One place I hunt I have a blind made of sticks and branches, this week some knuckle head put a double wide ladder stand, IN MY BLIND. On another place, private land, we have another deviant causing problems. He told one of our party that he was the land owners best friend and claimed a bunch of tree stands were his, they are not. Almost every night at sundown he rides the entire farm at the tree edges with the radio blaring. He had no bowhunting items in his truck that my friend could see when he talked to him. He has sped out of the field every time I have tried to stop him. We have been finding deer that have been shot with shotgun loads. The deer have moved off the farm for the most part and are holed up about a mile away. The land owners do not have a clue who he is and said they do not approve of his actions. They are not around all of time and our trespasser seems to know that. We have three new warriors on the private land that drive to within 50 yards of their stands and they have put up about 6 tree stands each. they have trail cams everywhere and think that no one has the right to get near their stands. I hate how everyone around here puts out many tree stands to "claim" territory. I cannot keep a ground blind up on either private or public land, and have had wheelie boys tell me that tree stands mean that they have more claim than my natural material ground blinds. One more thing, I know where there are two 180 plus bucks. One of them crossed a road a couple of weeks back and about a dozen wheelie guys flocked in and lined the dirt field drives for the first couple hundred yards from the gravel road. I think a deer drive by early season inline powder shooters pushed him a couple miles off his turf. He is back on his home turf, but don't tell all those boys that are tree sitting within sight of their precious pickups. Iowa is truly a place of high adventure for those looking for deer hunting heaven and still stay within a short walk and in plain sight of their four wheel drive security blankets. Every year I think my opinion of Iowa hunters cannot get any lower. Two seasons back a guy flew out into the public land to chase the dominant buck off with his four drive that was heading straight to me. He stopped on the gravel that was about a half mile away and spotted the deer and charged in. He expressed his intentions when he stepped out and yelled "ha, ha your not gonna to get him, you f**** sob". Last year I got my tires slashed and then there is this year, and we yet again discover a new low, night time poaching and leaving deer lay full of buck shot.
So far I have not been run off of any land by anyone that I have given trad bows arrows to, there are quite a few of them out there, when that happens I will get angry and kick some butt. But I do not think it will happen, trad archers never behave like our trouble makers.
Topic: Good luck to all the Iowa hunters! (Read 422 times)
