fauxfly wrote:Tips for Public land...EXCELLENT topic!!
- Don't ask me where I intend to hunt from the truck window as you are pulling into the parking lot - I'll lie every time
- Don't ask if I've seen the doe herd every evening - Even if I did I'll lie every time.
- If you see me in my set - avoid me totally - and I'll extent you the same courtesy - every time.
- PLEASE don't scope me - REALLY scares the SH*t out of me -( and my wife and kids when I tell my hunting stories)
- Don't walk under my tree or anywhere near my tree and especially don't try and have a conversation with me when I'm set up.
- Don't litter while afield... the guys with the cig butts and the beer cans really mess things up for guys like me who periodically nock on doors asking for permission to hunt the private farms.
- Close the cattle gates - everytime.
- I'll wait to make my drag till mid morning or after dark - extent all guys on the property the same courtesy.
- Don't touch game cameras or stands left out on public land - ever!
- Don't cut branches, don't cut shooting "lanes" - It ruins things for the other guys on the property.
- Don't place Conibear traps along the main access trails close to the parking lot.
- Use common sense - everytime -
- everytime!
Sorry I have to add a comment about the gate(s). Leave all gates alone. Gates typically have a method of security whether it's a chain, wire, clasp, etc. If you suspect a gate should be closed, ask the farmer, don't assume. I found a gate open one day on the far side of a pasture I always saw cows in. I freaked out and closed it, patting myself on the back. A couple days later I went to hunt that backside and found I had locked the cows out of their main pasture and they couldn't return. They sat there bellowing and when I opened the gate they made a bee-line for the farmers place. I Learned my lesson, gates don't just open themselves.
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