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    Guns, fine. Trash...this is why I don't like gun season

    I know a lot of guys that bowhunt don't like gun season for all the obvious reasons...generally speaking I'm one of those guys. However, I work a corporate job in a major central ohio healthcare organization and I've learned to tolerate other beliefs and not fret over things I can't control. So I get both sides of the story.

    Having said that, I will, on rare occassion, break out my remington 870, and hunt just like I would with my bow. Again, if you only hunt during shotgun season and do deer drives the entire time, I get that.

    The only thing that really jerks me the wrong way is this....

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    Every year I find trash in, on, and around my treestands as well as the rest of the property. I'm fortunate to hunt this dream of private property, but come gun season, it turns into a garbage dump. You name it...cigarettes, dip cans, bottles, cans, food wrappers, hunting scents, I can go on and on.

    I leave a property better than I found it, and I just don't understand why these disrespectful slobs trash the place. I find more trash on this property in one week than I find there the rest of the year.

    Not much the landowner can do...he's elderly and although it upsets him, it's hard for him to do anything if he is not catching them in the act. The guys he allows to hunt during gun season worked for him in the past or are relation and I know he doesn't have the heart to tell them "no", because he really does want them to enjoy the outdoors. Only me and another guy hunt during bow season, and we are dedicated diehards that practice scent control to the max, shoot on a regular basis, and are selective to the point of fault.

    I can deal with deer being spooked and changing patterns because of gun season and the shock it brings, but I've decided I'm going to rip my stands down and only use my climber or hunt from the ground. I'm sick of these disrespectful, littering "outdoorsmen" getting a free seat in my stands and not having the courtesy to haul their trash out.

    It's pathetic. If you are one of those guys that leaves your trash and you're reading this, think about it next time and haul your junk out. If you want respect, you need to give it. Do the right thing.

    Stay safe, have fun, enjoy the hunt, and RESPECT NATURE. It's a privilage so don't abuse it.
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    Well said.
    That is pretty much why I got into bowhunting roughly 26 years ago. That is, to disassociate myself from the disrespectful, littering, thieving, tresspassing , etc. types while enjoying and respecting nature. Unfortunately, I now see this type of behavior with many bowhunters as well. I guess the more people that get out into the woods, the more likely you are to find the disrespectful trashy type people who just don't GET IT no matter what type of weapon they use.
    Unfortunately our planet is populated with a high percentage of disrespectful, uneducated trash. And some are out there bowhunting as well as gunhunting, as well as reproducing. I'm rambling....................This country (and planet) is headed down the crapper.......'nuf said.
    I'll keep enjoying it and respecting it and wishing everbody "got it" until I'm buried in it. And I hope to spend as much time as possible with the ones who "Get It".
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    Amen brother.
    When I bought my property, the grandson of the old man I bought it from lived nearby and asked if he could continue to hunt here like he had his entire life. I gave permission but I continually had to pick up the trash he left behind. I like my woods to stay pristine and I get a lot of enjoyment spending time there. I had a talk with him about leaving his trash and he assured me it wouldn't happen again. After the following gun season I again found his food wrappers and drink bottles littered around the places he sat and I told him to get back there and clean it up or he wouldn't be welcome to hunt here again. I finally had to pick it up myself sometime later, he doesn't hunt here any more.

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    Cueball, I could not agree more with your comments. Its a small contigency of people who have those values. We are way outnumbered by people who do not even think twice before they throw their trash out a window or down on the ground. They walk through life like its their own personal dumpster. Values and morals are taught, so it says alot about the times we grew up in compared to now. I will not tolerate a litterer, And I will speak up when I see it happen... Bowhunting Rocks!!
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    I must be one out of many then lol. I'm 24 yo and my huntin buddy is 32 yo. It sucks that most "hunters" in my age group are disrespectful and have zero ethics. We are freaks about scent, trash, maintaining my Uncle's properties we hunt on bc we are thankful for the opportunity and his good graces. The bad thing is that most older people have a bad view of my age group bc the way most of them act. So I hope some of the older hunters realize that there are still good, ethical hunters out there. I was raised that way and I will teach my daughter those same principles. Love the sport, respect the game, be ethical, be safe, and pass on the passion. I will always live by those principles. Just wish more young hunters did the same.

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    If you don't study history and learn about it, your doomed to repeat it. My dad's generation, he passed away 2 years ago at 96, were very bad at littering, they thought nothing of it. Many times I've seen people tossing trash out of cars (including my dad) and my uncle (the one who taught me to hunt) throw stuff in the woods when I was a kid. Then came the ad on TV with the crying indian surrounded by trash in his great outdoors. We got it. People need to be educated again as we were. Maybe they need to start runnning that ad again because history IS repeating itself.
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    The Indian ad was always one of my favorites. Very few ads on TV have any meaning. That one sent the message loud and clear. To bad everybody didn't "get it".
    I may be opinionated...but, my opinion is the only one that matters anyway.

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    Wow radicalxl and hortontoter........... I had completely forgotten about that commercial until you just mentioned it. And I can visualize it perfectly right now. Maybe that IS something that has stuck in the back of my mind all these years!?!?!?
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    I was just a boy when the Indian commercial was playing. it was always on when Mutual of Omahas Wild Kingdom was on.
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    Gun season smh :/

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