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But if he would have discovered what was going on, I would have given him a choice. I ether help him move his stand or I would have buried it. Nasty thing to do to a man on opening morning.

Thing was a big lightning storm came on shortly after. No rain, but the wind was howling, lightening crashing, Turkeys sounding off all over the hills. I finally snuck back to see what he was doing and he was gone. That ladder stand was being pushed all over the place and I think he thought it wise to get on the ground. Hope he didn't step in it....

He must have been deaf.

Either that or he was in the zone.

Laffin....Battue looks like he is chiseled out of stone. I'd stay in Catawba County if I were you. My guess is, the vast majority of the folks on the Fire couldn't keep up with him.

Old stone, though. Just sayin'.

Glad you caught those people.

An interesting thread here for sure. I can't tell how many times I saw pickup trucks cruising the logging roads with a gunner in the back, one time even an archer. The paint on the trees is something I've never heard of though. Sounds like a very good idea. It's got to be incredibly frustrating to someone who takes the time to purchase land, and manage it for himself and his friends, just to have some lazy sob come in and trespass on it. I haven't experienced this mostly because I hunt all state forest land, both in Pa. and in Mn. If I encounter no trespassing signs I respect them, no questions asked.

And these days, mostly shale.

Despite the fact that battue posts everyday on the fitness/workout thread that I started. His trying to paint me as a stranger to the gym is hilarious and shows his dishonesty. The gym is my life. Yeah the heart attack has been a setback but once a blockage is cleared you're fixed. Once my recovery time is passed I'll quickly be back to benching 3 plates a side. So no, I don't need to stay in NC to hide from battue nor do I need to run from him.

As do I, but I remember when posted land was a rarity in Arkansas. I recall one time that I was quail hunting NW of Beebe, Arkansas, which is about 20 miles from where I live. I got back to the truck and there was a man waiting by my truck, mad as hell. He started in on me as soon as I got close enough, about us Stuttgart hunters coming up to hunt quail, when we would not let them come down there and hunt ducks without charging. I finally got him calmed down, explaining that I was not from Stuttgart, I just had a truck than had been purchased from Stuttgart. He was going by the dealer emblem on the truck. Everything was fine, as long as I was not from Stuttgart. miles

I haven't posted there for months. I can't keep up with those boys.

Anyway, you really need to up the cardio, loose same weight and not worry so much about the plates. Working out in the heat is good for burning Kcal. The South is a good place for you.

Except I don't live in the south anymore. Moot point. Out of 42 years of life I lived in PA for 41 of those years and you're going to tell me I "belong in the south"? you must think it's easy to become a southerner. I could live the next 40 years of my life in the south and I still wouldn't be a southerner.

May good health be your companion no matter where you live.

I see your addition so I'll add mine:

It's not that hard, I could do it and be welcomed fairly soon. They don't hate Northeners, they do hate how some of them act. Act right, which really should have no boundaries and one will be fine. North Appachian coal country are my roots. Little difference from below the MD line. Act right and a good Southern person will stand up for you. You may take some ribbing along the way, but they will be your friend.

I have no problem with the southern people.I found them to be good, upstanding folks. I just know that you can move anywhere but that doesn't make you one of them. You are what you are and I'm a Pennsylvanian. Even if I don't take up for every PA hunter. All I said was we have a contingent of bad apples. Most PA hunters are the salt of the earth. And I wish you good health as well. I never wished you ill before and I don't quite know what happened yesterday.

I do, I pushed your buttons. Only because you pizzed me off.

It's over.

Thumbs up on that!

Alright, y'all hug it out already.

Like normal, I have nothing of significance, but do have a picture of some folks in Idaho dove hunting, the Idaho way...


Public land of course, but lots of private fields close by, which I doubt they bypassed.

I'm afraid to say that I like BOTH of ya.


So, I won't.

Jerry

Thing about getting old is you acquire some perspective. At least in Pa this behavior has decreased significantly. I was raised in it and could tell some crazy stories. Talked with a GW about same just recently after a Pheasant hunt. He said it's not all that much of a problem these days, but they often arrest following generations of the same family. However, in his opinion poaching in Pa is nothing like it used to be.

One funny story from years ago, was a friend of a Cousins joined into a Doe hunt. His rifle looked like someone beat on it. I asked what do you do with that rifle. His reply; "If you had been thrown out of a car as many times as that rifle, you wouldn't look all that good either."

Uncles, Cousins, their friends, a couple State Troopers, it was a game of hide and seek, sometimes a ritual of passage and we had the Deer to support it and little went to waste. Some of those boys practiced QDM before the GC made it a science. They didn't come close to the war on Does the GC started years later. Something that i occasionally think about when those old boys come to mind.

Wrong, but the way it was and not necessarily the way it now is.