Dang, that stinks.....I've had two of my climbing stands stolen over the years. I never leave it out there unless I know I am coming back the next morning.

Scumbags [:@].

I went to scout and set a stand yesterday and I have the opposite problem. We found 5 different ladder stands set on the property that only 3 of us have permission to hunt. They don't belong to the other two guys. And last year we had two guys stop us and complain we set out stands to close to theirs and told us we were tresspassing, until we pushed the issue and said lets get DNR out here and see what they say, we had written permission as required by the state they didn't. THey back peddled quickly and got out of dodge. My problem is that none of the land owners really want to do anything, as they all fear that the folks might come back and cause damage to their farms. We do all this prep and scouting and have folks constantly tresspassing, poaching and ruining a season of planning.

Just report it stolen and hope they return it.

yea it sucks... i didn't think it would happen to me. i live in a very quiet conservative part of the country where hardly anything gets stolen and people leave keys in vehicles overnight or doors unlocked ect ect. i didn't think to lock it up because i honestly thought people around here were honest enought not to take it! guess i was wrong [:@] i am going to keep an eye out for it, because it was stolen by public land.