Inconsiderate hunters.
#6666466
11/15/19 11:17 AM
11/15/19 11:17 AM
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Joined: Jan 2015
Posts: 3,446 Houghton Lake, MI
strike2x
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Houghton Lake, MI
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Today is opening day for rifle deer season and I had to check traps like any other day. Only problem was I had 3 different trails that some deer hunters thought would be good parking spots. I made it past 2 of them in the little Jeep and bad to drive around t to a different entrance to get to my other sets. I don't set traps in what I call parking areas in consideration of other sportsman. I wish they all would think about how what they do may effect others. The one guy was sitting in a chair about 100 yards from his truck on the side of the trail. I almost went back and asked him to move it but I was considerate and drove around. Thanks for letting me vent. By the way, I do hunt also, just didn't today because of work but I don't block others travelways. How was your morning.
Wish I had more time to trap....
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Re: Inconsiderate hunters.
[Re: strike2x]
#6666485
11/15/19 11:34 AM
11/15/19 11:34 AM
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Joined: May 2010
Posts: 28,978 potter co. p.a.
pcr2
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"Twerker"
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been huntin,scoutin fur,and aint saw another human.----AWESOME in other words.heck i'm about ready to set a few traps around my little farm to kick the season off.MUCHO SPECTACULAR.
sorry,hope you caught something and have a better end to your day.
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Re: Inconsiderate hunters.
[Re: strike2x]
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11/15/19 11:56 AM
11/15/19 11:56 AM
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Posts: 28,715 Eastern Shore of Maryland
HobbieTrapper
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"Chippendale Trapper"
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Was in the stand calling. A nice little buck was making his way to me. Then bang!!! He tenses and looks. Bang!!! He bolts. Frustrated I leave the stand. The neighbor fired a couple rounds checking his sights, taking his nephew for youth day tomorrow.
-Goofy-
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Re: Inconsiderate hunters.
[Re: strike2x]
#6666505
11/15/19 12:09 PM
11/15/19 12:09 PM
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Rubee
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Rubee
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Some park that way to block the two track from competition I believe.
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Re: Inconsiderate hunters.
[Re: strike2x]
#6666530
11/15/19 12:55 PM
11/15/19 12:55 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 11,246 Oregon
beaverpeeler
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Try boat trapping steelhead streams sometime for true frustration. LOL Drift boats and bank anglers and they all think you should be at idle speed only and you've got 15 miles to cover in a short amount of time.
My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
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Re: Inconsiderate hunters.
[Re: strike2x]
#6666544
11/15/19 01:14 PM
11/15/19 01:14 PM
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Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 34,923 Central, SD
Law Dog
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Must be a thing blocking roads and gates I had a transport the first day of grouse season here and drove through the Grass Lands and even with a ton of room to park the thing was to block the gates to keep others out.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: Inconsiderate hunters.
[Re: Calvin]
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11/15/19 01:37 PM
11/15/19 01:37 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 20,083 SEPA
Lugnut
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Firearms gun season is a nightmare to anyone who owns land. Apparently as soon as you but on blaze orange you are instantly unable to read No Trespassing signs and become a complete bozo.
X 2!
Eh...wot?
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Re: Inconsiderate hunters.
[Re: strike2x]
#6666583
11/15/19 02:11 PM
11/15/19 02:11 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,131 Lufkin, Tx.
Lufkin Trapper
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Today is opening day for rifle deer season and I had to check traps like any other day. Only problem was I had 3 different trails that some deer hunters thought would be good parking spots. I made it past 2 of them in the little Jeep and bad to drive around t to a different entrance to get to my other sets. I don't set traps in what I call parking areas in consideration of other sportsman. I wish they all would think about how what they do may effect others. The one guy was sitting in a chair about 100 yards from his truck on the side of the trail. I almost went back and asked him to move it but I was considerate and drove around. Thanks for letting me vent. By the way, I do hunt also, just didn't today because of work but I don't block others travelways. How was your morning. I can imagine this guy on some hunting site venting about the stupid jerk that went around his parked vehicle and completely wrecked his opening day hunt. SEE, it works both ways. Give a little, take a little.
Billy Member # 16.
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Re: Inconsiderate hunters.
[Re: strike2x]
#6666612
11/15/19 02:51 PM
11/15/19 02:51 PM
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Joined: Nov 2014
Posts: 2,165 S. Illinois
Chuckles84
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Its the same everywhere. Dealing with it on the land we deer hunt on. It's only 60 acres and the owner lives on about 3/4 an acre of it. There are 3 of us bow hunting it , myself, brother, and dad. Come gun season there is 5 of us adding my sister and my son. About every 3 years the owner gives another person permission to bow hunt. It's all fine the first season but by season 2 they have figures out we have stands at the best spots and they start creeping closer and closer. The extra guy in there now has a blind exactly where my sister finished off the a doe last season, which puts him under 70 yards from her stand. He also put a stand up within 80 yards of mine and my sons stand.
