Another Treestand theft !!
 

Well it has been a few years since I lost a stand but I lost one this weekend. Some lowlife S.O.B. stole my Summit Viper off my carport Saturday or Sunday. I would have not been suprised had it been afixed stand that was left in the woods, but off my own carport really ticks me off. It ticks me off because I knowI should have known better. Sorry for the rant but I needed to vent!

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thats messed up.... I bought a small motion activated camera after someone broke into my wifes car, Its wireless and downloads images to my lap top which I can view at work.... whole thing was less than 200 bucks...makes a nice little spy cam......

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I wouldn't be surprised if it was someone that you know or a neighbor.

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After my truck being robbed several years ago and losing hundreds of dollars worth tools, I never leave anything unlocked outside. It sucks but it's not worth the risk to me anymore. Sorry man, we've all been there.

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It really takes a low-life to steal something that someone else has worked to earn. If you find or catch them, prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.

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The farm I hunt on has had 3 ladder stands, a ground blind, and a game camera stolen in the past 2 years, all were at least 1/4 mile from the nearest public road. I won't leave anything there any more, not even with a lock and chain. Heck, the owner had his Jeep Cherokee stolen from his driveway while he was mowing the lawn. He backed it out of the garage so he could get the mower out, then started mowing. He made a couple of passes in the front yard, and turned around just in time to see the Jeep fly out of the driveway. This place is in the middle of nowhere, the closest town is 30 miles away (10,000 people). The Jeep was recovered a couple of weeks later, but they had done quite a bit of damage. No treestands have been recovered.

Jason

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People are ruthless. I had my weedeater and leaf blower stolen out of my garage while my wife was home for lunch! Then, they got my neighbors 2 days later! At least, they took the cheap stuff and left the $250 waders.

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Sorry about your loss and I know my story has no great loss but but listen to my treestand story.

I have had a lot of problems with someone messing with one of my wooden ladderstands. It is on my neighbors land and she is an old lady that does not hunt. She has over 200 acres and there is 6-8 people alowed to hunt it. It started with some one laying my stand down and every time I went to in it was down. Then one day i went to in the guy had taken it down and broken my top step w/ an ax.I Fixed it, moved it , and put it back up. Then I was climbing up it, got to the top as it fell over, I jumped off out of the way and landed on my bow pins, HE had taken my straps and and put it back up. what an ass! I did not even hunt it the next year, the following year I went in and put a new platform on the stand, 2 weeks later I went back and 6 of the 8 steps had been cut off with a chainsaw. so again i did not go back there that year. This year I went in just to see if my platform and stepless aldder was still up and there was a metal ladder stand 10 yds from my tree. I guess this guy did not want me there.

I would have given up on this area a long time ago but there are some huge bucks in this area, but now after 4 years I have had enough of this crap. Also the thought of messing with this guys stand came to me, but then i would be no better than him. Also there was another person that had a $300 climber stolen from a tree in the woods, the lock was cut.

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My brother has had a stand or two ripped off. I lock mine and I guess if they want it that bad, come get it....just better hope I'm goneor my aim is off.

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zmschillin, I would've made an effort to confront the low life you were dealing with. If you had permisson then he had no right to do the things he was doing.

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Some people are just trash. My dad had a four-wheeler stolen out of the back of his truck by a sherriff in another county on Christmas Eve a few years ago. Had not burned a tank in it and when we got it back two months laterit had been painted with spray paint and wouldnt run.

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Prosecute!!! I would rather take Hanks advise, Spit some beach nut in their eyes and shoot them with my old 45.

Not to put down the police, but I my parents hadsomeone forge a check in the criminalsown name anda friend of mine had items stolen and the police actually recovered the items, but in both cases the police said it was not worth prosecuting and would not do it. That makes me madder than all when it seems it would be a simple case.

Cheers,
Chris

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I would have but I am not sure of who was dinig this. I have a good idea but i feel if i cnofronted him he would just deny it without any proof.

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Check people that know where your stuff is in the woods, whether it be "friends" or neighbors kids who drive their 4 wheelers through the woods.. If this happened close to home you can just about guarantee it is someone local who knows their way around the woods where it happened.. Keep an eye out and when you find the culprit make sure you wear your steel toes..

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pretty gay man. i wouldnt blame myself cause in this part of Va noone one do nothin like that. just how it is here. sorry man...

what part of Va do you hunt? just asking

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PEOPLE these days god i think i would set another up in the same spot and lay out a couple hundred yards away and wait till you see them taking it and then BOOM!

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I've always wanted a nice summit but to afraid to lose it. I hunt from a $45 wal-mart special. It weighs a ton, ain't that comfortable, but if a low lifethief lugs that heavy sob to a pawn shopI know hes only gettin about $10. I dispise thieves...

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that stinks i hate that stuff when it happens it gets you so mad . probably someone close by

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Sorry man. My friend has had a few treestand stolen, one just this weekend. The only thing I can say if you haven't already tried this, try butting a chain around your treestand or maybe a one of those bike locks. Also try putting your initials on the bottom of the treestand. Carv them in with a key or something. I say this because one time a friend of mine put his intials on his treestand and he had it stolen from him on state land and when he went back he saw that it had been stolen. So he was walking around looking for a place to sit and saw a treestand that looked like his so he climbed up it and looked on the bottom and sure enough there was his initials.