ground blinds and/ or tree stands on feel free to hunt?

[ghosthunter]

What?

I am only half way through my bowl of popcorn.

[emac]

This is coming from a guy that had to kick a guy out of my stand last year. He set up right under the tree my stands were in and told me the only reason he did go up there was that he was scared of heights. I will put it to you like this. If you went down to the river and saw boat sitting there would you get in it and go fishing because you got there first?

On public land I believe that if you get there and establish a bait site it is yours to hunt. It is illegal to have another bait site within 200 yards of an established bait site so if you try to get right up in somebody's grill you are in the wrong. You want the spot? Get there earlier in the year and develop it as your own. 

Also in the rules is no scouting allowed for these feel free to hunt areas so these guys that bait all summer are they breaking the rules? Cory we met last year, I was in your "spot" but left after talking to you.  I took your advice and set up my own spot which was blown out with four different hunters moving through it and spooking the deer. Which is why im on the move again and running into other hunters. As for arriving earlier I would but I did not think it was legal to access the properties out of season as it would be considered scouting. 

As for the boat analogy the river is public property, look at bouy 10 or other fishing spots fishermen congregate to where the fish are. I would not use someone elses stand or blind but the spot should be first come first serve.

This is an interesting twist!
 What was said to make you move on after getting to the spot first?

I moved on because I was new to hunting at the time and thought maybe hes right, maybe its a violation of an unspoken code of ethics to hunt over someone elses bait/ spot. However this year i have had numerous run ins with people hunting over my bait pile even though i was there first, so  i had to pose this question. It seems for the most part we agree first come first serve.

The reason i went to his "spot" in the first place was its a natural deer highway from unpressured land across the road to bean fields on the hunting side. I saw his treestand there but hunted several days without ever seeing someone use it. Its about 60 yard walk to the spot so its right off the road easy to get to, a good spot for a beginning hunter. He comes up with his wife and gets mad at me for being there 10 yards from his tree. Yelled at me saying i scared the deer away, that i put a dent in his truck... etc Then said he wasnt going to leave and sat down in the middle of the spot. I waited 10 minutes or so thought it over, talked to him, after he calmed down, then left. Ended up taking my first deer, a doe, that year so it turned out good in the end.

Ok guy, you don't get to come on here an lie. You certainly don't get to come on here and lie about me without me addressing it.

You forgot to tell everybody that I gave you my phone number and told you to text me and I would tell you when my wife had killed here deer and you could them hunt out of my stand. I must be a real jerk right??

1) You placed bait on top of the bait I put out.
2) Our conversation started with you sarcastically saying to me "Thanks for scaring away my deer."
3) My truck was caved in the year before and I made mention of it. Asked if you were the guy that did it?
4) You admitted that you saw my stand, bait, trail camera, and had seen me hunting that spot but you just didn't care cause you got there first.
5) Dang strait I sat down in the spot, you think it's cool to just take advantage of all the prep I put into that spot and it's public land and all I guess we just had ourselves a hunting party! 
6)Walla Walla is a small little town bud, I promise your attitude is not the normal around here. Just like I told you last year when I was "talking" to you. That was probably about as good as you could expect that to go. Other people would not have been so patient.   

Check you PM bud.


To any of you that feel it is ok to just walk up to an "ACTIVE" site and just plop down and hunt it would say that ya'll must have had a different hunter education instructor or roll model than I did.

100% agree and would back you up anyday.  Dont care if its public or private respect the hard work others put into a spot

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[emac]

Here is another thing to think about. I have some buddies that have there land in the ffth to hunt program. On on the website it says no baiting or stands. But even though it is in the program they still own the land and can do what they please with it. I can run cams and bait all i want during the off season and during hunting season cause they give me permission to. So when land is ffth and the rules on the website that doesn't pertain to everyone if you get the landowners permission. And my buddies that are enrolled in the program are getting out after this year because they are tired of the disrespectful people

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[1851navycolt]

I.cant believe some of these ethical disagreements. If im out hunting on the move and i walk into a clearing and see someone in a stand or blind i just give a little nod n wave and meander on my way. Unless i stepped out of the woods right near the hunter i usually just dont even bother or disturb them. And the only time i ever had a hunter come across my blind he came over to me and we talked about what kind of action we each had that season he apologized for walkin into my blinds clear cut. Told me the general direction he was headed and mosied on into the woods. Guess ive just been lucky in my experience when it comes to other hunters.