I might take the cake, I was the public land idiot for a day. Almost all hunts so far I go in blind around 12-1 scout around to about 3 and setup for a few hours. I have driven past this location before and have never seen any cars or trucks in it when I go during the week. Went in, ended up walking more than I wanted cuz I wasnt finding good sign and ended up getting into thicker stuff than I expected. Also started to walk out on the marsh towards an island but water was still semi frozen and bailed on that. Anyways by 330 or so I went back to the little sign I found, picked a nearby tree quick and got up. Once up I realized I wasnt happy with the sign and didnt have great shooting lanes so went against my better judgement, got down and decided to push in deeper and consider it a botched hunt scouting trip. Ended up going in deeper finding an oak flat between marshes, couldnt find a great tree here either and just decided to sit and observe. Figured I would go check out a spot i had pegged which was only 50 yds from me. Make my way down there and its flooded grass. Like over my knees and all I had was ankle high shoes on. This was going to be my perfect exit route right into an open field where i would bump anymore deer(leave a different way than you come in). So I turned around had about an hour or so walk the long way back out with only 45 mins or so of hunting light left. Hard to explain but when I went deeper I made a Y with original entry from top right to the left second trip from top left to bottom. Once I got to the Y I turned right to head out and theres someone in the only tree stand I pegged in that area. Apologized to the guy and kept moving on.
so I'm that guy. Stuff was so thick there was no way I wouldve been able to see him from a distance but honestly I had put 4 or 5 miles in and wasnt really looking. And like I said I thought it was a near abandoned piece of public, at least during the week.
So I ask the public land gods for their forgiveness. Was going to leave the guy some cash in the parking lot and say go grab some beer on me but of course didnt have any on me. So if you get walked in on by someone on public, consider he may have just had his ass kicked for 5 hours and isnt thinking straight. Doesnt excuse it but still.
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