Minnesota passed a law stating that they could never take away the right to hunt.I don' t know exactly how it' s worded but that' s basically it.Luckily for me my father and some of his friends bought a forty some years ago and built a nice shack.Why do I say luckily,because they passed a law stating that you can' t build permanent stands on state or public lands anymore.I' m sure it was the logging companies which made this happen.The way I look at it there not gonna take away the chance to hunt,just make it so hard people won' t want to hunt anymore.I personally am a bow hunter and rifle hunter.I don' t have a problem using portable stands.But I would like to hunt until I' m an oldtimer.I don' t see myself hanging from a tree when I' m 70 trying to latch my stand onto it.This makes me mad!!