Warning to Hunters on Tree Stand Thieves
 

If you want to protect your tree stand, have some respect for tree stand thieves.

First, thieves know that some hunters are either out out shape, lazy, or don't care that their tree stand is left in some wooded area.

Thieves just seem to have some magic ability to find the tree stand in some hidden, out of the way, tree location.

Thieves have an ability some hunters don't have. The thieves value a tree stand and value it enough to carry the stand -out of the woods.

Thieves just hate hunters that carry their stand into and out the woods on sach hunt. It gets real hard finding their stands sitting on a lonely tree in a hidden part of the forest.

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And you know all of this because ...

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It's a poorly suggestive and sarcastic post that we as hunters should remove our stands each time we hunt.... OR it's our fault our stands are stolen.

Right, like I'm going to remove my portable and bring it every time I go in and out of the deer woods.

My stands stay where they are and hopefully they will be there when I get back.

iSnipe

My stands stay where they are and hopefully they will be there when I get back.

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Me too! But to ensure that I add a chain and lock!!:happy0001:

I uasully hunt out of a climber and only leave it in the woods at night. If they find it at night after I leave they are dedacated and I don't thik anything will stop them. It is a shame people can't just be honest.

ok i'll say it.................retard

I think anyone who knows where my stand is should stay well out of range! It would be easy to spot orange clad hunters in stands and mark your GPS to return for them, but why would you do it? And what if they aren't there when you come for them? Would you risk tresspassing and a $500. fine to try and steal something you could maybe pawn for $50. A double ladder stand only costs $79-150 bucks, and the risk of being caught by someone who has a gun is very high. With todays trail camera's sending intant pics to a website,and yes I set mine up to view my stands as well as game, I could be waiting at the road when you come out with my stand. I will already know if you are walking or driving, and what you are driving, and if you are armed and if you are alone. The police will have been called, and you better hope they get here and save you from me. I may even recognize you before you make that 1 1/4 mile hike/drive out, and in my state, a person may shoot to kill to protect property.
Even If I just bitch slap you and make a citizens arrest you're gonna pay a tresspassing fine to the state and damages to me. I'll charge say $150 for having to take the time to put the stand back. If I don't catch you the camera still will, day or night. Maybe you'll find the camera too and steal it,while it snaps pictures of you and where ever you take it. And all the evidence is stored on the web. You can't even take a leak around here without someone knowing. The woods are covered by more camera's than your favorite bank so you may as well go there and try for big money!

My climber goes in and out w/ me on every hunt, even on private land. That said, I hate a thief, buy your own stuff!

Believe it or not alot of guys on Long Island went to climbers because of treestand theft. This is rampet on L.I.!

Haha oh man I was thinking the same thing.

Get over it, if you have a problem with thiefs. Then be more cautious?

I kinda laughed reading the original post. Thiefs have this magic ability to find stands. NO they probably just follow the nice little flags yall leave behind. I went out two weeks ago for my first deer hunt ever. I found 3 tree stands just by following the bright colored streamers hanging from the trees. Jeesh, if I can find them and don't even know what I'm looking for, just imagine what someone with even a little to gain is gonna find. Don't worry I left them where I found them. I've had my tools jacked from my work truck before. I wouldn't do that to anyone.

i put branches with leaves, pine branches, etc to conceal myself in the stand from deer seeing movement. It also will help conceal your stand as well. I lock mine down which doesn't mean much. I have my two man stand locked to the same tree for two years on private property. No problems yet, i don't expect any either.

Not everyone leaves "Nice little flags" as a trail to their stand. I know where every stand is on my place and dont have one flag to mark them.

I had 1 stand stolen off some family property that was really deep in there, but have also found 3 stands on my place that I took down and kept so I feel even about it.

This was on forest service land. I couldn't believe it. It's not theft if you take whats left on your property. Thats just a present someone left you.

i have had all my stands and feeder on our property fer over 6 years and the only incident we had is sum1 across the property line shooting up a 55 gal dry storage drum. if you are on public land..duh and if ya are on sum1 else s land...duh.. but ya shouldn't have ta worry bout people on your own land though, wata disgrace.

lol at turkey guide? i think was the name..with all the cameras lol its funny as all hell, but he/she is right, bust em down set up those cams and leave one with a big ribbon on it i bet you will find your others, cause they think/know your gonna need another.

Nothing like going to your stand at 5:30am,... and finding it gone.

They got me once, won't happen again.

And the deer are still taking your treestands?

No, nothing like going to your stand at 5:30am,... and find someone hunting in it. LOL! It's happened!

iSnipe

No, nothing like going to your stand at 5:30am,... and find someone hunting in it. LOL! It's happened!

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HAH! True.

Friend was in his stand at 5:30am, and watched a hunter weave and sneak several hundred yards through fields to get towards him, using a red pen light. Got to the base of my buddy's tree, and my buddy turned his maglite on him, and asked if he was lost.
Guy just turned around and walked back the way he came.
I forgot all about that till now. That was 20years ago.

It's sad but some of those stealing tree stands do it because they want to hunt there, so you would move and hunt somewhere else.
I don't hunt in public properties anymore and make sure I know what's happening on the private one's I have sole hunting rights on.

they didnt have RED light 20 years ago....jesh

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They had red lights just after the light was invented.
Well, red colored lenses.
My first flashlight when I was a kid had 3 different colors with it.

I didnt think it would happen to me, but they didnt get my stand, they loosen my straps that held my stand. I got to my stand before daylight (530am), I started to climb up and got half way up thing went bad. It buckled with my weight!!! What now? Waited till light and whoever tried to steal it, they couldnt get it, I had it locked. They took lock pin out of top section and seat. Lucky I felt something was wrong, it could have been bad all away around