Rude Hunters

[P6smSKC]

Nah these guys knew, made eye contact…just didn’t care. It’s all good. Been hunting these places since I was a kid I know of a few other spots to get away from people…or try to. But backwoods concert singing is still a back up plan. Happy and safe hunting everyone. I got a tiny one, now to try and get a bigger one

 

[BigBass123]

Nah these guys knew, made eye contact…just didn’t care. It’s all good. Been hunting these places since I was a kid I know of a few other spots to get away from people…or try to. But backwoods concert singing is still a back up plan. Happy and safe hunting everyone. I got a tiny one, now to try and get a bigger one

Copy, ya I wouldn’t appreciate that.

 

[basshappy]

Anymore I would only try one approach polite, and then either accept my new neighbor or I would move on.

I love the Walter Mitty ideas ... music, drum pad, violin, whoppee cushion, etc.. But given I know the new neighbor has a loaded firearm and for all I know it is just the two of us aline in the woods, I'm letting it go and seeing my family again.

 

[BASS1FUN]

The worst I’ve had was on Piedmont NWR hunted Cedar Creek yesterday and shined a hunter and he left no problem killed a doe @ 9:30, I’ve had hunters help me out by walking in and leaving killed the biggest buck rack wise on Johns MTN after I shined a hunter coming in

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

Rudeness is rampant these days. Saw a woman (!!) get escorted out of a bar by the police here in Athens on Saturday because she lost her mind when asked to please lower her voice. Not just cheering on GA, but loud to the point that everyone in the bar complained.

Lady in Kroger today had a fit when I called her out for trying to jump line in at the self-check.

Just seems like people don't care about anyone but themselves anymore.

 

[groundhawg]

First come first hunts, that is the way it should be. If someone walks in on me, it is public land, and they have a right to be there as much as I do. However, I will make it as annoying as possible for them. Blowing in a grunt call like it is a gazzoo. Turning up the volume and playing songs. Playing the air drums while in the stand! Just the normal hunting activities

Universal Citation: GA Code § 27-3-151 (2020)

1. It shall be unlawful for any person to:
   1. Interfere with the lawful taking of wildlife by another person by intentionally preventing or attempting to prevent such person from such lawful taking of wildlife;
   2. Disturb or engage in activity tending to disturb wildlife for the purpose of intentionally preventing or attempting to prevent the lawful taking of such wildlife; or

 

[NCHillbilly]

It's usually pretty simple. If there is a vehicle parked any where near the area, I don't hunt it. I go somewhere else. I try to avoid hunting near parking areas, main gates, food plots, or any of those hunter magnet areas.

 

[rugerfan]

Universal Citation: GA Code § 27-3-151 (2020)

1. It shall be unlawful for any person to:
   1. Interfere with the lawful taking of wildlife by another person by intentionally preventing or attempting to prevent such person from such lawful taking of wildlife;
   2. Disturb or engage in activity tending to disturb wildlife for the purpose of intentionally preventing or attempting to prevent the lawful taking of such wildlife; or

You do know I was joking, right? People have loaded firearms in the woods, and I do not need an altercation that would possibly escalate into something that would cause harm to me for anyone else. Nor do I wish to get a citation for

Public land is public land, public land is for everyone, and it is just deer.

 

[BeerThirty]

I cussed 3 hunters out with every word under the sun one time. They were willing to put my life in jeopardy and at that point I didn't care if I met my maker. On public land, too!

 

[NWS]

I appreciate and empathize with you but is compounding the problem really a good idea?

Ga. Code Ann. § 27-3-151.

X2. No sense becoming part of the problem by escalating the situation towards what might be a person with bad judgement. Just find another spot. It’s public land. No big deal. It’a only a deer hunt. Be safe, leave your ego out of it and go find another spot.

 

[little rascal]

I love when their all parked at the gate and up and down the road for several yards. I sneak in after daylight and set up on escape routes close to the road, waiting on deer to sneaking out and wanting to cross the road to the other side because of all the before daylight blundering and flashlights etc.
Seen a many a deer that way.

 

[DynamicDennis]

Turn on Pandora. Crank up the Queen…followed by George Micheal…then go sit close to the offender. Ask if his favorite movie is Brokeback Moungain..

One of my favorite movies, Love a good cowboy flick

 

[westcobbdog]

Thing about PF is you can be waaay back in the stuff and still see other hunters. I was nearly a mile from the car the other night in unfamiliar terrain and started moving out in the right general direction just before it got too dark to shoot, had my headlamp on low and came up on a guy still in his climber, we chatted a bit and passed some intel as we walked out together. Next day I went to same general area at 11am for the evening hunt went to a new spot and passed a guy heading the other direction back towards his car. Whistled quietly until he spotted me. A small ridge separated us. The parking area had 5 vehicles parked there...but there is a ton of land over there to hunt so a little patience and common sense go far. In PF especially a gun hunt nearly every creek bottom has a hunter somewhere in it..

 

[DSGB]

If you hunt public land enough, it's bound to happen. The worst offenders seem to be the ones that "already have a stand in there." I pack my stand in and out on every hunt. If you do leave a stand or set one up the day before, you best make sure you are the first one there. Hard to see your stand when I walk in before daylight.

 

[BeerThirty]

If you hunt public land enough, it's bound to happen. The worst offenders seem to be the ones that "already have a stand in there." I pack my stand in and out on every hunt. If you do leave a stand or set one up the day before, you best make sure you are the first one there. Hard to see your stand when I walk in before daylight.

I’m not sure of the regs in GA but lots of other states it is illegal to leave a treestand up overnight on public lands. I tend to like that law more than I unlike it.

 

[DSGB]

I’m not sure of the regs in GA but lots of other states it is illegal to leave a treestand up overnight on public lands. I tend to like that law more than I unlike it.

They can be placed the day prior and left up to 24 hours after the hunt, I believe.

 

[BigBass123]

I’m not sure of the regs in GA but lots of other states it is illegal to leave a treestand up overnight on public lands. I tend to like that law more than I unlike it.

I personally prefer this, but see both sides of it

Like others have said, it should be first come, first serve. Just my experience, but guys with climbers or hunting from the ground tend to much more willing to give adequate space than someone with a preset stand.

I had a guy tell me the other week he was going to hang a ladder stand in a specific area that he will use for gun season, and told me to avoid the entire block of woods for bow and rifle season since he’ll be hunting the spot a couple times during rifle. That was a good 3/4 mile from my 2 spots in the area, and I’ve got no intentions of hunting the area, but I thought that was a pretty poor mindset to have.

I think being required to bring the stand in and out every day probably eliminates some guys from setting up right next to someone else just because there gear is already there.

I can tell you myself, as well as I think most, aren’t avoiding an area because I see a preset stand, flagging tape, night eyes, etc. If you want the spot first, wake up on time.

On the other hand I do understand young, old, and disabled hunters not capable of taking in a stand every day should be allowed to have someone help them preset stands.

 

[huntersluck]

It makes no difference to me how long someone has had a stand hanging in a spot. My take has always been first person to the spot gets it. I have never really had a problem but once and that was years ago. I had a guy set up about 50 yards from me on pine log wma after I shined a light on him. I just sat there and coughed and made noise until he finally got down and left.

 

[BeerThirty]

It makes no difference to me how long someone has had a stand hanging in a spot. My take has always been first person to the spot gets it. I have never really had a problem but once and that was years ago. I had a guy set up about 50 yards from me on pine log wma after I shined a light on him. I just sat there and coughed and made noise until he finally got down and left.

But then you get there first and the other hunter asks “didn’t you see I had my treestand right there???” As he refuses to move.

 

[kingfish]

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