So on an east coast forum, there was a guy complaining a "buddy" that he invited hunting with him, and that he took to some better than average spots was now hunting "his" areas on public land, mostly when he wasn't around... Although they did run into each other sporadically, it ruined the friendship.... To which I replied, really? The loss of a friend over a public land hunting spot? Seems petty in my book....
My view was, even though you did the work, that it is public land, and if your not hunting it... then I would rather have a friend in my area and be able to harvest a mediocre at best whitetail(its PA so nothing huge lives here ) then some stranger who, (still has the same right) but just happens to stumble into the area. Well holy heck, it was like I was the most un-informed, untrustworthy, pos, scum that ever walked the sacred woods of PA...
The funny part, I'm known with my group and family as the guy everyone wants to hunt around, because success of friends and family means as much to me as harvesting something myself...
And then it sank it... this is part of the overall issue as to why the hunting community can't come together and be as one, because someone always feels cheated, or only believes in "I" or gets in a tizzy over something so trivial.
Maybe I am wrong, and this forum will gore me also, but I cant help feel that the group at home has become so blinded, that they really have lost sight of the real reason for why most of us started out hunting and fishing in the beginning... The enjoyment of the woods.
Fire Away....
My view was, even though you did the work, that it is public land, and if your not hunting it... then I would rather have a friend in my area and be able to harvest a mediocre at best whitetail(its PA so nothing huge lives here ) then some stranger who, (still has the same right) but just happens to stumble into the area. Well holy heck, it was like I was the most un-informed, untrustworthy, pos, scum that ever walked the sacred woods of PA...
The funny part, I'm known with my group and family as the guy everyone wants to hunt around, because success of friends and family means as much to me as harvesting something myself...
And then it sank it... this is part of the overall issue as to why the hunting community can't come together and be as one, because someone always feels cheated, or only believes in "I" or gets in a tizzy over something so trivial.
Maybe I am wrong, and this forum will gore me also, but I cant help feel that the group at home has become so blinded, that they really have lost sight of the real reason for why most of us started out hunting and fishing in the beginning... The enjoyment of the woods.
Fire Away....