First and foremost I wanna tell all you guys/gals how much I enjoy reading ur stories and insight. I'm a fresh fish who joined to hopefully help further the sport and join in the topics.
I have a fairly small rant and looking for a little insight or opinion and I pre-apologize that this is my first post.
On Oct 2nd in the evening I decided to try out a NY forest spot in 4A. I started way previous to the season by setting up cams, studied topo, scouted, scouted, scouted. That evening I passed on a 8yrd shot on what I estimated to be a 1.5 y/o doe. She was super tiny and instead took a bunch of pictures of her. Heard a very close gun shot after she walked well outta view but that a topic for another time.
Over the past couple weeks I've been in and outta there with nothing to tell or brag about. Sunday morning I snuck in at around 0545 still very dark out and set up my own bush ground blind like the 1st day. It was very rainy and foggy and called it at around 0900. Something caught my eye on the ground in the middle of the field so I decided to investigate. Turn out what I thought was litter was a white AND brown salt lick sitting on a pile of corn. After I shook my head for a minute, I looked over and noticed a man made stick blind about 10 yards away from the pile. Two and two added up and I packed up and hiked out. While loading my truck, I noticed at the back of the parking area a fresh skin and a gut pile. Not trying to reach but it was a smaller doe and pretty close color match to the girl I let pass. Disgusting and letting that do my thinking, I opened up the DEC regulations and called all 3 ECO's in the county. No answer from any so I called dispatch and let them know.
Tonight (Tuesday) I missed a phone call and it was the 2nd of three ECO's on the list.
Im not gonna bore you all unless asked about the whole conversation but for 24 minutes this guy talked and came off like a complete donkey rectum. He accused me of growing pot, setting up feeders, poaching from the spot for the last 4 years when this is my 1st year there, hunting from the stick blind etc..... I was sitting at the dinner table with my fiancé mind you and she heard every word. She was almost madder than me. The final words of the conversation was this ECO telling me not to hunt ANYWHERES in the forest, that he hopes to "meet" me one day soon, and that I have been warned. That by the way doesn't even scratch the surface of the almost one way conversion.
What would any of you do. Need some advice before I really insert foot.
Once again, sorry this is my first post and I promise to add as much helpful info to the site that I can
Mike
