Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Shooting and Hunting => Topic started by: El Destructo on October 04, 2008, 05:49:05 pm
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Sure Glad that some of you are having good Luck Hunting....especially Pappy....and the rest of the Tennessee Boys.....I lost me Hunting Lease this Year....so now I am on Federal Parks Land now....and I get up this Morning....and went to the Recreation Area.....Second Week of Bow Season.....drove in at 5:00 am...got all situated....waiting for Sunrise.....the Wind picks up a bit from the Wrong direction.....so I chance a Move....get relocated...now it is about Daybreak....so I am getting ready....next thing I hear ....it sounds like Indy......Engines Screaming....and racing towards me.....here they come....about 14 River Buggies and Sand Rails.....screaming down the Riverbed....all over in front of where I am set up.....this goes on for about 30 minutes....and there are more Buggies coming....I think don't these Idiots know that it is Hunting Season??? Well I have enough of it....If I don't leave now....something Bad is going to Happen....I just feel it!!! So I hike back to the Truck....drive up the Riverbed to the Campgrounds to see what the Heck is going on.....well there is a Big Sign at the Entrance.....say.....Sand Drags Saturday and Sunday October 4th and 5th.....Test and Tune at 8 am....Races start at 12 pm......Well I get hot....how stupid can the Parks Department be.....what brings in more Money and 2 day Sand Drag....or thousands of Hunters???.... So I leave....and drive to the other end of the Federal Park Land.....Plum Creek....nothing but Big Canyons and Cottonwood Forests....home to hundreds of Whitetails and Mulies too.....well it is now 9 am....so I figure I will just settle in and wit for the evening Hunt now....since it is so late....I find me a nice place about 14 foot off the Ground in a Cottonwood tree....looking down a small Creekbed....lots of sign....I had gotten Deer here before....and Turkey too....so I sit there and am about to start nodding off....it has warmed up to the low 80's now....and I am drifting off......and all of a Sudden I here a Truck and Trailer come clattering down this dirt road towards Me.....then not just one Truck....it's now three....with big Box Trailers behind them..........and they are pulling right into the big Clearing that I am watching over by the Creek......they pull in....Start banging around and talking loud.....One Guy opens up a Trailer door....and they start unloading Cheairs and Tables.....Hundreds of them!! I cant believe what I am seeing....so I get out of the Tree and head towards these Men.....and When I get there they all look at Me like I am some Alien ....in my Guille Suit with my Bow and Arrows.....I ask them... just what the Hell is going on??? They tell me ...We are setting up for a Wedding in the Morning.....going to have about 300 People and Ministry afterwards.....in th Middle of this Canyon ....in the Middle of Nowhere.....in the Middle of My Hunting Spot......Ahhhhh....I am about to really lose it now......but I bite my Lip till I cant take the pain ....and walk away....and as I am getting out of my Guille Suit and putting My Bow up.....another Truck pulls in hauling a Trailer with about 20 Porta Johns on it...........So I say out loud for all to Hear.....well I hope you Guys have a good Time.....Now that the Icecream Man has showed Up!!!! And I went Home..... What a Day.....I think I will cut the Grass tomorrow.....and watch the Trees Turn!!!
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I Feel for you Bro, that is definatly a sorry day of hunting. You need to come to Colorado next season, we have tons and tons of public land. I back pack in and hunt three to four miles from the road but never saw another hunter this year, but normally do see a couple. Hope it improves for you. Kenneth
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Mike, I hate to say it but I had to chuckle when I read this, someday when were all telling tales of bad hunting trips your gonna
have the grand daddy of stories to tell ;) You should have stayed for the reception and the food :D
Think you better start taking your vacation home in October, miles and miles of open woods here, as you well know. Say Ya to Da UP Eh :)
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You got a good point....may just have to change my Plans....but then there is always the packing and shipping of all that meat too!!
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Mike: Man that sucks - I too like Dana got a good chuckle out of your story but feel bad for ya at the same time :'( ;D. I don't really know anything about the panhandle, hopefully you'll find another lease by next season. I'd invite ya to Del Rio but too many darn rules :(.
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Ah yes, the glorious hunting in Texas...where there's more land than anywhere else.....for a price (an arm, a leg, and your first born). >:(
Dove hunting is the only good hunting on public land, sometimes.
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Understand the frustration . It's getting that way more and more.Though we all have a right to use the public lands sometimes things really blow it for hunters.
