$hitty.
Just set out a blind on Monday night for some bowhunting on private land. It's a shame i have to be nervous about this kind of crap.
New Duck Blind - Theives/Vandals
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$hitty.
Just set out a blind on Monday night for some bowhunting on private land. It's a shame i have to be nervous about this kind of crap.
We're located just east of Kemptville.
I suppose it's possible.
I find that sooo disturbing though, for another hunter to do something like that.
Anti's and bunny huggers, I can understand and can expect that kind of BS from. Hunter's...well, I expect more.
M12shooter
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Just my opinion here but an 8X8 blind is quite large and tough to hide both from the eyes of game and unwanted two legged creatures as well. We have several located on crown land in large cattail marshes. We construct ours with four fence posts driven into the marsh bottom. A standing platform and seat are then built above the water line. The whole thing is about 6 feet by three wide. Perfect for two guys IMO. Very easy to conceal once cattails grow up around and comfortable to hunt in where the bottom is soft. Just my 2 cents worth...
M12shooter,
8x8 is quite large, yes. (Personally I wanted it bigger) I wanted to build some sort of grass covered hut that you could put a table in and play poker! Something you'd find in Louisianna on the bayou or the Florida everglades.
My counterparts were a little differently minded due to the work involved. So, we settled on 8x8, half covered. Basically you can sit in a lawn chair under the cover if it was pouring rain out, and then pop out on the deck when you wanted to shoot.
Anyway, although it's large, it is very well concealed, and we haven't even painted/cammo'd it yet.
We're going out this weekend to re-do what was undone, and finish it completely. (Including a sign and video surveillance!)
8x8 is quite large, yes. (Personally I wanted it bigger) I wanted to build some sort of grass covered hut that you could put a table in and play poker! Something you'd find in Louisianna on the bayou or the Florida everglades.
My counterparts were a little differently minded due to the work involved. So, we settled on 8x8, half covered. Basically you can sit in a lawn chair under the cover if it was pouring rain out, and then pop out on the deck when you wanted to shoot.
Anyway, although it's large, it is very well concealed, and we haven't even painted/cammo'd it yet.
We're going out this weekend to re-do what was undone, and finish it completely. (Including a sign and video surveillance!)
If you're referring to my post we've had trouble in our area with a group of vandalizing anti-hunters.
We know who most of them are.
They block access roads & trails with vehicles, cables, rocks & chains, cut tree stands down, slash tires, spike hunting trails, vandalize hunters ATVs if founded unguarded.
A couple of years ago one chap even started running up & down the access roads in a 4x4 pick-up playing loud music from a 6" speaker mounted on the cab roof to scare the game away.
After a little "combat a mains nues" with a group of very sour moose hunters (no names mentioned) where upon
considerable kinetic energy was exchanged
the individual decided that the wildlife in the area was a little too aggressive for his liking & moved on.I live in the same area and have had similar problems. Its so hard to find good private land to hunt. I've had a few hunts interrupted by tresspassers and antis. And don't even think about putting a stand up in Marlborough, won't last long.
pricedo - Holy $hit! That's extreme activism. Those 4uckers should be charged.
(or duct taped naked to a tree out in the woods buck naked with honey smeared in all the wrong places!)
diemaco - I'm starting to think that this may be the problem.... Don't "Antis" have any other hobbies???!!
(or duct taped naked to a tree out in the woods buck naked with honey smeared in all the wrong places!)
diemaco - I'm starting to think that this may be the problem.... Don't "Antis" have any other hobbies???!!
JohnC
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
If you're referring to my post we've had trouble in our area with a group of vandalizing anti-hunters.
We know who most of them are.
They block access roads & trails with vehicles, cables, rocks & chains, cut tree stands down, slash tires, spike hunting trails, vandalize hunters ATVs if founded unguarded.
A couple of years ago one chap even started running up & down the access roads in a 4x4 pick-up playing loud music from a 6" speaker mounted on the cab roof to scare the game away.
