bow hunter vs coon hunter
 

last year my friend and i both were robbed by coon hunters''we think''
are stands were gone a junk stand was against my tree and beer cans layed allover. i coon hunt and would never do this. now my ? is what would you do to stop this???? trailcams, police the land hard or find out who the neighbors let hunt yes the stands were chained

RE: bow hunter vs coon hunter
 

I would try to get positive picture evidence of either tresspass, theft, or poaching or all 3. Then take your pictures to the neighbors, and the police...

RE: bow hunter vs coon hunter
 

better make it a IR camera.. i know one think if i wascoon huntin an fixin to steal some stands an seen a flash go off. your camera's gonna be missin to.....

RE: bow hunter vs coon hunter
 

To begin with, you shouldn't throw these guys into the group "coon hunters". How do you know they are coon hunting and do this? you say that you coon hunt? then why are you making a post that is attacking "coon hunters"?

i tell ya, some "hunters" need to think before they hit the keys.[:'(]

RE: bow hunter vs coon hunter
 

yes how do you know they are coon hunters???

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My question too.

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A coon hunter wouldn't be carrying a treestand. Maybe a beer - not a treestand. So, if your thief left ajunker stand behind- it probably wasn't a guy running coon hounds.

Besides, if somebody found your stand, they probably saw it in the daylight.

Coon hunters will just walk the logging roads and field edges with small flashlights/headlampsuntil the dogs tree, then they go find them and break out the bright lights. They aren't wasting their spotlight batteries pointing them into the trees unless the dog is on thetree.

A coon hunter would probably walk past 10 treestands in the darkbefore they'd actually stumble onto one.

Granted, the stands might have gotten yanked in the dark, but they were probably first seen in daylight hours - by a deer, turkey or mushroomhunter.

RE: bow hunter vs coon hunter
 

My first thought was the same as Quicksilver. You don't carry a stand around with you when you're out coon hunting do you? Also, you said "you and your friends both" so were they right next to one another?Someone probably scoped them out earlier and as for the beer cans.... I think if I wanted them I'd get in and get out the quicker the better. If possible (if you're in a small community) I think I'd try to figure which crowd likes to go out in the woods at night to do some partying.

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uh huh, mine too???

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Ive hunted coons before with some buddies and even some people I never knew, and I tell you, coon hunters are a very respectable group of people. It sounds to me as hes against coon hunters and is blaming coon hunters for a bunch of poaching drunktheives for stealing their stands. If you want to find out who it is, just take a couple of them there beer cans to your local shrrifs office and have the cans dusted for prints. Let them know youre missing items off your property. You shouldnt be so quick to blame or judge.

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as far as attacking coon hunters ,,,i also coon hunt. when you walk out at darkand come back before sunrise the next day and your stands are gone and beer can are littered its pretty easy to point fingers

RE: bow hunter vs coon hunter
 

Most of time when someone steals from anyone you probably know the person or it is a neighbor who lives close to you or your hunting property.Put up some "No Hunting" or Trespassing" signs and some hidden"No Flash" trail camera's to catch the person/person's stealing your stands and PROSECUTE to the fullest if they are caught.

RE: bow hunter vs coon hunter
 

i coonhunt and trust me that's the last thing on my mind. i couldn't imagine lugging a big heavy pair of bolt cutters,then a treestand with a dog on a leash.i would say someone else found the stands and took them on ya.

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Walters444hunt,

Man! I think you have started a war.

RE: bow hunter vs coon hunter
 

I have two passions in life, running coon dogs and bowhunting whitetails. There has been countless times when coonhunting when I could have stole a tree stand, however I am not the type to do that. The purpose of my post is say that most coon hunters are very intelligent sportsmen. Although, the hunting community often looks down on these hunters and views them as "rednecks." From my experience over the years coon hunters are more responsible sportman than most deer hunters. Nothing agianst the deer hunters, I am one myself , but this is what I have concluded.