That reminds me of a time many years ago, probably the mid 1970's when I was about 16. I had a stand on private land about 40 yards from the border of a state park. I climbed into the stand way before daylight on opening morning. When I got settled in, I saw this glwing red light off to my left, then it went out. It was pitch dark. A moment later I saw it again, then it was gone. Really erie man. I watched it go off and on for few minutes and then it was gone altogether. I was kinda scared because I couldn't figure out what would be making a glwoing light like that out in the woods in the early morning darkness. As it started to get light, I noticed movement over that way again, and a match lit! Holy smokes, there was a guy in a treestand not ten yards from me and he was smoking!!!!! Boy was I mad since I was the only one who had permission on this land and I walked a lot of beans for the farmer before he would trust me enough to hunt there.
Anyway that property is today a public hunting area known as the McGrady property on the North side of Pilot Knob state park. There are some good bucks killed there every year, and I once had sole permission to hunt it. If only I knew then what I know today about hunting those bucks.