peaches ridge/ natches hunters etiquette

[belkaholic]

Just need to vent a bit guys.  After 10 points my cousin and I drew peaches ridge archery tag. We put our time in and some cams.  Opening weekend we get on a bull and half way into the hunt a dog starts barking way up the hill and gets some coyotes going. I thought, must be jeepers around, it happens. Next day we get on the bull again, same area, and as I'm working my way in on the bull, I call then it calls. All is starting out good. Then  on my next bugle two guys came up on me down the trail and started calling. At first I thought, okay they must not know I'm here. So I got into the open of the trail did some turkey calls with my reed and made it very obvious I was right in front of them. They did not care. 1 guy stayed on the trail calling and the other followed me in on the bull using his hoochie mama. Three different times I had the bull almost in the open and the guy came within 20ft of me with his hoochie mama. The bull finally left and so did they two guys. Later I found there camp. Right in the middle of the clear cuts we were hunting. And the dog, ya that was there's. They left it in camp all day every day. We  could hear it a mile away in the morning howling at the Coyotes or just crying and moaning in their tent.  A white F150 4 door.  A dark gray or silver truck a couple tents and a Portapoty behind a blue tarp TP.  I hope they read this and realize how big of dooshbags they are.  Sorry to be a downer guys but I can't stand idiots.

[rudysts]

That sucks had that happen to me late buck season last year while I was helping my son fill his tag. had a couple guys  come our way I stood up to make our presence known when they saw us they stopped and decided they were gonna stay in the area with us 75 yards away. my son and I wasted 2 hours hiking up that ridge to set up before sunrise.

[belkaholic]

It's a bummer when other hunters just don't care.

[steelhead13]

Hard to believe that ppl don't have the decency to respect a fellows hunters hard work.  Oh wait i do believe it, happens all the time. Sorry this happened to u guys.  Probally a small bull. 

[JJB11B]

Id be hard pressed not to be an A-hole and start talking really loud and just generally being an idiot. Of course that's my immature inner child coming out

[SureThing]

Unfortunately that is the downside to hunting public land you have to factor in the shoemakers. Typically if you want to get away from the you have to go were the shoemakers don't like to go. I feel your pain it has happened to me more times than I like. It is particularly painful when you do get off the beaten path and put a half day stalk on an animal only to have some shoemaker think he can cut you off and spoke the animal away. I have particular heart ache with the mentality that I see a lot is the guys that see animals before the season and think they can camp in the same meadow or core area that the animals are using regularly. They don't give the animals much credit. If you had someone that wanted to kill you are you going to hang around them and let it happen.
I get why they do it. I think it is every ones dream that they are going to wake up step outside the tent and Hal with the bummer of a birth mark is going to be standing there waiting for you to lock and load.

[ghosthunter]

There are so many hunters after so few animals. Anything goes it seems like.
Everyone wants theirs at all cost.
Disgusting.

[Naches Sportsman]

Sounds like a normal early archery season outing in gmu 346 . Some crazy stuff happens up there.

[predatorG]

I would go have a little conversation with them. It's rude, and someone needs to talk some sense into them.

[Fl0und3rz]

Sounds like a normal early archery season outing in gmu 346 . Some crazy stuff happens up there.

Go archery they said.  Won't have to deal with the pumpkin patch, they said. 

Sorry, OP, for your experience.  I have met some really considerate hunters, and then some, not so considerate ones. 

[Todd_ID]

I hiked 1.75 miles in the other day. There were 3 guys camped in the meadow I was going to hunt. Nice guys, so I told them they could have the area, and I hiked that 1.75 miles out. It's better to lose that evening hunt than to ruin your evening and theirs as well as the next morning for both.  I stay away from pressured elk.

[CAMPMEAT]

Exactly why I don't elk hunt anymore and anywhere near Yakima or CleElum. I bet these guys were trying their darndest to get you outta their spot....

[Vandal44]

Some people don't have any hunting educate.

I have a friend who hung his tree stand when he was finishing up he heard a bunch of noise; he went over to investigate and another guy was hanging a stand 75 yards away. They had a few words the guy said "this is state land and I can hang my stand anywhere I want.". my buddy said no problem went back and pulled his stand.  My buddy came back a few days later and cut the tree down that the guys stand was in.

I am not saying that the right way to handle the situation but I was laugh hard.

[ribka]

I hiked 1.75 miles in the other day. There were 3 guys camped in the meadow I was going to hunt. Nice guys, so I told them they could have the area, and I hiked that 1.75 miles out. It's better to lose that evening hunt than to ruin your evening and theirs as well as the next morning for both.  I stay away from pressured elk.

I gave up hunt g meadows in WA years ago. blues, Yakima..... Always dbags that will camp right on top of where the elk bed and feed.

[CAMPMEAT]

Some people don't have any hunting educate.

I have a friend who hung his tree stand when he was finishing up he heard a bunch of noise; he went over to investigate and another guy was hanging a stand 75 yards away. They had a few words the guy said "this is state land and I can hang my stand anywhere I want.". my buddy said no problem went back and pulled his stand.  My buddy came back a few days later and cut the tree down that the guys stand was in.

I am not saying that the right way to handle the situation but I was laugh hard.

A guys gotta do, what a guys gotta do.....