people you have been hanging out with but I wouldn't blame that on age. Good luck on your search.

your Handles match- could be a sign??

Ha ha James. Don't think he wants to hang out with me. I am over 50:)

Maybe it's just communication.

Well if I ever get back to the Kenai, and I plan to, maybe we can meet. I had a ball fishing "Deep Creek" north of Homer; caught some nice dolly varden in there! But, alas, I'm 54 so maybe I'm ineligible haha.

My old hunting buddies were all around my age....now they are all dead! We got older....

I've matured out of your age range also:(

This may be a good time to break out on your own for a change. No one to judge you but yourself at the end of the day. Most of the fifty year olds I'm around mostly hunt by themselves because.... There set in there way's.

If I had a huntin buddy that was 50, I'd feel like I was running with the kids.

I have kids over 50.

I’m 45 and my pop still treats me like a kid. I couldn’t imagine not hunting with him though. Nothing wrong with growth or change.

How's their grammar George I know you are a stickler on that.

My kids are well-read and up to snuff on such matters. The get that from their momma. )

Wow that was confusing at first. First two posts that is. Thought you were victim of dual personality disorder. Anyway, dont count out all the old guys. You'd be surprised what might be lurking out there.

Hunt alone for a while...new perspective.

It's not that I do not what to hunt with the 50 yr guy plus. They have been in and out of the hospital. A anywhere from filling on ice and braking a hip to bleeding internally. I love hunting with old men. I like to learn from them.

"I love hunting with old men. I like to learn from them."

Ask your current friends to stop treating you like a little boy (who knows why?) and continue hunting with them.

I'm 57 & thouroly enjoy my solitude in the woods however I enjoy time with my boys even more & the help dragging deer ain't bad neither. I'd suggest getting involved in a local archery club -range-organizations to meet folks your age with similar interests. and lastly where do you live if ya want to go fishing with an old fart this summer I'm in va on the coast

Finding a good hunting partner can be daunting. Been hunting since I was a kid,my stepdad started taking me rabbit hunting with him when I was about 9 years old. But when I got older and started deer hunting most of the guys I hunted with on a regular basis were all older than me, and most of them were 10-12 years my senior. Don't take this wrong and I will offer my apologies up front,but when you speak about your hunting buddies treating you the way they do are you sure it's not something you're doing to make them treat you as they do. I'm picky about who I hunt with,I've had some bad experiences in my time and will not hunt with just anybody. I've got one friend in particular that I've known for 30 plus years, he's great guy, fun to down a few beers with while watching ballgames,but I won't hunt with him, and he dances around the subject all the time.

I guess after reading your posts that I am not sure what your issue is. Sounds like you need to be a loner is what I got out of them.

Hard to find a good hunting bud

Well with today’s available social media it shouldn’t take long for you to find some hunting buddies. Every year I see guys posting threads Looking for someone to go elk or mule deer hunting with out west.

My youngest is 26 and as far as I know it doesn’t bother him at at to share elk camp with me and my older buddies, as a matter a fact, I believe he looks forward to it every year. The only younger men that we treat like kids in our camp act like kids, just saying.

Maybe join a local archery or Sportsman’s club.

Pdiddly and I connected on an elk hunt two years ago, just based on our various emails and bow deals here on the forum. What a blast it was--we met up in Syracuse, laughed and told stories all the way to Colorado, laughed and told stories for two weeks as we rambled those mountains (with Knifeguy joining in on the fun), and then laughed and told stories all the way back across the country.

Peter and I are both in our 60's, and age was not an issue in terms of hunting hard in rough terrain for two weeks. The important thing is to just go do it, whether solo or by taking a chance on a new hunting partner. We are both counting the days until September, so we can do it again...and there's a bottle of Canadian sippin' whiskey stashed up there with our names on it!

When i read these first two posts My thought was that i'd better lay off the Scotch..it's affecting my eyesight! Sandy

I was severely tempted to complicate it even further. But sometimes us old guys can be too slow..

Chris

Now it's getting confusing with three of us:)

I met a young guy named Rob on my first trip to Colorado; bumped into him in the woods as he was butchering a big cow elk he'd just shot. It was late afternoon and there was a wet snow squall just setting in, and I offered him a hand packing the elk down the mountain before the weather got any worse.

He seemed pretty surprised when I threw the two boned-out hind quarters on my pack. We slipped and slid up over a ridge and then down the other side; about three miles in all, and when we got down to his truck he took this photo. He told me that he didn't have any friends of ANY age that would've been up to that...but it's just the way I tend to do things, and have been for so long that it's second nature by now.

Of course this was when I was a young sprat of 60, still full of P&V. But I still believe that "old" or "young" are really just states of mind & body; we can be whatever age we can believe we are.

Introduced archery to my best friend in the early sisties, a real people magnet. Later we had lots of different folks join us deer hunting and camping and that made a bunch of fun memories. Real characters and some were just good ole cowboy types as we lived in Oklahoma. Sure were some good stories (what I call dog stories) told when it was cold and often wet when drinking campfire coffee. Seems like after many of those stories got retold, with practice, they just got better and better. I'm probably the last one alive to tell those stories and forgot many, or at least the parts that made them fun and funny....but won't forget the good times I had listening to them.

The Russians are still selling brides. You can request one who is young and beautiful.Specify you are looking for hunting buddy;or drinking buddy,or anything you really want.

I installed carpet for over 20 years & couldn't even guess how many houses iv been in and one particular house had a respectable whitetail buck & some mounted water fowl on the wall & we started talking hunting n fishing & become great friends he was one of the most selfless men iv ever known. he gave my youngest son a Chesapeake bay retriever for his birthday in an attempt to get me into goose hunting & it worked we had a blast hunting geese deer & fishing. unfortunately cancer got him. o yea I forgot to mention when we met I was 35 & he was 57 & a multi millionaire it made no difference we were just two guys that loved hunting & fishing together having a great time

Maybe it would be different if they found you different because buddy's usually treat you as they find you.

