Rick wrote:jrock75 wrote:It is a struggle to decide how close is too close. We had a blind at the far southern end of our marsh property that I used to hunt regularly and the guy that leases the neighbor's property put up a new one 450 yards away, across the property line. His blind was in a "better" hole and I sure hated hunting there when they were shooting and I was slow but oh well, they are well-inside their property lines. Fast forward a couple of years and I put a new blind in a marsh hole in a very similar setup, 450 yards north of one of their other blinds. Seems like everyone in the county knew how mad the lessee was at me for my new blind, well except me as he never said a cross word to me directly.
At the farm, our blinds are all at least 1,000 yards apart and even that far makes it sound like they are on top of you when the wind is right, but at that distance I think it is unlikely we are hunting the same ducks and a certainty we aren't working the same. You can't space blinds far enough to avoid flaring from shots if the wind is right.
Here it seems like others' shooting has less effect on getting birds it's bumped back on ag land than in marsh. But it's "just part of it" most anywhere with much pressure.
Learned today that I'm now one of the camp regulars and have the option of hunting where the fellow I'm replacing did, which is in the island shown at the end of the video I posted Friday. One of our least conspicuous blinds in what's historically been a good location. Only fly in the ointment being one of what was my prior camp's blinds on the property line 600yds to its south. (Gabe's old blind, Darren.) But as long as whoever hunts it a good neighbor, I will be, too.
Well that's big news !
Knew some point would come they'd have to recognize your being so handy/willing AND reliable, traits that are often hard to come by these days in a single person. Given what I saw from the vantage point of Gabe's hole, if you are due north of that 600 yards (and yes I see on GoogleEarth), I'd think you're more than in the game. In general, having never been in the CR marsh, the aerial imagery tells me I'd much rather be in the prospect blind noted above than in the north blind you mapped earlier, short of it being some kind of known mallard hidey hole/honey hole they like that's off the path a bit. Again, just from aerial imagery takeaway.
Looks like you are off and running with a new gig 
