Heading to my stand the last weekend in October only to find a broken cable lock laying at the bottom of the tree.
2nd worst moment was this past weekend I find a note tacked to a tree beside my trailcam. "call this #XXX-XXX-XXXX".
I find out that the landowner I had permission to hunt about 500 acres had turned over hunting rights for the land to two brothers and all permission had to go through them.
When I called, the fellow told me that NO ONE had permission to hunt there any longer and that if I was caught there he would call the Game Warden and have me ticketed!
There was absolutely no reasoning with him even after I had explained that I've been hunting there the past 10 years and there were plenty of deer and land.
I even tried telling him I would call in advance and let him know where I would be on the land so we would run into each other.
The conversation turned tense and I knew it was just best that I say goodbye to my spot forever...[&o]
Actually now that I think about it, that day was worse than finding my climber stolen.