ORIGINAL: OGW
Regrettfully if they want it...it's history!
I too have seen people going into the woods with BoltCutters....followed them in right to my treestand and made some noise just before they got to it. They kept walking...but I know I would have lost it if I did not decide to get it out of there,right then, that day.
I would have followed them all the way to it and when the reached down to cut the chain i'd racked a shell where they could hear