If you hang a stand at the beginning of the year with the intentions to leave it out all year or never take it down, do you get upset when another hunter hunts the area?
If you are scouting and find good sign but also notice a ladder stand someone drug into the woods, would you still sneak in that area for a sit if there is no sign of someone being in that area?
Does someone else's stand mean that they have the sole rights to hunt that area and you are supposed to move along? What if it is a stand that never gets removed at the end of season like the law states?
Last Sunday I pulled into a parking lot of a spot I wanted to hunt, well over an hour before sunrise. Grabbed my gear and headed into the woods, no other cars in this parking lot. Got to the spot I wanted and set up. Around 1:30 I hear some crunching and steps coming my way then I hear a voice talking to me. Its another hunter and he tells me he hunts there and has a stand 50-70 yards away from me. He also proceeds to tell me hes the one that wrapped my game camera in orange flagging tape to let me know he was hunting that area. He also deleted my pictures on it but didn't admit to that. Going into this hunt I never seen his stand. I personally don't care if he has a stand in that area as it is public and anyone can hunt the land. I feel like he was trying to tell me its his spot because he hauled a ladder stand 500 yards back in the woods and has no intention of ever removing it. I will be the bigger person in this and change location, I will flank "his" spot next time and push further in.
This is the norm on the public land here in Northern Wisconsin. I see so many ladder stands in the woods people drag out and never remove to claim their spots. Then they want to start a confrontation with you about you hunting in that area. I have never thought thats my spot, I'm going to go confront someone for hunting here! I would never intentionally see a stand and set up right on it but I have no qualms hunting an area where others are also hunting. If sign is good and there is no vehicles near by I'm going to hunt it. When I hunt I hit the woods early, I am in well before daylight to get to the spot I want to hunt before someone else does. If someone beats me to a parking lot or pull off I switch plans and head to another spot.
So lets here it. What do you all believe?
If you are scouting and find good sign but also notice a ladder stand someone drug into the woods, would you still sneak in that area for a sit if there is no sign of someone being in that area?
Does someone else's stand mean that they have the sole rights to hunt that area and you are supposed to move along? What if it is a stand that never gets removed at the end of season like the law states?
Last Sunday I pulled into a parking lot of a spot I wanted to hunt, well over an hour before sunrise. Grabbed my gear and headed into the woods, no other cars in this parking lot. Got to the spot I wanted and set up. Around 1:30 I hear some crunching and steps coming my way then I hear a voice talking to me. Its another hunter and he tells me he hunts there and has a stand 50-70 yards away from me. He also proceeds to tell me hes the one that wrapped my game camera in orange flagging tape to let me know he was hunting that area. He also deleted my pictures on it but didn't admit to that. Going into this hunt I never seen his stand. I personally don't care if he has a stand in that area as it is public and anyone can hunt the land. I feel like he was trying to tell me its his spot because he hauled a ladder stand 500 yards back in the woods and has no intention of ever removing it. I will be the bigger person in this and change location, I will flank "his" spot next time and push further in.
This is the norm on the public land here in Northern Wisconsin. I see so many ladder stands in the woods people drag out and never remove to claim their spots. Then they want to start a confrontation with you about you hunting in that area. I have never thought thats my spot, I'm going to go confront someone for hunting here! I would never intentionally see a stand and set up right on it but I have no qualms hunting an area where others are also hunting. If sign is good and there is no vehicles near by I'm going to hunt it. When I hunt I hit the woods early, I am in well before daylight to get to the spot I want to hunt before someone else does. If someone beats me to a parking lot or pull off I switch plans and head to another spot.
So lets here it. What do you all believe?