If you spend much time in the woods/deerstand its not healthful to alienate other hunters. Always wonder about those hunting accidents from stray bullets.
Best to have someone drop you off in this area if you are trespassing/poaching as unattended vehicles seem to catch on fire.
Risky business trespassing/poaching as well hidden trail cameras identify the problem as well as game. GW
I had a situation a few years ago. I hunt on a farm and only 3 guys have permission. We each stay in our designated areas. Early in the season, I was talking to one of the other guys that hunt there and he told me that there were a couple of Hispanic guys poaching around there with guns during bow season. Evidently they were friends of Roberto who was the farm hand at the time.
During Early Muzzle Loader season, we had a period of Does only. This monster 10 point comes out and I almost squeezed on him, but my ethics got in the way and I let him walk figuring there's a lot more time to catch up with him legally. That's not to say one of the other guys wouldn't shoot it first, or someone on adjoining land might get him, but fair is fair. I spend more time there than anyone else, so my odds are greater.
A few weeks later it was bow season again and as I headed out for an afternoon hunt and getting close to one of my ladder stands and I see this guy sitting in a tree near it and he's got a gun. So I talked to him and was friendly and asked him if he had any luck. He said yes, and that he had killed the biggest 10 pt. he'd ever seen in his life. The SOB shot my deer.....illegally. POACHER!! So I asked him if he had permission. He answered "yes, from Roberto". I said that Roberto doesn't own this farm. I didn't say anything about the fact he was carrying a gun during bow season. I didn't want to start any schit, after all, he had the gun and I had a bow. I told him that this is my regular area on this farm and I'd appreciate it if he wouldn't hunt here, but for now, I'd go to another one of my stands. He said thanks and in the future he'd stay away from me.
I got to my stand and I thought my head was going to explode. I came real close to calling the Game Warden, but the I thought about the fact that he knows where I am.
The next day I called the landowner and told her what the deal was and she told me she needed to have a talk with Roberto. I never saw that guy again.