Hello guys,

I'm a fairly new hunter, been hunting only waterfowl for 2 years now. This past December I decided to go out for Deer hunting. I did a lot of reading in magazines and on the internet to try and educate myself to the proper techniques and strategies.

I didn't have too much luck, had one in range just after legal time but other than that didn't see anything. Only got out 4-5 times in the 2 weeks the season was open due to work travel.

I had a lot of fun with it until my last day... It was the last day of the hunting season, typically I was heading out at 4am and was in the woods by myself but since this was the last day and it was a saturday there were quite a few trucks parked at the entrance to the woods. I started wandering down an old logging road, my spot was about 2 miles in. I was probably 3/4 of the way there when I had to enter the woods to go around a flooded out portion of the road. While I was in the woods I heard a fairly close shot. Stopped for a minute and continued on my way. Once I had avoided the flooding I popped back out of the woods onto the logging road and was about 50 yards from another hunter who was prone looking further down the logging road. I froze for a second, to figure out exactly what I should do. I decided I would head into the woods and try and find a suitable place to not waste the day. I went about 200 yards off the road and set up against a tree. I probably stayed there for an hour to an hour and a half when I saw the other hunter walking down the logging road back towards the vehicles. There was still plenty of time left before hunting close so I decided to head to my spot. I went back out on the logging trail and hunted my spot till sunset. After packing up my blind and walking the 2 miles back to the truck it was very dark. When I got to my truck I noticed there were two guys hanging out near their vehicles. One of them jokingly shouted look there is a deer! And I joked back Don't shoot! I then asked how they had done and thats when things got ugly.

One of the guys says I don't know why don't you tell me how I did since you were so far up my butt! He proceeded to drop as many F bombs as he could possibly fit and informed me about his 50 years of hunting experience and how I better not pull a stunt like that again or it might not go so well for me. I tried explaining why I was so close and that I had every intention of respecting his space, but he really wasn't interested in anything other than swearing at me. At this point I was pissed off, but I bit my tongue apologized and went on my way.

My question for the more experienced hunters is what should I have done in this situation?