You got a cape?

At 20 yards away from your spread did you walk over and doe pop the dude? People who pull stunts like that generally know what they are doing and don’t give a rip, even if they play the stupid card. In the same vein, putting your spread 20 yards from the road is somewhat inviting a disruption from someone when hunting public ground…

i had a blind 100 feet north of the Big Boggy National Wildlife refuge for a couple seasons. The outfitter landowner did not like me being there, at all. If he knew I was hunting, he would drive down near the water and tie a puppy up to a tree and drive off. That puppy would yip and bark all morning long. I kept on hunting and never said anything to the DB. Finally he just burned me out. The hunting wasn't that great so I just moved on. Don't think it didn't cross my mind to burn his stuff but I don't have time for all that kind of crap.

Three seasons ago I was solo hunting lake-x. I got out to the spot around 4am, put my decoys out and settled into the boat. Between the time I settled in and shooting light, I flagged off a couple of boats with my spotlight. They were courteous and moved on. However, about 20min before legal, a boat with 3 “gentleman” and a dog motored up.

Despite me shining my light at them, they kept coming until they were close enough that one of them hollered out, “You can turn your light out, we effing see you!” They motored right through my decoy spread and beached their boat 60 yards downwind from where I was sitting. I couldn’t believe it. The next thing I know, they start tossing decoys out.

I yell over at them, that they are too close and are sitting up in the direction I was planning on shooting. One of the guys yells back that they are far enough and would be too bothered by being peppered. He said they had scouted this location a few days prior and had their minds set on hunting there. They weren’t leaving on my account.

We had a fairly heated argument, a few words were exchanged and they started picking up their decoys and throwing them in the boat. I don’t think they realized, as they were talking amongst themselves, over the motor, but I could clearly hear them as they motored past. One of them says, “We should go back there and shoot that Sumbit(h.”

Public can be a real show sometimes..

To everyone that say why didn't you go talk to him. Well first off I was not in the right frame of mind. I was angry and it's better to just not do that in circumstances. I know no one but me has experienced that I'm sure. My actions my opinion. Second this was opening day at 8 am. Not the middle of Dec or at 10am when the birds stop flying. This was prime time for birds to come in. Now I know some individuals on here don't care if they miss birds and would rather go have a conversation but I don't have that luxury since I live in a part of TX that doesn't see a ton of birds unless you own private or pay for outfitters. The hunts I make I have to do a lot of work for and sometimes they are successful and sometimes not but I'm not getting out of my blind at 8 am on an opener unless you have a badge on. Once again my opinion it doesn't have to be yours.

For the people that say it was passive aggressive. Thats comical do you realize through the years how many passive aggressive things I have seen on here. Anyway, the so called rant was for 2 reasons. First there are a ton of people that read this forum but never post so maybe this person did and will learn proper hunting ettiqutte, maybe not. Second maybe it might teach someone else or spark a conversation about what it means to be considerate during hunting season. Once again my opinion not asking you to agree or for approval. I can see by some of the stories I'm not thenomly one that experiences people like that.

Agree or disagree, I don't care. Take down the thread I don't care. But those are my reasons for my actions and lack of actions and posting on a forum for TX hunting which is a way for mass communication to a lot not hunter in TX.

Oh and I told the gentleman but my spread wasn't near the road. It was way back on public and the individual drove through property that backs up to it then drove on public land.

I have a walk in spot that is just 4-500 yards from the parking lot. I normally don't like to hunt it bc its so close to the parking area. But it was holding a few birds and it was during the week so I thought why not. 10 minutes before legal 2 guys come walking down to it. Wtf, I shine em off, hear them talking that some one is there.... they still come. They are like we will just hunt over here... ya literally 30-40 yards from me. The way the birds come into this spot they would fly past me first. I ended up shooting my limit and they shot 4,5,6 between the 2 of them.

Ended up talking to them after the hunt, they were nice and meant well. Guess one of the guys had a bad back and couldn't walk very far. Just relatively new hunters that didn't really know the etiquette of public land