dog1,

Right kind of you to invite those fellas down to hunt pig on your private land in Georgia. If they show up this year and hunt based on your one time invitation, how would you feel if they showed up the following year unannounced and univited with extra friends and just helped themselves? Therein lies the crux of the problem for giving out information (GPS, stump, tree, rock, ridge, basin, drainage) about where to hunt on public land. Private land has rights, public land is free for all = competitive. Big difference.

In your earlier email to me you indicated that you had already hunted in the Craig area in 2003 and that you wanted to "upgrade" from deer hunting low on private land to elk hunting higher up the mountain range into the adjacent National Forest land and wanted to know where to go to get elk in the National Forest. I responded that the only good areas I knew in that area were the ones I hunt and that I wasn't willing to disclose them and that I didn't think it was prudent to invite people that I don't know into my camp based upon an "internet date." That is still my position (am I missing something here?).

In case you didn't save your license information for your 2003 hunt near Craig, the GMU for elk hunting in the National Forest you discussed will be the same one you had for your "hot weather" deer hunt in 2003, i.e. GMU #4.

Again, Good Luck and Good Hunting,

EKM