Simply Amazing...

[WNYBuckHunter]

So I stopped at Gander Mountain tonight to pick up a set of knives I saw on sale and I had nothing better to do so I was walking around the store. I was pretty surprised to see a bunch of guys looking at rests, reading packages of broadheads, etc. Come on, you are seriously buing stuff like that the night before season opens? I saw one guy getting a new rest put on and "tuned". I hope he is heading to an indoor range to at least get a few arrows through that tonight and his first arrow shot with it isnt at a deer this weekend  ??? . I also was in line behind a guy with 2 bags of Acorn Rage and a big jug of C'mere Deer. Um, you cant look at me with a straight face and say you are taking it out of state to use. Im not dumb, that stuff will be on the ground in NY tomorrow morning. I felt like taking pictures of him buying it, loading it in his white Chevy Tahoe and the plate number so I could send it to the DEC.

I am simply amazed at these "hunters" and poachers that I saw tonight. They are the ones giving our sport a bad name because they take bad shots with untested equipment and break the law by baiting deer.

[Geno C]

it is funny right? i see the same thing, makes me lough... but to others its second nature, its what they do. they prob wont hit the range before they get out in the woods. they will pull back on a deer and wound it. its sad that some people cant find the time in there lives to put forth the much needed effort it takes to deer hunt. for them and the deer..

[ADKSasquatch]

People are stupid.  I saw a guy buy a brand new muzzleloader yesterday to start in the northern zone tomorrow.  I've seen people buying the deer bait previously, but honestly, I'm not so sure it works when you dump it the day before.  Apparently some people have no hunting skills...

[biggamefish]

  I knew a guy that was hunting over bait and the first day of gun he got a decent 6 pointer and he called and said I had to come and see it.  So I did, well when I got there the nieghbor whos land he was hunting on was acting all impressed about the deer untill I said "Nice deer too bad you shot it over a pile of apples"  He was quick to deny while the land owner was there.  This guy took his truck and got two full bed loads of apples to put 30 yards from his stand.  He thought he was an allmighty hunter.  Thankfully I don't talk to him anymore and he moved out of state.  He was a loser to say the least. 

  I have been practicing with my bow since the end of july got everything together and now I have time to sit here and write on the forum.  Glad I started early now I just hope the weather holds out and the deer cooperate.

[hang fyre]

the worst part of it is if they take these untested bows out and wound a deer, they wont spend much time looking for it.  I heard a couple of this type of "hunter" on radios opening day of rifle season 2 years ago.  The first says he just shot at a spike buck and the second asks if he got it.  No I missed he said it didnt drop.  I listened to the rest of their conversation and no mention was made of looking for blood/hair etc.  The talk was about when they were meeting for breakfast.

[skyzmine]

some people just dont have the time or know-how

not everyone lives next to a 30 acre corn field or has 2, 9 acre fields of oats

with apple trees everywhere and a pumpkin patch, like me

there will allways be assholes no matter what we do.

as long as they dont trespass on my land.

[erussell]

Im already seeing guys driving the roads glassing fields I know they don't have permission to hunt. I know this because I have asked and was told they don't let anyone hunt on there property. I can only surmise they are spoting for there night time drive by. Ive been seeing a nice buck on a certain road by my house the last week or so hanging out under a oak tree at certain times of the day. Well the other night I went for my 3 mile get in shape for the deer season walk and there was a car parked along side the road about 60 yrds from this tree. As soon as they saw me getting closer they hauled tail the other way. Seems over the last yr or so I have seen an increase of slow moving cars at night or orange vested hunters driving the roads slowly checking out the woods around my house. Thinking about calling the Game Warden this week and complaining. Maybe they will bring out the robo deer. And 1/2 of them are PA plates.

[WNYBuckHunter]

I glass areas I dont have permission to hunt all the time. Not because I would ever trespass or poach the deer, I just like seeing whats around and I enjoy watching deer. I cant say everyone has the same intentions or lack there of, but you shouldnt automatically assume just because they are watching deer.

[fasteddie]

I recall being in the Geneseo WalMart the day before gun season one year . A guy was at the counter buying 20 ga & 12 ga slugs . A buddy was loaning him a shotgun for opening day . The guy didn't know what ga it was and hadn't shot it . I asked why he hadn't sighted it in . He said his buddy had done that already .

It would have been funny if it turned out to be a 16 gauge !  : ... ;D

[biggamefish]

  So here is a good one.  I get on stand on monday at 100 in the afternoon so I am sitting there nothing is moving untill 330 when I see movment damn a hunter comming throught the woods.  I hunt state land so it is something I am used to.  He is walking straight towards me, closer, closer then turns he is 15 to 20 yards out and never sees me.  He has his rubber boots on blue jeans a long sleeved tee shirt and a short sleeve tee shirt on carrying his sent lock suit.  Sort of dragging the arms and legs across the ground.  I watch him walk 80 yards and stop there he is at his treestand I missed on my way in.

  Delima do I get down or stand still? The way he was standing he was watching one side of a knoll and a trail and I was watching a totally other trail on the other side of the knoll.  I decide he doesn't know I am here I can watch him set up and be fine.  If the deer takes his way he has them adn if they go my way I have them.

  So he is at the bottom of his treestand moves around for 2 minutes then he gets out rubber gloves and a sent wik pours sent on it and walks out like a cartoon caracter sneaking up on his enemy. He was super (sorta) quiet.

  Now I figure he was wearing the gloves so he wouldn't get his sent in the sent wik but he takes the gloves off and touches every finger insiding them back out.  Maybe he was trying to keep the sent off his fingers either way I ddn't see why he put them on touching them like he did.  So he gets up after 20 minutes.  He was in a hang on treestand with climbing sticks. 

16 ft climbing stick and his stand was another 15 ft up  after his sticks. He was using branches some of them dead CRAZY.

  So I wait to get down so he can leave and not find the intersection of trails that I am on.  He doesn't get down untill 6:35 it was way dark.  Just as he gets down I here something elses coming my way I figure it has to be a buddy to pick him up (why else would he stay so late).  Nope turns out to be a doe and 2 fawns.  They pick right up on all his movement and just walk the other way.  This guys goes up and down his treestand 3 more times and walks around his tree several times.  So much for sent.  At one point I thought he was taking his stand down.  Tons of noise.  So after 25 minutes of doing who knows what over there he is walking out.  He walks directly underneath my stand.  I know it was dark and he didn't know I was there but I had 3 bungee cords (brightly colored) that I think he almost stepped on.  He walked out not even aware that I was there. 

  After watching the deer watch him and knowing he was there like that I doubt they will just walk in with out being super spooky.  I can scratch that stand off my list for this year.  I walked over there afterwards and to boot there are apples about 25 yards out from his stand.  No apple trees in the area at all. 

As the title said SIMPLY AMAZING.