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It snowed last night. There were no footprints - except for deers' and mine. This morning I had 7, that's right, 7 other hunters follow mine.

The first 2 followed my footprints right to my stand, and gave me the "oh, didn't see ya there!" routine. Yeah, BS! Instead of leaving, they just kept walking right past my stand.

By then I was cold and wet anyway, and now I was pissed so I went for a walk to calm down and warm up. I go down a side trail, see no tracks, and turn around. After a few minutes, I find 4 clowns following my tracks down the trail.

Even more pissed, I walk way down the road and found some deer tracks going in to the woods. No trail whatsoever, just deer tracks in the snow. I figure I'll follow and maybe I'll get lucky and jump 'em. Walked for about 45 minutes, and my feet were froze #### stiff by then, so I turned around. About halfway back, guess what? Another butt plug has followed my tracks. Let me tell you I had nothing nice to say to that guy.

Anybody else have similar experience, or am I just a dildo magnet?

If you are one of these guys, what is your malfunction? Is there any sort of thought process or do you just do it because it's your basic instinct to be a douche?
 
although i agree with you and would be frustrated myself...unless your on private land there isn't much you can do about it. are they supposed to CSI your tracks and figure out how old they are or not go down any trails with foot prints? and for the guy following you around in the bush...thats pretty tacky! i was getting so frustrated walking around on foot (20+ km's a day) and have all these "hunters" blow by me on quads and in trucks road and trail hunting so i bought my dad and i radio's and gps's and now the only time we are on the trail is to get to and from the cabin. we're seeing more game, game trails, and fresh sign that now we chuckle that some guys are essentially paying big money to not see game...what can you do? can't change their style so change yours.
 
Sad for sure. I'd travel to hunt, I don't like hunting pressured areas anyhow. We live in the biggest, lowest population density country on earth (sure, Russia's bigger, but more people), get a ways out is all I can say. The trips are better when you travel anyhow. :) I haven't run into another hunter in a long time, unless we left together.
 
If there are a pile of guys out there I seldom go out. Since taking up with bow and the muzzle loader you get a chance to hunt when there are fewer people out there. Travelling is a good idea but is not always possible. Some things to consider.

i) Hunt evenings as the majority will be out in the morning.
ii)Go out between noon and four oclock into the thick stuff during the rut as bucks are still moving and they will move into heavy cover after their nightly wanderings looking for love
iii) Put in a lot of effort over the summer to get permission on private land. Sometimes you can even get exclusive permision
iv) go out the last week of the season as most guys have packed it in by then
v) avoid weekends


I hear you though. When I was a kid I recall spending hours still hunting only to have some lazy fat bellied old farts posted up in their truck at the end of the draw we were walking. There are a lot of guys who dress themselves in the finest of hunting apparel and march around cluelessly for one weekend a year just so they can say they hunt. Wait them out they won't be out there long.


Most of this crap can be taken care of if seasons aren't too short. If the deer season is only two weeks then this type of crap is hard to avoid. I feel very lucky to live where I can hunt deer for over three months each fall. It makes avoiding the weekend warriors much easier.
 
One thing you probbably running into is guys that are scared to go into the bush and they figure your following a trail. There's lots of them out there that would get lost in a phone booth.
 
A few years ago, i walked 3/4 mile into the bush in the snow to my tree stand, about an hour later, in walk 2 men ( cannot call them hunters), they stop under my stand with me in it, calmly both smoke a butt, laugh and make incredible noise and then walk away on the trail they come in on. Never acknowleged i was even there. On the way out i guess they smashed both mirrors on my truck. when does the idiotsy stop.
 
Have to develop thicker skin if hunting in populated areas.It is what it is and they did nothing really illegal unless they directly interfered with your hunt.

As long as there is hunting there will be questionable tactics.People naturally want the easy way and figure that someone(your footy prints) will lead them to game.

If hunting rifle, empty your rounds into a tree or ground as fast as you can, then watch the excitement build. ;)
 
There's nothing you can do about it. Like it or not, putting tracks on a trail doesn't make it yours. Hanging a tree-stand doesn't make it yours, parking a truck across the road doesn't make it yours, and putting up a sign saying its yours doesn't make it yours. You've got a fighting chance if you walk in so far that only an equally crazy guy will see you, but if he does it still isn't yours.

There's more; you can book a guided hunt in remote area and think you are alone until a local flies in to "your" lake and all of a sudden it isn't yours anymore. Guided hunters are often upset when the considerable fee they are paying doesn't buy them exclusivity to anything.

Unless there's some way I'm unaware of the only way to get the rights to a spot is to buy it, lease it where legal or pay for exclusive use in areas or countries where that's possible. None of these methods are cheap, and aren't a guarantee of being alone but you would have a valid grievance if you got unwanted company.
 
Cool thread fellas, it is a bummer when others come into your hunting grounds, but make more effort to get out away from the regulars an things should improve.
 
Dogleg said:
There's nothing you can do about it. Like it or not, putting tracks on a trail doesn't make it yours. Hanging a tree-stand doesn't make it yours, parking a truck across the road doesn't make it yours, and putting up a sign saying its yours doesn't make it yours. You've got a fighting chance if you walk in so far that only an equally crazy guy will see you, but if he does it still isn't yours.

There's more; you can book a guided hunt in remote area and think you are alone until a local flies in to "your" lake and all of a sudden it isn't yours anymore. Guided hunters are often upset when the considerable fee they are paying doesn't buy them exclusivity to anything.

Unless there's some way I'm unaware of the only way to get the rights to a spot is to buy it, lease it where legal or pay for exclusive use in areas or countries where that's possible. None of these methods are cheap, and aren't a guarantee of being alone but you would have a valid grievance if you got unwanted company.
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BigUglyMan said:
Holding people to the standards that you hold yourself is a recipe for disappointment.
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I hate it when all the wise things are already said by the time I read a thread!!

Hunting in ON is going to make it tough to get away from others, and I do feel your pain when its obvious that people are literally following you.
Two years ago I was several days walk from the closest road when I heard a noise, looked around a rock and saw two guys. The 'crazy' bar is set pretty high.
 
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