I agree with the mindset of everyone here. But in recent years, I am over and over being the first person there and having folks come in later and walk all over me repeatedly no matter how much I move trying to get away from them that morning. Getting there between 3-4 am and sitting around in the dark on the mtn til fly down time around 7 am and then having folks still crash the scene with regularity that got there two plus hours behind me kind of leaves me scratching my head. I have not had a bad run in in a long time. I know most of the places I hunt well enough that most times I can just drop off the back side of the ridge (I hunt mtns) and move if I hear them closing in (you almost always hear them before seeing them) to try and avoid trouble.
The crazy thing, these guys are not killing turkeys as I have not heard a gun shot anywhere close to me at all in over five years. But they are professionals at flushing turkeys and making it harder for others to be successful even though by the grace of God I have continued to tag out yearly.
