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Nelly

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Here is a quick question seeing how we are coming upon deer season once again and this happened to me last year.

Me and my buddy found a nice area to hunt (he shot a nice LITTLE 2x3 in this area)It takes close to 2 hours to hike in so we headed off and I'm in fairly good shape, but my buddy is pretty overweight, so I did alot of waiting up for him. So after about 1.5 hours of hiking in I can see he is getting tired and so I asked if he would like to take a breather? Of course he said No, (not wanting to heed our progress)but I could see he was hurting so I made us take a breather then all of a sudden I see a truck pull within 50 yards of the trail we are on. This road was being camped on by these guys with there trailer. So no one could go down it (you probabley could if you really wanted to). You would just have to disturb their camp a bit. But anyways the hike we take in has good hunting all the way so we didn't mind to much. So I tell my buddy "Let's go" and we start back down the trail and when we get within 45 yards of the truck the guys see us and JUMP out, throw there packs on as they are headed down the trail and totally cut us OFF. At this point what would every one do????????
I for one wanted to wup some A$$ but they beat us fair and square so we heaed back the way we came. I NEVER would have done that to some one I would have waited and talked with the other people and worked out a feisable plan of sort..
Seeing how the hunting gods have shined down upon me this year again and gave me the luck to draw this same unit with ZERO points. I would like some insite as to what everyone else would have done..
Thanks and SORRY so long
Curtis
 
If I where in your shoes I probably would have done the same thing. It isn't worth getting shot over. I have never had problems with competition over hunting area except javelina hunting. I guess with some people it is all about themselves. I would rather watch someone else get a nice buck or at least work with them and better everyones chances than to fight over an area.
 
It has happened to me several times, I take the high road like you did. Several times I have done what you suggested and spoke with the other group and worked out a plan that benefits everyone. Hunting is no different than most of the society as a whole, the "me" first attitude. The problem is that the XXXholes that you ran into are not the same guys that are on this website.
 
I don't understand why you guys are walking in and the other guys drove their truck to the hunt area. Maybe you can explain that. But I'd try to find another area where EVERYONE has to walk in and you are less likely to have competition from other hunters.

But in this instance, you did the right thing. The hunting was going to be screwed up anyhow, so you might as well just move on to another location. Good luck in the future.
 
ICMDEER -
Good question, I was kinda wondering why they are lugging their way along, and other hunters just drive right to the spot?
Anyway, you did the right thing by just going on your seperate way. I would've just hollored up to them, and asked which way they are going, so that you could go a different way. Some people are real jerks while hunting.

Lien2
 
I think they hiked in cause' the hunting was good along the way....and sounds like they could hunt all the way up to where they were headed.

I think you did the right thing, although it's sure easy to say that when I'm sittin' behind a computer. I just can't honestly say I would have done the same thing. I definately would have either caught up to em' or yelled up to em', and got an idea of where they were headed. Thats a good question but a tough one.
 
Unfortunately, not everone has good hunting ethics. Years ago my brothers and I were hiking up a horse & foot trail at dawn when this guy on this four wheeler runs us off the trail. Minutes later we here shots above us. We quickly get into position below him just in time to catch a trophy buck making his exit. My younger brother dumped the buck with one fatal shot. Oh yes, it gets better! The guy approaches us dawned from head to toe in full camo during a rifle hunt that requires hunter orange and proceeds to claim the buck. A small argument insued, and we ended up letting the guy take the buck (In hind sight I would never allow this to happen again). One of my brothers recognized the guy as someone from our hometown, and said he was pretty sure he didn't have a rifle tag for that year, but instead had a muzzy tag. We found out later that his wife tagged the buck. I was outraged, so I reported the incident to a Fish Cop who got the guy to confess. They sighted him, however, because his wife did have a tag they let her keep the buck. I was sick about that incident for years, and thought about hanging up the rifle for good. As a side note, this was a 30 inch buck with incredible eye guards.
So to answer your question, if they were there first, back out and hunt somewhere nearby. However, if they were camped in the middle of the trail and hurried to get there packs so they could beat you to the punch, they could probably use a lesson in ethics.

Mike
 
You definitely did the right thing even though your emotions might have told you otherwise. As much as we would like to think that all hunters have ethics and values that they try to adhere to it's just not reality. The only hope here is that they are a minority. No animal to me is worth getting seriously injured or killed over and there are those out there who wouldn't think twice about inflicting some bodily harm on you over something so petty. Just my thoughts.
 
Unfortunately, I had almost the same thing happen to me last year in Utah on a muzzleloading hunt. I wasn't going to leave the area completely because there were some good deer in there, plus I had hiked for a couple of hours to get back in there. So I went to an overlook about 200 yards away from them. I found a buck that I wanted to shoot and started to stalk it. I was about 200 yards from the buck when these buttheads saw me stalking the buck and whistled motioned for me to stop stalking the buck. I kept stalking and then they shot at the buck from over 500 yards away with muzzleloaders over the top of me. Needless to say, I didn't even get a shot and I got out of there with my life. That was the second time I have been shot at in Utah. I know there are idiots everywhere, but I only ever seem to run into them in Utah.
 
I hear what you're saying Nelly. Unfortunatly it happens all over. Not just deer hunting. Duck hunting, fishing, etc.

You did the right thing, but I understand your frustration. Don't let it eat at you. Always have a plan "B" to cover things like that.

All in a day's hunt!

Steve
 
Thanks for the replys. For those of you who were wondering why we hiked in and they drove, I had stated that they parked their trailer on the top of the road they drove in on. So getting down the road would have been difficult (unless I would have stooped to there level and just tromped on through their camp)Oh, and the hunting is REAL good on the trail we were on. My buddy ended up getting a 2x3 on it a couple of days later.
Oh I didn't say earlier, but we ran into the two guys later (we knew what they were drivin)so they didn't reconize us. But anyways they ended up getting a nice 4 point on the trial.
So anyways you win some and lose some.
But I will be there again this year, so maybe it's our year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Curtis
 

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