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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Zradix on October 08, 2014, 11:28:00 AM
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Went out to my natural material ground blind on public land last weekend.
..some people need a kick in the rear.
My blind was all but destroyed. All the walls pulled down.
I had a few carrots out by the blind. about half of them were tossed inside the blind and some were balanced on some of the sticks that used to be my blind.
The area all around the blind looked like someone was kicking/raking the leaves in about a 3 foot wide circle path around the blind. So it's all scented up.
...and here's the kicker....
..there were a few carrots left out of the blind where I put them.
They put them them in a nice little pile...and then left there own pile.
..yep..big ol human crap on my carrots. :saywhat:
Now I'm not without a sense of humor..
..but this is just enough to tick me off. :mad:
..Makes me wonder what they did IN the blind that I can't see.
The last 3 years I've had something happen to one of my blinds.
I hunt different spots about every year..I come back to some yearly if they look good though.
Thanks for letting me rant. :banghead:
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Sounds like some anti-hunters looking to make your life miserable.
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Bummer that stuff happens here on pa state land. See it all the time. I would never leave anything personal out in the pa public woods. Every once in a while I put a hang on up. Knowing that I don't care if it gets stolen $30 special. I don't even use trail cams. Climber in and out or on the ground. I can't even build brush blinds here anymore. I feel for ya. That's a good way to ruin an outing.
I have even stopped using bright eyes as guy will follow them right to your spot and sit in it.
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Thats MICHIGAN public land for ya. Im sure it happens eldewhere but seems to be so many stories on here about MI public land idiots
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maybe they didnt like the bait being out-not antihunter,anti-baiters.
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could be..
I'm semi anti bait myself.
This year is looking to be a year of hardly any hunting time.
..so I was trying to up my odds a bit..
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I don't build forts anymore for that reason. Just keep it as natural as you can and no one will bother it. Carry your seat or it will be gone too.
I lost two stands due to bright eyes leading the thieves to my spots. They even took the bright eyes!
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I've taken the bright eyes and ran them into the nastiest, thorniest stuff I could find. Let them follow 'em
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lol that's funny. Hope some thief had the "work" ethic to follow them.
Sorry to hear about you others having troubles.
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:( I'm sorry to hear this. Just don't understand some people.
Jeremy :coffee:
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Pinko, commi, thumbsucking, tree hugging, fish kissing,, bed wetters. That is who did that to your blind.
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Behavior like this is WAY too common on Michigan public land.
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Happened to me in 1990 in MI- including a gun being pulled on me! Walked away from MI public land rifle season hunting forever. Never looked back. . .
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grandfather had a problem with anti's back in the early 90's. He had several of them follow him into his blind one day and just sit around him and make noise. So the next day before he went out he filled a super soaker squirt gun with fox urine, he was also a trapper, and when they showed up at his tree stand and started giving him a hard time he just soaked them down. Needless to say there were a bunch of mad people so they went and called the dnr on him and when the officer asked him why he did it he just looked at the officer and said this old dog was just marking his territory. The officer just laughed and told the anti's if he caught them out there again he would haul them all off to jail. Just one of many stories about that old man who lived his live outdoors.
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When I hear stories like this, it makes me not whine so much when I have to pay for a lease down here in TX!
That just sucks, and your thread title is completely accurate!
Bisch
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Suckheads. All of 'em.
You aren't far from camp, I can show you a spot or two that I've never had a problem at.
Someone did put a lumber blind on public in an area I hunted and posted it about 5' around, though. That was funny.
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That's a perfect example of what happens in a politically correct society ...... I'm all for going back to a biblically correct society ;)
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Biblically correct? At least they "turned the other cheek!"
Sorry to hear about this. Either they followed you, or your blind was too obvious. Years ago, when I trapped in the desert, I went to a lot of trouble sweeping my tracks out around each set. Not for the animals sake, but to hide it from other people. They were expensive traps. - John
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Freaking teenagers I suspect. They think that stuff is funny.
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After season, I had that happen... it was a nice set up and I had some encounters. I could only hunt this patch of woods in bow season...the owners family hunted it in rifle. They found the site and trashed it for me. I found it scouting for turkeys the following early Spring.
Nothing like plain old fashioned jealousy to spur poor behavior.
I marvel here in the PA woods when I find a big ole ladder stand way back in some PA Game Land public spot. I guess someone worked really hard to get it in there and nobody wanted to take it out.
Friend had his hang on stand in a tree, on PRIVATE LAND and left his tether rope around the tree above the stand... when he got there, some enterprising and likely young set of arms/legs had leaned a dead sapling against the stand and shinnied up the danged thing, got into the stand, didn't mess with the stand, but took the carabiner off his tether rope... :scared:
Sometimes, it is just malevolent behavior. Buddy was sitting in his folding seat and was dead cold in the December gun season here in PA...took a 5 min walk and looked back to see some gent grab his seat and walk off with it...
