HUNTER ENCOUNTERS- Was Yours Good Or Bad?

[blackbeltbill]

   With the Fall rapidly approaching and hunting Seasons for different Game opening up at the same time or overlapping in time- has your Encounters with other Hunters been a good experience or on the bad side?

   Now back in the 1970s and 1980s when Orange County had a very active Night time Migration  Flyway for Woodcock- being first in a likely area meant plenty  of Shooting. And plenty of misses on the Timberdoodle with its erratic flight.

  One Fall Morning, I hit the Jackpot. My Dog flushed up 3 Woodcock in a good 5 minutes. Got all 3 with a good 6 shots fired. 

   Then--- I heard it.. Far off loud yelling in either Polish or Italian . Other Hunters knew,I hit the Jackpot. I hear a Hunting Dogs Bell ringing closer and there he is. Looks like a Britney. And runs straight to where,I am Hunting. The 3 Hunters soon show up and follow suit because their dog is near me and on point.

   Meanwhile my Dog is also active and a Woodcock gets up. I quickly dispatch it. More yelling and now they are almost on me.  A Woodcock gets up and all 3 start shooting. Alot of misses but the Timberdoodle falls.

 Now both Dogs are Hunting together-- not good. I have 3 hunters all around me.

 Somehow it worked out and,I got my dog to hit another area while these 3 swept the whole area,I just hunted.

  Kind of a combination  of a comical/bad Hunter Encounter.

  Let's hear about your Hunter Encounters. 

  Think,I will take the time to post on njwoodsandwaters also as this Thread might get alot of replys- so check there later as well .

[broomeguy]

Only had one encounter. Shot a doe with my bow on public land near Syracuse. Was tracking it when I came across a hunter in a treestand. Apologized to him for the disturbance. He was cool with it and even helped me drag that big doe to my vehicle. If you're on this site, thanks again! 

[GreeneHunter]

Years ago ( over 20 ) I shot what turned out to be a Button Buck and a hunter on the adjoining property wanted the Liver and Heart after I Gut it and I said sure !  He then said his truck is just beyond the wood line in the old cornfield and did I want to throw the Buck in the back and he would give me a ride to my car , which would have been a half mile drag otherwise !  I meet him and his son in the woods just about every year since !

[Wolc123]

2 hours ago, GreeneHunter said:

Years ago ( over 20 ) I shot what turned out to be a Button Buck and a hunter on the adjoining property wanted the Liver and Heart after I Gut it and I said sure !  He then said his truck is just beyond the wood line in the old cornfield and did I want to throw the Buck in the back and he would give me a ride to my car , which would have been a half mile drag otherwise !  I meet him and his son in the woods just about every year since !

 Button bucks seem to bring out the best or worst from people.  I haven’t had many run-ins with other hunters, but one did involve a button buck.  
 

A big crew was putting on a drive on the land behind our place, late in gun season.  They had about a dozen drivers spaced out across, from the next parallel road, to our property line.  They started on one crossroad, and drove about 3 miles to the next one. The bb ran out of the thick brush they were pushing, right about on our property line.    
 

I happened to be up in my back tree stand, and I shot and killed it.  The “drive master” acted all pissed off , when he walked up to me, as I was gutting it.  Maybe I should have offered him the liver, but that’s my favorite part.  

[Versatile Hunter]

5 hours ago, blackbeltbill said:

   With the Fall rapidly approaching and hunting Seasons for different Game opening up at the same time or overlapping in time- has your Encounters with other Hunters been a good experience or on the bad side?

   Now back in the 1970s and 1980s when Orange County had a very active Night time Migration  Flyway for Woodcock- being first in a likely area meant plenty  of Shooting. And plenty of misses on the Timberdoodle with its erratic flight.

  One Fall Morning, I hit the Jackpot. My Dog flushed up 3 Woodcock in a good 5 minutes. Got all 3 with a good 6 shots fired. 

   Then--- I heard it.. Far off loud yelling in either Polish or Italian . Other Hunters knew,I hit the Jackpot. I hear a Hunting Dogs Bell ringing closer and there he is. Looks like a Britney. And runs straight to where,I am Hunting. The 3 Hunters soon show up and follow suit because their dog is near me and on point.

   Meanwhile my Dog is also active and a Woodcock gets up. I quickly dispatch it. More yelling and now they are almost on me.  A Woodcock gets up and all 3 start shooting. Alot of misses but the Timberdoodle falls.

 Now both Dogs are Hunting together-- not good. I have 3 hunters all around me.

