Hunting Forum

I think that it would depend a little on the time of day that you were going in. For instance if sunrise was at 7:00 and you were walking in at 7:30, I think it be most curtious to back out and go around. If it was before hunting hrs started or early afternoon for PM hunt it wouldn't be as bad. I don't hunt public land but this is how I would want to be respected if I was. 
  

Now if this was a main hiking path and this guy was set up close to the entrance on that path then he might be the one being discurtious hoping to keep others from coming in.

My last post was just before I left for an elk hunt in Flagstaff, Az.  This is what happened to me concerning this subject.  While scouting a few days before our season opened.  My brother in law and I came across a couple of bow hunters in tree stands.  One of them was hidden so well we didn't see him until he waved at us.  My brother in law didn't see him. I did.  In both cases.  We moved on and left them alone.  During my hunt.  I set up in a cedar tree next to a water hole.  Two other so called hunters came along, and I stepped out to let them know that I was there.  These two dirt bags just kept walking.  I waved at them a couple more times.  I even let them know verbally.  I said " Hey, I'm over here." They just kept walking and set up chairs and sat down straight across the water hole from me.  My brother in law said that a few years ago.  The same thing happened to him with a group of 4 guys.  When one guy said they needed to go somewhere else.  One dirt bag said "Why?  He doesn't own the water hole."  He used a couple exra words in his remark like MFer.  This is the type of people who give the decent hunters a bad name. People like this with bad attitudes and no respect for other people need attitude adjustments and if I ever took someone like that with me.  Iwould school him on proper eticate in the field.  Then I would tell him that I would hunt with him again as long as he adheres to proper eticate.  And, if he ever showed that attitude again.  He wouldn't ever hunt with me again.  On second thought.  I'd probably school him.  Then say lets go back to the truck.  We're going home.  Then let him know that an attitude like that doesn't fly.

Wrong!  That is showing disrespect and uncourteous behavior to do that even on public land.  It may be legal.  But,  it isn't appropriate to do that.  When we ran across those bow hunters.  That was on public land.  We left them alone.  We where going to check out tracks around the water hole.  But, to encroach on the oother hunters when they were  already there is the wrong thing to do.  They were there first.  Just as I was at that other water hole first.  It is a matter of what is right ,and what is wrong.  To encroach on an area that another hunter is already sitting at is just plain wrong.  You are right that if there is another way to get to a specific area.  It is best to go that route.  But, to do like what had happened to my brother in law and me is plain wrong.  There are are a lot of people who weren't taught right from wrong that will come up and plant themselves right next to where you are knowing you were there already.  That's not right, and it is rude.  I have moved on to other areas when I found that there were people there already.  Even though that was my favorite spot.  That's the decent, and appropriate thing to do.