So if you hadn't paid the $500 for the guy to tell you where the big deer were and you came upon the knowledge in another fashion (game warden told you, a friend who had been in the area that summer saw them and told you, etc.) would you have still gone after the deer if you had talked to those hunters? Is it strictly that you paid for the knowledge?

What if you just picked that area on a random basis and then talked to these guys and they told you they had scouted the area and knew there were big bucks in it? Would you have left for another area then?

At some point you have to decide that it is public land and not someone's private playground.

I'm just wondering where your line is. Some might think that since they were riding horses and you were on foot that they had an unfair advantage. It sounds like you started out ahead of them and they caught up with you anyway. What if those 3 guys worked for Mossback and were just lying to you so they could get their client hooked up with a monster mulie!!