To clarify, the wma I mentioned in my last post isn't in NJ.
A quick question, I agree that portable stands can be left up ethically, but do you guys agree that if some guy comes in and beats you there, setting up unknowingly 50yds away, you should hunt somewhere else that day? Or are you still saying that gives you claim to an area? I'm just curious, because if I hang a portable stand, it's not where anybody's gonna see it, and somebody may have seen the same deer, sign, ect, and if they get there earlier than me, I'm not gonna walk in on them.
I'm just asking because I always hear horror stories about people coming in and setting up 50yds from you, knowing you are there(not somethingg I'd tolerate). Do you guys show people that same respect, and hunt somewhere else if someone is in the area?
I plan on hunting a wma in mercer county for the first time on 9/7, and I'm wondering how much headache I'll have. I'll be there extemely early, and in my climber back in the middle of the woods. No permanent stands I can see, btu I don't go beating around the woods the few weeks before the season, so someone may have put a hang-on up. If I'm setup long before daylight, and some guy comes in 1/2hr before light and starts climbing in a hang-on 50yds from me, I'm gonna be pissed, and neither of us are gonna have a hunt that morning. I would like to think I'm not alone in that thinking, but some of the stuff I hear leads me to believe everyone thinks differently. If I'm hunting a certain stand already up, I'm gonna have my climber as backup, or another spot in mind, I'm not going to ruins someone's setup.


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