Thanks for the advice. Sounds like you guys know all aobut how frustrating it is. Four more 'no tresspassing' signs are going up saturday morning.

I'm kicking myself for not letting him get his picture taken. I think that would have kept him from taking the stand. But I didn't know how he would react to getting his picture taken while trespassing (keep in mind he was armed with a machete and I was armed with a roll of film).

It's just hard to move that stand. I finally went out and bought a nice comfortable stand because I hunt that exact spot every year. It's a cool spot, narrow woods that funnel the deer from 40,000 acres of state land (why the 'squirrel hunters' can't hunt there is beyond me) to farmland. The deer (for some reason bucks only!) also cross another narrow patch of woods between two ponds right there. I've seen a lot of nice bucks from that stand.

I know I should move the stand but I'm not going to. I think I'm going to leave a note on the stand saying something to the affect of 'did you smile for the cameras?

Also, I'm going to take the stand down long enough to engrave my name and phone number (maybe drivers license #?) on the stand. Problem is that stand weighs 26 pounds. I have my name and number engraved on my other stands just forgot to do it to this one. If anything I'll swap the nice stand with one of my Bear River Brown Bear stands. Another option is to return my new stand and buy another el'cheapo.

frustrating...