I really am depressed tonight.
2nd weekend of Illinois deer season. Took a doe the 1st season on my neighbors property. My father took an 8pt 140 class buck.(This is the last property I have to gun hunt)
Tonight I get a call from the landowner. He asks me not to return to hunt. He states the reason is that I have hunted in areas where I am not supposed to. Drove through his hay field. And have too many people hunting there. (My father and me)
To give you a little background his land is divided by a gravel road running e/w. When I sked 6 yrs ago.
He told me 6 years ago to stay on the south side of the road. He had friends that hunted the northside. No problem it was a better spot. But I was happy with anything.
5 years of these guys on the north moving in on me to the from the north to the south. They leave trash. They went from 4 guys hunting a 15 acre patch to 8 guys. They drove out in the cornfield adjacent to the 2 acre patch of woods I am hunting in. I never mentioned any of this to the landowner. I felt he would just get frustrated and just let no-one hunt.
Then this year came. My father and I drive in to the side of the road we are allowed to hunt. There sits a truck. Well knowing where this guy had to be, we decided to hunt the 2 fence rows back 200 yds from this. not much cover but 2 dead deer by 7:00 am anyway.
wEll the guy int he woods killed a small 9 ptr. and came out and talked to us. Repeatedly he talked about killing the 9 and that he and his son were the only ones to be in there. Ihtoguht well Charlie(landowner) doesnt remember us hunting there and just told the guy he could hunt there.
Later that day another person I know who also had asked permission to hunt there(previously). went to the spot and the guy who shot the 9 told him he hadnt fired a shot.(lied) Then while driving around I saw his truck parked on the edge of the clover field. (where he wasnt supposed to be driving) He also had invited 2 of his friends from work to hunt the spots my father and I to hunt there.He also hunted too close to Charlie's son in laws home.(I personally saw him do this)
Yet when Charlie called me I(indirectly) got the blame for .... hunting tooo close to his s.i.l.'s home,driving through the hayfield,not shutting gates,having too many people,not asking every year. ( iknow directly after calling guys who hunt the norht side they havent asked since the firstime they asked 10 years ago)
My question is...What would you do? I really never want to hunt there again. But I just cannot get over the fact I treated his place better than my own. Then I wathced as others treated it like a junkyard,like a mudbog and basically like it was theirs to what they wanted.
I want this guy to know Its their fault.. not mine. But now its just like sourgrapes
mainly this post is just to get it offmy chest. But my stomache is in knots and I cant sleep still. I know these guys blamed me for this. But nothing I can do to prove it.