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Offline Specklebelly

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« on: December 17, 2005, 05:31:21 AM »
Have you guys ever talked to another hunter about letting the birds get a little closer before shooting?

I saw a guy and his son a few weeks ago shooting at geese that were easily 300-400 yards in the air.  :eek:  :eek:  This is no exaggeration, they were really that high.  

He was about 400-500 hundred yards away from us and we were just dumbfounded watching him.  He was ruining the hunting for everyone else, but I am sure the guy just had no clue as to what he was doing.

My hunting buddy was going to go talk to him and give him some pointers but I wouldn't let him.

I figured it was a good way for a confrontation and didn't want any part of it.

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« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2005, 01:43:17 AM »
Typically there's no convincing them it's wrong.
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« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2005, 08:30:49 AM »
i've said something in similar situations.  a couple of years ago i stopped on my way out of the marsh and told a fellow hunter that he was only allowed 1 pintail.  I had watched him shoot 3.  He said thanks and then shot another one as I continued on my way.  The real problem is that there is no competency requirement for hunters.  Some people are just idiots.

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« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2006, 07:42:52 PM »
I stoped hunting with two friend of mine this year because they refused to stop skybusting,my problem with them skybusting was that they crippled and lost alot of the ducks that they shot at
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« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2006, 07:08:03 AM »
You guys need to know something. Generally people doing something wrong know it, they just don't care. You'll never stop them but at least you can talk about it in places like this. I think that a few people doing something wrong makes us look bad as a group. Nobody condeming it makes us look worse.
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Re: Skybusting
« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2006, 08:54:26 AM »
The only time that talking to people like that is when you are in a hunting club.  You can talk to the manager, which in turn will talk to those people.  After a while, pressure builds on them and no one really likes hunting with them.  If they still continue to do so, then either the manager won't let them join the next year and/or put them on a pumpkin patch far from everyone else.

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Re: Skybusting
« Reply #6 on: October 09, 2006, 09:30:05 PM »
You guys need to know something. Generally people doing something wrong know it, they just don't care. You'll never stop them but at least you can talk about it in places like this. I think that a few people doing something wrong makes us look bad as a group. Nobody condeming it makes us look worse.

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Re: Skybusting
« Reply #7 on: October 20, 2006, 12:16:25 AM »
Only once have I walked over to a skybuster to say something, and I only did it then because he was very young and  looked like he didn't know any better. However rather then stir things up I invited him to shoot over my decoys and I would show him how to call the  birds in close. It worked out just fine, but I'm a lot older and wiser now so I'm not sure I'd ever chance doing it again. There are just too many nuts out there now.

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Re: Skybusting
« Reply #8 on: October 20, 2006, 06:30:11 PM »
I quit hunting public land because of this very reason, along with (and I am not making this one up), booze.......the last time I hunted the closest public land two morons were drinking a fifth while sitting on TOP of their blind. Guess what? Here in Oregon it ain't illegal. the Fish & Wildlife guys aren't cops, State Police generally aren't around, and I wasn't a cop then. They won't throw the idiots out for skybusting, they just make rules like 25 round shell limits which no one pays attention to anyway.

The very last time I hunted public land the guys across the slough from me blasted a Bald Eagle.......blue bird day, nothing flying (but the Eagle), Eagle flew right over their blind....POOF........he exploded in a cloud of feathers......started loosing altitude and landed out in the sage. Total laughter from their blind.  My partner and I sat their easily for a full minute staring in disbelief. Then the war of words started......picked up, went to the check station, of course its manned by an idiot female civilian that just gave me the deer in the headlights look "are you SURE it was an eagle"?  "Well, you're right....its a turkey isn't it? Guess I'll take it home and cook it......how would that be?"

 I had no cell phone, she wouldn't call the State Police, wouldn't give me the blind info even though I badged her myself.  The US Attorney who deals with these things happens to be a fellow duck hunter. He went through the roof over it, and I am sure someone's head rolled over it.  He told me if anything remotely like that ever happens in the field again, to do whatever I thought was appropriate, he'd back me on it. Translated that means that one way or another, someone IS going to jail over the weekend (with emphasis on the "one way or another" part). Cellphone is with me in the blind, restraints in the truck.

If there was just a way to deal with skybusters.

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