I've learned over the years that if I don't want the hunt ruined by quads, dirtbikes, or roadhunters that I need to go in to the road less areas about three miles. Most people will go in 1-11/2 miles but if you go three you will cut out 70% of the people. With the onslaught of guads it has to be wilderness or at least foot traffic resticted. I had hiked into a roadless area once about 2 miles and set up on a ridge looking down into the canyon at daybreak.Thinking that I had a nice chance to pull a bull up out of the drainage. after a little calling I start hearing the distant noise of the quad........All the way from the bottom,,,,,picking his way right up to the top toward us. We watched as everything in the canyon started busting out over the ridges on both sides. He finally got up by us dressed in camo and bow mounted on the quad. Asked if we had any luck or seen anything.Made a comment about having a forked horn buck stand and look at him in the bottom,said he got off and took a shot but missed. ::) ::) ::)
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i feel for ya mike,
unfortunately i have never experienced anything to that extreme on public land. minnesota doesnt allow vehicles on public land except on the roads into them.
most of them have a parking area right at the beginning of the land,very few actually have roads that go into them. if your willing to walk aways in,especially on the larger
tracts of land,you wont see or hear another person all day long. doesnt meen that the hunting is great casue you have to be willing to do this for weeks on end before season to do good scouting,and then you have to hope no one sees ya or theyll figure out what your doing and start scouting there as well.
hope thing look up for ya yet this season.
peace,
tim
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brother you must have the worst luck .... that is one of those days where you have to wonder what the creator was thinking....and what did i do to deserve this....stay cool bro and get back on the horse....you will make meat on your next outing, i am sure..... besides with all the rice left over in the clearing after the wedding you are sure to get something coming in ;D i will forever wonder what those poor dudes thought of the guille suit wearing, bow toting guy who approached them :o ;D ;) HAWK
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I should have just parked it in one of the Chairs....and waited for the Reception....since they ruined the rest of the Day!!!
This was 8 miles off of the County Road....and 4 miles further back on a dirt road....it wasn't like I was Hunting in a Camp Grounds!!!
Go Figure.....I was almost Speechless.............like I said......almost............. ;)
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I know the feeling ,Mike. I own a share of 3 acres of land in 2300 acres of property. It was going to be a retirement community salesmen in Miami and PuertoRico were selling to the Latin community in Venezuela and Puerto Rico back when Disney was being built.
Well, they didn't tell them it was a wetland , no build ever area. It is Prime Whitetail and hog hunting habitat. With a 200#+ deer coming out of there 3 years ago. Huge for Florida. About 30 of us fenced it off, posted it, and scared people away for about 4 years. The only problem was it was unsurveyed land . So you couldn't prove who owned what , which is the reason we had access to all of it. You can Bluff, but not charge anybody with tresspass.
Somebody finally called our bluff and now it is totally trashed because of the 4-wheelers and dirt bikes on the weekends. They have completely destroyed the wetlands, and the place is full of beer bottles. I'm hunting public land ,too. And they are trapping all the hogs on the MNGT area's here and selling them to game ranches in Texas. >:(
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Thats about right....the only thing I have heard worse....is the way the DNR in Michigan run things....they are Pathetic too
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I feel for you bro... almost feel guilty having all this wilderness to hunt, might not see another person for weeks at a time... and then it is usually only wolf watcher or someone i know ;D look forward to seeing some pics of your harvest soon.... HAWK
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I hunt some Archery only public land but always have 4 weelers bird watchers and dog trainers to deal with so i understand what your dealing with!
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Thats about right....the only thing I have heard worse....is the way the DNR in Michigan run things....they are Pathetic too
Michigan DNR Pathetic :o Thats too kind of a word Mike ;) At least I have access to miles of public land open to hunting
might not be any game on it but its open ::) Federal goverment decided to overturn the delisting of wolves and now their
back on the endangered list, unbelievable eh. Oh well think I will go deer hunting who knows might even see one this morning 8)
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I have had some bad days like that,well kind of like that just not as bad. I know I am lucky to be able to hunt where if I see anyone they were invited or they are where they ant supposed to be so
I can send them packing. :) I don't hunt much public land.I do Hunt Land between the lakes once a year and that is about it,Always have someone [what they call stalking] slipping around messing you up,but it is public so what can you say.Still frustrating tho. :)
Pappy
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Thats about right....the only thing I have heard worse....is the way the DNR in Michigan run things....they are Pathetic too
Michigan DNR Pathetic :o Thats too kind of a word Mike ;) At least I have access to miles of public land open to hunting
might not be any game on it but its open ::) Federal goverment decided to overturn the delisting of wolves and now their
back on the endangered list, unbelievable eh. Oh well think I will go deer hunting who knows might even see one this morning 8)
Good luck Dana....and watch out for them Wedding Parties.... they may be out for scalps....oh wait a Minute.....thats Raiding Parties.....wedding parties are out for your Pocketbook!!!
Yep....I grew up on a 240 acre Farm in the Middle of Nowhere in the U.P. Pappy.....I sure miss being able to Hunt where I want....and not have to worry about being bothered.....Shoot Texas is the Biggest State in the Lower 48....and it has less Hunting Land open to the Public than Maine or even Vermont!!
