Do Spring Hill people have attitude? Maybe we do? Random rant

[DuckHuntingUSA]

I saw a post about people from Spring Hill having attitude. I thought about it for a minute and read the note left on my truck tonight again, and thought I'd post this here and see what comments come.
I’ve lived adjacent to Hillsdale Lake 17 years. In those years I’ve watched the fishing and hunting pressure go from sometimes hardly any to moderate to extremely heavy. Even though I live literally up the street from one of the unimproved ramps, I no longer consider Hillsdale my home lake and rarely fish or hunt there to avoid the stress of others. After too many hunting confrontations to count on HD and not hardly being able to pull a decent fish into the boat without getting crowded off a spot while fishing, I’ve virtually given up. Having turned 50 this year, I simply avoid the stress as much as possible.

Tonight (2 hours ago) was another great example. Rifle deer season is coming up. I have a deer spot that’s not around here, but I need somewhere close for my young 14 year old son to hunt after school. So we’ve been watching this small buck and some does for about 6 months that live behind the farm across the street, and seems to spend about half its time on the edge of the public land behind it. Had the little buck in the yard a couple of nights. So, for about 2 months now, about 3 times a week we walk into the public HD property and watch sunset over a corn field trying to figure out where the deer come out of the woods the most. Trying to set something up for the boy close to home. Less then a mile from the house.
Tonight, when we got to the public lot for the area there was another truck there. Told the boy to be quite and walked quietly down the access road into the middle of the field, got against the edge and stood there from about 4:45 to 5:10, did not go into the woods at all, and made very little noise.
Got back to the car and found 2 business cards on the car with this note:
Gentlemen, Thank you for messing up 4 hours of work! Do you realize this is the most important two weeks of the year for bowhunters?
Thanks again for ruining my hunt. Did you not see the truck parked here? Are you messing with my hunt on purpose?

I never saw the guy. IF he saw me he had to be just off the access road. The person appears to have written this note on their own business card. I don’t know if I should ignore it, call them or give it to the game warden.

My question is, how do you not have an attitude in this situation?

[Fish Taxi]

It's tough to visualize the situation, but as a bowhunter, I would not expect to be able to hunt right next to the parking lot or road of a public hunting area and be undisturbed. I would personally expect that I would need to walk in a fair distance to avoid disturbance. In fact, anywhere that has a parking lot would probably be somewhere I would avoid bowhunting, personally.

But I really just wanted to reply to this message to tell you "good job" for taking your son hunting. I'm sure you are making lifelong memories for both of you. Don't let some jackhole spoil it for you. Just my .02

[springhillwantabe]

great post not much attitude or rant there just telling it like it is calling a spade a spade good luck to the boy hope he gets that 30 pt. buck

[SCOTTY1094]

Its public property you have every right to be there as they did just like a brush pile

[zeepo]

When I hunted public land all the time I would leave a note on the dash of my car telling people what I was hunting and where I was going. That way if they wanted to hunt they knew what and where I was. Everybody today expects everyone to be mind readers. To bad about living so close to the lake and not being able to use it with out hassle. I would not call him back, unless you feel the need too.

zeepo

[Kansasoutdoorsman]

I preffer to call it an opinion not attaitude! I don't think you did anything wrong, he can't expect to have the whole area to himself.

[HairyVetch]

I am not sure about leaving the business card but surely you could understand why the guy might be frustrated. He is in the stand on a long sit getting close to what might be the best time of the day when he is most likely to see some movement only to see a couple of bodies walking up which I am sure all could agree would extremely limit his chance of success. If you did see his truck you must have known he was bow hunting and since you did not know where he was you risked spoiling it for him by walking in. I am not suggesting he is entitled to the entire area but you should use the same judgement you wish others would use before walking in. Hunting public ground provides everyone with access to land to hunt but along with that comes frustration. It won't take too many experieinces like that and he will come to the same conclusion you did. I don't want this to sound like I am sticking up for this guy because I am not but I can certainly understand where the frustration would come from.

[springhillwantabe]

I preffer to call it an opinion not attaitude! I don't think you did anything wrong, he can't expect to have the whole area to himself.

also great post nicko in my opinion there is nothin wrong with an opinion with attitude?

[dkv]

HV U do have a point, but, there are also upland game hunters here and elsewhere, both pheasant and quail, that the vehicle might be there for, so maybe, it would be helpful to leave a note in u'r vehicle as to why u are there. Not fool proof, but what is? DK

[skinner80]

All of this reminds me why if you harvest quality animals on public you are a combination of good and lucky. As far as those bowhunters go if they have been doing it for long they should know they are gonna have setbacks the only thing you can do is be in the woods and take the good with the bad.