I feel your pain. I hunt public land and during the early archery season while I was camping in the wilderness, I would hear rifle shotsstarting at 10pm and ending off at 1am. I have never seen anybody just heard them. At least 10-15 shots a night and I could tell that most were connecting. It was nice during the day I wouldn't see another soul and thought that my chances were good to see some decent bucks b4 the gun hunters shot up the woods....... sadly mistaken. Some people are allowed to hunt all year round and b/c they have the right they take every chance. But even for these people they aren't allowed to discharge a firearm at night.
No cell phone service in the pine forrest where I hunt and about 20min drive to get toa spot where I could get service[>:]. I hate poachers! The conservation officers have taken to digging pits in the natural pastures that are connected to the roads,trust me I've dropped my truck in one while retrieving a deer years ago but it stops thespotlighters from going too far in the bush.They have also taken down bridges so that poachers had less routes out of the woods...... the bridge used to go over the brokenhead river and now people just drive through it. I'm sure demolishing the bridge was well thought out[&o], more pollution for the river and it hasn't stopped anybody from crossing