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2013 DEER HUNT Area 54
Topic Started: Nov 15 2013, 10:57 AM (278 Views)
Posted Image Biggary99
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Well, here goes, got packed up and ready to go on my annual deer hunt with our gang up in Area 54. Arrive at the camp on Friday November 08th, got trailer set up and furnace going, no one else had arrived yet. Decided instead of sitting around idle, got dressed and ventured out to see what was moving around. The rest of the gang showed up later Friday and Saturday morning, after settling in we discussed a game plan for the upcoming week. Things were going really good for the first couple of days, lots of deer sign; bear sign, things were looking good for the days to follow. Then, one morning we all proceeded to our watches, settled in and waited for the designated pushers of our gang to commence their runs through the area we were hunting. Now, before I continue, YES, I understand the area we are hunting in, is CROWN LAND, but it is a very, very large area of crown land and we only use a very small portion. There is more than enough acreage to satisfy the needs and requirements of numerous hunting groups in area 54. Anyway, our pushers departed camp at their designated time and started their push, having seen the deer tracks and the trails being used, all of us on our watches were on the lookout and listening for any possible action that would be moving our way. Sitting on my watch, I knew I had a pusher to the southeast of me, who was making his way to the west, with the morning air being so still, I could hear anything a long ways off, once I even heard my pusher as he made his way through the brush. Then it happened, suddenly I heard 2 beagles from the west heading in the direction of our camp, they were running through the same area that one of our pushers were in. I listened as the beagles carried on to the east behind me, (found out at camp later, they passed within 100 yards of our pusher) suddenly the howling got more intense. The beagles and their handler had been driven over 2 miles from their camp and dropped at a location that was 865 yards from our camp (used my GPS at their tire tracks and foot prints to measure it from our camp) and then the truck with the other hunters drove to the small area we were hunting in. Several members of our gang observed the green truck with the extended box as it drove around the small area with the other hunters in it. Listening to the beagles in the distance, they were onto something as they ran through the area we were in. One of our members had a doe fly past him at breakneck speed (no shot available) with the beagles hot on its trail. This happened several days in a row, after all this, my question is…what ever happened to “Good Hunter Ethics“, “Code of Conduct”, the understanding of seasoned hunters, that if you know hunters from another camp are in the area around “their” camp hunting, you stay in your area, work as hard as they did and at least let them enjoy their hunt. Why must others feel that just because its crown land they can chink on others areas, everyone puts in a lot of time, expense, legwork to enjoy the opportunity of the deer hunt. This is not the first time this has happened with the hunters from this camp; they are and have been doing it to other camps as well. I’m not begrudging the dogs for what they are doing; they only do what they were trained to do. But the camp captain should not be having his members and/or dogs transported to the other side of an area another camp is hunting and disrupting their hunting opportunities, this is very “UNPROFFESSIONAL”, UNETHICAL, and lacks a lot of “GOOD HUNTER ETHICS”. I apologize for being so long winded, but if there is a member from that camp on this site, I hope you review your camp’s Hunter Ethics and Professionalism and maybe next year and years to follow will be enjoyable and successful for all.
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