They breed, they vote
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Bummer about your situation. I have had like situations before.
Thats why I never build blinds on public land anymore. Usually I either use a climber or try to sit in a spot that conceals me. I don't even clip branches to give away the location.
I had a stand on private land once that was in a maple with multiple trunks. Some one went through the trouble to hoist a gut pile 10 feet up and stick it on my latter. I used to see deer there all the time, I imagine they used the stand and then did this to piss me off.
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The best revenge would be to re-build it and kill a deer from it.
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Some people are just plain ole a$$holes.
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stack....thats awesome
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A couple years ago I had a 1000# protien feeder stolen off of my private land deer lease. I think I know who did it, and I think I know why, but I have no proof!
Not much worse than a liar or a thief!
Bisch
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Now that really does sound like a bunch of crap.They should have eat the carrots with thier own special sauce I think :)
Too bad you dont have them on a trailcam doing thier dirty little squat.
If you did.I would really like to see that go viral.
I have experienced sabatage tactics by other hunters myself on public land.It can be discouraging
They went to quite an extreme.It sounds like you were set up in a great spot that they were trying to claim for themselves and run you out of thier.
Hopefully you have the last laugh and harvest a nice deer.That would really motivate me I believe.
Sorry for your trouble.
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Thats a real bummer... some people just have too much time on there hands.
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Re-set it with a trail-cam discreetly located. Many states have hunter harrassment laws. If yours is one of them , file charges with the proof. Be sure to throw in damages and court costs. Posts their names here(it's public record where I'm from), someone may want to send them "greetings"!
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Welcome to Michigan hunting...everyone in our woods is an ethical, honest, quality woodsman....lol
All I huntbis public land and I see these clowns all the time. I actually walked into a stand one afternoon and saw a guy sitting in one of my stands. You could tell by the look on his face he was freaking out. I nodded and walked right by him and set up on the ground 40 yards into the funnel. He looked at me like I was crazy. (I knew what way the deer used the funnel). I shot a doe an hour later that ran right under him bleeding everywhere. I walked back by him and nodded again as I went to get my deer. The stand was chained in and a crappy stand so I wasn't worried but he left it and never came back that I know of.
Was my best ever 'right back at ya" I could of ever done.
That was southern mi public land about 14 years ago. Now I'm in northern Michigan and the weekend warriors are the worst. It's a rare day you come across a decent guy in the woods anymore.
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This is exactly why I have went to a mobile ground blind with Ghillie set up and why I carry my LoneWolf and Sticks in on each trip if I am hunting from a tree. I never use bright eyes anymore - I prefer to use my GPS and then I have two reflective tacks about 10 foot up my tree so I can locate it in the dark.
At the very best on public land if someone finds your spot you can be assureed that there will be others hunting it soon and at the worst - well like posted above some idiots just don't have any morals or ethics.
Sorry you ran into this but I know the feeling too well. I hunt primarily public land and my most vailable scouting is to learn where hunters/hikers don't go. That's where I hunt most days now and I am very secretive on getting in and out of those places. Usually it is the nastiest thorns and vines in the area. I spend a lot of time in early spring clearing access routes to these areas but I keep the entrance to my trails hidden with brush. I often have to use hip waders to gain access to some spots as I have found most others are too lazy or unwilling to pack in waders over a mile.
Hunting public land has its ups and downs but I find a great satisfaction at beating not only the local deer at it but also the local slob "hunters" that seldom fill the woods except on Oct/Nov weekends and holidays.
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That's what happens when you hunt public land. Bunny Hugger's do stuff like this. But, by the same token, I have had bow hunter's put up ladder stands and trail cams all over the place on open land and they wonder why their stuff gets ruined or stolen.I know for a fact their compound/X Bow guys. It doesn't matter. Open Public Land is just that open. Don't make a set up and leave it thereand think you own it! I see their set ups shake my head and walk away. Here in Jersey you can bait. Most of the set ups are 60/80 yards off the road. Bait, Ladder Stand, and trail cam. Like I said I just shake my head and walk away.
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Hidden trail camera on video mode sounds like what I would be placing at all my sets.
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Sorry for your hassle. I too believe it to be the work of anti,s
Hunters, fisherman and gun owners are under attack and I am afraid it's only going to get worse. A lot of whacked out people these days. Just last night watching the local news they had a bit about mn pheasant opener this coming weekend, they show a picture of a guy sitting with a scoped rifle. The general public has not a clue.