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That's sad,I have heard that most was leased in Texas by hunting clubs and such. It is getting
that way around home and everywhere else so I been told. :)
Pappy
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I live in East Tennessee close to the Cherokee National forest. Huge tract of land just not much deer. The archery season there was only seven days long, and is already over. The good part is you can hunt all day and never see another hunter. It's mostly straight up and down, which discourages a lot of hunters. I do alot of squirrel hunting and exploring in those mountains, which as I grow older is becoming more and more enjoyable. Dragging a couple of squirrels up and down those hills is a lot eaiser than dragging a deer. :)
Lease land around here is out of my price range, if you can even find it. You guys with access to public land with good deer populations are lucky.
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That is the wost / best story i have ever heard about a hunt being torpedoed by non-hunters...better luck rest of the season. What if you sent an arrow thunking into a portajohn during the "any objections' part? ;D
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I feel your pain. About 4 years ago I went out for the season opener of the PA bowhunting season. I was shooting my compound at the time. On the walk out to my treestand in the dark (2 mile hike) a stick caught me in the eye and I lost my contact. (I'm blind without them). Luckily it was my non-shooting eye, so I proceeded to my treestand. I climbed my tree, and as I was hauling my bow up on a string, the rope slipped and my bowstring came over the cam and snapped against the bow limb rendering the bow unshootable. I sat in that stand all morning so as to not disturb my brother's hunt and later went to the local archery shop to have my bow put in a vice to put the string back on and back to the cabin to get a pair of glasses to see again! It was a miserable day.
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Glad I am not the Only One with this kind of Luck!!
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I feel for you,I've had a few issues on public land myself.But this is my opening day experience was on private land,and I never saw another soul. Here's how it came down;
Arrived 6:00 AM to find a coon had crapped 6 different times on my stand.I cleaned it off and took advantage of the cover scent.
About 8:00 a ray of sunshine peaked through the leaves,and fell right on the lower limb of my bow"She's got legs",illuminating a 1" long crack following a ring ,about mid-limb.
While considering running home to get another bow,a fat 6 point walked right under me ,stopped at 6 yards,slightly quartered away.I leaned out and told myself,"don't think about the bow,just draw the arrow and shoot,,DON'T THINK ABOUT THE BOW."
Well, all I thought about was that bow exploding,but , I released the string anyway.
A 6 yard slam dunk!!.that did'nt.My fine cane arrow sailed right over his withers,hit a root ,and you guessed it ,broke. "Legs "did'nt break,and I took her home and put a band-aid on her.She's all right ,and ready to hunt again. Now ,Ive just got to get over missin' a "sure thing" shot. God Bless
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Well at least the Bow was saved....and the Deer wasn't wounded and run off to be eaten by Coyotes....you will have a chance to see Her again....and hopefully in Better Circumstances too....good luck....
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Mike, I thought it was just me that stuff like that happened to. Just be glad that you don't have Mullet out there cruising around in a Polaris Ranger buggy. ;D
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Or that damned Air Boat!!! 8)
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Boy, I was really getting tired of those four wheelers up In my elk unit when I lived down in washington state.Be up there on the ridge after a 5 mile walk in the dark,just at shooting light you'd hear them coming(And I can't hear good !)Never see an elk that was'nt in a full gallop.What really ticked me off was all those idiot's were younger than me. Would'nt fault an old timer riding up but those kids ! Grrrrrrr......Glad I'm up here where there ain't much roads.Public land works only when you can walk away from the roads. Hope you have better luck next hunt. Frank
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Bummer luck, El D. I think the sound of an arrow going THWOCK on the side of a Porta-Crapper for the "any objections" was about the best suggestion outa the whole post. Here's hoping karma sends you a better shot on a better hunting lease. And on the other hand, think of the couple that stood up in that wonderful place and exchanged their solemn vows of eternal love and devotion.....half of all marriages end in divorce, the rest end in death! That'll teach 'em!
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It might have been an easier shot for you Steve if I was on the Airboat and blew the little pig closer to ya'. ;) You could have scuffed dirt on him too. ;D
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dang, thats a downer. My dad and I are hunting on land thats for sale, and as we hunt, the barns and the buildings (run down campground 13 years back, give or take) are getting emolished by the bull dozers there... kinda makes you wonder how much time is left. not much longer, we will have to come crawling back to the dnr's public huning areas... dun dun dun-that really does suck about the wedding though, there's so many here in illinois, I didnt get a single deer last year with my bow- and I saw(and missed :'() alot of deer! (although we sucsessfully hit 2 of them so far wit the friggin truck..) good luck bro, at least you can say yu doin it primitive though! -jimmy
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Grilled some venison didha Ballista? Chrome-shot backstraps, yum.
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Grilled some venison didha Ballista? Chrome-shot backstraps, yum.
it was ridiclous. after the cops came, the dnr had to verify it was hit by the car. we had to wait 2 hours to get one, they wouldn't let us have the other one. but it was good, the one we kept was a little thing.. felt a little bad, but damn that meat melts right in your mouth! -jimmy