100%! Here in TN they are too cheap to even use flagging tape so I just see old WalMart grocery bags tied up to mark trails.
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Woodland annoyances
- Thread starter Exhumis
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100%! Here in TN they are too cheap to even use flagging tape so I just see old WalMart grocery bags tied up to mark trails.
Oh yes and trash! I try to bring it out when I can. My truck is full of it. Old flagging tape I pull off to.
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But it is always so much fun to move that flagging off course and route them in a big circle through the nastiest stuff I can find! That part gets me excited when I find it.
John H., Hickory, NC
“You sure are cocky for a starvin’ pilgrim.”
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Poachers and trespassers could be added to the list. I used to hunt with a club that had a 3,000 acre farm that was fenced in. Wherever houses were between the road and the fence people would cut the fence or drop trees on it. it was a pain to keep up with and we knew who was doing it but could never catch any of them. Whenever we tried to talk to them they just denied it and a few were down right hostel. Law enforcement was no help. we even put up a cellular trail camera when they were a new deal and got one blurry picture of the guy before he blasted it off the tree. The only strategy that ended up working was doing drives through the piece that backed up to the houses in the early season and push the deer to another part of the property.
1. Mosquitos
2. People that wait until 15 October to sight in their newest toys. DUDE!?!? You should've done that in May! (Never fails that my neighbor lets folks over to the 50yd "range" behind his house two weeks into bow season)
3. Mosquitos and ticks
4. Trash
5. Mosquitos
6. Tree stands that show up on 25 October; 35yds from your set
7. Mosquitos
2. People that wait until 15 October to sight in their newest toys. DUDE!?!? You should've done that in May! (Never fails that my neighbor lets folks over to the 50yd "range" behind his house two weeks into bow season)
3. Mosquitos and ticks
4. Trash
5. Mosquitos
6. Tree stands that show up on 25 October; 35yds from your set
7. Mosquitos
Several...
Trash where it shouldn't be. I hate ballons too, but they were not just dropped there, it got away from someone maybe miles away. When I find an empty beer or pop can laying in the woods, I know some ass hole decided to drop it there.
ATVs. I'm all for private property rights. Riding you quad on your land is your right to do so, but why do some riders (most riders) insist on unmuffled machines? What makes you think you have the right to impose your noise on others?
Competing hunters that just gotta touch everything with bare hands when they walk thru the woods. I try to keep the area around my stand as odor free as possible. When I see someone walking near my stand touching brush, touching rubs and licking branches, standing in scrapes, etc, it drives me nuts. There was a guy that hunted the same property as me several years ago. EVERYTIME I saw him, he was walking thru the woods purposely pulling and breaking branches and stuff out of his way. I watched him do it several different days over the course of a season. One day, I couldn't take it any longer and I said "HEY! Why do you have to constantly touch everything when you walk thru the woods?!!" He had no idea I was in the tree...I startled the crap out of him. I never saw him in the woods again.
Hunters that feel like they need to have a conversation with me while I'm in the stand..."Seeing any?", etc. Or guys that know they are setting up near you but don't seem to care about giving you space.
Bugs buzzing around the eyes and ears. Eventually, one of the little bastards will end up in my eye and if I don't get it out quickly, my eye will swell closed...must have an allergy to them.
Trash where it shouldn't be. I hate ballons too, but they were not just dropped there, it got away from someone maybe miles away. When I find an empty beer or pop can laying in the woods, I know some ass hole decided to drop it there.
ATVs. I'm all for private property rights. Riding you quad on your land is your right to do so, but why do some riders (most riders) insist on unmuffled machines? What makes you think you have the right to impose your noise on others?
Competing hunters that just gotta touch everything with bare hands when they walk thru the woods. I try to keep the area around my stand as odor free as possible. When I see someone walking near my stand touching brush, touching rubs and licking branches, standing in scrapes, etc, it drives me nuts. There was a guy that hunted the same property as me several years ago. EVERYTIME I saw him, he was walking thru the woods purposely pulling and breaking branches and stuff out of his way. I watched him do it several different days over the course of a season. One day, I couldn't take it any longer and I said "HEY! Why do you have to constantly touch everything when you walk thru the woods?!!" He had no idea I was in the tree...I startled the crap out of him. I never saw him in the woods again.
