Had the same thing happen at Camp Livingston this past Saturday. We got into the woods at 4 am, and lo and behold a truck pulls in by my buds vehicle at 5:30am. My BIL had already been in the tree for 1.5hrs so the clown decidrs to shine his headlights and spotlights across the entire woods, turns around, goes down the road 100 yds, turns around again, parks behind his truck and cranks up his stereo blaring with all 4 windows down. Leaves after 10 minutes. My BIL decides to climb down around 9:30 and sends me a message as I'm walking out of my area im hunting, so I drive to go and meet him. We begin scouting the area finding rubs (he's hunted this one spot for the last two years) and find a lock on stand and some gear on the ground like someone just threw it around. Then a morbidly obese redneck walks up with a single shot rifle asking what we were doing and we both said we climbed down and are scouting, but why is he leaving a permanent stand in a national forest? He claimed he sets it up the night before so he doesn't spook the deer. I didn't have a good feelin about him, my spidey sense was tingling. Then I think, my G19 and a couple of mags are on the passenger seat of my truck. As I'm walking back to my truck, I spot his even more morbidly obese friend taking cover behind their pickup truck, rifle in hand. I remain calm, sit down in my truck, motion to my BIL and he makes his way to his truck, stripping down to his boxers and readying his shot gun, while asking them what their f**** problem was, while him and I are both readying ourselves for a firefight, both combat veterans, in line units who have seen action. They both had single shot H&R rifles and would have been seriously outgunned by us. They ended up cursing and leaving, and only once my tires hit the highway did I start feeling safe again. I hate stupid rednecks who think they own public land. I hate them so much. I thought I was going to have to kill someone completely derpified.
Grant Parish is a cesspool of inbreeding and ignorance. You did the right thing to keep your cool but prepare for the worse - Livingston can be a lawless place.