I would have just left. Making as much noise as I could. Why cant some people have respect.

.....****SHUDDER!!!!*****........

That' d work for me!

Seriously though I' ve had that happen and I just yell out, " Hi there! I don' t suppose you could find some other place to hunt?" and if he' s a jerk just keep talking to him in a loud voice every minute or two. Eventually they always leave. I' m not going to share 30 yards of space with some idiot so if he' s going to sit there I' m going to make sure neither of us sees an animal the entire time.

I would have left, but I would have taken a couple of shots at imaginary coyotes before doing so.

Similar thing happened last year to me. I was in a tree for about an hour and a half when a guy came up and sat down on a fallen tree. I wistled at him. He looked and said...." I' ve been hunting here all season, I' M SITTING HERE" . I said " you gotta be kidding me" . He just said TOO DAMN BAD. I called him an A-HOLE, and he told me to come on down and say it to his face....I did!!!!!

Upon climbing down the guy realized I' m a larger person and just said whatever. I moved on my way.

Looking back, I would have just shut my mouth and moved. I ended up moving anyway. As much as I wanted to kick his _ _ _ I held back. It was killing me the rest of the evening. Some people are just ignorant. This happened public land in MI. In IL this can' t happen. We have to sign into an area. I think it' s a nice setup and it keeps people from getting ino tiffs with each other.


J

the same thing happened to me and to of my cousins in Ga. a few years back.

we were there well befor first light.about a hr. later a guy comes by me,I whisle and he walks up,I tell him there are two other guys on this ridge.he walks away toward Buddy,and in about 5 min I hear a shot.I see orange going through the trees back the way the guy came from.
Later on we get back together Buddy,Bermon,and myslef.it seems the guy get to where Buddy was and he told him the same thing I did.the guy walks anout 50 yards ahead of Buddy and sets down against a big pine tree.well Buddy is hot by now,he picks a tree about 15 yards ahead of the guy and 15 yards to one side and blasted the bark off and hollered shot him he' s a big one...........needless to say the guy left in a hurry.[]

in your friends case I would do the same;start shooting and holler shot him;which way did he go;all the while I would be like CD said naked.[]

LOL, thats probably what I would do, but since we hunt National Forest Land, ya its public, Most of the people that hunt where we do, know where everyone has a stand and most of the people respect those spots !! It seems to have worked well for the last 20 some years where we hunt.

It is a shame that we have idiots like that to cope with! As one has said, he could have been an anti that just wanted to ruin someones hunt, or just a plain old rude idiot, claiming his " right" to public land! If the spot was really that great of a spot, I guess I' d have to leave, hoping for another day, otherwise I' d stay and make sure that neither of us would see any animals the rest of the day!
Because of idiots like this, I decided long ago that I would only hunt on private land or leased land! With all these idiots on public land it is a wonder we don' t have more hunting accidents than we do!

I hate it when somebody is within 10 acres of me, just don' t know what I would do if they sat right in front of me[:@]

i hate when that happens. people just dont give a care about anyone, but theirselves. good to hear your story turned out, kevin1. i probably would have found another spot, it not worth the trouble

I' d put blanks in my 7mm and fire in his general direction, followed by a " Oh my goodness, I' m so sorry!" [>:]