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I'm hunting a new property for the muzzy season and went out this morning ahead of a snowstorm. There's a sort of trail that borders on a neighbor's property but totally on the land I am hunting. I get on a ground stand at 6:00 this morning and wait for light. At 6:30 isee headlights sweep across the woods and hear a truck with no exhaust start up the trail. It hit a slick spot and had to stop and the engine killed. Nothing after that.... no door shutting, no voices, no nothing. Then at 7 I hear a radio playing. That racket finally quit and at 7:40 I saw 5 deer come around a bend on a hillside 40 yards away. They came right towards me. At about 25 yards the first deer stopped to nibble. I had the crosshairs on it but there was a larger deer behind this one so I decided to wait and see what would unfold. The wind was coming up the draw from the NW so my scent was not a factor as I was south and west of the deer. I was just about able to get set on that large doe when what should I think I can smell, but cigarette smoke. I'm going no, no, no, when all five of those heads come up with noses point straight down the trail. Then it was flags up and so long sucker.
I had to be home by nine and as I walked out of the woods here's a pick-up sitting there with a guy sitting in it. Window down, smoke rolling out of the window. I walked around the other side of the truck so I didn't have to walk thru that fog. He got out and came to the back as I passed the truck and asked if I was hunting the neighbor's land and I said no. He said he was hunting it with a muzzleloader, opened his passenger side door and pulled out a side-lock, not in a case, on land he doesn't have permission to be on, with a cap on the nipple to show me his rifle. Needless to say, I was less than tickled to see [and smell] this dink so I asked him what he'd think if I was a warden? No problem he says. I politely inform him that there is a problem, three big ones in fact: trespassing, loaded, uncase gun in a vehicle and zero orange on his carcass since he's alluded to actually hunting.
I took a picture of his truck's license plate and one of him standing there with his mouth open and continued on my was to my vehicle, parked at the landowners house thru some trees. As I walked away I told him that he was not to have that truck on the trail again and to do so would likely end up with law enforcement being called to deal with him.
What is wrong with some people?
I had to be home by nine and as I walked out of the woods here's a pick-up sitting there with a guy sitting in it. Window down, smoke rolling out of the window. I walked around the other side of the truck so I didn't have to walk thru that fog. He got out and came to the back as I passed the truck and asked if I was hunting the neighbor's land and I said no. He said he was hunting it with a muzzleloader, opened his passenger side door and pulled out a side-lock, not in a case, on land he doesn't have permission to be on, with a cap on the nipple to show me his rifle. Needless to say, I was less than tickled to see [and smell] this dink so I asked him what he'd think if I was a warden? No problem he says. I politely inform him that there is a problem, three big ones in fact: trespassing, loaded, uncase gun in a vehicle and zero orange on his carcass since he's alluded to actually hunting.
I took a picture of his truck's license plate and one of him standing there with his mouth open and continued on my was to my vehicle, parked at the landowners house thru some trees. As I walked away I told him that he was not to have that truck on the trail again and to do so would likely end up with law enforcement being called to deal with him.
What is wrong with some people?