Thread: hunting incompetence

Two years ago I had 3 German hunters with me on a fly in tahr trip.
Four fine days and two of the three had shot a decent bull tahr and chamois buck.
Nick the third guy had shot and lost a bull tahr because he took a typical european meat shot and the bull jumped off a cliff !!

Anyway last night there I arranged to take Nick out really early and try and get a bull we had seen before the helicopter arrived around 11am the next morning.
The plan was he and I would get up early and pack most of our gear so that if we were running short getting back to the pick up location we would be mostly sorted.

Nick ( and the other 2 ) didn't have an alarm and they had gotten used to hearing me wake early and have breakfast and coffee and we would go hunting.
Nick was in a tent on his own.

So last throw of the dice and its really hard to get Nick awake and going that morning.
Turns out he had heard me get up at 2am for a piss and thought it was time to get up and go hunting.
So he had packed up all his gear and his tent and was all ready to go when he realized it was only 2:30am.
Well seems he was up he thought he would walk up to the saddle and wait for me where we would be going through after the bull tahr when it was time.
He sat there for a couple of hours at about minus 10 degrees very cold and miserable frozen to the stones he was sitting on.
Nick gave up and came back down to camp, pitched his tent and had just been trying to get back to sleep for half an hour when I rolled him back out of bed and back up the hill.

He never did get a bull tahr on that trip.
But he was a great guy to have on the hill and always a fun around camp.
Hopefully he will be back in the next few years and he will get first crack at a bull .... and no bloody meat shots !!