Ethics Dillemma

How many stories have you heard about people being shot/shot at because someone took a shot at a noise or movement?
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First-hand? None. Second-hand? None. Third-hand from a traceable source? None. You'd think that with all the hunters I know, and all the years I've been doing this, someone would be able to put a name on the story already.
I'm sure the stories about sound-shots are just recycled garbage, started for shock value and to make us look like idiots.
 
if there is a truck parked on the side of the road near an ending, I'll go someplace else. if they block the road I'll fall a tree and make sure they have it all to themselves....
 
If you block the road, you are asking for trouble. Another guy who comes down and is not aware that it ends in 400 M may do something nasty to your vehicle. Park to the side, put a friendly description of where you are hunting in the window if you like. Most guys will respect it. I don't want to be near other guys (most of the time) so I like knowing where others are set up.
 
"...tight to the road edge..." Check your hunting regs about how far from any road you have to be. It's 8 meters in Ontario and no shooting across a roadway or the right of way.
"...protect my "honey hole"?..." You can't. Especially if it's on Crown Land.
 
Dogleg said:
First-hand? None. Second-hand? None. Third-hand from a traceable source? None. You'd think that with all the hunters I know, and all the years I've been doing this, someone would be able to put a name on the story already.
I'm sure the stories about sound-shots are just recycled garbage, started for shock value and to make us look like idiots.
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It's not all just recycled garbage...I know a guy that was the victim of the sound shot. It was a long while ago, 30 years or so. There was a young guy trying out hunting the first time...was only 15 or 16... anyway, the guys he was staying at a camp with were apparently a bunch of a**holes. They fed him up full of a bunch of crap about bears and all that stuff...told him he better be back to the camp before dark so bears wouldn't get him. Just after dark that night on the way back to the camp, he heard something coming through the woods pretty much right beside him...he turned and shot. It wasn't a bear, it was a hunter from another camp...took a shot from a 30-30 right in the stomach. He lived, but has never been hunting again.

As far as having trouble with other hunters... I have only had problems once. Another guy came looking around for a spot to hunt right in the same area me and another guy hunts...and when I say same area, I mean under 300 yards lol. We were nice and told him we were hunting there and he gave us a sob story about not having anywhere else to go...so we pointed him in the direction of a spot with no hunters. I went home for a few days and on the first morning back at the camp I walked to my tree and walked right past a new tree...on my path...I took out the gps and measured....98 yards. His tree got the chainsaw about an hour later.
 
To the OP:

I can see someone keying your vehicle, if you're blocking a trail.


And it'd be deserved, frankly.


You do not own it, you do not get to "keep" it. Want your own private hunting land?

Go buy it!



Now if you're parked on the side of the road/trail, I might venture in, but I'd still be worried of some redneck who can't hunt...
 
By getting this post going, the OP has certainly drew attention to his "Honey hole."
By giving the city he lives in, then describing his hunting area, where the majority of hunters in that city go to hunt, a bunch of us will have it figured, to a very close area. I wouldn't be surprised if I have figured out the exact little short trail he mentions!
 
Get there early. Park so you don't impede anyone else and hope for the best. Don't lose it on someone who rambles though.
 
H4831 said:
By getting this post going, the OP has certainly drew attention to his "Honey hole."
By giving the city he lives in, then describing his hunting area, where the majority of hunters in that city go to hunt, a bunch of us will have it figured, to a very close area. I wouldn't be surprised if I have figured out the exact little short trail he mentions!
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It's a big province H, somehow I doubt you're as close as you think. But if you like, PM me where you think I'm scouting, I'll be honest, if you're right I'll tell you, but I doubt you are.
 
Bruce probabley knows the exact location, he just wont ID it in case you have'nt found it yet.LOL.

If I were you I'd park far from the road/trail interesection. Why advertise that there is something worth looking at up there? Nothing peaks my interest more then seeing an unattended vehicle parked along the road. Folks don't park and walk into the bush for no reason.

I have found alot of good alder and willow covered trail heads by remembering to look around where I noted parked vehicles.
 
I understand the desire to go to a spot and hunt there undisturbed, but you cannot block the road. It just leads to too much grief.

So if it was me, and I knew I was setting myself up for intereference from other hunters, then I'd find a different spot, cuz I just can't stand hunting with other hunters in the area.
 
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Can I block the boat launch with my truck and trailor? I'd hate to have someone fishing my favorite spot. I'm sure they will understand.
Short of buying your own land, hunting that requires airplane access, or where legal paying for access or exclusive use while you're there, there isn't any really good way to keep something for yourself. All of those options are going to cost some serious money.
That won't stop some people from trying. Best is to have a plan B, C and D if you're going to play on public land. You're going to need them, since there are probably hundreds of people that know about "your" secret spot.
Picking a spot away from anywhere vehicles can access is a good start. That includes quads.
Permanent stands, tree or otherwise imply ownership. That's just begging for conflict, since realistically a few boards are a small price to pay to claim squatters rights on primo public land. Getting there first is one thing, staking claim to it forever is another.
 
Not much you can do possibly post a sign hunting in progress ahead???? Might help then again it might not
 
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