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Okay so about ten minutes before first light, I'm stopped by the side of the road overlooking a bowl with some clearcuts I intend to glass. I have my tripod with binos set up on the hood of my vehicle and just made a cup of coffee. There is an unmaintained dirt road from the clearcuts that goes into the bowl next to my vehicle. This is a pretty big area and there are a lot of similar spots. A Can-Am SxS drives by me - the only other vehicle I'd seen all morning. Everything seems normal.
Then about two minutes before first light, the SxS reappears having apparently turned around. It turns down the dirt road a few feet from my vehicle and into the bowl I'm clearly glassing and stops about thirty feet down the road shining its lights into the bowl. I think there must be some misunderstanding, so I try to walk up to it, but it drives off deeper into the bowl. I continue to think there's some misunderstanding, so I keep glassing, watching the SxS bust does and think maybe the driver is just inconsiderately going through the area to reach some other destination. But the SxS zig zags around the bowl multiple times, basically blowing up the entire area.
Then to make the intentions extra obvious, the driver, an older guy, gets out, stares directly towards me, and takes a shit (on the surface, of course) in a completely wide open area.
After a while I head out because I realize a) there don't seem to be bucks in the area and b) if there were I wouldn't be able to kill them because of the SxS. Later that day I'm stopped in a different area by the side of the road having a snack and about to get out to hike to an area away from the roads when the SxS reappears and stops next to me. It's the older guy plus an older woman and two dogs in the vehicle.
SxS driver: "Well you sure seemed real patient just sitting there this morning."
Me (in a polite tone): "Hey, yeah I didn't really appreciate that I was clearly hunting that area but you just drove right through it."
SxS driver: "I've been hunting that spot the last five weekends! You should go somewhere else!"
Me (at this point I kind of laugh in his face): "Wow five weekends in the same spot without tagging out! Maybe you should give somewhere else a try then."
SxS driver: "Maybe you should sit somewhere else!" and then he hit he gas and drove off.
This is my second year big game hunting, my fifth year hunting overall, and I've been fishing my whole life. I've met some prickly characters, but this was probably the first time I've been thinking "this can't be happening, is this guy serious?"
