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Originally Posted by cmcnabb
4 or 5 years ago is when it started to be a chore for me. Used to hunt a pothole in streeters canal and kill a lot of mallards, mottled ducks, and specks. No one hunted around me and then the pond turned to nothing but flotant. Started hunting a few secluded potholes on the north side of pipeline canal and people started just trying to beat us there because they heard us shooting. I guess that's the new mentality of today's "hunters"
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it happens alot the same way in sabine refuge. We hunted a spot for five years or more and nevr saw another hunter. One day we show up and set up ten minutes later some guys show up and set up a decent distance from us. While we were hiding the boat we had to pass them. They had put out their set all wrong for the conditions. We offered to have them come hunt with us. Because we knew we were gonna kill. They declined and my buddy asked them if they had hunted this area before. One of them said, "no we heard alot of shooting the past couple hunts so we decided to check it out." then i hear one of the others say jokingly to another, "we would have never found them without following their lights this morning". What a bummer!!!! Needless to say they made the hunt more difficult for us cause they kinda cut us off from the flight path th birds were taking. We killed our 18 by 930 and passed them on the way out. They stuck out like a sore thumb in there above ground make shift blind. We wished them luck and they just stared!