Re: Really ticks me off!!!
I would have to agree if it is during bow season, but during gun season I disagree. Two angry guys in the woods, two tempers flaring, two guns add up to a bad situation.
Several years ago, We had, and still have, sole permission to hunt approx 180 acres of woods near the house so we decided to post the entire property. As we were posting, a man came out of his house, property butted up against his house, and started yelling that he was hunting the property for years and he was not going to stop hunting the property. So we asked him nicely that we do not want any problems, that we don't like hunting with strangers because we like to know where everyone is posted. He got so angry that he went storming into his home.
Bow season finally came around, and I had climbed up this tree with my climber approx 300yds behind his house, nice spot but on our property, when I see him walking quietly in the distance, well that just ruined my night. I yell out to him and he came up to my stand with a shotgun in him hand and starts yelling how we disrepected him and that it wasn't fair because he has been hunted for over thirty years without incident. Now I'm getting a little worried because I'm up in the tree in my climber with a BOW and he is on the ground with a GUN and I didn't want to take the quick way down so I tried to difuse him telling him that I was going to get down so we can discuss the matter. When I finally got down, I got in his face and started yelling about pointing a gun at me while I was in the tree and about trespassing. I felt bad about yelling at an old timer but here I was trying to enjoy a nice bowhunt when this guy trespasses with a gun (he was telling me he was turkey hunting with a gun with a rifled barrel) Nice try.
After the arguement I thought to myself that things could have really gotten out of hand and tragic. I ended up talking to a game warden and he had a polite conversation with the gentleman and he has not been seen on the property since.