I have fired folks in my life, and I have walked away from folks.
People don't always understand what I mean.
-Well known family, with OLD money. They did business with me, and I mean some big tickets for cash. Invited to hunt the properties. Plural.
Okay so I go to shoot doves in September, and one morning I head out, I see two farm truck heading down the road with fellas in the back, then I see the deer and the shots fired. I take my doves, and call this rich fella, and he says he'll take of it.
Then comes duck season, well I changed blinds after having a loaded 10 ga pointed at me by this rich fella, and all these folks in a HUGE blind were passing around fifths.
I did not have 4wd and had ridden in with another fella, so I waded to his blind and I'll be damned if a shot was fired and a deer is taken by that fella - out of season.
I let it be known I was not in agreement with this...
In return it was explained to me I was in the wrong...
Come to find out, rich fella being as "we got OLD money, and "My property" , just liked to ride around, drinking, and chasing whatever game, day or night, in season or not...and invited friends to do the same. Some of these folks were in politics, and well known business folks and ...
I got pissed. It was two hard miles of trudging in waders in that mud, but I made it back to where my vehicle was and changed clothes - that cold air felt good, I had worked up a sweat.
I never went back, and the next time he came in - it was like ice. Oh I took his cash, I was polite to his wife. She later divorced him after she found out about him and some what all he was doing, on the side, and not all legal either.
--Another rich fella, I will not say what he owned, would give him away. I cannot say how he was involved in game laws either...
He and his bunch, including game and fish, and leos took a huge amount of ducks, way over th elimit, did not use non-toxic shot, and all.
I had been invited, again as he was a customer of mine, and had been out to this high dollar duck club a week earlier.
He kept being a customer, and I never really said why I would not accept another invite from him. This had made papers all...
He invited to fly me to another state for hunting...I felt it best to decline that too.
These are the kinds of folks I fire and walk away from.
Now.
First dove hunt for some folks, first hunt too. Ladies and kids, a set of grandparents and parents.
Gotta 4 almost 5 y/o that needs assiting with a shotgun. I was determined this kid was going to fell a dove. We did the fun stuff and promises early in the hunt as I shared elsewhere.
"There is a dove in that tree". -kid
"Yeah, what do you think". - me
"Well this is exciting , different than just seeing them in the yard and everything. I wish he would fly , supposed to be flying to be
ethical and all - right?" -kid
"Got any idea?" -me
"SHOO...SHOO" - kid
"He didn't fly off" - kid
"Must be a girl bird, girls don't pay attention to boys" - me
<bop! seems his mom heard that, laughing, still bopped me>
Grandpa fires a shot over that-a-way, safe shooting, just to get this dove to fly.
Now "In flight" means not being on a tree branch in my book, because that kid with me assisting took his first dove. Kinda like the dove spring-boarded and "bang".
Later...
Now the kid waited, and waited and this low incomer was coming straight at us, he did a perfect wait until last moment, and got that gun up and with me assisting popped that dove. He took about 7 steps and picked it up. Grin longer than the shotgun.
I have teased and warned the kids about giving dogs beef jerkey. Dog farts in a vehicle are worse than un-ethical, all the kids and moms agree on that.