My wife and I got set up by 0400 on opening day here in NH. 0420 a vehicle pulls in. This is public land. Only big enough for one hunter. We see lights come across the field right at us. I flash my light and hear them speak to each other. They proceed to set up 30 yards away. I whistle, they say " what, we are hunting here". My reply was that they should get up earlier. " We ain't leaving". My wife got upset and we left. They parked so close to me that I had to back up so my wife could get in. And they blocked the gate, I hate to admit that this is what gets places posted. I don't know when it got there, but there was also a six pack ring right by the drivers side door. Strike 3. We still enjoyed our day together, but people suck sometimes. :OGturkeyhead:
Did there vehichle have valve stems on there tires
You shoyld have checked to see if they were working properly
Should have stayed unless you had something close to go to. If not, stay and mess up anything good that may have happened.
Typical in the day we live in. You hunt public you gotta go with the punches. Sad but it is what it is.
I would not left ....and I'd have made for sure they didn't kill anything. In there small minds they probably think they won. Just like any dumb animal if you don't correct them they'll never learn. I thought the southeast had the market cornered on idiots guess they up north also
That sucks Zelmo. Especially since you were trying to have a nice day with your wife. This is why I try to avoid hunting public land, though sometimes I have no choice.
Different story if my hunting buds were there. My wife is a sweetheart, we still had fun. I will get her a big Tom even if my dam knee blows out :turkey2:
Honestly, I have a hard time believing that real hunters would do that. The animal-rights organizations are devious enough to tell their members to buy hunting licenses and do stuff like that to ruin the hunts of legitimate hunters. It is an easy way for them to get around hunter harassment laws. I am inclined to believe that is likely what happened in your case.
Either way, I think I would have left a message on their vehicle that intimated that if it ever happened again, there would be more serious repercussions than just a note on their vehicle. :(
No consideration for anyone anymore. You probably did the right thing when you left since your wife was with you. If you thought they had been drinking, I would have called the game warden and local police and reported them. A ticket for DUI or hunting while intoxicated would have been justification for spoiling your wife's hunt.
Definitely the right move leaving. Try to think of it as you weren't meant to hunt there that day. I had a similar incident happen a couple years ago deer hunting. Was in my stand 20 mins before sunrise, made it in clean. 10 mins Into legal shooting light and I hear something coming up the logging rd. It's another hunter. There's only one way into this spot so he saw my truck. He looks up at me and stands 10 yards from tree stand for about 5 mins. He then proceeds to walk In front of my stand and off to the left. Well it's access by permission only over there so he followed the border straight out and started cutting right. He was out of sight but I could hear him still cause he was basically right out in front of me about 80 yards at the edge of the cutting. Next thing I know I hear something coming from my far right. I eventually see two deer out at the edge of the cutting. I pull my gun up and look through the scope, one doe and one BAM!!! Shot rang out scared the heck outta me, 2 deer run off back where they came from and not 3 seconds later that dude was standing right where those deer were and I had my gun pointed. What an idiot. He goes back down the logging road and comes back with what looked like his dad, and they gut the deer out right there, 80 yards in front of my stand, and drag it out. I didn't even get mad, I said nice. Ended up being a small spike horn. I didn't hunt that spot the rest of the season. Shot a nice 6 pt on thanksgiving. Lesson is be the better person and good things will come!
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Quote from: rifleman on May 01, 2019, 01:06:26 PM
Should have stayed unless you had something close to go to. If not, stay and mess up anything good that may have happened.
Yep, unless I had a place close by to move to, that`s exactly what I would`ve done. I would have ensured that there was not a turkey within a mile. At least.
I have been hunting the same public land for the last 15 years and have kept a detailed log book the entire time. In those 15 years only two other hunters thought was OK to park next to me and walk in and hunt the same turkey as me. This year it happened an additional 4 times, that's a total of 6 different hunters that have no ethical values as far as hunters go. Why did that # quadruple in one year? Who knows-probably happening in every walk of life-people just don't care about other people anymore; or what other people think about them.
