Let me tell you a true story.Two friends of mine had an Elk Tags here in Arizona several years ago. We built a ground blind for one of them and the other one planned on using a solid but homemade tree stand down the ridge a few hundred yards. This stand has been in this tree for at least 20 years that I know of. Opening morning my friend was in the stand well before daylight. I decided to slip down and see how he was doing around 9:00 in the morning and low and behold there was a hunter standing about 10 yards below his stand. I asked Gary what was going on and he said this guy came in around 7:30 and told him this was his stand. Gary said the told the man that he was already situated and all of his gear was up there. He also told the guy that he would let him use the stand the next day. However, this guy said he was hard of hearing and he needed the advantage of the stand and if Gary wouldn't give it to him, he would make sure he get anything so there he stood. I went down and talked to this guy and he gave me the same story. I told him what an a$$ I thought he was but it didn't do any good. So, if you think there aren't some buttheads amongst us hunters, unfortunately you're wrong. You do what you think is right on your situation, but you could be asking for a confrontation. By the way, I told the guy he was the luckiest white man I had ever met. When he asked why, I told him that I had previously bailed Gary out of jail for fighting and just how lucky he was that Gary didn't climb down and kick his a$$. He decided to leave after that but the morning, and for that matter, the whole hunt was tainted that year.