Do you guys have rules for your lease??? Is this a hunting club or just a group of you guys that went together on a piece of land?

Well, that's another alternative. I agree with everyone. It's totally unethical and also unsafe. He would be getting my 2 cents worth regardless of what I decided to do. Too bad everyone didn't give the landowner an alternative of getting rid of him or all of you were leaving! I know that's a hard decision, especially with how hard it is to get places to hunt nowadays. I think you made a good decision. Better to get out before something happens you both may regret.

Maybe the guy couldnt tell another hunter was working the bird. He obviously dont know how to call. Maybe you could give him some pointers and tell him nicely what happened on your hunt. He will hopefully be more considerate next time and you can stay in the lease. I have never won anything with a confrontation.Just a thought.

If I was you I would tell him a tale of gobblers and scrapes on the opposite side of the lease...
I feel bad that you have to put up with such hunting stupidity!

Yep, we have rules, and he is following them. He was at least 100 yards away. Thats really the only rule. I emailed him several times, and he won't email back. The more I think about it, the madder I get.

Its a rarity I get a turkey, maybe one every 2 years. This is the first year I have had my own land to do it and really first place where they are plentiful. Oh well, jump back on that horse.

I have made the mistake but the opposite. I usually think I know the difference between a hen and box call. One day I looked around figured I would see another hunter, and here comes a hen. It sounded so bad, I could have swore its a person.

I was clucking and few cuts some, which is hard to tell the difference.

My whole life is about confrontation, and I really want it to stop. I have a love hate relationship with confrontation. No body wins.

Mark, some of the worst calling I've ever heard came from a real live Hen! Sounds like your in a no win situation with this guy, bummer, I would move on and enjoy my hunting else where!

About the whole rules the lose of privilages i read from anothers guy post, you cant do tht. . .he's playin money to lease and if he was suspended of his privilegs then there goes your fourth guys payment and the other guys leasing the land have to make up the diffrence.

I feel for you,some people just don't have any hunting ethics to them.I have had the same thing done to me where I use to live.We had birds gobbling on the roost two years in a row and had a guy come in on us ona four wheeler and start calling.I didn't hunt the ground anymore.GOOD LUCK TO YA!!!!!!

Sounds like the crap I deal with at my home woods BC. Theres a guy named Tommy that just does the dumbest stuff, yet considers himself a great hunter. He'll go out prior to season, call in birds, see which way they are heading, and run to get ahead of them and call them back in. All while using decoys. Talk about educating them.

Well me and a neighbor were out talking about where I should go the next day, and I had planned on hitting a spot near a top of the hill just a mile or so up the road. Tommy and his dad come rolling up and he asks me where I planned to be. I told him at the top of the hill just up the road because I know a bird is there. He says, "Ok, because we just heard him sound off a couple times and we dont want to set up on the same bird as you." Fair enough, I shoe him along, because honestly I cant stand him. Come 5:30 AM the next morning i'm walking into my spot and I hear a truck coming up into the woods behind me. I was off the dirt road maybe 20 yards and getting set up. Its Tommy and his dad heading for the top of the hill. They literally pass me on the way to the top of the hill.

Well, I wasnt about to abandon this bird, so I stay in my setup and wait for flydown. I hit a few notes and that gobblers eating it up. Then I hear them on a box call just hammering. Balls to the wall, straight up mashing that box. I keep it calm with some clucks and purrs. The birds coming my way. Apparently they say enough is enough and,believe it or not,start walking horizontal to my setup, stopping and calling with the box every 50 yards or so. That gobbler must have spotted them and enough was enough, he was gone.

So, I seeTommy and his daddy later that week and I ask them why they setup there after saying they wouldnt (in a not so nice fashion),then why they walked through my setup as a bird was coming in, etc. Their answer was he stopped gobbling so we started walking and calling. LOL, he was in the middle of gobbling every 2-3 minutes and working his way to me. They are just slobs and they didn't want me connecting on that bird. I stay clear of the idiots best I can, but its public land. People are rude and ignorant. Just got to deal with them most of the time.