As far as I'm concerned when it comes to Hunting season, first come first served on public land.
Now here's a little twist, not trying to change the subject. But what about shed hunting on public land? I know that I have pissed a few people off by walking around in the same area even if they were there first. But these are also the same area's that I have shed hunted in the past and prior to the last few years with the boom of shed hunting, I never saw or ran into anyone else in these area's.
Besides that you just got to outsmart them some times. One year I pulled up to one of my moose areas and there is a fourwheeler parked right in the middle of the road. I shut my rig off and this guy comes running down off the mountain. I start a conversation and find out that he is just checking the area out for moose sheds as well. I then inform him that I have already covered the whole area a few days prior and did'nt find any thing. He says he's gonna go check out a different area then and gets on his wheeler and takes off. Well I follow real slow till he gets out of sight then I pull off the road and go hit the area. I ended up pulling out 3 nice moose sheds including my biggest to date. So, does this make me a bad person or a smarter hunter? I think this happens more often with shed hunting as I know some of my buddies havent even been out yet but as soon as I say I'm gonna go check an area they say that they already hit it last week or so.
