Stolen Treestand!!!
 

Went out today to do a little scouting and to check my treestands and some jerk had stolen 2 of them. I had the bottom four steps removed and both stands were chained and padlocked to the tree. I have'nt lost a stand in quite a while so needless to say my blood pressure is up tonight! I guess they used bolt cutters or they unbolted the stands is the only thing I can figure. Just goes to show you what extremes some people will do to take a stand.

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The bad thing is its probably someone you know that stole them... So I would be looking at the houses for people that know you hunt there.. They really must have wanted them really bad to go through all that trouble..... I would be looking hard at the people you know though....

Sorry to hear about your stands.....

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2 years ago I had 2 of my ladder stands stolen off our farm. I never could prove who did it but our neighbors hate the fact that we hunt. But they would never do nothing like that:eek:

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DBaker.........LMAO.......... What did you do to them?????

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I can't prove it but I do have a good idea who it was. We had problem a couple of years ago with adjoining landowners and leases riding their atv's on our lease without permission. Knowing a couple of these fellas' backgrounds, I definately feel like they are responsible.

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i have never gotten any of my stands stolen because most of them are permanent but i have had some nasty notes left and my rattling antlers taken.....If i could only find out who was doing this i'm sure i wouldn't have a problem with it again after they were dealt with. These people have have no respect for others property and should be taught a lesson.

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Bummer VA,

But you know what they say....."What comes around; goes around!"

They'll probobly fall out of a tree and hurt themselves-rightfully so.

Uncle Matt (in IL)

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hmm any truck tracks???? Foot Prints ??????? Finger prints on the steps.... might want the sheriff to come out..... you never know... finger prints go along way .....

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I went out to do some shed hunting and early turkey scouting this past weekend and found that one of my stands was stolen. I had a Brinks 5/8 cable around it so apparently they really wanted the stand. No one know that I hunt out there but my immediately family. This is the first year I've hunted out there and the owner says no one has ever asked to hunt it so I'm assuming someone has hunted the place without permission and now I've moved in and he's PO'd.

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i am just about to put a stand up i got about a month ago. i hope that nobody steals it. uncle matt is right about wat goes around comes around

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3 years ago I had my steps stolen, and they had attempted to cut the lock, but were unsuccessful...so I took the stand down and locked it in my truck, scouted for another hour or so, returned to my truck and found my window smashed out and stand gone....couldn't win for losing that day. Since then I have used a climber stand....a little more work, but I only had to buy one!

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I don't hunt from a stand so I don't know how you feel, but I do know that they are expensive, so sorry to hear about your loss.

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Although I consider myself a pretty reasonable guy, I do have a bad temper in some instances. Tresspassing thieves are one of my triggers. I don't own any of the private land I use, but if I did, I would just stick with a climber. I know it's a pain getting it in and out, but I just can't stand having things stolen.

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My hunting group uses bicycle locks on our stands and thats on private property. This past hunting season the landowner went for a hike on his property and found a brand new Ol Man climber sitting in an area that is used for a deer sanctuary...we don't even go anywhere near that area when we hunt. He was torn about repossessing it but just unattached it from the tree and left a nice note. Its a good thing the stand owner never ran into the landowner...to put it lightly there are probably 30 NFL teams that would love tohave him play DE for them and he looks like Lurch from the Adams family but with a moustache...

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I am the exact same way sixer.......

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I had the reverse problem , . .some guy put a tree stand up on my property , not 50 yds from where I have one up ! I now have it chained to a trr in my front yd waiting for the owner to claim it:)

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Ifferd the only drawback in using the hardened steel chains and locks is if some goofball breaks off a toothpick in your lock or otherwise disables it so you can't open the lock.

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I had 2 ladder stands stole last fall, just so happened to be after the two farms were logged. I could not prove anything, but my intuition told me where they went, needless to say I will probably never see them again.
I know what you are saying VA, I also know how you feel, you don't know how bad I wanted to put dirt in the oil on the loggers skidders, but I figure it will come back around, plus if by some 1 in a billion chance it wasn't him, I would have felt awful bad.

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I hunt out on public land, and I leave my treestand out there the whole hunting time. No one ever goes out there and I know about everyone that hunts there.