I got out of work early and figured I'd get a jump on my season with a little evening swing time. I headed to my absolute favorite spot; a local school I have hunted some 40 times before. I ended last season at this spot with some great finds and figured it would be neat to start the year here. I was dang near giddy on the way there with the excitement of getting back into the dirt!
Long story short, after digging my very first plug (admittedly a BIG one) a guy comes along, asks me what I doing and states that You can't just come on our property and start digging holes. I told him I always refill the holes and he replied So then would it be okay for me to just show up on you front lawn and start digging? At that point I knew there was not much point talking to this guy so I said no, I guess not and he told me to make this hole my last. I did.
Very annoying way to start the season! Of course I wanted to tell the jerk it was public property, that I had as much right to use it as anyone and that in the course of digging some 3,000 targets or so in the past few years at this spot I've never left one noticable hole and have likely picked up more garbage from the property that any maintenance worker. Ugh.
I'll certainly go back. But next time I'll go during less likely hours.
