Years ago I did a trip with a crew like that. Ive thought about it often. Not as bad behaviour as depicted, but probably because I was doing my best to limit them. The worst they did was drink their bottle of rum and set it up to shoot the empty. I walked over and smashed it to prevent that happening. General loud mouth bullish behaviour I was not comfortable being associated with. It unsurprisingly was a trip where all came home empty handed despite me seeing a really nice Sika stag 400 odd meters from camp. All that was needed was to stay quiet in camp a few hours, but they could not.. I ended the weekend feeling like someones nagging mum, and knew thats how they thought of me.
I never hunted with them again, and I don't think anyone would blame me. But, I keep thinking if they are left too their selfs, they will just end up with more idiots as good hunters avoid them. Thankfully their lack of success over the years has seen them pretty much give up and move on to other activities, like discussing the merits of fords and holdens..
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