Opinions??? Did we get screwed?

[ghost hunter]

I've had people cut infront of me and try and tell me to move, 'it was their area' acouple of time in 32 wt hunts, and in 27 turkey hunting. At first I used to just say 'oh well'

and move on. As I got older and they seemed to get bolder about it, I've started confronting them. The last time was when a dad and his 3 kids (OTC youth tags) came crashing in between me and the tom I was working. I backed out so there was no cross-fire or mistaken identity shooting but did go back and strongly advise their partner at their truck that I didn't appreciate it.

 

While I think we should all be cordial in the woods, if we don't start bringing these situations to the attention of the offending people (fisticuffs and gun play excluded), we never will get them to stop.

[PRDATR]

I'll come right out and say if I stalked in and saw another hunter that close, at the Very Least I would stop and say hey and talk with him, or her. Just to find out their intentions or to let them know I was on a stalk.

 

I think they knew exactly what they were doing. To far too many the end result justifies the means, shallow accomplishments.

 

Last year I was up on 12BW and twice had the same hunter come into an area where my son and I were hunting. Both times he acknowledged we were there and backed out. The first time my son was on a stalk and when the deer bolted his son (about the same age as mine) jumped from the truck ready to shoot but he held him off so my son could make his shot, which didn't happen, and he realizing that the deer were on the run honked his horn, obviously to startle the deer in the hopes of making them stop.

It didn't happen but from 300 yards away I could connect with him and what he was trying to do.

I owe that white bearded sportmansman in the white truck a handshake and a cold beer. If he'll take it.

Late that same day they showed up at a tank we were watching a few hundred yards from across a meadow and promptly left when I motioned where we were.

One thing I tried unsuccessfully to explain to my son was the husband and wife in a shiny new F250 with a Sierra Vista dealer sticker who sported a carbon fiber rifle and swarvo everything had the gaul to setup 20 yards away from us, without a word after walking ten feet in front of us to watch the tank. We had been sitting there for a few hours before they showed up an hour before sunset.

If he and I didn't both have company there would have definatley be a confrontation.