I have been hunting for 51 years and in that time I must say the vast majority of the other hunters I have encountered are great people. Have ended up good friends with some we have met while hunting. There is the odd ahole in every walk of life so no surprise there are some jerks that hunt.
I do recall one great situation while hunting near Port Renfrew years ago. I worked in the area so knew where to find some good bucks. I had seen a very nice 5x5 in an area that we planned to hunt early in the season. It poured all night but stopped by the time we got to our spot in the morning - perfect. The plan was to hike about 400 yards up through a young plantation to hunt a beautiful patch of old growth where my brother had taken a dandy the year before. Just as we were getting ready to leave the road another hunter pulled up to chat. He was nice enough but said he had been hunting here for a week (mostly driving) and had not seen any deer, and we should not waste our time. We said our good byes and as we hiked up through the plantation we looked back and saw he had come back hoping we would spook something to him - made us a little nervous. About noon I shot a beautiful 5x5 that made the Island Book. It took me an hour or so to drag it down to the road where I left it in the ditch near a culvert while I got the truck. Perfect timing - the hunter we encountered in the morning came along just we were loading it into the truck. As he got out I said "yup, no deer around here" and we all had a good laugh.