If someone is hunting an area(for a length of time), and I know they were there first, I'll stay away even though it is public. I don't want to be accused of "stealing" a spot. But it's a public woods. Go out and hunt it, if you walk up on someone or someone walks up on you, well sorry bout your luck but that's going to happen sooner or later.

During turkey season this spring I met a guy who told me he'd been watching this big tom fora week, and asked if I'd not bother him. Well, one I didn't because where he was hunting was a part of the public forest I'd never been and didn't intend to go, and two, he was just being honest with me and nicely asked not to...soI respected that.