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« on: November 14, 2004, 04:59:04 AM »
So here I am in the southern zone enjoying my next to last weekend of bow hunting before gun season begins (Next week), and it sounds like a WAR zone.  At 6am, emptying a shotgun is hardly sighting in!!!  This continued for the next 1.5 hours.  Now the deer are all spooked,  I soiled my pants  :shock:  and Im pissed.  How many of you can stay in a stand all while all pissed off?  
 
After this butt-head finally stopped,  I could hear others blasting away in the distance!  I was so distressed and confused that I went home to check the season dates, to see if they were changed....NOPE!
 
This early in the morning (pre- 9am), target shooting is a no-no.  What am I missing?  Do I have the wrong concept of bow hunting?  I thought we were supposed to use a BOW!!!
 
It is times like this I wish I had a cell phone to call the DEC.  But they wouldn't do much, Im sure.  I only see them when nobody is doing anything wrong.
This was all on privately owned property - not enough to really target shoot on.
Sorry for the rant, but I had to get this out.
 
BTW, they weren't small game or bird hunting either - too many shots, and in a very good deer area (thats why Im there).
 
This reminds me of a time when some A-hole didn't like me hunting on my friends property (he was trespassing), and started to SHOOT at me to scare me off.  Its a good thing that he was several hundred yards off, other wise the cops would really have had something to do.   :twisted:  
He left real fast after that!!  (I mostly muzzleload - not much of a threat, but LOOKS intimidating)
 
Come on guys, lets think before we act.  There's enough against us for hunting and gun ownership, that we dont need to fuel the anti's quest.
 
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« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2004, 05:39:25 AM »
I understand your frustration. I gotta say though if you think they were doing something illegal then the law needed to be called. Whether they arrest anyone or not sometimes does not mean as much as the fact they were there and make the guys think someone is watching them.  If they werent doing anything illegal so you still had it checked out. And if someone was shooting at me whether or not I could reach him with the gun I was using I would again call the law. That one I know there are laws against. Just my thoughts. Why is target shooting before 9 a no-no as you put it? I never seen any regulations saying that. I am just curious
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« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2004, 07:37:27 AM »
Sunday morning in a rural area is usually a time for sleeping late, and spending time with the kids.  Some butt head blasting away with a shotgun is just not polite.  This is a popular bow area, as there are houses around....

Besides its BOW season.  Have some consideration...

Well Im still a little ticked.  I had a REALLLLLY nice 6pointer, hauling past me to get away from the noise.  Ive been after him for a while, and at a nice stroll, today would have possibly been the day.  A full blown run didn't even give me a chance to  draw!

As for the tresspasser, the cops were notified, though nothing came from it.  Not unexpected.  He was long gone by the time I got to a phone.  

I just get ticked at the inconsideration of some people.  I try to put a good image for myself, and my hobbies, but it doesn't matter as it only takes one bad apple to ruin things.

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« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2004, 11:58:13 AM »
kb, I understand your frustration, and I don't mean to make it worse, but hey, a man's got the right to do whatever he wants on his own land. Even being inconsiderate of his neighbors. Even sight in his gun at 6 AM. There are usually no noise ordinances outside of towns. Some people are pressed for time, what with work, and family issues, and have to shoot when they can squeeze it in. I have to sight in after work, just before dark, and if it messes up someones hunting, well, maybe they should hunt a little further from the property line.
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« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2004, 12:14:27 PM »
Me either but it sound smore ot me like you were mad they spoiled the hunt. If Sunday morning is a time to be with family then there is no gripe. Maybe it was a family out sighting in together. I have crap deer in a meadow early afternoon got it drug into the brush and had more deer come out an our later. I just have not found that the noise of a firearm is all that alarming to them. Bow season or rifle season or mid summer, when a person owns a piece of property last I checked they could do what they wanted with it and on it.
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« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2004, 11:36:53 PM »
For some people Sunday is not a day to sleep in, it is their only day off to get things done.
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« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2004, 01:20:27 PM »
Well sure I was a little hot for spoiling the hunt, but at 6AM is not the time to sight in.    
 
This is not out in the back woods, but a fairly rural/suburban area.  Every house in the area has only 10 acres (1/4 to 1/2 of it is for lawn and house), all up against a power company right-of-way that is only 50 yards or so wide.  Not that much land.  
 
Every neighbor was eyeing me suspiciously until they saw that I was carrying a bow.  This "gentleman" who was sighting in woke up the neighborhood.    
 
Later that day, I went back out hunting - only to meet up with weekend warrior quad riders.  inconvenient, but understandable.  Im not unreasonable.  I'll give anyone reasonable doubt, but not when their being blatant butt-holes.
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« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2004, 01:32:26 PM »
well one mans ahole is another mans usual.  So they woke up the neighborhood. Did anyone can the law to complain?
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« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2004, 04:24:03 PM »
No idea, but Im sure that someone did.  Next monday is regular gun season here, so I guess that there will be plenty of competition.

Im looking foward to some time off hunting, it auta' be a BLAST!!!

 :lol:

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« Reply #9 on: November 16, 2004, 03:08:40 AM »
Quad riders have been screwing my hunts all season.  In one spot I encountered one kid, and spoke respectfully to him, and he assured me he would stop.  About an hour later he was still buzzing around with his friend on posted and gated property.  I spoke a little more forcefully at this point, and showed him my LEO shield.  I think he got the message.
     At another location, they buzz across a field where I hunt along the edge.  While I was walking in, they came by and waved.  I raised my arms in frustration, and it was clear to them I was bowhunting.  They came back a few times while I was in my tree, so obviously they didn't care to stop.  I had two deer in the field as it was getting towards dark, and they were coming my way as I grunted.  Well, here comes Mr. Fourwheeler, and he scared the deer over to the other side of the field, essentially ending my chances for the evening.  I am going to talk to the landowner about putting up an ATV barrier during the hunting season.  I am sure that they did not ask his permission to be there, LIKE I DID.
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« Reply #10 on: November 16, 2004, 03:24:22 PM »
One thing that worked for us VS the 4 whelers is razor wire across the trails they cut on our property :)
just a thought, good luck
safe hunting next week
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