Epimanes said:
Target shooters who don't clean up.. Stolen cars
Dumped and shot up. Sickening.... People don't respect nature and wonder why places to go get shut down.
Epi
That's bunk. But, it's just another manifestation of overpopulation.
I bought a place thinking it would be heavenly: adjacent to
huge public use land. It was fine for the "off season", but when hunting season comes around...
The traffic, bullets whizzing around, woods hacked up with 20 shooting lanes per stand, trespassers, and energy drink cans or Mt. Dew bottles everywhere...
It's the city clowns in their stinky-new Cabella's fashion gear, bringing their shiny howitzers and over-the-top gatlin guns out to shoot and kill, not hunt and harvest. I almost have to hide on opening morning: it's like first light on a WWII trench line. I've heard walkie-talkie traffic, even. That's GOTTA bring in the big ones, right? Zombies shouldn't even BE in the woods if they're so scared that they need walkie-talkies. And, they bring stupid-huge rifles with them. I mean, 500 yard Cape Buffalo capable equipment for little 50 yard white tails. Silliness, but hey, they just want to shoot $5-a-round guns and get drunk at "deer camp", not harvest meat. It's the scene, I guess, but no amount of money spent on equipment is going to magically make a zombie into a successful hunter. I get a kick out of the "check out my awesome new $$$" guys who never bag anything.
I figured out that the best way to achieve public land results is to hit the area as soon as possible, as hard as possible, to drive all the animals out of public area into the relatively "safe" refuge of adjacent private properties. That way, when the tourists show up on the weekends thinking they are in a "excellent spot", when they get up skunked and find my gut pile from the day before behind where they were sitting...
That reminds me... It's Friday and I need to make a little "squirrel hunting" expedition and be back in my stand before the tourists start showing up.
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