The problem really is the land owner doesnt realize 60 acres with 3 people already bow hunting is already crowded, add a 4th person who is not related and is an antler hunter and it's way to close for comfort. We have hunted this woods for 20 years, and this makes the 4th person that has decided to scout by finding our stands.
The owner is just too nice to tell some one no. We have offered to lease it in the past, but he did not want to. Think this off season we are going to offer again.
The two worst guys to have permission in the past. I hunted from a climber for years from the same tree, one fellow who only gun hunted ran in during september and put ladder stand in the tree, because he had watched me for 2 seasons.
Then another guy hunted one season and then the next he put stands up within 40 yards of every stand we had. Our stands stay up year round so he couldnt say they werent there.
Your entitled to oxygen. Everything else is earned.
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Re: Inconsiderate hunters.
[Re: Chuckles84]
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11/15/19 03:13 PM
11/15/19 03:13 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 3,723 Maine
Mac
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I have nothing against hunting. I like to hunt. But recently a guy on a Maine Facebook page was astonished as some outlandish behavior of another outdoorsman. I do not even remember what it was. I made a comment that there are not many good sportsman or should I say well behaved ones. Several were shocked at that comment. I can only assume they have not spent much time in the woods. Once hunting season starts it always changes how you go about trapping and almost always entails stories like the one shared above. People on the whole are inconsiderate dolts. Hate to say it but it is true. From jumping in your pocket and trying to fly fish the same hole, to setting pretty near beside you on a deer run, to blocking roads and trails, to stealing fur and traps, to blocking roads with trees, you name, it is done. I am always glad when hunting ends. The guy that goes out, and actually hunts is too busy to bother you. The real hunters are fine sportsman. I love it when you are setting a trap on a land where you have permission and a pair or more of hunters walks up to a nice coyote set and starts asking what you are doing. One year a landowner that was of advanced age asked me to check on a tree stand someone had put up on his land that he had heard about. I checked, found the name and asked the hunter to please move it by request of the land owner. He took it down, moved to the other side of the barb wire fence and was still looking at the same country but at least he did move it. Oh, he was a supposedly well respected law enforcement dude in the area. People have little respect for others and are just out for themselves. Too many do not think of their actions and how eventually it will reflect on hunting, fishing and trapping.
Mac
Last edited by Mac; 11/15/19 03:16 PM.
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Re: Inconsiderate hunters.
[Re: strike2x]
#6666658
11/15/19 03:32 PM
11/15/19 03:32 PM
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Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 34,923 Central, SD
Law Dog
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It comes down to I don't really want that deer but I surely don't want that guy over there to get it, BOOM! LOL
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: Inconsiderate hunters.
[Re: strike2x]
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11/15/19 05:01 PM
11/15/19 05:01 PM
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Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 2,699 Idaho, Lemhi County
Gulo
"On The Other Hand"
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"On The Other Hand"
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I figure I'm about the strongest advocate for hunting, fishing, and trapping, that there is. However, there is no doubt in my mind that there is at least an element (and, sorry, that element may even be in the majority nowadays) on the public land each and every year that is extremely ethics-free. They have no ethics. Leaving gates not as they found them. Leaving piles of trash. Running 4-wheelers absolutely everywhere, even on marked CLOSED roads. Poor (illegal) salvage of deer/elk meat. The list goes on and on. We have hundreds of nonresident hunters blast by our place every fall headed for the BLM and Forest Service public land. We no longer enjoy the season, simply due to the unethical, disrespectful dolts that call themselves hunters.
Sorry for the rant, but if we don't clean up our act and start showing a little respect for the land, the animals, and the landowners/land managers, I'm afraid we're going to lose it.
Jack
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Re: Inconsiderate hunters.
[Re: Gulo]
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11/15/19 05:50 PM
11/15/19 05:50 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 3,723 Maine
Mac
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I here you Jack. I have fished, hunted and trapped since I was a teenager and that was a lot darn time ago. Every time I am out I try to make sure I am not going to be the one a poster that says "You can thank this guy for ruining it!" Not saying I was a saint when I was a kid but by the time I was in my late teens I knew there was nothing I would rather do than trap, and hunting and fishing were not far behind. I just do not want to ruin it. So many folks today have low or no morals and just plain do not care about other peoples land. I have trapped on some of the same land since 1968 and 69. Treat peoples land right and it pays.
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