family. close ones, the ones that raised you and you were raised with. They are always the worst. Now that im older and dgaf, ive told them all to pound sand and my life has been a happily ever after. I might be able to only count my real friends on one hand, but i KNOW i can count on them and that is all that matters. I would rather have ONE true friend than a million others.

Ya, the majority of my problems have been with family too. Walked away from them a few years back with no regrets. Stress level dropped dramatically!

nobody will stab you in the back quicker than family. probably because they know you aint gonna do anything about it. A stranger will be afraid you might just kill em.

No sense telling a story on here if I plan on evening up the score. That's how I am though.

Land, family, period

Craig's mother & mine were best friends. I was born on August 27, a few minutes before midnight August 28, Craig was born a few minutes after midnight on August 28. Our mothers shared a room, I knew that boy from the time he was born, literally. Fast forward 26 years ( we were tight all that time) his wife Cathy came to our home & told my wife ' Suze, I don't want to start trouble for you but things have gotten out of hand. Richard is coming into town( I was a long haul truck driver), parking his truck downtown, drinking, chasing (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) and he calls Craig when he's all drunkup and Craig has to go get him and put him to bed in his truck so you don't know about it. This is hurting our marriage bad, Craig having to stay out all night 2 or 3 times a week because of Richard, this has been going on for 3 years now. 'Cathy, I get all Richard's run sheets, he calls every Friday and we compare notes so we get paid correctly, I know where that truck is pretty much all the time'. About that time I walked out of the shower with a towel wrapped around me & asked Cathy to excuse my near nudity & said I'd heard the conversation and where the (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) was Craig, I wanted to talk to him right now. 'Richard, he's out saving you from yourself now'. I have never seen a woman more broken than then and I hope I never do again. She feel to pieces and told Susan(I was getting dressed and just caught the end of it but just flat asked her'Cathy, he's been beating you?'. We'll not discuss the repercussions of Craig hurting that fine woman nor back stabbing me. We'll leave it that Craig gave everything to Cathy in the divorce and told someone later that he was surprised & scared at the retribution that had been dealt him. That boy had known me from birth & he'd seen my stance in certain matters before and he'd seen my reaction to matters such as this. I'll never understand why he thought he was above that.

Once over some tools, wasn't really that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things. Compared to others I haven't really been backstabbed thankfully. I semi pride myself as being cautious.


The tool issue had the scales balance back out though not in the best way.

All theses story make me feel good about living my life as a friendless loner. I don't have anyone to help me with things and there is no one to ask me for help, fair trade off. I always told my kids, everyone you meet in life has an angle, or a motive. Be it good , bad , or otherwise, always keep that in mind.

Once upon a time Bob W.............

My bil is about the most two faced back stabbing prick I’ve ever known. I could write a book on the crap he did to me over the years. My mother lives with them, because my sister says so, and I heard him say stuff about her, not to me though, behind my back. She’s the nicest lady ever not saying that cause she’s my mom, she never swears, she always stood up for that no account. And now he acts like that

I have always like to help people that need some help. (work that's takes more then 1 person). I have taken people on hunting trips, not big trips just around the area where it is nice to have a partner to hunt with. After a while people start to expect it but never return good gestures. I don't ask for it but it becomes difficult. Now my kids are older, they have become my hunting partners and appreciate the things we do together.

take a man huntin for a day.....he'll be there the next time you wanna hunt there.

Ain’t that the truth!!

Was engaged to a girl when i was 19, her parents showed up in our hunting area. I went to their house, talked to her and asked what the deal was. She said its just deer hunting, I broke it off, permanently.

In my opinion, people need to get physically meaner again. We’ve gotten so nice, non-violent and non-confrontational as a society that there’s no real consequences for treating people like garbage any more. Passive-aggression is the SOP nowadays. Everyone depends on Big Brother to take care of their problems and the idea of taking care of them yourself has become a foreign concept. We’ve demonized “violence” so much that you’ll get more jail time for punching a thief than the thief will for robbing you blind.

My opinion is that we need to make a conscious effort to NORMALIZE VIOLENCE AGAIN. You steal from me, I’ll beat the tar out of you but I won’t call the cops and pay taxes to feed you. Imagine if, instead of spanking a kid when they do something blatantly wrong, you gave them a “summons”, told them you’ll talk about it next week, then maybe a month after that they’d have to get grounded, but it might get dropped if they tell on another kid for something. They wouldn’t learn the lesson very well, and neither do adults. Consequences should be swift, painful, and over, not slow, burocratic and painless.

My opinion.
I think the world would be a better place.

Figured AK was a tougher place. Most circles I know still operate as such. I agree....having a healthy fear of retribution helps keep people in line.

Another one.. Had a guy i worked with on night shift ask if he could ride along while i was turkey scouting.. Went to some of my go too places and located some gobblers. He assured me he wouldnt butt in and he would find his own places. You can guess what happened the opening day. He said its public land. I said you know that tree you have been sitting against the first day of deer for the last 8 years? Ill be sitting there the first day. When i got there he was already there so i went in front of him about 30 yards and proped up against a tree. I said PUBLIC LAND!

Eric, you said at first you thought he was a disabled Vietnam vet, but you obviously disproved the disabled part. I hate to even bring this up... but is he really a Vietnam vet at all? Just a thought. Nothing else about the guy seems to be true!

Sorry. That just crossed my mind and I had to say it. So sorry for how that guy took advantage of you. You're a good person to be worrying about not stopping to help him!

KenaiKid - Well said!

This is call vigilantism. You're in luck....it's still commonplace in Africa and other 3rd world destinations.