[skeeter@ccia.com]

Niteowl I once went on stand a good hour before the season open just to get set up and make sure no body else would be there in my spot that I used for years. Well about an hour after daylight a man and a boy walked over to the same ridge and only about 20 yards from me. I figured the old goat needed a rest and is why he sat down looking down the same hill as I. Then he proceeded to kick a clean spot for the 2 of them and by now my ticker was a tickin...I said a few choice words to the old guy along with telling the young one that he better not be learning how to be a slob hunter by posting right in another hunters lap. They looked at me and just acted as if I didn't even exist...so I figured they would not see a thing because by now I was slamming limbs against trees...throwing things down the hill and making as much noise as I could...but they still just sat there....so after I said some real good choice words to them both I figured by me not watching the hillside, a big buck would show up and they would shoot it so I walked in front of them kicking dirt on them as I passed down the ridge about a hundred yards or so before I had to sit and gather myself to keep from going back....wouldn't you know a nice buck walked to look over the ridge on the opposite side of me from them....I flipped my 06 to shoot left handed (am right) and took him out.......so it did pay off for me to move but the situation still gets the hairs in my craw a standing tall...there are tons of slob hunters out there ........grrrrr..a little food for thought.....another quick note...I had another guy in another spot I hunted also for years move a tree stand only 30 yrds from my stand.....I didn't know he did that till one morning about 8 he walked past me saying he hit a buck but had to go to work and didn't have time to look for it...I asked him what the he?? was he doing out there then if not time to follow up...that is when I found his stand and removed it from the tree....in pieces....he never came back and neither did the buck I had been watching. Guy put up tree stand 30yds from where I had my daughter sitting while I pushed deer to her...when I got back he said that is where he wanted to hunt and was going to hunt...yes I felt like shooting him right out of his tree...my other daughter sat with me in a diff county an hr before light....we kept hitting hunters with our light to let them know we were there..they moved on..then as daylight came one guy walked right up to us and asked if we had seen his buddies.... I said I don't know who they were but no body bothered us because we were already there. He said if we see them tell them he would be right over the hill...(ridge we were watching)...15 min later we heard a shot...then he came back said if we see his buddies tell them he got a buck...so what are you to do anymore?...I have just ran into some real a??holes out there....but we do pretty good...going out in morning since daughter is off as long as rain holds off for her...I just sitting with her...blackpowder season is in.....just don't let all these slobs bother you to the extent you quit hunting and enjoying the woods..no matter how hard it is to sit still while you think of them...lol....keep on going on.