I hunt public land almost exclusively so I thought I had a good grasp on hunter etiquette and common courtesy. Turns out I was wrong. This morning I turned onto the main gravel road I was going to park on. I saw a truck pulled off on the side of the road at the beginning of the cutover and kept going to the gate (3/10 mile) from where the truck was pulled over. Soon we see headlights coming across the cutover and they pull 20 yards in front of us and get out. It's around 4:55 so we don't know where they went. We're sitting there discussing where they disappeared to and my buddy says there they are outside your window. Well, I roll down the window to talk and they aren't happy. They ask where we were hunting and I told them we had planned on going out the gated road. They started cussing and talking about common courtesy and said when we saw their truck we should have left and found a different road or came in from somewhere else. Now, I don't park beside people because I'd rather not hunt near someone and get messed up or shot, but they basically said the 1.8 mile road (from the pavement to the back) with a gated road at the 1 mile mark and other smaller logging roads off of it was theirs under common hunter courtesy.
They also said the bird was roosted 250 yards from the gate and now wouldn't gobble as if parking 250 yards from a turkey would scare it. I tell you what will scare it...F-bombs before daylight. Anyways, to keep from getting my tires slashed, I apologized and told them I'd go somewhere else. I didn't know they had the bird roosted and were planning on going out the gated road.