I just made another post about a nice buck I'm after. Anyway, here's my "other" dilemma. I came across a hang on stand and a trail camera as I was making my way into my stand a few days back. I have a pretty good idea who it might belong to. I've met the guy only once and will be meeting him again tomorrow (work related). He's a nice guy but can be aggravating when it comes to hunting. He doesn't mind trampling all over where other people are hunting. Anyway, I want to ask him if that is his stand and camera. Here's where I want to know if I'm being greedy, selfish, or whatever you want to call it. I'm hoping that when I imply I've been hunting the crap out of this area...that he will say the heck with it and take his stand down and not bother hunting there, thinking I've ruined the spot. Now remember, when I'm not in a tree; my stand is on my back or in my truck. So he had no way of knowing I had a "stand" in this area. BTW, he is allowed to hunt this property, just as I am. LOL...now that I read this, it does sound greedy but I have a bad case of buck fever. Should I mention anything to the guy in hopes he will vacate the premises or should I keep my mouth shut? If someone told you they were hunting the same area as you about everyday; would you still hunt there?
There are 3 people allowed to hunt the properties I hunt, and I am the only one who bow hunts. Our firearm season is going on right now, and last weekend I bow hunted one of my spots. Saturday afternoon I went in for an afternoon hunt. The 2 gun hunters came about an hour later to hunt (unknown to me), but when they saw my truck, they went to another spot for the evening and gave me a call after it got dark. I had no idea they were wanting to hunt that evening. Since I had unknowingly imposed on their hunting, I told them to go ahead and hunt the rest of the weekend. I would go somewhere else. Point is, just communicate with the guy. Let each other know when you are gonna be there, take turns, etc. It take some compromising to hunt properites with other people, just like anything else that is shared.
I haven't done much searching, but the sorrows are gone The way I see it, those gun hunters have 16 days to hunt..I have 107 (I think). I have PLENTY of time before and after their season to do some killin'. I'm sure they like to hunt just as much as me. I don't want to be the ahole that takes it so seriously he rubs people the wrong way. But then again, my situation isn't really like yours:d Oh well
There are 65 other hunters that can hunt on the primary property that I hunt on. An unlimited number that can hunt on the other two places I hunt. (2,400 hunter visits that were reported in '07) I try to look at it as an added challenge. Learn to hunt around other hunters, not intimidate them away.
I would be pretty selfish too, but I think that's because I'm used to having quite a bit of land to just me and my Dad. The best thing you can do is communicate with each other and meet in the middle. At least that way both of you will be somewhat happy with the result.
BUTTTTTT Seeing how the deer are attracted to you and you have a tendancy of "whacking and stacking" literally Christine.....I think I would have to put my stand right on top of you!!!!!:d :d :d
This week I found out that I'll lose most of the remainder of my season to work. This might be my last weekend to hunt and I have not yet filled a tag. Txmarshmonkey, from the other forum, and his son Hunter are coming out to hunt with me this weekend. I'll be putting them in my most promising spot. Hunter has never killed a deer. If he kills his first from my stand and I eat tag soup this year I will have had a tremendous season. I believe God gives all kinds of blessings and wants us to share them. If that means I don't get a private little spot in the woods I'm OK with that. Let the guy know that you have been hunting the area. Help each other out. The rewards of working together could really pay off for both of you.
at first i'd say yeah tell him you've been there, but read the rest of your message, "what would i do if someone told me they were hunting where i had a set up?" i'd back out for sure! so maybe he will, i really cant call this one....sorry
Thanks for the replies guys! I do realize what I said DOES sound selfish but I'm just being honest with you guys. :D I do plan on telling him that I've been hunting in the area. Heck, I might even be surprised and learn that it's not his stuff. I'd hate to think trespassers are imposing on this side of the property too. That's one of the reasons I moved to this spot to begin with.
I've never been in that situation, so I don't really know. Though, I do think that OKbowhunter nailed it.
I sat my dad up last year on some corp land and his second day in a guy jumped down his trhoat for hunting HIS area. He said "didn't you see my ground blind right there" which was basically just sitting behind a fallen tree. Dad went ahead and hunted it and the guy storms off. I went in 2 weeks later to remove his ladder stand and the guy dropped a load on it and then hung all the paper down the ladder. On the corp land I hunt there are stands and feeders all down the old 4wheeler trails that cut through the place which is really the fastest and quietest way to get through. Am I suppose to feel guilty when I am walking by to go further into the place because Joe SMoe won't get off the trail at all? Just 2 weeks ago I am walking through and pass 2 hunters in the middle of the day trying to hunt, and they were both less than 30 yds from the trail. I feel no remorse although I try to move through as quiet and quickly as I can. I just know one day one of them will try to get a broad side walking shot on me!
I'd tell him that you saw his stand....and that you had just taken your stand out of that tree the week before after hunting it hard all season....and tell him good luck you would call him when you were going in to your new stand and I'd call him three times a day. SB I'm just sayin
Well I met with him today and actually had lunch with him too. The stand is his but he said the trail camera is not. I don't even think he knows the buck I'm after exists. I didn't tell him about him either. :D Anyway, he's a real nice guy and I'm glad I brought it up. He's been dealing with trespassers just as I have been.
Yeah, it's difficult when there's another hunter competing in the same woods as you are, but he's got just as much of a right to be there as you do. That sux, & I know the feeling, but switch it around. What if you were in his shoes. I agree with the others, talk to him so that you both can work out a schedule.
Yep what he said, I have had this type of a problem when I have shot a nice buck everyone that gun hunts wants to scout that area for a location for the opener. So now I will have shot a nice buck "someplace else"