You act like a little boy you won't be able to move ahead to the front seat.

Then you have to ask am I there buddy or a punching bag or a wiping boy?

If you learned bad habits from the older ones what makes sure you won't do this to younger ones you re-tangle with.

We have to be like mined and willing to give ourselves up for each other.

Maybe try to set an example is in order?

I have usually had younger buddy's around me the older ones were pains in the rear. LOL

Respect your Elders, In my life I enjoyed listening to mature members at camp or where ever telling stories and helping. They have all gone to better hunting places. Blessed be. Now us young guys are in their Place.

My group of hunting friends range about twenty years from the youngest to the oldest, with the majority right around my age (60ish).

None of us act very mature at all.

This last season my hunting buddy (age 78) told he was hanging it up. I'm afraid he is going to be true to his word.

It is almost as difficult finding a good hunting buddy as a good wife. Certainly as difficult as finding a good girlfriend. Make sure you are very careful who you get involved with for hunting. Make sure your arrangements are clear about hunting spots, bringing other hunters, kids, female hunters, gear, food, work, driving, smoking, after shave, vehicles, and expenses.

I have had many wonderful hunting buddies of all ages - both younger and older than me at different ages in my life. Age seemed to not matter if there was an advance arrangement about this because age can be a factor for someone paying his share and providing his share of the gear. In every instance, the older guys made up the difference for the younger guys and usually without mentioning it. One really good hunting buddy was my secretary when she decided that she wanted to start hunting. She was not only younger, but was also female.

Little things can become big things on a long tough hunt with few animals. Guy’s girlfriends and wives can cause plenty of trouble among hunting buddies.

In a hunting buddy arrangement, everyone should always try to do more than their share so in case someone is a little off it all works out. However, watch out for the guy who is always short on everything. Can’t bring or buy grub, can’t drive his vehicle, can’t pay for gas, shows up when the work is done, and wants to borrow essentials.

We have had no reluctance to help other hunting buddies for example for a guy who lost his job we made sure he went on the usual several weekend bowhunting trips about 3 hours away. He did not drive his vehicle and we covered all expenses including his license. Likewise we have dropped other guys who were abusers of the group’s trust.

How do you measure up to the other guys?

OP...I know how you feel. When I was younger I had an uncle that I believe only invited me along so he had somebody to foot half the gas. I invited him to fish and hunt all my secret honey-holes, but he wasn't nearly as reciprocal. I've tried hunting with "buddies", and I do have one good friend that I've rifle hunted with for close to 30 years, but day in and day out I much prefer to bowhunt alone...and truth be told I think I'm more successful for doing it that way as it really simplifies the logistics. My opinion of finding a hunting buddy over the internet is, just like Forest Gump's proverbial box of chocolates, you just never know what you're gonna get! Hunting solo ain't so bad...and if you shoot a big one just be sure not to tell your uncle WHERE!;)

I've mostly hunted alone for well over fifty years. Sometimes it's nice to take someone along- people who don't get into the wild country much tend to really appreciate the chance to see a world not available to them in their normal lives. That said, I've lived and worked in the bush all my life, and nothing's more frustrating than constantly waiting for someone who's out of breath, got a pain in the whatever, won't stop talking, can't be still, etc. Woodsman, first up, Viagra eye drops, then take a long hard look at yourself and make sure the fault isn't yours. Remember you take yourself wherever you go. I pointed that out to someone once who hated everywhere they'd ever lived. As for always being treated like a kid- many years ago I was visiting my Dad. We were out in his back yard and he said "Don't go running down the yard and diving head first into that patch of ivy- there's a big dead tree stump in the middle of it." I said "Dad- I'm forty five years old- I have no intention of diving into that patch of ivy". :) JayInOz

I'd respect my elders more if more of them existed. @ 75

Fisher, I couldn't have said it better. Right on, straight up truth. I never was such a poor judge of character as to invite someone who was a burden or liability in the field, but more than once I did the heavy lifting when it was apparent that no one else had any intention of doing much of anything. I always said you don't want to own a good dog, own a big boat, own a piece of land...if its a group thing, you wanna be the best friend of the dog owner, boat owner, landowner. :)

When I think about it,I came to Traditional hunting seeking to escape the social aspect of group hunting. My years of being part of the Gang are behind me.

On the other hand, being alone, injured, lost or making multiple solo trips to get game out of the field...well, thats the price of not having a solid dependable hunting buddy.

You can't replace elders but it sure helps having young friends.

It's awful hard to stay up with the young but it sure does help you stay younger when you feed off them and their strength.

You are in the wrong place looking for young people. I turned 57 last week, so I'm over qualified.

There's guys here that would call you young at 57 PECO! lol!

The best hunting buddy I ever had was a Doberman Pinscher named Tiger. He was especially good at finding & retrieving downed doves. I took him deer hunting with me a few times & he could be trusted to sit in a ground blind quietly w/me for hours. I've had several dogs since he passed away & all were great & loyal friends (there are no bad dogs) but I never had another like Tiger.

Sounds to me you need a 2 legged doe? LOL

Sorry, I turn 55 pretty soon. I guess I'm out.

Wish I was 55! Actually it's my birthday today- me and some bloke called Fred Bear. Apparently he owned a bow too:) JayInOz

My 31 year old son is now my hunting partner. My original lives in Wyoming, but makes it back to Wisconsin every fall, so we do a little bowhunting. He and I go back a looooong time...from Wisconsin deer, birds, & winter bunnies, to many years of Wyoming mulies & elk.

I'm 66...I'm the young guy... :^)

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