What is the dirtiest trick or type of hijinks you have pulled on public land during Turkey Season? From removing trail tape and cat's eyes and placing them in another direction, to plain lying about gobbler sightings to weekend warriors, how have you gotten rid of some frustration in the sometimes overcrowded woods?
Calling the gamewards to patrol since there was alot of violations in my areas. Maybe there might be a few less ppl out my way during deer season.
Quote from: TrophyTracker on March 29, 2011, 12:20:38 AM
What is the dirtiest trick or type of hijinks you have pulled on public land during Turkey Season? From removing trail tape and cat's eyes and placing them in another direction, to plain lying about gobbler sightings to weekend warriors, how have you gotten rid of some frustration in the sometimes overcrowded woods?
As for the overcrowded woods, it's a frustration no doubt. However, those people have just as much right as myself to be there. I guess the dirtiest trick I think one can do to the others, is sticking with it, playing fair, and bagging a gobbler. ;)
God Bless,
David B.
Quote from: BOFF on March 29, 2011, 06:27:42 AM
Quote from: TrophyTracker on March 29, 2011, 12:20:38 AM
What is the dirtiest trick or type of hijinks you have pulled on public land during Turkey Season? From removing trail tape and cat's eyes and placing them in another direction, to plain lying about gobbler sightings to weekend warriors, how have you gotten rid of some frustration in the sometimes overcrowded woods?
As for the overcrowded woods, it's a frustration no doubt. However, those people have just as much right as myself to be there. I guess the dirtiest trick I think one can do to the others, is sticking with it, playing fair, and bagging a gobbler. ;)
God Bless,
David B.
I agree with David on this. I have never done anything to mess up anothers hunt. I have a hard enough time. I don't need to offend the turkey gods by hurting somebody elses chances.
Most of the time the weekend warriors are gone after the first or second weekend of season after they don't hear nothin. Then you got the whole place to yourself but I NEVER see or hear anything. :icon_thumright:
I never did anything but I used to hunt a glorious eastern facing hillside in Amish country. I don't know how many times they messed me up on a bird walking around in mainly blue jeans and white straw hats. The hill side was finally posted and I lost a prime spot. I killed about a dozen birds there and called a couple more in for friends.
CB
I've purposely walked backwards in sand or soft mud to make them think I was going in instead of coming out. Also, they watch me like a hawk at my hunting club on Montgomery Island. Many times I will park my truck at the entrance of a woods road to make it look like I was hunting in that area when in fact, I hiked a half a mile the other way to hunt another spot.
I've never done anything myself but I know a guy that hung a pair of dirty sweaty socks & underwear near his brothers tree stand during deer season. They both were after the same buck!
Oh Brotherly Love! :love5:
I haven't done anything dirty to others, I try to stay away from them.
I can't believe ya'll hear gobblers on public land, we never hear a peep ;)
I will not deer hunt public land period. There's just something about a bunch of crazy rednecks with CF rifles and pockets full of doe tags that turns me away.
Last year we called in 3 different counties here in AR and didn't hear a single bird. At our last location, a place where we have had good success deer hunting over the years, we heard one of the sorriest sounding hen yelps ever. I told my buddy that this was no regular hen turkey, but a plastic potted hen turkey with lung issues. He commented along the same lines that this was some of the worst calling he had heard in his life. We had been there over an hour moving along a couple of ridges and down some creekbanks... no bird sign whatsoever. We were getting ready to head out and heard the plastic potted hen yelp again. I told my buddy to cross the creek towards the truck with me to get out of shotgun range. Once across the creek, we waited for the pitiful yelp again. I cut the plastic potted hen off with a gobble from a tube call. We couldn't help but giggle a bit as we went the last 50 yards or so to the truck. I later wondered if the guy knew it wasn't a real gobbler... My guess is that if he thought that plastic pot sounded like a real hen, he was probably ecstatic to hear a turkey gobble to his calling... ;D
Nothing other than lying through my teeth about not seeing or hearing anything when a fellow hunter ask if I did any good.
Quote from: redarrow on March 29, 2011, 11:06:17 AM
Nothing other than lying through my teeth about not seeing or hearing anything when a fellow hunter ask if I did any good.
I only hunt private ground and I do that!!
I've never messed with anyone else's stuff or markings but I've sure rubbed a few turkey tracks out and disguised my location much like catdaddy has.
And NEVER give out a tom's favored spot. :z-winnersmiley:
Quote from: Tail Feathers on March 29, 2011, 11:44:50 AM
I've never messed with anyone else's stuff or markings but I've sure rubbed a few turkey tracks out and disguised my location much like catdaddy has.
And NEVER give out a tom's favored spot. :z-winnersmiley:
So I guess I'm not the only guy that makes alot of boot tracks when I'm on good sign :D
i go deep to avoid the crowds and i keep the fruits of my labor to myself, if you want to call that dirty. don't care to mislead anyone, just not interested in giving the farm away if you know what i mean.
