Other Users From Friendly To Not So Much.

[quavers59]

  Hope everyone  enjoys this Light Hearted Thread.
1.-- Early Morning Dog Walkers/ Very Friendly. Long Talk coming up on Public Ground.
2.-- Trail Joggers/ Friendly- A Quick Morning " HI"
3.--Hikers/ About 50/50-Some will give their Morning Info on Gobbling Locations.
4.Dirt Bike Riders/Usually Heard - then seen past 9.30am on both Weekend days-- WE ARE COMING THROUGH!
5.ATVs/ Owners Living in  $450,000+ Mansions connected to State Lands--This is my Land! Go Hunt Somewhere Else!!!
6.-- Mountain Bikers/ about 50/50-- 7.15am conversation- There is Hunting back in here??!
7.Close Bigfoot Sighting just after you Killed a Gobbler/ Save your Tag and let your New Friend have a early Morning Turkey Breakfast!
8.On Hearing Your Name Called In The Deep Hardwoods-- NO YOU DIDN'T!!

[joey46]

Add one - spandex clad joggers that stop, point to your decoy, and giggle.  Had this happen during a FL quota hunt.

[GobbleNut]

I would hate to have to hunt in a place where running into the various other "user-groups" you mention would be a regular occurrence. Thank goodness I don't! On the rare occasion I see a non-hunter while out doing my thing, I give them a wide berth. You just never know what their attitude is going to be like...and I would just as soon not find out.

[Zobo]

I have on rare occasion run into people on both public and private land. The folks on private land are trespassers and have always been very nice to me because they know they're trespassing. Most have been on horseback. Pubic is a different story of course.

[paintbrush]

Mushroom pickers. They wander all over the woods looking for shrooms! Have had a few over the years walk into a set up. Once they realize whats going on, they have always said sorry, but by then it's to late and I will move on looking for a new set up. I never get mad at them as they are just out doing what they like to do, just like I'm out doing what I like to be doing.

[TrackeySauresRex]

Add one - spandex clad joggers that stop, point to your decoy, and giggle.  Had this happen during a FL quota hunt.

Ohhhh boy! Here's one for YaZ! About 35 years ago. On a dark dark day with thunder rumbling. The birds were going off! I steak a decoy on an old dirt logging road. They are answering every thing I give em. They are on their way. I think I hear a vehicle, not really sure. It's getting closer an old blazer. He floors it and runs over my deek and jams on his breaks. Under the cloud of dust he makes, he screams, I GOT HIM! I stand up and yell at him YEA! GOOD JOB! YOU GOT HIM! Guy says oops.. sorry and throws a beer can out the window and takes off. Birds never made another peep.
 I still have that decoy and use it.

[Zobo]

I had a similar jackass do something stupid to me.
I was set up working a bird over to my position when this guy sees the bird, stops his car and starts to stalk the bird on foot. So I yell at the idiot "hey I'm working that bird!" And the guy says "oh!" and stops, walks away, and then he starts to stalk the bird from another direction! ! When he knows I'm sitting right on the edge of the field! So this bird is hot and still coming towards my position and then in range and believe it or not the idiot is still stalking him! So I yelled at the top of my voice , " I'm going to fire!!!"
And I shot the gobbler. Probably shouldn't have.🙄 Pretty sure I scared the s**t out of that guy.

[Penguin907]

Wendigo, dogmen, and any agent of the state are big yikes to the average hunter.