mutual respect

[silentnight]

This is some what of a rant, someone tell me if I'm wrong here. This morning I show up at a local place we have a few lions, I was the first person there for the morning. And this area is either walk in or have a small four wheeler, I get unloaded and the dogs collars on and getting ready to walk in. As I'm locking the truck another local guy pulls in and walks over to me, asks who I am and if I'm from around here ! So with some hesitation tell him my name and that indeed I live around hear. He asks if I have been up the road yet and I I'm walking in, I tell him no I have. No checked it yet and that I'm walking in. He says oh well I'm going to ride my bike I and check, well I figure first come first serve and that he running his bike in to cut something first is 1. Disrespectful 2. Pretty lame he has to "cut" a track and not hunt in, work the dogs casting them... Maybe I'm crying here but that straight pisses me off !

[1bludawg]

Anytime i've went to a spot and someone was there ahead of me I've always went somewhere else.Most of the guys i know do the same .I've only had one guy cut in front of me over the years and if the opportunity presents itself i'll play by his rules!

[david]

He might not have broken any state or federal law. But he broke that ancient law written in every one of us. His punishment is he has to live with himself. That is a prison that is awefully hard to get out of.

"People have died for less." To quote an old time hunter speaking of the same issue. Most of us have agonized over the same issue on some level. Speaking from personal experience, it can poison your soul for years to come.

Don't let it do that to you! If you do, you are under his curse. You have to live on a completely different level than him. One way to do that is to see him as a pitiful man who did not have a good father to whip his butt when he needed it as a child. Men who are that poor, still do childish things.

Think about it. You expect that kind of behavior in a nursery school. But with discipline, we leave those behaviors behind. He is a little child without a father. You are not. Thank God for that. He needs that spanking from his father. But the sad part is a spanking won't help him now. FORGIVE HIM, and be free.

Picture him at the age when that kind if behavior would be expected. See him the size and shape of a three year old, and speaking with the voice and language of a three year old. If not for being so pitiful, it is comical when we see it as it really is. A child in a mans body. BIG

FORGIVE HIM. He needs it badly. As we all do.

He will continue walking around in his own sewage. You probably are not In A position to help him out of it. But if you ever get the chance to help him, "give him a cup of cold water. And in so doing you will heap burning coals upon his head". (A quote found in ancient literature spoken by a very wise and extremely powerful man)

That sounds almost like vengeance. But it won't feel like vengeance when you help him. It will feel like dignity and respect. Might not be mutual respect as your title calls for, but it will certainly be self respect, and It feels pretty good.

[david]

Silent night, I hope it did not stop you from going in there. If you love to compete as much as a lot of cat hunters do, you go in there and tree a cat behind him. The one he missed. I wish I knew how many times that has been done. Makes your hunt so much sweeter than it would have been otherwise.

[silentnight]

Thanks guys, I was on the verge packing up and heading somewhere else. But did walk in and treed a small female, not sure if he caught anything. But he was long gone by the time I got back to the truck..

[dwalton]

I hunted a lot of country and use to fly it to take a look from the air. Now I just look at Google Earth. In the 80" I trapped as well as hunted which did not set well with a lot of hound men. I cut timber all over the state and camped with my dogs hunting in the evenings. Don and Betty Nelson both gone now came into camp one evening and wanted to go out and hunt with me to see my dogs work. The concern as to where to go came up. They were very protective of their favorite hunting spots. This came up in talking. There very few places I have not hunted or scouted out here. When I told Don that If you take me to your favorite spot I will not hunt or trap there come kill season. We hunted a lot together that summer in the afternoons. Some really good place that I have never been back to and some really good times with a couple of great old hunters. Remember to turn the other check and it will usually work out for you. Dewey

[250plot]

not to long ago there was a post on here about ass holes that think the mountain is theirs. this guy sounds just like that post. he needs to find somewhere else to hunt that day or get up earlier. david is right about going in behind him and trying anyways and thats awesome that you did that and got something it does make it that much more of a good hunt. people need to take a step back and take a look whats right and wrong. hopefully he will get his