I never saw a turkey hunter in the public lands I hunt (behind my place), but if anyone asks me if I saw anything, I just keep my mouth shut.
Yeap thats a hard lesson learned talkin to much that is. Me personally I dont guess I understand the walkin backwards deal your still going or coming from the same place. I lie about what i've done and always cover your track if you have to leave one. Dust out those bird tracks.
Quote from: swampy on March 29, 2011, 05:02:35 PM
Yeap thats a hard lesson learned talkin to much that is. Me personally I dont guess I understand the walkin backwards deal your still going or coming from the same place. I lie about what i've done and always cover your track if you have to leave one. Dust out those bird tracks.
Thats what I like--guys that can't figure out if I am coming or going
When I was in high school, if me and my buddy roosted a bird on forest land, we would leave one of our trucks at the gate. Then we would come in from the backside off our lease the next morning. Only problem was that alot of times it didn't stop them yahoo's from coming in on top of you anyway. The HNF in southwest MS takes a beating the first 2 or 3 weeks of season. I have been working a bird and just got up and left because of renegades coming in from every direction. I have throwed a few feathers out at the gates too. If I see a pop can stuck on a limb to mark a spot, I will move it down the road a few miles.
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I may have accidentally dropped a few feathers here and there on occasion in strategic locations. :goofball:
I have ended some hunts rather abuptbly when folks know I am working a bird and keep on trying to cut me off by circling to get in front of me. where do think that owl hoot got its start.
Never messed with anyones stuff. I never show up to public land before 10 am. Thats about the time the early bird hunters are coming out and griping about not hearing and seeing anything. They tell me I am waisting my time and I just smile and tell them I am going to try it anyway. Little do they know more often than not by 2 pm I am walking out with a bird. :)
Worst thing I have done is.....after competing with other hunters on public ground...I ended up killing a bird that we were both trying to seduce...we were parked in the same lot and I stuck a fan feather under his windshiled wiper blade when I left...I chucked all the way home
Quote from: ghillie on March 30, 2011, 11:20:55 AM
Worst thing I have done is.....after competing with other hunters on public ground...I ended up killing a bird that we were both trying to seduce...we were parked in the same lot and I stuck a fan feather under his windshiled wiper blade when I left...I chucked all the way home
I have done this on more than one occasion :angel9:
I look at every bare piece of ground or gopher mounds and erase every track I see. I pick up feathers and remove any turkey sign I see on public grond when hunting :fud:
I also never say I heard anything :whip2: I have been hunting the same piece of land for many years and do ok. Not great but there seem to always be a few birds around.
Years ago on a bow hunt on a WMA, I had a guy come walking in with a climbing deer stand making all kinds of a racket. I whistled to get his attention, and waved to show him I was already hunting there. He looked at me, kept on walking and started setting up his stand 40 yards from me. >:( Once again I whistled and waved, and he just looked at me, and kept putting his stand up. Periodically during the hunt, he'd look over at me. >:(
So I got down and left. That afternoon on the way back in, I saw that he wasn't in his stand. A couple of steps later, I saw a pygmy rattler in the trail. I pulled out an arrow and pinned its head down. Then I pulled a knife and cut his head off. I took the rattler, with it's severed head on the arrow, and walked over to his stand. I put the rattler's body in a nice little coil, and slid the head into the middle. ;D About a 1/2 hour later, he comes jerko. ::) He looks at me on the way by and keeps walking to his stand. He gets to his climber, puts his bow down and starts to get in it. That's when he spotted the rattler. :toothy12: He let out a shriek like a little girl and jumped back out of the stand. :TooFunny: It took everything I had in me to keep from busting out laughing. ;D Instead, I whistled at him again, and when he looked, I raised my arms as if to say, "WTF???"
Anyway, he pulled an arrow and poked at the snake, finally realizing it was dead. He brushed it aside and climbed in his stand and went up the tree. I got down first and walked off. He met me at the check station, mad as can be, demanding to know if I had done it.
Done what?
Did you put that dead snake in my stand?
