manners

[fabsroman]

Okay, rude hunters would be on the top of my list. You should see some of my posts from two years ago.

I hunted one field that I have been hunting for the last 10 years and another guy, who happens to guide, was setting up in the next field right on the border of the field I was hunting in because he knew the geese were coming to my field. I walked up to him, and tried to start talking, but he wasn't very nice. At the end, I asked him not to sky bust if the birds were coming to my setup and he made a stupid comment. My response was that if he did sky bust I would have no choice buy to park my truck right on the edge of the two fields and ruin the hunt for both of us. His response "You gotta do what you gotta do."

I try to be a nice guy as often as I possibly can, but sometimes I end up getting the short end of the stick and that turns me mean.

That day, my dad and I shot our 10 bird limit in 30 minutes, just as those guys were getting frustrated and trying to shoot birds a little too far. After we limited out, I got the truck, picked up the decoys, and left the area so they could try to get their limits.

I had another instance with some other idiots that made us move our decoys some 50 yards because we were over the property line, which was our mistake, albeit an honest one because there were really no marked boundaries. They wouldn't hunt in with us and we ended up setting up about 150 yards away from them. Within viewing distance, there was 3 different setups. The birds were flying that afternoon, but none of them came into any setup until about sunset. We had a pair of mallards circling our decoys for 5 minutes, but thought it was after shooting time so we didn't pull the trigger. The other guys kept on shooting so late that I could see flames out of their barrels and I knew it was well after legal shooting time.

"Why can't we all be friends?" Who cares if 5 guys have to waterfowl hunt with 5 other guys. Personally, I look at it as a way to make more hunting friends and friends in general. If the birds are coming, everybody has some fun, if they aren't we can still have some fun.

As you can see from the length of this post, it really does piss me off.