 Somehow it worked out and,I got my dog to hit another area while these 3 swept the whole area,I just hunted.

  Kind of a combination  of a comical/bad Hunter Encounter.

  Let's hear about your Hunter Encounters. 

  Think,I will take the time to post on njwoodsandwaters also as this Thread might get alot of replys- so check there later as well .

That sucks. Unacceptable behavior by the other hunters. Especially given that there were dogs in the picture. 

[lucky118]

If I run into hunters where I hunt, I go the other way cause that's where the deer are and I'm here to hunt not have a conversation. Lol

[BowmanMike]

Couple of years ago I walked up behind two hunters with my wife and dogs on a forest access road on a piece of public close to my house during gun season.

Those two geniuses were wearing full camo and had no idea we were behind them until we passed them. Those encounters are part of the reason you won't see me on state land during gun season.

During season I see nobody on public around here.

[Mike103]

I have been hunting the east side of Deleware County and the same Town/ Township for 50 years. We used to hunt right next to one the most notorious poaching families in the area. Three generations of them. 
 

After fifty years of harassment, threatened with a knife, shot at ( long distance), supplied evidence that caused one to go to the fed pen                 ( possession of firearms by a felon), and so many other incidents too numerous to list we left. 
 

We bought a small lot surrounded by DEP property where no one else hunts. Not as abundant with deer though. But safer. 

[Buckmaster7600]

I ran into a guy in Maine 10 years or 11 years ago we were both tracking different bucks that both got on the same doe’s track. We had a nice conversation and still talk regularly, he’s hunted out of my camp in the Adirondacks and I’ve hunted from his camp in Maine. 

[2BuckBizCT]

I run into other Hunter's every season. I've never had a negative experience. Usually just a quick convo and head our separate ways. 

[Wolc123]

I’ve only had one run-in with another hunter in 22 years of hunting the Adirondacks.  About (5) years ago, I did a little rattling, near the edge of a swamp.  
 

I noticed a dark form moving towards me, far off thru some thick cover.  As it got closer, I thought it might have been a bear, standing upright on its back legs.  The chartreuse hat, that the otherwise full camo hunter was wearing, is what first tipped me off that it wasn’t a bear.  
 

Turns out that I didn’t fool any deer or bears, but I did fool the guy that owns the big lodge, down at the end of the lake.  He thought it was a real buck fight, up on the ridge, and he tried sneaking in on them.  
 

 

[Robhuntandfish]

I've had a few interactions with other hunters and they've always gone well.  I've even got permission to hunt places for a day or two on neighboring properties that way. 

Now fishing ......Ive had some not so great encounters. Guys pulling a boat right in front of your troll a whole lot of times, seen people fist fighting at boat launches.  

[lucky118]

1 hour ago, Robhuntandfish said:

I've had a few interactions with other hunters and they've always gone well.  I've even got permission to hunt places for a day or two on neighboring properties that way. 

Now fishing ......Ive had some not so great encounters. Guys pulling a boat right in front of your troll a whole lot of times, seen people fist fighting at boat launches.  

Was on a local lake fishing a spot for Jack perch out of my kayak. There was another boat 100 yrds from me. I caught a nice perch. Next thing I know they up anchor and drop anchor 10 ft from me. People are stupid lol

[lucky118]

1 hour ago, Robhuntandfish said:

I've had a few interactions with other hunters and they've always gone well.  I've even got permission to hunt places for a day or two on neighboring properties that way. 

Now fishing ......Ive had some not so great encounters. Guys pulling a boat right in front of your troll a whole lot of times, seen people fist fighting at boat launches.  

Lake Ontario  can be a zoo. Was on a boat pulling copper and had a boat go right through behind us and cut all out lines. Glad the boat owner didn't  have a gun he would have shot that guy lol. I don't  think I've seen someone so mad you could see the devil in him before. Lol

[mowin]

Only hunt private, but yrs ago  my brother put a bad shot (rifle) on a doe during a afternoon hunt. We tracked it to the property line and keep going.. crossed 2 more properties. Still had blood, so we continued.  After almost 2 hrs, we heard a shot about 100 yrds from us. Not knowing where the hell we were, and the sun is starting to set, we continued on.  Turns out we pushed the doe in front of a hunter that had no tag, but couldn't let a injured doe walk off.  When he told us where we were, we were shocked. Now we faced dragging this doe along the blood trail to get back to the property we hunt, but we had no flashlights. Once we told the guy where we were parked, he started laughing and said toss the deer in my truck, I'll give you a ride.