Took my son on a hunt on the 18th March. It was his March Break off school.
Well we got a late start cause he slept in.
Went out and set up. A half dozen GHG on the ground and three ravens with bases cut off in the trees. Silly me did not take a my camera for pic taking. Anyway, spent pretty well the whole day there. Ended up with about 35 birds. Couple few away and corkscrewed into the ground a few hundred yards from us. The first few birds in got away clean and I told my boy that stuff like that happens. He though that maybe we should pack up and go skeet. I said no, let's see if you get your eye in tune. Well a little later he did. And the birds started to drop for him. He no longer wanted to go skeet. When the birds quieted down around 10 we had coffee/hot chocolate. Around noon, I cooked some chile for him, and beans/weiners for me. Hot tea for both of us with cookies for dessert. A little later in the day he thought he was not camo'd good enough so I took a couple of pics of him to show that he was good.
About 4pm some dude shows up on a three-wheeler ATV and wants to know what we are doing. Not happy with shooting near his house. We were more than triple the legal distance from his house, but he was not happy and demanded to know if we had permission to be there. I responded that yes we did. He asked who, I told him. Not pleased. Asked when we were leaving. Told him a couple of more hours. He turned his ATV around and left. This encounter took the wind out of my sons sail and he wanted to go home. So while I took the set-up down, he stood guard and took out two more birds......
One of the pics is him with his hands behind his back, the other is with him waving his hands. Hope it works. Been a while since I posted a pic)
Great way to stay connected! Sounds like the kind of hunting outing to keep him interested, especially the hot chocolate and chili! We only do cooking when waterfowling as we sit in the blind. Too bad you have those people interrupting up there too. I don't recommend confrontation especially if you have your son with you, but it would have been interesting to know if he had permission to run his ATV on the property you were hunting.
One of the problems around here is a lot of landowners don't have a backbone.. Someone complains and they shut their land down. Forget about telling the complainer (read: neighbor) the hunters have my permission, their legal, oh well...... No, they close that field by not allowing any further hunting. I had a beautiful spot for goose hunting. Neighbor drove his car across the field (landowner does not allow motorized veh on his property) to complain that I was scaring his kids and I should go out into the country to hunt. We are standing in the middle of a cornfield, near a diary farm and he is telling me to go out into the country to hunt ?????? I complained to game wardens that he interfered with a hunt, and they talked me out of pushing it harder, said it would not go anywhere in court cause the landowner would not push the trespassing, and to avoid hard feelings would not testify to anything against the neighbor (Neighbor and farmer only talked to each other three times in five years - not a close friend). Farmer still closed off that field. No more hunting on that field. Had a great crow hunting spot. Farmer had open top grain storage bins, crows loved it, would come to it all winter long. Neighbor complained about hearing the gunshots.....can't hunt those grain bins..... This one ended good. He turned around and left. Farmer still lets me hunt that field..!!!!! (if he did complain, the farmer had backbone)
-- Edited by Pat B on Sunday 31st of March 2013 01:20:31 PM
Many years ago I got permission from a land owner to hunt crows on his property. Well the next morning I'm out there for perhaps an hour and a half and here he comes with his wife. He said I had to shut it down because of his wife. The wife pops off and says to me I own half this place too, I felt like saying to her "thats ok, I'll just hunt on your husbands half !" but I just let it go and got permission from the neighbor who didn't let his wife call the shots. I setup a week later about 40 yards from where I had to move out. Nothing the broad could say as long as I was on the other side of the fence!
Bob A.
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