I hunt public land and last year I got lucky as hell and took a 13pter out of there.

Unfortunately about 6 people saw me loading him onto the back of my car (yes, I put a buck on the back of a cavalier, it's all I got until I can afford a truck). That entire season I saw 3 trucks total on the only access road to that piece of public land.

This past season I saw 8 hunters within 100 yards of my spot on opening day and another 10 more the next day and the following Saturday (when I got my doe).

3 separate times while I was by my car either eating lunch or heading home for the day, different guys asked me if I was the guy who got the big buck last year. Apparently not a lot of people with green 2-door cars hunt deer in this area All 3 times they wanted to know where in the woods I hunted and 1 guy even tried to follow me into the woods until I went a long ways through some thick brush and circled back to my spot.

Since it is public land, I obviously can't do a damn thing about it except for wait until someday I can buy my own land and then worry about keeping people off my own land.

I'm sure there are other factors at play beside my buck last year, but it drives me nuts when I get up 4 hours before sun-up, get out to the woods sit as still as I can, try to be scent-free to hopefully get a chance to see a deer and then some idiot comes tramping through the woods 100 feet from me hollaring to his buddy who is 50 yards away.

i would notify the owner and tell them get off it may not be ur land
but u have permission to sling lead. i have had the same problem so i no
how it feels just take ur time and get them to leave

Some good Ideias but I don't think I could talk to him and remain calm, understand last year he spent 4 straight days looking for me and found me 3 towns away. He is that kind of guy. Also the state of Mass has one good thing going for it. And it is the law of assumpsion (SP?) What it means is that unless land is posted every 50 ft. (I think) with the land owners name and contact info. it is presumed open for hunting. Just the opposit of many states. This is usually a good thing as youdon't have to run around and find out of state land owners exct. This paticular peice is owned by a company who really dosn't have time for petty bull as they think this is. Or they can Post it and no one will be able to hunt there. I belive I have lost the battle as he has told so maney people about the area its going to be ruined for a couple of years till folks find that its no easier killing a deer there as anywhere else. I just got lucky and found a big one. I shot 3 deer there in our 3 week muzzle loader season. I had a gold mine all to myself.

Here is the deer they all think there is one behind every tree there. Crazy but thats what I'm dealing with.

That buck is really nice! Good job!

It sounds like those guys need to go back to hunters safety and learn ethics. You do not go bombarding onto someone elses hunting property just because they shot a big buck. They need to learn that shooting the spike buck ruines that deers chance of growing to a mature one. If you talk to those guys and they still keep hunting the area I would try to find another area to hunt and chances are you will get a shot at another mature one. By then hopefully they will figure out that maybe they are going about things in the wrong way and instead of hunting you and your spots they will learn to hunt the deer by gaining knowledge of the biology of the species.....if they continue to act in the way they are then they areNOT true hunters.