After a little "combat a mains nues" with a group of very sour moose hunters (no names mentioned) where upon
Thanks Pricedo I was referring to the local duck blind issue. But your point is well taken it could happen here. There are a lot of fish-are-kittens-of-the-sea types in this area.
I hunt moose in the Dryden area & interference hasn't happened there- that I know of. I've been told to be careful of the many old abandoned mine shafts in the area...
I'm in your area JohnC. Heck, you probably have a duck blind somewhere out there too! (I'm not far from the 416, you can see it from the bridge)
Anyway....I didn't really expect that there were a lot of bunny-hugging types in the Kemptville area. (Merrickville....different story)
It was just very unexpected, if in fact it was hippies. If it was someone stealing wood for whatever reason...well, they would have spent more on gas for the boat than the wood would have cost them at the lumber store...
Although.....nothing was broken or damaged.... our wood was just removed and taken...
JohnC
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
I'm mainly into deer and moose -too little time for anything else- but I retire next year and have lots of shotguns so...
Agree Kemptville doesn't have many bunny huggers - it's so nice to go to the post office, take out your Cabela's package and have the staff ask you what you got...
I ran into quite a few bunny huggers out Winchester way- mainly people from the city who had bought country properties to spend weekends on and retire to. I remember hunting deer at my mom's farm near Vernon about 7 years ago and I'm told the phone was ringing off the hook - and I found certain people always seem to find a reason to take a walk up to their fence at 6 AM during deer season Some of them got quite emotional
Agree Kemptville doesn't have many bunny huggers - it's so nice to go to the post office, take out your Cabela's package and have the staff ask you what you got...
I ran into quite a few bunny huggers out Winchester way- mainly people from the city who had bought country properties to spend weekends on and retire to. I remember hunting deer at my mom's farm near Vernon about 7 years ago and I'm told the phone was ringing off the hook - and I found certain people always seem to find a reason to take a walk up to their fence at 6 AM during deer season
Some of them got quite emotionalI ran into quite a few bunny huggers out Winchester way- mainly people from the city who had bought country properties to spend weekends on and retire to. I remember hunting deer at my mom's farm near Vernon about 7 years ago and I'm told the phone was ringing off the hook - and I found certain people always seem to find a reason to take a walk up to their fence at 6 AM during deer season
I'm in Vernon area. Not many huggers in my circles...but I agree, there are people from the city buying property out our way and bringing all their urban advice with them.
I haven't encountered any of them, thank goodness (because I was gifted with a mouth capable of spilling more profanity than an Andrew Dice Clay comedy) but I know of people who have.
I find the stories almost funny how some of these urbanite-tree huggers can walk up to someone standing there...in camoflauge...with a GUN, and start tearing a strip off them.
In the fall of 2006 a friend & I were walking quietly back from scouting out a favorite swamp for moose sign & we came upon a young miscreant messing around our quads that were parked out on the main trail........he had a GPS and a skinning knife that I had stored in a pack sack on my quad already in his jacket pocket when I caught him & shook him down so there was no mistaking his intentions.
We had the guy dead to rights but decided not to get the cops involved because there were too many ways the tables could be turned on us in all gun owners are presumed guilty until proven innocent Ontario.
All the guy would have to say is that we pointed our guns at him when we caught him and the theft charges would soon be forgotten as he quickly became the cops star witness in OUR prosecution.
We dealt with the thief "our own way".
Me, as a gun owner in possession of a firearm, call the cops & expect fair, equitable & impartial intervention in gunaphobic Ontario............not gonna happen!.......because quite frankly I don't trust them & the Liberal bureaucrats they report to as far as I can throw them.......good thing old Mr. pricedo Sr. (God rest his soul) didn't raise any fools.
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pricedo..... good to hear man! I'm glad you caught the little theif and dealt with it accordingly. I think you chose the right course on that one. Unfortunately, you're probably correct in saying that you (the gun owner) are guilty until proven innocent.
