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11/17/2010 at 2:26 pm #1731117
Does anyone pull caches from public hunting land during deer hunting season? I know of one that was logged as found in early Nov. but went missing between then and mid Dec. I know that people hunt in that area, and I’m reasonably sure that the ammo box with two trackables in it was taken by a hunter. After that one was archived, another cacher replaced it with a new cache about 20 feet from the original hide. Another ammo box. I’m concerned that it will go missing again. I’m going to go get the coin out of it this afternoon, just to be on the safe side.
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11/17/2010 at 2:32 pm #1938882I leave mine out, any that are in public hunting lands are either in spots I can’t imagine a hunter would venture or areshould be camo’d enough to avoide detection by a hunter. It’s less work for me to replace 1 or 2 caches that go missing than to go pull them all and put them all back for hunting.
11/17/2010 at 2:36 pm #1938883@TheBalks wrote:
or areshould be camo’d enough to avoide detection by a hunter.
Yes, assuming that the last person who found it put it back correctly. I’m not worried about any of mine that are on public lands, except one. All the rest are peanut butter jars and other inexpensive containers, but I do have one ammo can out there. I’m thinking I’ll put a temporary cache out in its place until after hunting and then return the ammo can. It also has trackables in it that I’d hate to see lost.
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11/17/2010 at 2:37 pm #1938884I had an ammo can go missing during this years bow season. Funniest part was that they left the contents of the can hidden in the spot.
I was upset that they took the can but relieved that they left the swag bag with the log book and the trackable.too bad that there are folks that won’t honor the stash note and leave it there.
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11/17/2010 at 2:54 pm #1938885@labrat_wr wrote:
I had an ammo can go missing during this years bow season. Funniest part was that they left the contents of the can hidden in the spot.
I was upset that they took the can but relieved that they left the swag bag with the log book and the trackable.too bad that there are folks that won’t honor the stash note and leave it there.
It’s odd what some people do. I just found one of gotta_run’s that I am guessing was a matchstick container with the last log in early April. After looking for a while where I thought it would be, I was about to go back to the car to check my log sheets when I looked down at my feet to discover an Old Milwaukee Beer can with a little roll of paper sticking out of it. I thought, “no way is that a log sheet!”, but sure enough it was the log, very dry and clean with logs from the spring, sitting out in the open in a beer can. Even though the cache hadn’t been found for more that half a year, I somehow managed to find it a day or two after a muggle decided to grab the container and, in a gesture of good will maybe?, left the log sheet behind, in the throat of a beer can no less!
11/17/2010 at 3:58 pm #1938886It would be very sad if a Munter??? Mugter??? Huntle??? Ya’ll know what I mean, became suspicious of a cache and the bomb squad was called… Fireworks in November… Lol…
Seriously… It’s too bad that we have to worry about “Professional Law Enforcement” blowin’ up caches in urban areas, maybe that’s to be expected in these times, but since geocaching began as a wilderness activity why must we also have to worry about fellow “Outdoorsmen” wrecking caches??? I use the term “Outdoorsmen” loosely because although we may cache outdoors year round, many of our fellow “Outdoorsmen” use gun season as an excuse to get away from the “ol lady” and party for one week out of fifty two… Notice… I said “Many”, not “Most” or “All”… Don’t want to overgeneralize do I???
Greg…
p.s. I’m also an occasional hunter, Green & Vilas counties, and my daughter is participating in her first gun season this year, Ashland Co.
11/17/2010 at 4:27 pm #1938887I have a few multi’s located on DNR land. Part of my “notification” (i.e. Approval contingency) was to remove WP1 during the 9 day gun deer season. It’s nice that the remainder of the WP’s can stay in place, but it cripples the cache (in theory).
11/17/2010 at 5:13 pm #1938888Well,90% of my 100+ caches are on county land which is public hunting land. I have had a few found during the season and even wrote notes.
Have not had any problems.Just a reminder, that after Deer Gun season, there is still blackpowder season, another doe only T-zone hunt and a late bow hunt season…till the end of December..I think?
11/17/2010 at 6:56 pm #1938889@cheezehead wrote:
Just a reminder, that after Deer Gun season, there is still blackpowder season, another doe only T-zone hunt and a late bow hunt season…till the end of December..I think?
Yes, but the traditional 9-day season is when the majority of the hunters are out. At least around here.
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11/17/2010 at 7:16 pm #1938890@BigJim60 wrote:
@cheezehead wrote:
Just a reminder, that after Deer Gun season, there is still blackpowder season, another doe only T-zone hunt and a late bow hunt season…till the end of December..I think?
Yes, but the traditional 9-day season is when the majority of the hunters are out. At least around here.
Very true. It was just a FYI.
11/17/2010 at 8:13 pm #1938891We don’t pull, and we no longer disable caches in hunting areas.
My theory is that people need to be responsible enough to make their own decisions.
On the Left Side of the Road...11/18/2010 at 3:19 am #1938892@The Pirate Monkies wrote:
Notice… I said “Many”, not “Most” or “All”… Don’t want to overgeneralize do I???
Greg…
p.s. I’m also an occasional hunter, Green & Vilas counties, and my daughter is participating in her first gun season this year, Ashland Co.
Many is still too many since I doubt you actually know many in in comparable to all. Many to me still means over fifty percent and I don’t think that “many” actually just go to party!
11/18/2010 at 4:07 am #1938893In my opinion you can take alcohol / partying out the picture completely. The issue is gun safety and many (yes many) are completely ignorant of the dangers of handling a firearm. They may not even own the firearm they’re handling, but borrowed it from a buddy’s buddy, or some other odd scenario. Granted alcohol doesn’t help the situation, but I don’t believe it’s the primary cause of “idiots in the woods”.
11/18/2010 at 4:17 am #1938894J.D.
I agree wholeheartedly with you that the number of irresponsible hunters is well less than 50% of the total, but even at 20%, or even 10%, it’s still too “many”… Maybe I misused the the word “many”, where the phrase “a lot of” would’ve sufficed… To me, it’s a waste of time to define the word “many”…
I’m not trying to knock any responsible sportsman here… We all know that there are a lot of irresponsible cachers, fishermen, hunters, fowlers, cyclists, ATVr’s, campers, off-roaders, boaters, etc. that ruin things for others…
All that I was trying to say was that we should try to respect the rights of others to enjoy the great out doors, but that there are “a lot of”, maybe not “many”, hunters that think they own the woods and fields for nine days because they carry a Remington 742, or a 12 Ga. Ithaca…
Respectfully…
Greg…p.s.
Please don’t doubt that I know many hunters, both responsible and irresponsible…I’ve hunted with both types…
11/18/2010 at 2:53 pm #1938895Ok, this is a serious question:
Has anyone EVER heard of a non-hunter getting shot by a hunter during gun deer season?
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