Absolutely, I took a buddy to two spots and low and behold he has gotten permission every year since. It really pisses me off, because he never stops and knocks on doors to gain new farms. Personally I think you should be allowed to stone them if they do.
hunting spots are as sacred as training grounds, and the urge to show off both are very powerful, but with the use of GPS and other location tools attached to pics, I wont post said pics of those "honey holes"..I was taken to a few new spots just last month that have been in play for some time....and that was from a family member..All it takes is to get you favorite place snaked once by a "friend" and you will look at who you take where and when
If someone takes me to a honey hole, I make sure I never return there unless they take me there or they no longer desire to hunt there. I also defer to them for first shot on birds. I find it only respectful and proper field etiquette. Now HNTFSH and Melatone I'll gladly accept the blindfolding if you're willing to share some honey holes.
Might be time to find new friends! I've been really lucky with the few guys I hunt with as far as sharing the load scouting and finding spots. I would be really pissed if someone piggy backed me all the time, probably wouldn't hunt with em any more.
ha...I actually quit the take-a-guy hunting thing many years ago. For all the reasons stated by above hunters. Doesn't mean I don't bust a couple chops every year about their efforts in securing there own spots but it NEVER happens. ;-) Tell 'em - love ya man but I don't need help shooting birds, do need help sharing new spots.
It's a tit-for-tat in my book and your tit better be scouted,, hunted and not some icon on a state map convenient to get too.
What's always ironic is these are the same guys that complain about 'so many hunters' out there and too crowded. Hell...you could write it down for them on how to be successful and they still wouldn't get it/do it.
So yes - if i pay back a favor (which I'm happy to do) it is only on Private where I control it or on public - with a blindfold!! ;-)
Once ran a hunt-test senario, where the object was to sneak into a public honey-hole, use the decoys already left there, quick shoot your ducks, and get back to the truck before the other hunters showed up & caught yah. I wonder where the judge ever got the idea for such a scenario, Public hunting spots are scared; blind-folding and riding in the trunk is to be expected
Under-cutting another person’s X spot, especially private, is cause for a good ol’ a-whooping. Once seen an “intruder” land face down in a cornfield only to watch him come to and have to stumble around and pick up a bunch of field decoys with his buddies. Glad I wasn’t in his party.
Absolutely not, and remove the battery from their phone so they can't GPS it.
Nothing worse then showing up at your "spot" and having someone you brought there already hunting it.
Live and learn, as always I learn the hard way
People tend to remember the good spots and not the bad ones. ;-)
But seriously - if you want to treat Atticus I guarantee you he'd have a lot more fun and so would you - putting 6 Rooster pheasant in a field at Lone Oak and letting him get a snoot full of find and flush.
Wish I could agree with that but don't -at least not on hunting spots. Until you take on the responsibility to be the guy with the permission, great spots, etc...you can't fully appreciate the perspective of protecting it. I can't qualify the virtue or value of a friend solely based on their affinity to hunt as I do.
But I can understand that and choose not to hunt with them. Up to and until the time they've done the same and by the nature of it, feel the same.
My motivation is a quality hunt afield in peace, be it alone or with another like-minded. It's not a social event. Hard to judge someone as a friend that doesn't embrace the same - it just means I don't invite them. ;-)
Can't win.
I was invited to a goose shoot in a particular field four years ago. Often drove by and reported whether there were birds in there or not back to the fellow that invited me but never went in without him.
Another friend rented this same field (about three hundred acres) for crops and was a personal friend of the landowner. I was invited to shoot with the renter.
The first (now ex-friend) came by while we were still in the field and questioned my ethics since I knew the field was his, and I did. He even went so far as to complain to the landowner.
The landowner got in touch with the renter and asked him whether he should kick the first guy off permantently. A conundrum.
The comment was made that the guy with the permission sometimes feels he has more ownership than the landowner.
I continue to shoot with the renter and have lost friend.
Man - that's a tough one. There are some places I have chosen not to exercise permission only because the landowner either had given others permission or wouldn't agree on sole permission. In the end - hassles to a landowner suck for them. And - I don't want to arrive anywhere at dark thirty with a truck load of full bodies to find someone else there.
Recall a deer spot years ago - permission was easy, the old guy was great. Got to the private spot to find 5 other trucks...lol
I had a friend I used to deer hunt with a lot ,until I took him to a private farm once ,then he went back without me and told the land owner that I said it was alright. I no longer have that friend or farm.
The whole snaking thing is unforgiveable. Life has taught me to hold all permission slips I may have gotten for friends, in MY truck. And agreement with landowner is aware nobody will or should hunt unless I am present.
It's way trickier than it needs to be that's for sure!!!
I seen him last year on a small public lake that he always hunts. We where already set up and he came rolling in wanting to hunt with us and buddy up. (With the wind direction of that day we had the only really good spot on the lake)
Designs over the years - adding water, when able, sure helps. ;-) Paid back two favors over it (at least in my mind...lol)
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