About to Fuck a theif!

[WhitewaterDuck]

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I hunted a deer I had on camera hard for a week or so of the three weeks I had to deer hunt this year before moving over to a new piece of ground my work partner, "Mack" owns and finally agreed to let me hunt, as he already lets two other people hunt there. He is under the impression that they just hunt two ladder stands on the edge of his fields. This piece of ground is ~75acres and its 50/50 woods/crop. 80% of the woods are choked with oriential honeysuckle and there are no mast trees in there, 10% is the 20 yard wide, thicker than shit treelike around the field...and then there is the other 10%. This small bit is an awesome cove of hardwoods that extend up from a creek bottom into the back of one of his fields. There is not much acreage there...maybe 3 to 4 total, but it is perfect in every way.

First time I hunted it, as I was climbing into my stand, another hunter crested the top of the hill from the field. I flashed him with my light, and he paused before trudging down thru the middle of the woods going west, crossed off of the property, and set up ~200 yards downwind of me on the creek. This guy came in on my partners land and then hunted either on his western neighbor "joe's" land on our side of creek or on the "ward's" property which is on other side of creek to the West. Both Joe's and Ward's are relatively huge tracts that are arguably the best deer woods in the county...maybe the region. One other property...the "Brodderik's" is directly across the creek and to the East, and Mrs. Brodderick is strange and does not allow hunting from what I've gathered. I end up seeing a big 10 pt at 65 yards and other deer that morning, the guy leaves around 11:00.

After seeing how deer were moving in there, I relocated my stand 100 yards over to the east on a tree that is on an old fence line. From our county GIS and from my OnX app, it shows this fence being the boundary of Mack's and Mrs. Brodderick to the east, but the fence stays on the same topo level and comes onto Mack's land 50 yards east of where I'm set up...Mack's land is actually right along where the creek cuts in 30 yards or so below the fence. I set my camera up 25 yards on Mack's side of the creek and 10 yards below the fence. I left my lone wolf in the tree, because after one sit, I knew it was where I needed to be. That was a week and a half ago. I've been busy, it is gun season, and I'm waiting till gun is over to go back out.

I just realized I have not been getting any photos, so I decided to check in on my camera via the computer, and it is now about 1000 yards away smack dab in the middle of the Ward's property. Whoever took it must have changed the SD card which will prevent it from sending pics to me, but I guess he didn't realize it was a GPS enabled cellular camera. The dood that hunts the Ward's property is friends with Joe...I know Joe. The guy kills a giant every year, as does Joe. I do not know the two guys that Mack gives permission to hunt his land, but I'm thinking that one of them is the dood that hunts the Ward's. That would explain the guy walking in on me and then proceeding to go across the line without hesitation. I'm also thinking that this guy has to be the guy that stole my camera...the Ward's is tightly controlled, so who else could it be. I have not returned to the scene of the crime to check on my stand, but I have a feeling it is not there anymore. Seems that having a guy hunting 4 acres that sort-of borders your 100+ acres of prime was too irritating for this prick, so he trespassed onto Mack's if he doesn't have permission and stole my camera. He might say that it was on his side of the fence, but it was on Mack's property...and even if the fence were the line, which it isn't, it would have been on Broddericks...which I'm thinking he probably slips on also since it borders his land.

So, this morning I will be calling our game warden and finding out what his plan is for getting my camera and possibly my stand back...gotta go check on that. At minimum, I've got this guy for stealing my property, and if he is one of the guys that Mack gives permission to, he just lost that access for good. My only worry is that this guy has my stand, but we will never be able to prove it. I know precisely where my camera is, but unless we stake the place out until he comes to check it, how would you prove who actually took it? Hopefully there will be incriminating pictures on the camera, but I doubt it. Fuck a greedy theif! And I sure hope I get to really Fuck this greedy bastage!