MTNMARAUDER1776
FNG
Alright so I'd like to hear some opinions on this. This morning, Opening day of Colorado 2nd rifle elk.. I have easy access thru dad's private and other have to hike in to this particular spot for some back story.
We're in our spot 30 minutes before first light, and the sun starts coming up and I have elk feeding right to myself and my wife. She's got a cow and bull tag and there are plenty of both coming up the hill to us. when out of no where I hear two people CRASHING thru the brush and kicking rocks. I slipped back and stood open until they saw me thinking they would go the other way....elk still in eyesight 400 yards and closing. This guy decides to come and in plain voice inform me that these elk don't bed here...and that he was gonna hunt this area too and didn't want to hunt on top of each other. Literally actively molesting my wife's hunt. So I with zero profanity but in a not very nice tone told him to go do whatever he was going to do but to get away from us. he then called me a dick and stormed off. I would literally never approach someone WHILE THEY ARE IN THERE SETUP. ever. regardless of if I just hiked my ass off and found out someone was already there.....Would you?
Do you guys make a habit of trying to talk to people you encounter in the field while they're actively hunting?
Then shortly later my wife was about to pull the trigger on a HUGE bull and he out of no where snaps his head in the direction the two guys went and bails as she's squeezing one off (total miss no wound).
We're in our spot 30 minutes before first light, and the sun starts coming up and I have elk feeding right to myself and my wife. She's got a cow and bull tag and there are plenty of both coming up the hill to us. when out of no where I hear two people CRASHING thru the brush and kicking rocks. I slipped back and stood open until they saw me thinking they would go the other way....elk still in eyesight 400 yards and closing. This guy decides to come and in plain voice inform me that these elk don't bed here...and that he was gonna hunt this area too and didn't want to hunt on top of each other. Literally actively molesting my wife's hunt. So I with zero profanity but in a not very nice tone told him to go do whatever he was going to do but to get away from us. he then called me a dick and stormed off. I would literally never approach someone WHILE THEY ARE IN THERE SETUP. ever. regardless of if I just hiked my ass off and found out someone was already there.....Would you?
Do you guys make a habit of trying to talk to people you encounter in the field while they're actively hunting?
Then shortly later my wife was about to pull the trigger on a HUGE bull and he out of no where snaps his head in the direction the two guys went and bails as she's squeezing one off (total miss no wound).