The Ethics and issues of Hotspotting in Hunting

[GobbleNut]

One aspect of online scouting or sharing information is that many intentionally share inaccurate information about one area to deflect attention and pressure from another area.  You see it from regions of states to as specific as WMAs.
This is something I have often wonder about. the accuracy of the information being presented. If a person wanted to deflected people just post about another place and make up information.

Yeah, I suspect this happens quite often,...and will likely become more of the norm in the future as pressure on public hunting areas increases, especially when folks put "two and two together" and start realizing that the competition they have this year was a result of their blabbing about the place they were hunting after last year.   

[eggshell]

post a picture with that false information and cha ching you done sold the goods. Ya know something like this:

Scored this nice gobbler in wildcat hollow, West Va.  a ton of birds and not another soul hunting it....wow was I lucky .

notice to all this is only an example of false info....not real