They would have found out that if there is one thing I like about as much as turkey hunting, it's pushing idiots buttons. And I'd have pushed everyone until they blew a gasket or left. I get bored easy and I can come up with some pretty creative ways to mess with someone when I get bored.
Quote from: guesswho on May 01, 2019, 05:12:43 PM
They would have found out that if there is one thing I like about as much as turkey hunting, it's pushing idiots buttons. And I'd have pushed everyone until they blew a gasket or left. I get bored easy and I can come up with some pretty creative ways to mess with someone when I get bored.
;D Finally! Someone as like minded as me when it comes to dealing with those kind of idiots. I've even climbed down from my own treestand and walked halfway (30 yards) toward another late arriving bow hunter to take a dump. We was doing ok until I started grunting and making sounds like I was birthing a baby. Yelled and told me I was a sick sob as he left the woods. :wave:
I have a couple ringers coming in Sunday and hunting three days, we will kill 3-6 Toms out of that piece and laugh all the way to the check station :funnyturkey:
Strange time to conduct a controlled burn.
Sounds like one of my hunts this season but I played there game . 2 guys set up on either side of me after they came in late. So I built a big blind at 8:30 busting all kinds of dead fall . These guys would do some calling and I would hammer on my box call for a long long time doing a gobble ???????????? it was bad . Any ways I was still pissed and left at 9:30 and they must of left as soon as they saw me leave . They where driving away when I got back to my truck . Well at least they where first back to there truck , maybe they learned something about getting there first .
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I'm a valve stem guy as well!
Sad to say, but these scum bags are everywhere
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Public land in my area is huge. Only had one such occurrence twenty years or so ago while deer hunting. Learned to move farther back in a couple miles or more. Never had a issue after that.
Messing with someones private property is not a winning strategy. Doing that makes you no better then they are. Plus what if you get the wrong persons vehicle? Then they would have the right to take it personal. No end in sight.
That sucks, especially while your wife was with you. They probably would have had flat tires if I would have chose to leave. Good luck the rest of the season.
Quote from: GobbleNut on May 01, 2019, 02:29:45 PM
Honestly, I have a hard time believing that real hunters would do that. The animal-rights organizations are devious enough to tell their members to buy hunting licenses and do stuff like that to ruin the hunts of legitimate hunters. It is an easy way for them to get around hunter harassment laws. I am inclined to believe that is likely what happened in your case.
Either way, I think I would have left a message on their vehicle that intimated that if it ever happened again, there would be more serious repercussions than just a note on their vehicle. :(
Yes, hunters will do that... Try duck hunting on a crowded public refuge...
I have seen guys hunt a public ramp and purposely block the ramp with their vehicle (17 permits for the slough and they were the first ones in)... Someone else used their own vehicle to push the guys truck out of the way... I don't think anyone got a license plate on the guy that pushed the vehicle out of the way... There was some cheering involved.
I have had guys set up on my decoy spread... I have had guys sneak into tule patches right next to us, and then claim birds we shot... I had a limit of pheasants stolen out of my truck (after going back out to duck hunt).
With the "ME!" generation coming up, less land and more hunters, things will only get more interesting...
Was hunting public land in Tennessee few years ago. Truck after truck went on by as I was in the pull in spot early. Well I walked on in. Old man pulled up and asked if I minded him hunting same zone. I said no that's fine. He told me go wherever I wanted and he would go the opposite. Got back to my spot and got set up. 10 minutes later I hear footsteps and think that old man lied. I flash my light and a young guy comes walking by and I said what are you doing? He says fixing to hunt this field. I said well it's not really big enough for 2. He didn't care. Well I hunted til about 7 30. Couldn't take anymore of his constant calling. On my walk out I came up on a tom and hen in a field. Got in position and shot the tom. Gratifying feeling. But not as gratifying as the note I put on his jeep telling him that karma is a bitch because I knew he didn't get a bird!