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You find a hot tree on public land and a stand is already there
Posted on 11/18/20 at 6:21 am
Posted on 11/18/20 at 6:21 am
It looks like it has been put there for the year, not somebody's mobile set up that they left in the morning for the afternoon hunt. Are you climbing up in it? Hanging your stand next to it? Leaving the area since it is "his spot"?
There's some butt hurt from one of my podnuhs because a baw shot a decent buck out of a stand he left in the woods. His name was on the stand, the guy looked him up on facebook to send him a pic and a thanks.
Me when he was telling me about it:
There's some butt hurt from one of my podnuhs because a baw shot a decent buck out of a stand he left in the woods. His name was on the stand, the guy looked him up on facebook to send him a pic and a thanks.
Me when he was telling me about it:
This post was edited on 11/18/20 at 6:24 am
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Posted on 11/18/20 at 6:25 am to Loup
Your friend isn't bright
Posted on 11/18/20 at 6:25 am to Loup
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It looks like it has been put there for the year, not somebody's mobile set up that they left in the morning for the afternoon hunt. Are you climbing up in it? Hanging your stand next to it? Leaving the area since it is "his spot"?
i would never hunt someone elses stand. but i would have no problem putting mine in a tree next to it.
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There's some butt hurt from one of my podnuhs because a baw shot a decent buck out of a stand he left in the woods. His name was on the stand, the guy looked him up on facebook to send him a pic and a thanks.
he needs to quit leaving his stuff on public land if he has a problem.
Posted on 11/18/20 at 6:26 am to Loup
quote:This is pretty shitty
His name was on the stand, the guy looked him up on facebook to send him a pic and a thanks.
Depends on the local law. If he's allowed, for example, one stand with his name on it and they guy hunted it, that is wrong.
If it's in a place where you are not allowed to leave a stand up over night, fair game IMO
I can't stand playing by the rules, pulling the stand down each night, but someone leaves a set up all week while they're at work to block it
Posted on 11/18/20 at 6:26 am to Loup
It’s PUBLIC LAND. It’s not “your spot” because you put your stand there and left. If you can’t afford a lease or hunting land, don’t bitch. If I put a house or trailer in your front yard, does it make your yard mine?
Now if the guy is hunting there and gets there before you, that’s a different story.
Now if the guy is hunting there and gets there before you, that’s a different story.
Posted on 11/18/20 at 6:26 am to Strannix
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Your friend isn't bright
You ain't lying. I'd just be happy the dude didn't steal my stand.
Posted on 11/18/20 at 6:28 am to mylsuhat
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but someone leaves a set up all week while they're at work to block it
Pretty much what he did. He had hunted the weekend there and was going back the next weekend. this feller found it and hunted out of it during the week.
Hell, I ordered an m7 microlite while I was sitting in somebody else's m7 because I liked it so much.
This post was edited on 11/18/20 at 6:31 am
Posted on 11/18/20 at 6:29 am to Loup
One reason I don't leave stands in the woods. No such thing as claiming "spots" on public.
If the area looks good, I'd hunt it out of my own stand. I don't trust other peoples equipment.
If the area looks good, I'd hunt it out of my own stand. I don't trust other peoples equipment.
Posted on 11/18/20 at 6:33 am to stein_burgundy
The worst part about leaving stands out is you Mark a spot as a ‘good’ spot. I’ve left stands and don’t care if someone else hunts there, but it’s never in a spot I thought was a great spot because I didn’t want to give it away.
I also will put ladder stands in magnolia or cedar trees you can’t climb on public land. And just leave them for awhile.
What’s the difference between hunting out of someone’s stand or sitting in your own stand the next tree over? Many guys leave stands on the the ‘one’ tree they know is the only good spot. In that case I don’t think there’s anything wrong with using their stand. You can’t claim a public land tree.
I also will put ladder stands in magnolia or cedar trees you can’t climb on public land. And just leave them for awhile.
What’s the difference between hunting out of someone’s stand or sitting in your own stand the next tree over? Many guys leave stands on the the ‘one’ tree they know is the only good spot. In that case I don’t think there’s anything wrong with using their stand. You can’t claim a public land tree.
