Seems crazy to have to say it but if you run across a stand or camera in the woods that doesn't belong to you, it was not left there unintentionally... yes the hunter who put it there knows it is there... no it isn't yours... no you don't have a right to take it because it is on public land. Leave it alone or leave bowhunting, we are a band of brother and sisters trying to find a little escape from the reality that people who would steal from a fellow hunter exist. If this is you... please re-think your life... please.
http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Gear-Ex...1348748462&sr=8-1&keywords=climber+tree+stand not the lightest but i use this stand for back country hunting in the deep woods in the adirondacks, well worth the price check it out
Thanks!! Still can't get it before opener but this will definitely be in the woods by muzzleloader season!
Thanks!! Still can't get it before opener but this will definitely be in the woods by muzzleloader season!
The exception there is "Public" land. I have had guys try and run me off our family farm ground. I have kindly delivered their ladder stands to the side of the road by way of a JD 4840 and a log chain. Other encounters with trespassers get a warning first.
I feel your pain. I had a camera stolen on private land, that no one else has permission to hunt. It definitely takes the fun out of hunting.
Nothing stolen from me... at least not in a long time. But I find myself getting steamed every time I read about one of you friends whose season gets ruined because you got ripped off... especially brand new bowhunters on a tight budget... and doubly especially those ripped on your own land or lease! For the life of me... why would someone think it is okay to take someone's stuff? I had one friend who had his stand chained on a tree and someone cut his stand up trying to steal it... then just left it hanging. Thankfully he noticed that it was cut before he climbed in.
put out a moultrie E-Z fill feeder in june of 2009, 40 yds from a guys house, so when he was in his study room on the computer he could hear it go off and watch the deer come in to keep an eye on them.... some one stole it first wk of oct.... tried to cut the treestand cable that i had used to keep it from being taken and could not get thru it,but they cut the master lock....pushed it over 150lbs of corn on the ground and carried it off..... but they didnt take the ground blind that was only 20yds away ,go figure all very private property... now i waste a camera on the feeder and one for the deer and they are 10 feet high in a tree, use a 4 step ladder, have not lost a thing since.... russ
I've had one hang-on stand and a cheap trailcam stolen so far on public land. I've been using treestands now for 12 years but only been using cams for 5. Neither had a chain and lock, so this year my 3 cams definately do! Only 2 of my stands do. Plus I scribed my initials on my cameras, but some jerks stop at nothing! They better hope I never catch them in the act!
We had a guy trying to start an Outfitter service in our area. He leased up a bunch of ground, but most of it wasnt very good. The only decent lease he had, the deer filtered through my friends family owned ground first. Josh would hunt his stand in the morning and come back in the afternoon and it was gone (rural king cheapy hangon chained and locked). After a couple of days, I went in with him in the morning and made a ground blind about 40 yards from his stand. Usual routine, he left stand around 10 am and I stayed. About an hour later here came the outfitter with bolt cutters. He was surprised to say the least when He saw me standing at the bottom of the tree as he started to drop the stand. We found the other 3 stands in his shed. The other farmers broke their leases with him by the end of the week.
^^^UNBELIEVABLE^^^ I found one of my Barbed wire fences cut and replaced with a gate and four wheeler trails coming onto my property. I took down the gate and replaced it with some heavy duty posts and wire. I don't want to be ugly with the people because I don't want ugly reciprocated and I do have to track a deer every once in a while that makes it across the line which I do have permission to go retrieve as long as I am not "hunting' over there. I have never actually seen them on my side and the trails have grown back over. I can't imagine them coming over and taking my stands... That would be bad.
Yup this s*** drives me nuts. Went to check on some of my stands yesterday and just make sure they are ready to use and touch up the trails on my private land stands and 1 public land stand. And of course the public land one was messed with. Nope it wasn't stolen, worse they are ladder stands and attached with 2 ratchets straps one halfway up and one at the top platform to the tree. Well they took the lower one and un did the top one. So basically if I didn't notice I mite of made it up to the top and would of fell over because it is no longer attached to tree. This makes me irate because I understand the thieving, ya complete low life hunter, ya I get it. But to deliberately try and hurt someone because you don't like where my stand is. I hope I find this guy and have a little talk with him. This is how hunting in my area is going everyone is jealous of other hunters and where there stands are its sickening!!!
Sound like someone's conscience got the better of them in mid theft or they got told to put it back after five fingering it. At either rate, I am glad you still have your stand and your are safe.