What snake? :goofball:
He then walked off in a huff. I never saw him in the woods again, and soon after his stand was gone. :TooFunny:
haha some good stuff ive never really harrassed anyones hunt they have as much right to be there as me but we all have those moments. i have one that stands out. one time going duck hunting i pulled up to a parking area and in the dark slipped off in a hole and got stuck in my little truck one guy got out of his big jacked up brand new duramax and started laughing and told me if your still there when we get done hunting ill pull you out and drove off on his atv. so i unloaded my fourwheeler pulled my own truck out and had some ducks i had cleaned the day before left in my truck bed so i checked the friendly mans doors lucky me unlocked he went home with some nice ducks under his back seat :TooFunny:
I went into a block of Public land near the house a few years back when I was leaving my truck another "car" pulled into the pull off area, one guy got out and said they had found this spot a few days ago I said ok there plenty of room for us both. he said so your not leaving I said no, and went on hunting . I did kill a bird, and yea it may have been the one they were hunting but thats why its first come first to hunt. When I got back to my truck I could see oil under my truck they had unscrewed my oil filter and took it. I still look for that car anytime I'm in that area of the county. SOME DAY WE WILL CROSS AGAIN
I guess all of this is why i have never hunted public land.As far as moving another hunters marker or something that is minor and laughable.But i dont mess with other peoples eguipment and i dont wont mine messed with either.Never had it happenend but i dont think iwould do to good in those situation.For instance if u take the oil filter out of my vehicle, i will do my best to find ya and burn your house down.Hows that. Just had to rant.Hate stuff like that. I read your post tra cline and i dont know u but it pisses me off that somebody would do that i hope u do find them.
A few years ago I was walking through some public land in MN, where you cannot drive past the gate.
I was about a mile or mile and a half from the gate and there was a car covered in camo sitting against a wind break.
I called the DNR and they said they were too busy to bother with that.
I figured that the guy needed to be taught a lesson, so that he would walk just like the rest of us.
I got into my pack I carry with me and got a tool of some sort and let the air out of his tire from the valve, I did no dammage to the tire just let the air out, then I said to myself he proably has a spare so I let the air out of another tire.
I continued to hunt.
The next day there was a note on my truck and another car in the parking area, the note said "I know one of you let the air out of my tire and I am glad you did not ruin the tire"
The car was never parked there again so I think the guy learned his lesson.
I shot a bird on some pretty heavily hunted public land. I kindof like the idea that people can see where I shot the bird due to the feathers and shell hull/wad on the ground. Well where I shot this particular bird, it would take a while for anyone to find, so I had an idea. I found my shell and wad and put them in my pocket. When I got back to the gate, I plucked some breast and wing feathers from the bird and scattered them in a spot about 20 yards from the parking area in the middle of the path. I dropped my wad near the pile, in the path. And dropped my shell hull in the parking area. What anyone assumed was totally up to them... ;D
I tend to be a little cut throat in my public land tactics. Nothing to harm or damage anyone or anything, but just sneaky stuff like fake tracks, or fake scrapes just prior to the rut. Mostly just for sh!ts and giggles. The whole "I didn't hear/see anyting" trick gets old. If they ask, I tell them to go listen themselves. Its not being a jerk, just not giving away hard earned info.
Quote from: lightsoutcalls on March 29, 2011, 10:59:36 AM
Last year we called in 3 different counties here in AR and didn't hear a single bird. At our last location, a place where we have had good success deer hunting over the years, we heard one of the sorriest sounding hen yelps ever. I told my buddy that this was no regular hen turkey, but a plastic potted hen turkey with lung issues. He commented along the same lines that this was some of the worst calling he had heard in his life. We had been there over an hour moving along a couple of ridges and down some creekbanks... no bird sign whatsoever. We were getting ready to head out and heard the plastic potted hen yelp again. I told my buddy to cross the creek towards the truck with me to get out of shotgun range. Once across the creek, we waited for the pitiful yelp again. I cut the plastic potted hen off with a gobble from a tube call. We couldn't help but giggle a bit as we went the last 50 yards or so to the truck. I later wondered if the guy knew it wasn't a real gobbler... My guess is that if he thought that plastic pot sounded like a real hen, he was probably ecstatic to hear a turkey gobble to his calling... ;D
:TooFunny: Awesome I almost fell out of my chair on that one too funny. I would love to had seen the look on that guys face.
I have never messed with anyones stuff, I do however keep my mouth shut about were the birds are, something I was taught at an early age. I did have something stupid happen to me once though. I live in NC and was hunting some Game Lands in Caldwell county a few years back. I had a skull plate with both horns attached off of an antelope in the bed of my truck. I pulled in and got out and started my walk in, the trail wrapped around up above my vehicle. When I got about two hundred yards up the hill I looked down and seen another vehicle pulling in, I thought nothing of it and kept walking. When I got back to my truck the skull plate was gone. I thought you jacka$$, I couldnt beleive they took it. I shouldnt have had it in the bed of the truck but I did, stupid me. They must have needed it worst than I did, luckily it was a set that was given to me.
I was hunting some public land in MN with a friend of mine who is a disabled veteran. He has special permission to drive behind the gates, and we used his hunting car which is camouflaged, to hunt out of that day. Some one let the air out of his two of his tires when I was hunting with him. Glad I was with him, as it would have been a long time for him to get out in his wheel chair. We left several notes at the parking area on some vehicles. There was one truck which we were pretty certain the owner of it was responsible for letting the air out of his tires. My buddy didn't want to do anything to the fellow, as he said he lived by him, close to the state capital. For some reason, he thought the fellow might fess up and make restitution. O' well, maybe he'll get his payback one day.
God Bless,
David B.
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