Ok hang with me here....kinda of a long winded questions but I need to thoroughly explain it so you guys know my dilemma. I was leaving after an all day hunt on Friday saw my cousin who is in charge of his dad’s woods through the co-op program. He allows only two hunters and one of which hunts every day and has taken many big bucks off the property. Both guys are my cousin’s long time friends. I never ask to hunt it because they are strict on the people and the amount of people they let hunt. I usually get an invitation when both are not there for the day. I asked him if he had been out, he is into coon and squirrel hunting with dogs. He said went out once, and isn’t worried about getting a deer. He asked how I have been doing , YADDA YADDA YADDA. I get a text from him Saturday saying one of the guys is tagged out and I can come get a slip to bow hunt(this is a bow hunt only woods) I said heck yea I am in, and he said only rule is I gotta kill a few lol. So here’s where it gets sticky, I planned on hunting at least the mornings from Wednesday on this week. He said that’s fine but the other guy took the week off and will be hunting all day every day and he would give me his number so we can text each other and figure out where the other is sitting so we don’t screw each other up. This guy is very very controlling almost to the point the point that he thinks it’s his woods. This hunter has yelled at my cousin for coon hunting his own woods and other stupid fights about the woods. I know if I would of took the week off work to think I was hunting by myself and come to find out there is a newbie hunting there the same days I would be a little frustrated. I don’t want to upset anyone but this is a gold mine for deer!! This is where they herd up and it’s not uncommon to see 100 deer in the fields in January! I have also filmed a 200” deer in this woods, I know it was because a guy killed it 3 miles south and had it scored . I wanted to hunt it but now I am a little skittish about hunting this week. After this week I have no problem because it only gets better as the year goes on with this woods.
So my question is, do I just hunt the wood I have been hunting which is only on the other side of the road to the south( for this week). Then start hunting the new woods next week (which will be weekends only and when I have days of since it is so far away). OR do I just say screw it text the guy and ask him where he is hunting and position myself so I don’t mess things up for both of us and hunt when I want?
What do you guys think?????
So my question is, do I just hunt the wood I have been hunting which is only on the other side of the road to the south( for this week). Then start hunting the new woods next week (which will be weekends only and when I have days of since it is so far away). OR do I just say screw it text the guy and ask him where he is hunting and position myself so I don’t mess things up for both of us and hunt when I want?
What do you guys think?????