Hunters that feel like they need to have a conversation with me while I'm in the stand..."Seeing any?", etc. Or guys that know they are setting up near you but don't seem to care about giving you space.
Bugs buzzing around the eyes and ears. Eventually, one of the little bastards will end up in my eye and if I don't get it out quickly, my eye will swell closed...must have an allergy to them.
#1 Spotlighters and/or Jacklighters as we call them...It sickens me how many deer get shot under a spotlight like target practice and left for dead or just the heads cut off.
Secondly, i grew up in a house where they would be constantly shining their lights across the field and right into your windows. Cant even tell you how many times i have heard a high power go off at 2 am growing up. Really wish they would make it illegal to spotlight like many other states. I know it wont stop all poaching but at least the second somebody throws a light they will be suspect and draw serious attention ( even then like i said it usually happens late night/early morning).
...and then there is Trash which i figure my #1 goes hand in hand with in that those same people likely do litter and in fact are Trash...So yea i will just say Trash
Secondly, i grew up in a house where they would be constantly shining their lights across the field and right into your windows. Cant even tell you how many times i have heard a high power go off at 2 am growing up. Really wish they would make it illegal to spotlight like many other states. I know it wont stop all poaching but at least the second somebody throws a light they will be suspect and draw serious attention ( even then like i said it usually happens late night/early morning).
...and then there is Trash which i figure my #1 goes hand in hand with in that those same people likely do litter and in fact are Trash...So yea i will just say Trash
Good thing Tom hasn't caught on to my tactic of tying empty beer cans to balloons yet!
I once saw a guy licking branches as he walked through our patch of timber... Pretty sure I never saw him in the woods again either.
Pheasants annoy me.
Here in PA we don't have pheasant habitat. Pheasants aren't even friggin native to the US.
So the state stocks Chinese Chickens every fall across a lot of our gamelands (public land owned by the game commission purchased with license and PR funding).
These stupid ditch chickens are like hunting, well, flying chickens. It's an absolute zoo and it messes up the hunting for everything except ditch chicken on large swaths of public property.
I get it small game is fun and important, but the whole put-and-take concept and the five ring circus it attracts to the gamelands really leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The money would be much better spent on native habitat improvements imo.
Here in PA we don't have pheasant habitat. Pheasants aren't even friggin native to the US.
So the state stocks Chinese Chickens every fall across a lot of our gamelands (public land owned by the game commission purchased with license and PR funding).
These stupid ditch chickens are like hunting, well, flying chickens. It's an absolute zoo and it messes up the hunting for everything except ditch chicken on large swaths of public property.
I get it small game is fun and important, but the whole put-and-take concept and the five ring circus it attracts to the gamelands really leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The money would be much better spent on native habitat improvements imo.
Hunters with brand stickers on their trucks annoy me. Like cool, are you sponsored by Mathews? Do you own shares in the company or just a paying customer? If you see another guy with a Hoyt sticker do you pull off so you can cross swords? What's the freaking point?
Hiking trails annoy me. There's this one mountainside right outside of town I used to hunt in college. The DCNR and local granola hikers group decided there weren't enough trails there, so they came in and constructed them all over the mountainside. It's like it's a flipping amusement park or something. Why do you need a freaking trail to walk through the woods? And they can't be low impact, narrow, point A to point B trails because heaven forbid this mountain erode. So apparently it's much better if they are 8 feet wide and zigzag and switchback them all over the place, exponentially increasing their footprint. The hunting blows there now, obviously. So good job, granola munchers, you just displaced a whole bunch of wildlife so you can have your safe and curated nature experience and take your selfies on top the mountain.
I'm just annoyed in general it's been a long week. Can anyone tell haha.
I'm just annoyed in general it's been a long week. Can anyone tell haha.
Crossbows annoy me. These threads are a bit therapeutic.
