A Moron and His Excuse...

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So here's my Saturday hunt in a nutshell...
In the treestand by 06:45. Cold, quiet, no snow but a really nice heavy frost. Perfect north wind blowing my scent into an empty field behind my stand. The kind of morning that you can hear a mouse fart from a km away and you just know the deer are going to be moving.
About ten minutes before legal light, a small 8pt runs out into the cut about 70 yards over my right shoulder and disappears into the heavy bush. 15 minutes later, a huge big bodied buck 8 or 10 pt (he was moving to fast to count) came from almost exactly the same spot and also vanishes. Without a word of exaggeration, 10 minutes later (keep in mid we're now only 15 minutes into legal light) another hunter walks within 8 yards of my stand, crossbow over his shouder, crashing through like a bull elephant. As he got near, I stood up, and calmly said "good thing that bow doesn't look like a nice rack". Buddy must have loaded his shorts! When I asked him who he was, he said I'm so and so and I hunt Farmer ABC's land with permission. I said "that's great, but his bush ended a concession line ago, this belongs to Farmer XYZ, and I know he hasn't given anybody else the ok to hunt here".
This is where I lose it, because the guy's answer is the most idiotic thing I've come across...get ready....
"Yeah, sorry about that, I got cold so thought I'd go for a walk, never really been around here much"
You mean to tell me that this guy was so cold 15 minutes after legal light that he couldn't do anything but stomp through the bush and f*&k up my hunt???
It's a good thing I'm getting wiser in my old age...a younger me would have probably done something stupid:evil:.
 
londongunguy said:
So here's my Saturday hunt in a nutshell...
In the treestand by 06:45. Cold, quiet, no snow but a really nice heavy frost. Perfect north wind blowing my scent into an empty field behind my stand. The kind of morning that you can hear a mouse fart from a km away and you just know the deer are going to be moving.
About ten minutes before legal light, a small 8pt runs out into the cut about 70 yards over my right shoulder and disappears into the heavy bush. 15 minutes later, a huge big bodied buck 8 or 10 pt (he was moving to fast to count) came from almost exactly the same spot and also vanishes. Without a word of exaggeration, 10 minutes later (keep in mid we're now only 15 minutes into legal light) another hunter walks within 8 yards of my stand, crossbow over his shouder, crashing through like a bull elephant. As he got near, I stood up, and calmly said "good thing that bow doesn't look like a nice rack". Buddy must have loaded his shorts! When I asked him who he was, he said I'm so and so and I hunt Farmer ABC's land with permission. I said "that's great, but his bush ended a concession line ago, this belongs to Farmer XYZ, and I know he hasn't given anybody else the ok to hunt here".
This is where I lose it, because the guy's answer is the most idiotic thing I've come across...get ready....
"Yeah, sorry about that, I got cold so thought I'd go for a walk, never really been around here much"
You mean to tell me that this guy was so cold 15 minutes after legal light that he couldn't do anything but stomp through the bush and f*&k up my hunt???
It's a good thing I'm getting wiser in my old age...a younger me would have probably done something stupid:evil:.
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Had a similar issue years ago with a yahoo that trespassed over two properties and on to the one I was hunting on, and walked through the field at prime time evening. I gave the guy crap but to late it messed up my hunt. I hate hunting southern Ontario for this reason:mad:
 
dumbdawg said:
he could of been in his stand well before legal shooting time.but i can understand your frustration though
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I agree, he could have spent the night in his stand for all I know. Point is, he would have had to get out of his stand at first light to make it to me by the time he did.
Obviously this guy doesn't put a lot of thought into anything - poorly prepared for his hunt by not dressing for the weather, poorly prepared by not knowing the boundries of the land he had permission for and completely inconsiderate as far as other hunters who might have been (and were) trying to take advantage of the few remaining archery days before muzzle loader opens up for another week.
Too bad there's no time out like we use on our kids. "I'm sorry, we have a substantiated claim that you're too dumb or inconsiderate or both to hunt. Come back in 3 months when you've had time to think about what you've just done"
Don't get me wrong, I'm not perfect, messed up many hunts....but only ever my own. Caughed a little too loud, reached for the bow a little too fast, any number of things that resulted in a missed opportunity, but this guy was just a plain old tool.
 
Makes my experience a little more tolerable.

I'm out hunting (1st week in Nov)and I see two guys coming across the field from the West. I say to myself, self, this is my field and the one to the East is my field, cousin "D" owns the two fields to the West of me. That ain't "so-and-so" who hunts cousin "D"'s farm, who are these yahoos? (I used a more descriptive word at the time). I approach them and here is a quick summary of the conversation:

Me: How are you doing today?
Them: Good, out for some deer?
Me: Yep, where are you from?
Them: (Insert small town name, 10 km away), where are you from?
Me: See the house at the end of this field (as I point North).
Them: Oh, we've been hunting down here for the last 10 years, we got permission from farmer X (who is my neighbor to the East of us).
Me: Oh? His field is on the other side of the second tree line (They already crossed a tree line--how can you not tell that you are three fields over? With distinct tree lines? and different crops).

They got the message and left.

Useless tools (atleast they were not stupid tools, since they were dressed for it).

Can't wait for next year, I'll run their truck over with the D8 dozer; that will learn them.
 
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