Reserving PUBLIC LAND for Your Camp

[mtbeav]

I do agree that it is public land an you can set up where ever u damn please. However if it's a obvious established well maintained and groomed campsite, there is such a thing called common courtesy. thank you 

[passing-thru]

That happened to us this year. We've camp in same spot for past several seasons. We go up early, set up camp, and the rest of our camp trickles in as schedules permit. This year we got there little later then normal and "our" camp spot was taken. We weren't happy but what can you do. We camp in different spot and turned out to be great. The camp next to us was a great group of guys we never would have met if in our old spot. They even stayed extra day to help retrieve cow we got on last morning in camp. Some times things work out for better

[STIKNSTRINGBOW]

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  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.

Not jumping to conclusions, just making an observation.
I have nothing against helping someone, just remembering a different post and commenting, hense the "hope" part.

[Yelm hunter]

FIRST COME FIRST SERVE.... IT'S PUBLIC LAND!!

We had someone try that to us a couple years ago. Actually my 1st year out elk hunting and they said to get out of there site or they were going to shoot us... LOL to bad they didn't know that we had a off duty gamewarden in our party that was helping us set up camp... He called for back up and the whole group of guys got arrested lost there right to hunt & fish, and drive on state forest land & public land... They were also forced to give over all there guns and ammo and the truck that the guy was driving... The same truck is now used for a WDFW only truck...

Some people just better watch what they are saying out there in the woods these days!!

[Broken Arrow]

I don't have a problem with first come, first serve....I did, however, have an issue with a camp this year in archery, who decided that not only was the camp site theirs, but the road into the area was off limits also....they took a chain saw a fell a large tree across the dirt road, to limit access to just themselves. Had i had a chain saw I probably would have fallen about 5 more so they had fun getting out, though instead, just turned around just chose another access point to get into the area.

[coachcw]

hey guys nobody take my spot for next year i got it reserved , you know where the bulls were hanging    .

[MichaelJ]

The only problem I have, is when people camp right next to a gated road...  I almost feel back pulling up 2 hours before light and walking through their camp to get past the gates, and have gotten more than a few pissed off looks like I was hunting "their" spot... oh well!

Michael

[spikehunter]

i love to hear ya all say tough luck , just dropped off my brothers camper, in an awesome spot for elk season . little naches, we will have 4 campers there we were there first. I think i will have to kick ass if somebody comes in on us. end of road with millions of acres to hunt. don't mind if they park, but don't pitch tent on my top of my tent.

[clearwater]

Public land is public land and if you want "your spot" you better get there early.

[NWTFhunter]

I agree with you all that say first come first served.  In the area that we elk hunt, we have been lucky that most of the people respect what was someones before.  There is one large camp accross the road from us that would come completely undone if someone outside the group got set up in "their" spot before them.  Their group usually consists of about 30 people or more.  Can you imagine taking "their" spot ?

[ribka]

Lease some land in 342 with the neighbor for cattle. Funny guys come over from the Seattle area and set up camp on the leased land. We hunt there sometimes. Funny every year some of these guys will try and run us off from the land we lease.  Have to explain that we lease the land so we are allowing them to stay on the land. For some reason people come over set up camp and think that they literally own the land and have exclusive hunting rights. Some groups build benches, tables, outhouses and leave them year round so can can reserve their spot.

It is public and it is first come first serve

[littletoes]

Guys, you have to relize there is two sides to every coin.

I don't care who camps where, or who got there first. Its a "non-issue" if you ask me, but what I DO think is rather ratty, when somebody camps in the middle of a road, blocking it and entry into/onto an entire range in an attempt to keep folks out.

This hasn't happened to me in a long while, but I've a friend who turned some folks in who do this every year, and guess what? Fish and Game, combined with the National Forest Service towed thier trailers and all there stuff down to an impound yard.

Guess whoes getting a rude awakening this elk season? They came, chained thier trailers to trees and left. Now they have to face criminal charges, guess F & G thought it wasn't right either.

Good Luck out there guys, be Safe, and be Curtious to others!

[becker]

I do agree that it is public land an you can set up where ever u damn please. However if it's a obvious established well maintained and groomed campsite, there is such a thing called common courtesy. thank you

People can groom it all they want, how the heck do I know what they groomed it for. Might have been for summer camping, grouse hunting archery, deer or maybe elk camp and I got there 1st.

We have our spots, We get them year after year.. But in all honesty. Not every year.

BFD!

Public land, if you are not their when I get there I will set up.

Kinda like duck hunters who want to go out and spend weekends building a duck blind.
Weekend after weekend this blind was not used. On public land.
On day I set up, started hunting. About 2 hours into shooting hours 2 guys show up in a boat. I have my full spread out.
They demanded I leave.

LOL

I invited them to hunt with me, they said no I have to leave. They even said they would call the cops if I did not.

I left steamed.

Hunted that same blind a few more time that year, and some days they beat me their.
And man oh man. they were steamed again when the area I picked got better shooting. Might have been my calling or my spread, or Karma...

[bigdogs]

some people should not even be aloud to hunt 

[7mmfan]

So every year my dad and I go up and set up a tarp, cut firewood, build the *censored*ter and basically start setting up camp for opening weekend of elk the weekend before. We've been doing this for years. So I helped dad last weekend do this and him and my brother hunted this weekend. My brother stopped by my place on his way back home yesterday evening and said that some a**-hole stole our tarps and firewood sometime during the week. We have a place we like to camp and we make sure we get it by getting there early, but its going to start getting expensive i guess. Anyone ever had their stuff ripped off like this?