Worst hunt ever, of all time.

LordEvilPepper

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So this weekend was a complete bust, I had 4 days and I called it after 3. Everyone has had a bad hunt, but how many people have called a hunt on account of other hunters?

Here was my weekend,

Friday: arived in the morning, scouted out the area via truck, found a good place to setup camp. worked on the camp (clearing dead fall, setting up a fire pit, building a hunters cabbin from dead fall). rolled out for an evening hunt, tried some cut lines but no luck.

Saturday: got up early and went to do some spot and stalk. drove to a oil lease that had eyes on 4 clear cuts and broke out the bino's. Spotted a buck across the valley up the oposite slope about 700 meters away. I grabbed my gear and started my way down and over. I was about 30 minutes in just coming out of the strip of woods that divided the two clear cuts and reaquired my target. Another truck pulls up on a lease above me, starts honking their horn, buddy hanging out the window with a gun, and my buck takes off. My morning is now a right off and I head back to camp.
Evening come around and I spot nothing, well almost nothing, just lots of trucks wipping around stoping at cut lines with guys hanging out the windows with guns.

Sunday: I try a few more walks down cut lines doing sit and wait, I caught a glimps of a doe darting into the woods, I circled around on the next cut line and spot it trotting across a cler cut, quick check on the arcs and I start lining up a shot, tracking tracking BAM! hits the wood pile it just darted behind (DOH!), A quick curse and a check with the bino's and the doe is gone into a another conifere stand. No luck tracking her after that. I spent the rest of the morning tracking deer trails and find a good spot to set up. I found at a clearing at the center of 2 cut line intersections; Looks like an old oil lease long since shutdown. lots of deer sign, tracks from the morning, fresh poop, beds, the works. . its 200 meters off the road with a small hill inbetween the road and clearing, i figure I should be safe from road hunter interferance. i found a good spot with good arcs favour from the wind, and concelment about 7 meters in from the wood lines. Went back to camp for a late lunch and a nap. I went into site early, I parked my truck infront of the cut line to let others know I was down there on an active hunt. depite there being a cut line to walk in on I bush bashed to avoid contaminating the site with sent (even washed up in the very very cold creek before heading into site) got setup 2 hours before sunset. An hour latter I see the buck come in opposite of my location on the clearing. he's hanging out in the young birch.aspen at the edge (the new growth retaking the clearing even though the clearing is in the middle of a conifire stand). I continue to watch him, definatly white tail, got a 3 or 4 point rack, Im gonna take him when he gives me a clear shot. Thats when it happened. road hunters come roaring up the road, I hear them come to a grinding halt at the entrance to the cut line (were my truck is parked) my buck is now on high alert, the other "hunters" start blarring on their horn, turn up their music on full blast ( I could hear the words 200 meters away, it means they had external speakers on the truck) my buck takes off back into the woods. They contunie to sit their blasting music untill I come out rightly pissed off but keeping calm. Calm that lasted till I got just a bit closer: The passenger has his gun pointed at me from the window, and continues to hold it their untill i get closer. At about 50 meters Im yelling "WHAT THE #### ARE YOU DOING, GET THAT GUN OFF ME AND WHY DID YOU RUIN MY HUNT!", then they turn off the music, yell "#### YOU" and take off. I rushed out but didn't get the plate number.

At this point I was so fuming pissed off I said #### it to monday morning and just packed up and drove home.

Has anyone else ever experienced other hunters that are this retarded?
 
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One of the reasons to live where I do I guess. Less people means less morons. That was a very frustrating experience. The local police would be very interested in these people's activities. They are way over the line.
 
I don't get some people, we hunt a field of my friends uncle who is a farmer with another guy, he has a stand in the back field, ours is in the front, we talk to each other about what deer we see, where we see them, try to get everyone their deer if possible. The problem is that the fields are an easy drive from the main road, so starting at first light opening day we have a parade of trucks every 10-15 minutes who drive right by me sitting, clearly visible from the road (ground blind basically blocking sight from the field side), cruise past my truck, up the road past the other guys truck, turn around right behind his stand and cruise back, scanning the field the whole time. We even had one guy jump out and shoot at a porqupine from literally right between our two trucks. When i walked out to see what the F he was doing he just said, oh, i didn't know you were there.
 
Wow!...and I thought we had it bad in Ontario. Nothing as bad or as aggressive as you have described. Don't blame you for being pissed.
 
That is really awful and a damn shame but I agree that it sounds like they were there to f*ck with you not hunt at all. Its a shame but I woulda stuck it out today cause maybe they had to work and wouldn't have been able to jerk around today. Sorry to hear.
 
not native, white boys, I was close enough to see that. they looked like riggers with lots of money in a suped up dodge 2500-3500 and they were out their for deer (hence the gun) . Ironicly the natives I ran into out their were the only personable people I talked to, they were the only other peole I saw that were fallowing the rules AKA getting out of the truck to shoot.
 
Well regardless what their skin-color was, I woulda called Fish&Wildlife asap.

Totally disrespectful and unethical, borderline illegal... Fk'in bastards.

Sorry for your bad luck.

* that was my other inclination, white-trash rig-pigs out boozin it up while "hunting"...
 
Jesus, the guy had a loaded weapon pointed at you???? WTF is wrong with these dumbasses?? Also, the passenger is aiming his rifle from inside the vehicle, where the hell are the CO's when you need them?
 
Call Fish and Wildlife, give them an entire description of the guys, their truck and the situation highlighting the shooting from the truck, POINTING A GUN AT YOU and the disrupting your hunt.

Pretty sure they have been there before and will be there again, hopefullt the RCMP or fish cops can ruin their day in return.
 
Pointing a firearm at people is illegal.
At fifty yards/meters, it is now an assault.
I would of followed them until I got a plate number
and gone to the nearest cop shop and wrote out an
official complaint.
These guys will continue to do this.
I wonder what frame of mind they were in?
Doesn't sound sober to me.
Hence more charges.
 
Honestly...I do not think you or anyone would have been out of the "right" to shoot someone who is keeping a rifle trained on you, at close range while sitting it a truck full of buddies...when you pose no threat to them.

Almost seems like a drunk dare gone out of hand... "shoot that guy and lets run, its hunting season, no one will know who did it" kinda thing.

Ugh..the world today...
 
Anybody cursing/acting hostile and pointing a gun at me is asking to get shot. Sorry, that's just the way it is.
 
Report that whole incident to the RCMP, not just Wildlife. Vehicle description, arseholes inside, everything. That is criminal behaviour.
 
Report that whole incident to the RCMP, not just Wildlife. Vehicle description, arseholes inside, everything. That is criminal behaviour.

Can't stress this enough, who knows how many people they have done this too you could have just been another person to be intimidated in a long list. File a report with as much info as you can, maybe these guys have already been warned about this thing.
 
Report that whole incident to the RCMP, not just Wildlife. Vehicle description, arseholes inside, everything. That is criminal behaviour.

Agreed, if you do not take the time to report this type of arrogant attitude to at least Fish & Wildlife those “probable” local oilfield boys will continue to harass other hunters that they think are hunting in their territory. Allow F&W to keep an eye out for them in the area and put them in their place.
http://srd.alberta.ca/AboutESRD/ESRDContacts/FishWildlifeOfficeContacts.aspx
 
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