When you hunt public land you have to expect other people to show up. He has as much right to be there as you do. It happens. Either learn to deal with it or find private land to hunt.

Many years ago when I was stationed in CA I scouted most the summer for a good blacktail by Mendocino County. I found a waterhole more than 5 miles from the trailhead that had a lot of sign around it and after sitting and glassing it from over 400 yards away I found 3 or 4 really good bucks using it. It seemed to be the only water around. So I was ready to spend a lot of time there to get one of the bucks.

The day before the season opened I packed in a dry camp and set up about 400 yards away on an overlook so I could keep a spotting scope set on the waterhole and waited for opening morning. I didn't see anything that morning and about noon a lot of people showed up and pitched camp next to the waterhole. When I went down there I found out it was a Boy Scout troop from San Fran and they were doing a one week campout. So, all that scouting went out the door. They had as much right to be there as I did and I had no moral or legal reason to ask them to break camp. I simply went elsewhere.

I ended up taking a little fork horn in a rough canyon for the year but never got one of the good bucks.