Reserving PUBLIC LAND for Your Camp

[HuntingFanatic]

Id let out a groan and move on. Its only a place to sleep......I can always go S@#^ behind a starnge tree.....makes no difference to me.

[EMPyre]

i've only been doingthis a couple of years now, and I've always been nervous about setting upt int' somebody else's camp'.  I tend to be out alone or with one other guy, and while I can take licks just as well as I give them nobody likes a confrontation.  Pretty reassuring to hear then number of you who say they'd grumble to themselves but move along down the trail.  Still I'm pretty hesitant to put down stakes somewhere that has obviously been well used and maintained over the last few seasons.

[GoldTip]

If the pots empty when you arrive, then it is your's in my opinion.  It's public land, and any one who asks you to move is way out of line.

[EMPyre]

I agree goldtip, but just seeing some of the work people do to these spots makes me second guess plopping down.  Anyway our camp goes up Thursday, got a cow tag this year to fill.  Looks like some snow.  Should be a great one, good luck all...

[yelp]

We have a decoy trailer    that is gutted  that we use for storage and we take it up and leave it at the camping area.  It works to semi reserve your spot, but it somebody hooked on to it I'm only out $100.00..oh well.  We set up all of our expensive stuff when we get up there.  Also if someone moved it and move in to our spot so be it that is the chance I take..it is public land and I have just as much right to it as another hunter or taxpayer for that matter..IMO.   

[jstone]

Ran into this in Idaho. Some hunters put up a bunch of Caution tap across the road to stop people from entering the camp area, we checked it out then drove right through the tap they where pissed said it was there camping area. TO BAD.

[gasman]

I have knowen of guys to park the trailer in the road and take the tires off of it so no one can move it or go around it to hunt or camp.

if you parked and walked around to hunt, they were ok, just did not want people camping or driving where they hunted.

[rosscrazyelk]

I would love to go up early and set camp but i am not a rich man so I cannot afford to leave stuff alone like that.

[gasman]

I would love to go up early and set camp but i am not a rich man so I cannot afford to leave stuff alone like that.

I picked up a cheap tent from Walmart and put it up to save our camp spot.

I too am afraid that someone will come along and steel or vandalise my stuff, so nly leave the cheap stuff that can easly be replaced.

[bankwalker]

its has more to do with tradition. some people have used the same camp site for years and years.

i know my buddies have been using the same camp site for about 15 years. and last year a group of guys who always talked about how nice my buddies camp was set up had went to took it 2 weeks before the season started. and again this year.

so now my buddies have to find a new spot.

in most areas you get to know people by thier camp spot. its a yearly thing to see the same guys camped in the same spots. and for one of the other "groups" to steal your "spot" is just disrespectful. plain and simple.

BUT if its some new people in the area, and they take your spot then that is completely different.

[Hillbilly270]

I would love to go up early and set camp but i am not a rich man so I cannot afford to leave stuff alone like that.

I picked up a cheap tent from Walmart and put it up to save our camp spot.

I too am afraid that someone will come along and steel or vandalise my stuff, so nly leave the cheap stuff that can easly be replaced.

almost sounds like getting to a hunting spot first so you can hunt it.

[gasman]

I would love to go up early and set camp but i am not a rich man so I cannot afford to leave stuff alone like that.

I picked up a cheap tent from Walmart and put it up to save our camp spot.

I too am afraid that someone will come along and steel or vandalise my stuff, so nly leave the cheap stuff that can easly be replaced.

almost sounds like getting to a hunting spot first so you can hunt it.

There is a big differance between this thread, and your thread from yesterday.

[georgia redneck]

We set up in the same spot every year for about 12 yrs never had any problem, but if somebody else had already gotten there before we did we would just have to go up the road to another site. We to have made improvements to the site but as you say it is public land and first come first serve. There was another thread just recently about a guy who had there gear stolen and a guy came on and was kindof pissed about people who go and set up camp before the season starts. Although we certainly expect anybody who routinely hunts the area to not camp in our area, (because there are so many other spots)out of respect.....we certainly would not confront anybody for doing so because as i said...it...is...public...land and they have just as much right as we do.

[STIKNSTRINGBOW]

  Whoever got their first and set up camp was the first one we tried to get a buck for.

I hope your not party hunting.

[billythekidrock]

  Whoever got their first and set up camp was the first one we tried to get a buck for.

I hope your not party hunting.

Let's not jump to conclusions.

Ever heard of putting some one in the best spot for a drive or an ambush? What about multiple guys glassing and giving the first shot to some one other then the spotter?

Just a couple ways to help someone get a buck.