Early camp set up

[washelkhunter]

What's annoying about this whole dummy camp issue is that the site holders actually believe the rest of us are stupid enough to just buzz off while they're snug in their beds down in jerksville.

[Elkterd]

Boy, this turned out very complicated......

[vandeman17]

I am planning on going to costco here next week so I think I am going to go put a little remote control car in the parking spot closest to the front door so that it is available when I am ready to use it. After all, I have been parking in this spot for years now so I feel I take precedence over people who want to use between now and then 

[northcoast]

What's annoying about this whole dummy camp issue is that the site holders actually believe the rest of us are stupid enough to just buzz off while they're snug in their beds down in jerksville.

I don't think stupid is the word.  I would substitute it with honest, respectful, or decent.   

[Bean Counter]

I am planning on going to costco here next week so I think I am going to go put a little remote control car in the parking spot closest to the front door so that it is available when I am ready to use it. After all, I have been parking in this spot for years now so I feel I take precedence over people who want to use between now and then

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

What's annoying about this whole dummy camp issue is that the site holders actually believe the rest of us are stupid enough to just buzz off while they're snug in their beds down in jerksville.

Jerksville. Where's that at?

[h20hunter]

I always thought it was right where the $2 folding chair and old tent is set up.

 

[Fl0und3rz]

Wonder no more.  I found it.

Jerksville

[vandeman17]

I have no problem with people get to their spots early in order to lock it down, heck, I respect the dedication. What I don't agree with is just dropping your crap off and heading home in order to hold it down. I am on the fence about how I feel if the people actually fully set up their camp and I lean towards that being fine but to just set up a chair and old tent or something is a bit over the top. If you want the spot that bad and can't actually be there to use it then just cross your fingers it is available when you CAN be there.

[idahohuntr]

What about the guys that setup a full camp to maximize their hunting time?  Is there a difference between them and the guys that setup a $2 folding chair and tent?  I am guilty of the former, but not the latter 

I don't setup camp early to claim any specific spot...but I do setup the weekend prior so all the work is done when I come back for hunting season.  Is that just as wrong?

[vandeman17]

What about the guys that setup a full camp to maximize their hunting time?  Is there a difference between them and the guys that setup a $2 folding chair and tent?  I am guilty of the former, but not the latter 

I don't setup camp early to claim any specific spot...but I do setup the weekend prior so all the work is done when I come back for hunting season.  Is that just as wrong?

That is what I personally am on the fence about. At least that shows some effort and thought behind the move. Though they are technically saving a spot, they are doing it for a purpose where as the people that just toss down a dummy camp are doing it for no other reason then to hold the spot.

[Fl0und3rz]

What about the guys that setup a full camp to maximize their hunting time?  Is there a difference between them and the guys that setup a $2 folding chair and tent?  I am guilty of the former, but not the latter 

I don't setup camp early to claim any specific spot...but I do setup the weekend prior so all the work is done when I come back for hunting season.  Is that just as wrong?

If you claim my spot, it's wrong. If you claim someone else's, I don't care.   

[spin05]

Me personally i dont have the time to drive 5 hrs to my hunting area to throw out a tent and chair the weekend before. If someones in my favorite spot weather its a dummy camp or not . Im driving on looking for the next great camp spot. How do i know the guy just didnt run to the store, go home to get the tag he forgot, etc etc  If i spend all my hunting time trying to monitor his camp to see if its abandend or not. Im probly not getting much hunting done.

[bowhuntersd]

How about this scenario: You've been using the same campsite for 20 years. Three generations of hunters are in your party and it's a great group. You get up to the place the weekend before to "reserve" your spot with a couple of tents and chairs. When you get up there, someone else has the whole place taken with tents and chairs already - there's absolutely no room or place to set up your traditional 20-year camp without removing the tents. No one's around and they won't be, either. You look in the tents and they're uninhabited, in fact a squirrel has taken up residence in one of them. Now, how do you feel about holding spots? I guess the tent's on the other spot now, huh?
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I guess I don't understand the question. You are there to do the same thing, as you state "You get up to the place the weekend before to "reserve" your spot with a couple of tents and chairs." Sounds like they just beat you at your own game. 3 generations doesn't make it "Your" spot. I was probably someone elses 3 generation camp before your 2 generations "took it over".
Better find a new spot for future generations.

[Fl0und3rz]

Sounds like they just beat you at your own game. 3 generations doesn't make it "Your" spot.

I think that was the point.