To chazspot, what do you mean "why bother taking it down"? Your buddy ripped off another hunters' stand!! You read about this here all the time, tell him to return it!!
You said you had a stand stolen once, how did it feel?
I ask why because it didn't seem to be accomplishing much to me that he climb up the tree and bother taking it down. It wasn't on our host's propert. He justified it by saying the landowner would want that and like I mentioned previously we had a camera stolen from that same area. Perhaps it was payback. If it wasn't for that I think my friend would not have done it although I am not certain of that.
Yes,it downright sucked when I looked around for my stand in the dark to only discover once enough sunlight was provided my lock-on stand was stolen.