What do you think about them on public land.
Rules clearly states:
1. It's prohibited to hunt within a 200 yard buffer of the property line.
2. You're not aloud to leave your stands on the property while not hunting from it.
3. Wear hunters orange on your head, back & chest while walking on public hunting lands....
4. Hunters must park their vehicles at designated check points.
5. Others
What do y'all think about rule breakers?
1. Let them get themselves in trouble?
2. They'll screw it up for the rest of us?
3. Doesn't bother you?
4. Or other. (Please explain)
When I've run into other hunters in the past I haven't had many bad things to say. Usually pleasent encounters.
This year has been a different story.
I live a little closer to the public land that I hunt so I go out there a little more often than I have in the past. More weekday trips.
I've ran into more people walking around without any orange this year which isn't the worst of it. To me, that's their stupidity. But one of them I ran into, I called out to him, "Hey! Come here!" We were both walking at this time. We close the distance and I asked him if I disturbed his hunt. He said no, that he was hunting about a 100 yards away. I asked if he had shot something and needed help tracking it. He said no, that he was just scouting around and he was headed back to get his things and he was going to go help his friend who had evidently shot a spike near the exit gate. We said our byes and good lucks and we went on our way. He took off towards the park and I headed towards the exit gate. Got there and was the only one parked there... I believe he lives near the public land and he hoped the fence to hunt.
Went in Thursday evening to bait the area I like to hunt and another person was parked at the check point. Thought to myself, "dang..... I hope I don't ruin someone's hunt coming in to feed out and leave...." Well, I walk on the main road all the way to the spot I break off to hunt and didn't see anybody. "Thought, "cool, glad I didn't see anyone and mess up their hunt." Headed back the same way and got about 75-80 yards from the check point and where I couldn't see it before because trees were blocking my view on the way in, there stood a ladder stand right on the main road that I was walking on. I looked up at the guy while I continued to pick up trash on the way out, and he looked at me like, how dare I walk thru his set 30 minutes before dark!? " I just looked back and shook my head.... As if hunting 75-80 yards from the check point wasn't enough, I head out this morning and I'm the first person there. And his stand is still there.
I guess I'm just irritated because I feel like the rule breakers will eventually get the privilege, that most of us appreciate, taken away....
What are your thoughts? Turn them in and bring it to the park rangers attention? Or leave it alone?
Rules clearly states:
1. It's prohibited to hunt within a 200 yard buffer of the property line.
2. You're not aloud to leave your stands on the property while not hunting from it.
3. Wear hunters orange on your head, back & chest while walking on public hunting lands....
4. Hunters must park their vehicles at designated check points.
5. Others
What do y'all think about rule breakers?
1. Let them get themselves in trouble?
2. They'll screw it up for the rest of us?
3. Doesn't bother you?
4. Or other. (Please explain)
When I've run into other hunters in the past I haven't had many bad things to say. Usually pleasent encounters.
This year has been a different story.
I live a little closer to the public land that I hunt so I go out there a little more often than I have in the past. More weekday trips.
I've ran into more people walking around without any orange this year which isn't the worst of it. To me, that's their stupidity. But one of them I ran into, I called out to him, "Hey! Come here!" We were both walking at this time. We close the distance and I asked him if I disturbed his hunt. He said no, that he was hunting about a 100 yards away. I asked if he had shot something and needed help tracking it. He said no, that he was just scouting around and he was headed back to get his things and he was going to go help his friend who had evidently shot a spike near the exit gate. We said our byes and good lucks and we went on our way. He took off towards the park and I headed towards the exit gate. Got there and was the only one parked there... I believe he lives near the public land and he hoped the fence to hunt.
Went in Thursday evening to bait the area I like to hunt and another person was parked at the check point. Thought to myself, "dang..... I hope I don't ruin someone's hunt coming in to feed out and leave...." Well, I walk on the main road all the way to the spot I break off to hunt and didn't see anybody. "Thought, "cool, glad I didn't see anyone and mess up their hunt." Headed back the same way and got about 75-80 yards from the check point and where I couldn't see it before because trees were blocking my view on the way in, there stood a ladder stand right on the main road that I was walking on. I looked up at the guy while I continued to pick up trash on the way out, and he looked at me like, how dare I walk thru his set 30 minutes before dark!? " I just looked back and shook my head.... As if hunting 75-80 yards from the check point wasn't enough, I head out this morning and I'm the first person there. And his stand is still there.
I guess I'm just irritated because I feel like the rule breakers will eventually get the privilege, that most of us appreciate, taken away....
What are your thoughts? Turn them in and bring it to the park rangers attention? Or leave it alone?
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