This is why hate people....
12-07-2009, 01:45 PM
#31
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: San Antonio, TX
Posts: 246
A few years ago, my brother bought a brand new feeder and set up a blind on our own 830 acre ranch and it got stolen within a week. He's only been on guided hunts that someone else pays for since. That's the worst part. He's got two little boys and I don't know that they will get to go hunting but at least they'll get plenty of fishing done.
We had a bad time of it with vandals and thieves a few years back when we first got the place. An industrious thief could get in along the creek where the floods would wash out the fences.
I generally hunt around alot of other people, extended family, not all of whom I necassarily trust. I've taken to locking up all my equipment so no one else can hunt there...at least, can't sit in my blind. It sucks to see a buck, watch him all season, size him up, decide you want to take him and then see the pictures passed around of some other jerk striking a pose with him dead as a doornail.
We had a bad time of it with vandals and thieves a few years back when we first got the place. An industrious thief could get in along the creek where the floods would wash out the fences.
I generally hunt around alot of other people, extended family, not all of whom I necassarily trust. I've taken to locking up all my equipment so no one else can hunt there...at least, can't sit in my blind. It sucks to see a buck, watch him all season, size him up, decide you want to take him and then see the pictures passed around of some other jerk striking a pose with him dead as a doornail.
12-07-2009, 02:36 PM
#32
Spike
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Dry Fork
Posts: 51
Well fine then, how about that expensive camera that you like to take pictures with? Ever leave that in your car? Keep it in your house? Ever sit it next to you while having lunch? Or how about something like your grill on your porch, lawn chairs, patio furniture, radio out of your car, T.V. out of your home, DVD player out of your home etc... etc... etc...
That's what's wrong with this world. Too many people ask the victim....
Why in the world did you leave your car parked on the street?
Why did you leave a treestand up on your own private property?
Why do you have an expensive TV in your house?
Why would you have such an expensive camera laying around in your house... It's just inviting people o break in and take it.
ETC... ETC... ETC...
Blame and convict the criminal and not ask why the victim leaves a treestand out on his PRIVATE PROPERTY. He left it out because it is his dang property and not theirs.
That's what's wrong with this world. Too many people ask the victim....
Why in the world did you leave your car parked on the street?
Why did you leave a treestand up on your own private property?
Why do you have an expensive TV in your house?
Why would you have such an expensive camera laying around in your house... It's just inviting people o break in and take it.
ETC... ETC... ETC...
Blame and convict the criminal and not ask why the victim leaves a treestand out on his PRIVATE PROPERTY. He left it out because it is his dang property and not theirs.
12-07-2009, 02:46 PM
#33
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: central and east texas
Posts: 4,894
my buddy busted a guy huntin his blind...guy said he was sorry he thought we'd left for the weekend already...my buddy told him never to come back, they burned his blind down by the followin weekend..it was cold and no hot spots, almost like they watched us leave 3 days befor..
12-07-2009, 02:59 PM
#34
Spike
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 13
Yah guys people can be real jack @$$es some times and honestly its every country bumpkin with a bad idea that give hunters a bad name. Once I was hunting Public land and I was stiitin in a hole made by a tree falling and being uprooted and about 5 yard out we (me and my uncle) found a natural blind that looked like it took some time to make. We found a gps and a hunting bag with a knife and a map in it and we left it there and kinda hid it in the blind. The guy was probably out stalkin. I think if I ever set a stand on public land I would find some way to put pressure sensors under the feet of my stand and if those senosors go off have firecrackers drop from the trees above and go off on the ground around the idiots who would try and steal it, plus a couple cable loks wouldnt hurt. = )
12-08-2009, 09:05 AM
#35
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: land of the Lilliputians, In the state of insanity
Posts: 26,274
That sucks. I had the very same thing happen on my private land.
