manners

[DelDuck]

Originally posted by M.T. Pockets
I'd have to say rude hunters. I've run into more rude hunters this year than the last 10 combined.

A couple weeks ago I was boating out in a marsh on public water about a half hour before shooting time and stopped on a point to begin setting up. About then a voice in the dark hollers a bunch of swear words and tells me what a bad hunter I am. I asked "where are you ?" and a little flash light came on about 100 yards away. He was cussing me out for as long as I could hear as I pushed my boat down the marsh.
I know of one hunter out with his son that set up early on this same public land, close to the border with private land. When the owner of the private land arrived he hollered at the other hunter and actually fired a shot at him and peppered him with his pattern at about 100 yards. Law enforcement got involved in that one.

I've noticed waterfowl hunters are much more competitive now than a generation ago. I think it has to do with less land to hunt, better equipment and promotion by decoy, call & ammo manufacturers bragging about "Wacking", "Straight Meat" and other ways to kill, kill, kill. If you don't kill as much as the rest you're a failure.

You got that right. Some of my best days were the ones I shot 1 or 2 birds, but just had an absoulute ball with my buddies, or seeing my dog make a great retrieve. I has become so much about how much you kill and not so much about how you kill and just haveing a grand 'ol time. I wish I could have gone this morning but my wife had to work and nobody to watch the kids, so I have daddy duties today.