Looks like the gene pool could use a little



3 years ago, I had a turkey hunter blow my jake decoy off the pole, nearly spraying me in the process. Seriously, who can't tell the difference between a foam turkey and a real one??

This year, I saw some idiot with a loaded gun in full camo (illegal)riding (also illegal)up and down powerlines and logging roadson the Allegheny National Forest, on an ATV. I had seen 2 doe crossing down low, and was waiting for them to come up the hill to me.He spooked them, and they doubled back across the line - he tried to get a shot from the quad (very illegal), but fortunate for him, hewas unable. Then, he sat there for a while, looking around, and saw me atop the ridge in my treestand. He scoped me for a minute and left. I had an insatiable urge to run a .300 weatherby ball through the engine block of his quad. Seriously, who scopes people? I really wish he'd have gotten that deer - I'd have taken his ATV plate # and backtag #. That was the only hunter Isaw in 2 days of hunting the ANF.

Several years back on a gamelands inFayette Co., some mental midget blasted at afawn button buckthat was five yards away from the base of the tree I was sitting in. Quite a harrowing experience that was. If I wasn't hanging from the backside of my tree, I'd have considered returning fire. The sad thing is that I was only hunting an antlerless deer, and I let it go, waiting for a heftier doe.

I think the biggest problem in PA is the sheer number of hunters afield at one time. When you jam that many hunters into a small area, you're bound to have incident. Also, a lot of PA guys only hunt for 4-5 hours/year on the opener, so they don't have much "hunt" in 'em. They just wanna get out there, whale on a doe, and get home. They're out-of-practice, terrible marksmen, out of shape, ignorant, etc.

Some people are just a little "special," I guess.