Youth hunt dirtbag

[Turkeytider]

I have hunted NF in VA and arrived first at a gate leading into the area.  I have been out of my truck getting gun and gear when on more than one occasion a hunter drives up, jumps out and flies around the gate.  You'd think they would come over and at least ask where I intended to go beyond the gate. I began going earlier and getting into the mt. well before daylight.  I don't run in on guys.  If another hunter beats me to an area, I just go somewhere else that I know about nearby.  Ethics/respect is missing in most people today, IMO.

Goes back to how one is raised, IMHO.

[g8rvet]

If there isn't more to the story, I'm not getting the dirt bag description.  It sounds like your buddy parked a half mile from the end of a dead end access road on 500,000 acres of public land and felt at that point he had some sort of claim on the next half mile.  Maybe I'm missing something.  If the end of that road is a typical jumping off point, there is no way folks are going to not drive past him.  I would immediately assume that he's hunting a bird closer to his truck, not claiming rights to everything past that.

I guess I am not explaining this well enough.  It dead ends into an uncrossable river.  There is no jumping off point. It is bordered on the North by private land-nowhere to go that way, the west by the river, the east by a hard road.  To the south is more swamp, maybe a half mile at most to the next road that cuts in to the river.  There are 10+ more roads leading into the river swamp.  Only a dain bramaged idjit would park at one of the roads and want to walk through the swamp to the next one north or south when there are access roads easily available.  So you could only be hunting on the little 75-100 acre patch of woods. 

[FL-Boss]

More and more people, less land to hunt each year, less turkeys, etc... same ol story. We read many of these posts each year and how things used to be so much better. 
It will just keep getting worse. That is unless nature unleashes a killer pandemic that wipes out a few billion people....oh wait...I forgot. 

[Hobbes]

That makes a little more sense, but it's probably still unrealistic to expect folks to stop at his vehicle especially if they've been driving to the end.  I'd have turned around after talking to the guy if I understood the layout, but most folks won't.

[LaLongbeard]

Lazy people. If there is a road, trail goat path anything they could possibly navigate a vehicle down, they are going to do it. ANYTHING too save a step or two. What I can't understand, what makes anyone assume a Gobbler isn't roosted along the road or trail, or within site of it. And we all know turkeys can't see or hear vehicles, so spare me your fairytales about driving up under one that gobbled when you slammed the door, and then you killed him from the truck,  I know your lying and so should anyone else.
    On heavily hunted public land the Turkeys are accustomed to the main road traffic constantly, but every single side trail doesn't need to be driven down. Gobblers will readily use these trails if you can keep from running them over.
     I have had at least 20 Gobblers buggered by some lazy slob driving up while I was working the bird. Just last season in La a tired old man drove his clunker around my truck and down what could barely be considered a trail and right between me and a Gobbler I was calling. I talked to him a couple days later when he drove around my truck again before daylight, he said he'd been chasing a Gobbler in the area? I guess he chases them from the truck? I told him to go park his pos and to stop driving around my truck. I never saw him again.

[hotspur]

Knock on wood

[NCL]

Lazy people. If there is a road, trail goat path anything they could possibly navigate a vehicle down, they are going to do it. ANYTHING too save a step or two. What I can't understand, what makes anyone assume a Gobbler isn't roosted along the road or trail, or within site of it. And we all know turkeys can't see or hear vehicles, so spare me your fairytales about driving up under one that gobbled when you slammed the door, and then you killed him from the truck,  I know your lying and so should anyone else.
    On heavily hunted public land the Turkeys are accustomed to the main road traffic constantly, but every single side trail doesn't need to be driven down. Gobblers will readily use these trails if you can keep from running them over.
     I have had at least 20 Gobblers buggered by some lazy slob driving up while I was working the bird. Just last season in La a tired old man drove his clunker around my truck and down what could barely be considered a trail and right between me and a Gobbler I was calling. I talked to him a couple days later when he drove around my truck again before daylight, he said he'd been chasing a Gobbler in the area? I guess he chases them from the truck? I told him to go park his pos and to stop driving around my truck. I never saw him again.


Road hunter...LOL

[MK M GOBL]

Had a spot a couple years ago where the guy put a sign up the day before the quota hunt that he was hunting down this road do not come down it .. I was not hunting that area but I thought it was pretty brazen .


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There was a year I was in Nebraska and a guy put up a road closed/Blocked signage he had stolen from the state hwy Dept. The guy was a guide on public land and didn't want his hunt interrupted. Well I give the DNR a call, he told me of the area and I told it said road was closed... Guess I can say his hunt got interrupted, fines and license lost.

MK M GOBL

[wvmntnhick]

Had a spot a couple years ago where the guy put a sign up the day before the quota hunt that he was hunting down this road do not come down it .. I was not hunting that area but I thought it was pretty brazen .


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There was a year I was in Nebraska and a guy put up a road closed/Blocked signage he had stolen from the state hey Dept. The guy was a guide on public land and didn't want his hunt interrupted. Well I give the DNR a call, he told me of the area and I told it said road was closed... Guess I can say his hunt got interrupted, fines and license lost.

MK M GOBL

Now that's just plain ingenuity there. Lol


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[g8rvet]

Lazy people. If there is a road, trail goat path anything they could possibly navigate a vehicle down, they are going to do it. ANYTHING too save a step or two. What I can't understand, what makes anyone assume a Gobbler isn't roosted along the road or trail, or within site of it. And we all know turkeys can't see or hear vehicles, so spare me your fairytales about driving up under one that gobbled when you slammed the door, and then you killed him from the truck,  I know your lying and so should anyone else.
    On heavily hunted public land the Turkeys are accustomed to the main road traffic constantly, but every single side trail doesn't need to be driven down. Gobblers will readily use these trails if you can keep from running them over.
     I have had at least 20 Gobblers buggered by some lazy slob driving up while I was working the bird. Just last season in La a tired old man drove his clunker around my truck and down what could barely be considered a trail and right between me and a Gobbler I was calling. I talked to him a couple days later when he drove around my truck again before daylight, he said he'd been chasing a Gobbler in the area? I guess he chases them from the truck? I told him to go park his pos and to stop driving around my truck. I never saw him again.

I was in a club and there were birds roosting along a steep creek bottom.  The older guy (late 70s) would park his truck maybe 150 yards from where they roosted and you could see it up and down the road they had to cross to come out where they were killable.  He is a good friend and his son is one of my best friends.  I kept listening to those birds and just bided my time.  In the last week of the season, he finally gave up on them and I parked a ways back and called all 4 of them in - had to wait forever to be able to shoot just one. They walked right up the trail he would park on gobbling and strutting the whole way.   The hunt may have lasted 30 minutes. 

It's all good now, I am over it.  I was just frustrated when I typed the first message.  The funny thing is, if he would have told my bro he had driven from and hour and half away and did not know of any other birds, I am fairly certain my brother would have let him take the kid in with no complaint.