I feel your pain. Always hate to see young hunters forced to deal with the ugly side and ugly people who infect our way of life. It happens every year on our farm in Southern Illinois. There aren't 15 trees left without a "No Tresspassing" sign. And every year the same thing happens. We actually had some guys from TN try to tell us they had the right to walk across our property, and directly under one stand, because it made it easier for them to get where they were trying to go. Of course, that didn't happen. And then, when gun season comes in, look out. It seems like every overweight beer drinker from Chicago thinks Trees=Their Hunting spot. Regardless of who's property it is.

I know there was a post a few weeks ago where somebody made the comment that they hoped guys like this were no longer alive, or something to that effect. A lot of people made several negative responses to that sentiment. But when your 2 weekends of gun season that took 365 days to prepare for, is invaded by morons, who's to say the planet isn't better off without them? When you try to stretch your hunting out and enjoy what God has given you to enjoy by bowhunting, and you wind up spending it with a bunch of uninvited out of staters who care nothing about QDM, land owner sweat equity or anything else. Do we really need them?

Not that I'm in favor of shooting them, even though the thought has crossed my mind, but is a good scare out of the question? Is that unethical on the ethical hunters part?

ShawneeSlinger