This past week was the 1st gun season so my weekend was spent working on my house per my wifes request. Since the public land I hunt doesn't allow bowhunters during gun season I gladly cooperated and painted and hung fixtures and installed some new appliances.

I returned to my stand after gun season this past weekend and walked out to my stand...or where my stand used to be. I looked around dumbfounded wondering how I had lost my way to my stand after only a week of not being out there. Then I looked up and saw a tree strap of mine still connected to the tree I was standing in front of. But no stand. Someone had cut my locks, stolen my stand, stolen my climbing sticks and all in all really pi$$ed me off.

For almost 2 months during bow season my stand sits out in the woods without so much of a stray footprint around her and then one week of gun season and she's gone.

What is wrong with these people. I have never been a big fan of gun deer season or those that participate in it. But now I'm convinced that ethics never enter the minds of these people.

Looks like I'm out of commision for a week or two until my new stand gets delivered. From now on I go portable. If it goes in with me it comes out with me. Lesson learned.

And if the jerk who stole my stand is reading this...I certainly would hate to think of you falling and breaking your neck, so be careful...jerk!