This post was edited on 11/18/20 at 6:34 am
Posted on 11/18/20 at 6:35 am to Loup
I'd leave it, but that's just because I was raised right and I've had a few experiences being on the other side. Once on public land and once on private land.
the TLDR-
Public land, black powder hunt in a WMA. My roommate and I drove down the weekend before a scouted a sweet creek bottom with tons of sign, well off the beaten path. Marked it, we thought fairly discretely. The next weekend, morning of the first day of the hunt, walking in a good hour before light and there's some jackass sitting in my tree, shinning a light down on me. I walked up the deer highway to the top of the ridge and flushed a few on the way up. I also took a big piss right there and shot at first light, just so the jackass would think I got his deer. Public land, so what can I do?
Private land, buddy in college had a few hundred acres, we planted a few food plots and I built a stand over one. Opening day, there's some jackass sitting over the food plot I planted in the stand I built. Apparently, some kid was told by his granddad that he could hunt on his land, family friend stuff. Anyway, I was pissed again.
That's why I'd leave it, it's the right thing to do.
the TLDR-
Public land, black powder hunt in a WMA. My roommate and I drove down the weekend before a scouted a sweet creek bottom with tons of sign, well off the beaten path. Marked it, we thought fairly discretely. The next weekend, morning of the first day of the hunt, walking in a good hour before light and there's some jackass sitting in my tree, shinning a light down on me. I walked up the deer highway to the top of the ridge and flushed a few on the way up. I also took a big piss right there and shot at first light, just so the jackass would think I got his deer. Public land, so what can I do?
Private land, buddy in college had a few hundred acres, we planted a few food plots and I built a stand over one. Opening day, there's some jackass sitting over the food plot I planted in the stand I built. Apparently, some kid was told by his granddad that he could hunt on his land, family friend stuff. Anyway, I was pissed again.
That's why I'd leave it, it's the right thing to do.
This post was edited on 11/18/20 at 6:37 am
Posted on 11/18/20 at 6:37 am to slacker130
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there's some jackass sitting in my tree, shinning a light down on me.
you should have gotten there earlier.
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That's why I'd leave it, it's the right thing to do.
you seem really concerned with doing the right thing but then
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I walked up the deer highway to the top of the ridge and flushed a few on the way up. I also took a big piss right there and shot at first light, just so the jackass would think I got his deer
this was not the right thing to do.
This post was edited on 11/18/20 at 6:41 am
Posted on 11/18/20 at 6:47 am to Loup
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this was not the right thing to do.
Yep, it was probably close to 30 years ago, I ran a little hotter then. I wouldn't be out there now, but if I was, I'd probably just ease back out.
It still is crazy he found the spot, there was no parking, no trail, and thick as crap for the first part off the road. He must have seen us the weekend prior is all I can think.
Posted on 11/18/20 at 6:50 am to slacker130
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It still is crazy he found the spot, there was no parking, no trail, and thick as crap for the first part off the road. He must have seen us the weekend prior is all I can think
There are very few spots on public land that somebody else does not know about. Especially now. The world got a lot smaller when OnX came out. If there's an interesting geographic feature visible on a map then somebody else has been in there. I went to a funnel by boat early AM in the MS Delta and climbed a tree. When the sun came up I could see 3 different climbers on trees that weren't visible from the ground due to palmettos.
This post was edited on 11/18/20 at 6:52 am
Posted on 11/18/20 at 6:52 am to slacker130
How do you know that you didn't find "his spot?"
Posted on 11/18/20 at 6:55 am to slacker130
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It still is crazy he found the spot, there was no parking, no trail, and thick as crap for the first part off the road. He must have seen us the weekend prior is all I can think
Or just maybe , he had scouted that area too, maybe he had been hunting that area for years, and you were the “new guy” that was invading “his spot”
Just another reason I don’t hunt public land
Posted on 11/18/20 at 6:56 am to Loup
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Especially now.
This was 1993 and there hadn't been a soul back on this creek bottom. Hauling a climber was next to impossible with all the vines and briers. Definitely one of those place that once you get there, you're sitting down for a minute before you're climbing, because you're worn out.
Posted on 11/18/20 at 6:57 am to mylsuhat
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How do you know that you didn't find "his spot?"
Could have been, but he hadn't been there in a few years.
ETA- just glad I didn't get shot.
This post was edited on 11/18/20 at 6:58 am
Posted on 11/18/20 at 6:58 am to Loup
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the guy looked him up on facebook to send him a pic and a thanks.
Posted on 11/18/20 at 6:58 am to Tigerpaw123
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Just another reason I don’t hunt public land
That weekend was the last time I hunted on public land.
Posted on 11/18/20 at 7:00 am to slacker130
Last year was the first year I ever did it and had a blast. Its damn nice to be able to hunt without hip boots every now and then
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