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I haver 5 ladder stands, and I leave them out all year, but sometimes I will move one or two of them right before the season.

I used to leave my ladders out all year but they like to rust over the winter. The next season they were load as hell!![:@] So we take them every year and put back up. We are thinking of useing lock on's with sticks but me and my hunter partner are both in the 275lb+ club and not sure what lock-on we are going to use.

I build my own wood trees stands, I leave them up year round, to heavy, and not enough room to mess with, so they just stay up.

We clean, trim all climber trees in the spring. All other stand are placed in the spring as well.

IMO, anything else is a gamble.

We leave em year round, usualy spring, summer, early fall, may put a new one or two out, may move some in the fall, kinda whenever, we lock all of our stands, sure if they want'ed them they could get them, but it is a deterrance.

I hunt public land.
stand left in woods= someone elses stand.

I mostly hunt public land so usually end up taking the stand in and out with me unless I'm going back in the nextAM. For that reason I use climbers most of the time.

I knew i forgot to do something. oh well i guess ill have to pull em when i can actually make into the woods. and then get them ready to hang after the growing season is done.

To tell you the truth, we leave our stands up year round because we have over 160 stands and it would be too much of a hassle to pull them, then go hang them in a couple months