What DO you talk about/share about your spots?

[2rocky]

If you run into someone in one of your honey holes and you don't think they are a total jerk, what do you share with each other?

I'll let folks know when there is a carcass near by so they don't run into a bear. I'll let them know about trail conditions, I'll let them know about other camps in the drainage.

 

[SD_Prairie_Goat]

I don't often run into people here in SD hunting, so I generally share nothing besides a hello and a wave. (we see eachother from very far off so most just avoid running into one another)

Fishing, I'm usually a pretty nice guy. If I think the other person isn't a total tool I'll let them know its a honey hole. If I see them trying a failing, often I'll even teach them how to fish the spot. Been skunked way too many times, hate the feeling so I try to help. But if I think you're a tool just a simple nod of the head...

 

[mdeerjunkie]

I’m usually pretty courteous, but I tell them nothing. The sooner word gets out, the sooner I have to find a new spot.

 

[Trial153]

I tell them everything, in Latin. Then I leave.

 

[MTLabrador]

I’ll offer bear safety information as well. I don’t give elk information. I warned a few nonresident hunters about a grizzly I had run into up the trail they were hiking up and they laughed it off like I was trying to scare them out of my spot. I wonder if they ever figured it out...

 

[Stocker]

I tell them I’ve hunted that spot for 8 straight years and never seen a single animal.

 

[dgc1963]

maybe its right or wrong I dont share much of anything im always friendly even offer a cup of coffee if im making it
but I dont talk about animals

 

[JTHOMP]

While IN my honey hole that’s only happened once. I asked him which way he was going and if anyone was with him. “Any luck?” which i expected a lie or a “haven’t seen anything” truth. We both oddly ran into a bunch of people that day and were both frustrated. Honey hole wasn’t as sweet as we thought I guessed.
He gave the “Ive been hunting here for 20 years and never seen so many people” speech. The weekend before and even last season I thought I had the place to myself. I accessed from public side while he and I guess most others accessed from private side.

He asked who’s property I came in from. I told him I came from public side and when he made an assumptive question I agreed to it although it wasn’t the truth. He wasn’t the friendliest person and I’d rather him spend the off season cutting logs to keep people out than find and mess my equipment used to access that parcel to keep me out. Perhaps he’s normally the nicest most respectful guy, but I didn’t get that vibe from him.

 

[JTHOMP]

While at the truck unloading meat it’s never the truth about which side I was hunting.

 

[The Hedgehog]

I tell them I'm lost. And I've never been there before.

 

[SFC B]

The regular spot CPO and I go to every year is such that on the way into it along the jeep trail there are several camps 3-4 of those are usually the same dudes every year. We all hunt different drainages and are respectful of space. We will discuss who has what tags and share a beer. If we tag out will we will give the others direction if we can. I will give anyone bear information or directions if they are lost. The only time I will be unpleasant, and I have had to do it a couple times the last few years, is when a$$hats decide to bring atvs out there off the jeep trail. It is the ONLY legal way use them there and I can't stand the lazy buggers who think they are special.

 

[rwc101]

no hablo inglés

 

[mtmuley]

Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Zero. mtmuley

 

[Wildabeest]

I tell them I’ve hunted that spot for 8 straight years and never seen a single animal.

I do the same. I then pull up OnX and show them a random waypoint 2 miles away that has a trail cam icon. I then show them a few trail cam pics and let them infer that the pics came from the waypoint (when really they came from the honey hole they are standing in). I then move on as if I’m uninterested in the spot they are in. Come back in an hour and they are gone.

 

[npaden]

I am probably too honest with folks, cause a lot of the time I really haven't seen anything.

I'm sure I've followed up on wild goose chases going to places were people said they recently saw something that I was hunting for, but it is what it is.

 

[lastlight]

The worst is when you’re with a friend and run into a group of guys and they ask you “did you see anything” and you look at the friend hoping you both mum the same answer “not a single one.” I see lots of predators and people and only a couple does or cows that’s it’s.

 

[noharleyyet]

I tell them I have no idea how to get in contact with the owner.

 

[mtmuley]

Once you get burned, it teaches you to keep your stupid mouth shut. Ran into some guys scouting around in the country I hunt last weekend. I was cutting firewood. That's all they know. mtmuley

 

[elkocd]

The only thing I lie about and tell my son it's ok to lie about is hunting spots. I don't share anything with anyone except my dad and my son. I won't even let him tell his other grandfather where we hunt.

I've been know to flat out post false info in pics/social media posts in order to send the trolls to the wrong area

It literally only takes one wrong person to turn a honey hole into a piece of chit spot!

 

[Lyfter1013]

I haven’t tried it yet but I’ve always wanted to tell someone “ahh haven’t seen much heard some movement earlier and took a brush shot but didn’t see anything come out must’ve been a squirrel”

I don’t think I could ever do it with a straight face but I’m sure they wouldn’t be back haha