ORIGINAL: chazspot

Somewhere it shouldn't be? If at all?

Recently I went hunting with a friend and we did a deer drive that led us to some state land next to a major highway. We had started the drive on a mutual friend’s private property. On the way back we came across a lock on tree stand that was put up recently. It was in a very desirable spot. It was about fifteen feet up a tree with a lot of limbs to climb to get to it. The tree was just about twenty yards away from some gnarly, twisted, thick-limbed bushes that offered excellent cover for deer. A great ambush spot!

Anyway, my friend thought it was appropriate to climb up and take it down and back to camp with us. I didn't agree with it, but my friend had said that another two hunters out of our hunting group had a trail camera stolen from around that same location very recently. It was actually stolen the night they put it up! Maybe this was payback. I am not as invested into this property personally although I do hunt there quite often. Ironically, in the end the landowner chastised my friend for taking the stand down and leaving footprints from the stand site back to his place. I would have left it there myself. How about you?