THE GOOD
Had a great sit wed. I sat all day. As I was seting up in the dark I had a deer come by grunting. 15 min after getting set up I had a small 8 come by at 25 yards. I opted to let him walk as my daughter already has 2 deer in the freezer. At 9 I had a fawn come by and bed down 20 yards away. I watched her all day. My friend called me at noon so I answered. The fawn heard me talking so she gets up and looks right at me and comes closer. She eventually heads down towards the ceders and beds down about 75 yards away. At 2 I look down at the fawn again and she isn't alone anymore. I watch a large doe and her 3(yes 3)fawns feed. 30 min later they are joined up by 2 more does. they are all straight north of me with a nw wind. The large doe gets to 15 yards and is calm. Suddenly she turns and walks very quickly back into the ceders and brings her 3 fawns with her. She never blew or sounded any alarms. The other 3 does just watched her leave. Has anyone ever had this happen to them? I watched the other 3 does for another 90 min. before they fed out of site. No bucks came to check the does.
THE BAD
With snow that night and the same wind I was excited to to return to the same tree. I left all my stuff up in the tree. On my way out to the tree I saw an other hunters tracks in the snow heading in the same direction. I finally found out where he was set up. He had his ladder stand set up 130 yards sw of the tree that had all my stuff. It was still 20 min to legel shooting light so I quietly backed out and went and hunted a backup spot from the ground until lunch. After lunch I was going to go and get my stuff. On my way by his stand I notice he wasn't there so I proceded to my stuff and decided that he was 130 yards away and we were in thick cover so I decided to hunt the spot. The longest shot would be 50 yards. At 2 I hear the other hunter coming my way. I finally spot him in his blaze orange at 75 yards. He procedes to break every stick and starts yelling at me on his way over. He tells my that I am unethicle for setting up this close to him and it is his SPOT and he has been hunting this area for 25 years. I told him that after hunting the spot yesterday I left my stuff in this tree and returned after lunch today, sinse He was in his tree already this morning. I told him that I let him hunt the spot this morning and that I hunted a different spot from the ground this morning since my stand was in this tree. He starts yelling louder and telling me to get out of the tree and go hunt a different area. I should have because I didn't se any deer that night no thanks to him. I ask to see his deed for the land and he again says he has been hunting this spot for 25 years and it is his and that i am the most unethicle hunter he has ever come across. He purposly wrecked my hunt, I let him have the morning hunt. I like to hunt different spots acording to the wind. He is an old ass that hunts in the same ladder stand no matter the wind. I didn't know where he was this year until I saw him in the tree. He yelled at me last year after I shot a deer 200 yards away from him. Again it was a very thick area and I didnt know he was there. I am getting sick of his bullying. I talked to our neighbors and they know him very well and tell me that they stopped hunting that side of the road 10 years ago because of the conflicts with the jerk, and he has been only hunting back there 13 years. Not that it matters.
What would everyone else do? Move to a different area even though the public land is directly behind our land or put up with the crap.
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