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Friday night we roosted a bird at LBL. Saturday morning 3 of us are are standing on the dirt road 10 feet from the black top early, early hoping some other birds in the area gobble as we are hunting out of one truck. This googan comes down the road slows down, sees us and goes by. He stops at the next turn off, turns around, and comes back. He pulls right in where we are standing and had we not stepped aside he might've hit one of us. He gets out and starts getting his stuff together. No good morning, mind if I join you, nothing. Not a word. So I step around to the driver's side. "You know there is a hundred thousand acres here. Are you really going to come in right on top of us?" He says "Where yall hunting?" I say "we got a bird roosted right back there and one of our guys is back there already". "He says "well I'm going waaaay back chonder." I say "so you are going to walk right past our roosted bird possibly blowing him off the roost when we were here first?" So he gets back in his truck and drives down to the next field and parks. What is wrong with people? What happened to common courtesy? If you get there first I can promise you my crew will not come in on top of you. We will go somewhere else. There's what? 70,000 acres on the TN side of LBL??? I hate public land hunting and very rarely do it, but it would be enjoyable if people had some manners, common courtesy, and home training. It just blows my mind that people are that rude and selfish.
 
Exactly why I hate hunting public ground. I hunted lbl one time several years ago and did the same thing but the googans waited to walk by and threw my decoys till the bird was gobbling.
 
Public land hunting is more enjoyable if you expect a few Jack legs and be thankful when you don't. When someone walks in on you then just move on or wait it out. Can't expect courtesy from everyone.


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catman529":aeoon0r2 said:
Public land hunting is more enjoyable if you expect a few Jack legs and be thankful when you don't. When someone walks in on you then just move on or wait it out. Can't expect courtesy from everyone.

I don't have the right personality for it. I give courtesy and expect courtesy in return. When I get there a day early, scout, do my homework, AND get there first, I don't expect to have my hunt ruined by a moron that was never taught manners. Like your Arkansas limb shooters. I'm afraid one of us would've left with an a$$ whooping. I'll stick to my 420 acres I lease and control.
 
That was sure rude of him trying to take your alls spot when you were already there!Some people are just not good people! :oops:
 
I bet i run into the same one sunday morning. I was already parked and getting ready to go in when he pulls up. He starts getting his stuff together. I finally went and said good morning. He told me all about the morning before and how three guys didn't want him to go in past the birds they had roosted. He was a nice guy i guess. Then his dad pulls up and starts getting his stuff out so i left and went to a different spot. I don't mind hunting around other people. It just bothers me that people are so selfish. If someone is there before me i move on or at least ask where they are going.


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I love it when I get up early and get to a spot only to have a guy pull in and tell me where he is going. I have had it happen on about every piece of public land that I have hunted. It happened to me last year at Lbl. I left like I always do and was tagged out by nine. I guess some guys think you can't hear the birds gobble in the area you have been parked at all morning. When they ask where I am going I can honestly answer wherever a bird gobbles. I am like the others you beat me I'm not hunting near you I'm moving on. You come in on me , I'm moving on I don't know you and if you come in on someone I probably don't want to be around you Turkey hunting. If one bird gobbles aren't we both going that way? Not going to chance it. I hate that happened to you, the joys of public land hunting!
 
Crazyeye":10c7tdq2 said:
I bet i run into the same one sunday morning. I was already parked and getting ready to go in when he pulls up. He starts getting his stuff together. I finally went and said good morning. He told me all about the morning before and how three guys didn't want him to go in past the birds they had roosted. He was a nice guy i guess. Then his dad pulls up and starts getting his stuff out so i left and went to a different spot. I don't mind hunting around other people. It just bothers me that people are so selfish. If someone is there before me i move on or at least ask where they are going.

Sounds like him. Dark colored Nissan Frontier? This is my fourth quota hunt at LBL. First 3 were Tues-Wed hunts. I have NEVER seen so few hunters at LBL. There was almost no one there. For that assclown to come in on us Saturday and you on Sunday is ridiculous. There are tens of thousands of acres available. He really needs to be taught some manners.
 
That is him. I knew when i read it earlier it probably was. I wanted to put in for the weekday hunt but it is hard enough to get away on weekends now. Hope yall got a bird or at least had a good hunt. I enjoyed my hunting and heard a couple birds. I am still getting my education.


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Crazyeye":zjv5cwc7 said:
That is him. I knew when i read it earlier it probably was. I wanted to put in for the weekday hunt but it is hard enough to get away on weekends now. Hope yall got a bird or at least had a good hunt. I enjoyed my hunting and heard a couple birds. I am still getting my education.

We had a good time but came up empty. If this was your first LBL hunt, trust me, it was very quiet. Normally there are birds hammering in every direction on the roost. We were absolutely shocked at the lack of gobbling. In my opinion LBL birds are the toughest to kill I've encountered.
 
Spurhunter":1ekeebzm said:
catman529":1ekeebzm said:
Public land hunting is more enjoyable if you expect a few Jack legs and be thankful when you don't. When someone walks in on you then just move on or wait it out. Can't expect courtesy from everyone.

I don't have the right personality for it. I give courtesy and expect courtesy in return. When I get there a day early, scout, do my homework, AND get there first, I don't expect to have my hunt ruined by a moron that was never taught manners. Like your Arkansas limb shooters. I'm afraid one of us would've left with an a$$ whooping. I'll stick to my 420 acres I lease and control.
it takes a different attitude to hunt public. Yes people SHOULD be courteous, but we are talking about humans, there are always bad ones. Doing all the scouting and hard work doesn't entitle you to any spot on public. When you do come out with a gobbler over your shoulder, it's all worth it. They are often hard earned birds. Oh and sticking it out all day often pays off...the crappy hunters rarely last very long before they gotta hit the burger joint.


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Spurhunter":3i25de39 said:
rem270":3i25de39 said:
I guess that stuff is to be expected but that is why I don't hunt public land.

I have to go to LBL every 3 or 4 years to remind me again why I don't hunt public land. I'm hard headed. :rotf:
Lol. I live an hr away and have never been hunting there. Have always thought about it but never have went.
 
Spurhunter":2lmsa74e said:
catman529":2lmsa74e said:
Doing all the scouting and hard work doesn't entitle you to any spot on public.

True, but getting there first absolutely should.
it should but it's public, so you can't go in expecting that...you can only hope, and know a couple backup spots to move to if you get screwed.


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