Hunting Property Violated!

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Sportdog

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Before I left for my bear hunt I put up a couple of ladder stands and freshened the two mineral licks that I have on my small hunting parcel. Well I went there today and found one of my mineral blocks gone and one of my stands that they had tried to steal but I had it locked. I guess that it was bound to happen as I've had the property for four years, unmolested except for trash and beer bottles where they parked in my drive access. I'm glad that I didn't have any trail cameras or I'm sure they would be gone. Well now I've vented so I feel better!:(
 
Sportdog,
Unfortunately, I read or hear about someone getting a treestand stolen, every year. Some people have no respect for other people's property. :mad:

I find that the best way to "combat" this situation with portable treestands, is to port them. ;) The time it takes to put one up and take it down, far outweighs it being stolen. I've never had a treestand stolen because it was either on my back or I was in it. :)

Public or private land matters not. If a person is going to steal a treestand, trespassing is the least of their concerns. You've heard the statement, "Chains and cables only keep honest thieves honest", well NOT HARDLY. A set of bolt cutters are only $24.

I don't leave stands for these reasons:
* The weather/elements are hard on the parts.
* The critters are hard on the parts.
* I don't want anyone to know that section is being hunted. Next thing you know, there will be another treestand 20 yards from yours OR someone will already be in YOUR treestand when you get there.
* Theft! I can't afford to supply every swinging d*** in the woods with a treestand.
* I may rethink my stand location, after leaving the woods. It's much easier to relocate if the treestand is already in my possession.

Good hunting, Bowhunter57
 
I have alot of ladder stands on my property and every year some moron tries to steal them also. I weld the parts and legs all together so they cant and also use big cable locks(But they still try). I finally got smart and started smearing tar in the spots that only I would know its there. After finding one that was tampered with, I went for a ride and found who was doing it by the crap on his hands that he couldnt get off in time. I guess its pretty hard to get tar off quick and its gotta be hell driving with it on your hands and getting all over your steering wheel:D. Theirs always more then one way to skin a cat. If I really wanna have some fun, I take an old junker stand thats useless and set it up and smear dog crap all under the legs where they would grab it. Of course its not in a spot im hunting. Its gotta be the funniest thing in the world to see them reach under a step to lift it and they get a nice stinky squishy feeling between their fingers. LOL.:D:D
I would also throw down a couple 2x4's with some big nails in them across the road they dont belong on. Just to make them think about it next time when they gotta change a flat. Or you can get a big heavy gate to keep the vehicles out.
 
Sportdog, I hear your pain! I've got a couple friends with farms out here and every now and then, a stand or feeder winds up missing.

Back in FL where I am from, said thievery could result in some lead slung at the offenders by the ranch hands if caught. More than once I heard from the foreman how they "ventilated" someone's vehicle. Who knows the truth, I never saw it.

However, if I count up all the stands I've had stolen since I began hunting, and all were lost on public land, I'd bet its close to 15. 1 climber and the rest ladders. Good thing my buds and I braised our own ladders with electrical conduit. We only had about $35 in a stand when it hit the woods. Still frustrating to hit the woods in the morning, get to your tree, and no stand. It was amazing too as I would hike 45 mins after parking, so it wasn't like these were lazy SOBs. Also amazing for that number lost I never came across one of my stands somewhere else.
 
I've had whole deer feeders(55 gallon drums) stolen from property that I hunt on. Unfortunately for me the property is way the hell out in the middle of nowhere in rural Alabama and I live within metro Atlanta.
 
Globemaster, It might be tree huggers and their proably cutting them up in small pieces when they get them home. I cant stand theives and they all should have it happen to them sometime. Karma is a good thing and will catch up to them sooner or later.(Hopefully sooner than later)
 
Get deer cams and take pics, and then take them to the local sheriff.


get a gate or a chain and post the land. or just find an old stand in the paper and plant in the middle of a poison ivy patch
 
Make your mineral lick with this stuff and they can't steal it.
Deer prefer to lick and eat mineral laden dirt, than to lick off of a block.
I have had one of these for a year and the deer have eaten a circle six inches deep and three feet across. Two well used trails go to the lick:

WHITETAIL DEER HOMEMADE MINERAL MIX RECIPE
Printable version
Ingredients: Makes 200 lbs. for about $23.00

1 part Di-calcium phosphate, this is a dairy feed additive bought at feed stores.
Comes in 50lb Bags at around $11.00 you need one bag.

2 parts Trace mineral salt, the red and loos kind without the medications.
Comes in 50lb Bags at around $5.00 you need two bags.

1 part Stock salt, ice cream salt.
Comes in 50lb Bags at around $2.00 you need one bag.

Directions:

-Use a 3 pound or similar size coffee can to use as your measure for each part of the mix.

-Mix all together well but not until read to use, keep ingredients separate until ready to put to use.

-Dig or tear up a circle in the soil about 36 inches wide and about 6 inches deep.

-Mix your mineral mixture with the soil.

Maintenance:

-Replenish in 6 months with fresh supply of mineral, and then each year there after.



This recipe is 8 years old. Costs have doubled since this was originally posted.
 
Heres one for ya. My neighbor set new trailcam out on his own property by a stand he`d hunted for years. It came up missing and he was po`d to say the least. About two wks later he`s in a stand within eyeshot of where he had camera stolen. He watch`s a guy walk up to the tree the stolen camera was on and strap a trail cam on same tree. Neighbor climbs out of stand, goes up to guy(which also lives around here and happens to be one of the people aound here everybody thinks does alot of poaching) and yells at him asking him what WTF he thought he was doing. Guy apologized to neighbor, said he didn`t mean to disturb neighbors trailcam but didn`t want his picture on it as he knew he was trespassing when trailcam got his picture:rolleyes:. I guess he took trailcam home destroyed pictures and at least was returning camera. Neighbor (which is a giant of a man and a rough fella) told guy if he ever caught him back there on his property again he would "take a switch to him". A mutual friend of ours told me about the incident so naturally I had to deliver a truckload of pre-made 5ft. switchs to neighbors house blocking his driveway with them. A note left attached to pile said "Bens(neighbor) hunting supplies";);). Glad he took that as a joke:D
 
In 1993 I was leasing a 52 acre chunk of land which was right across the street from my house in central Georgia.
Being in central Georgia it was good deer hunting, and I got three deer per year off of that land for 3 years.
Then, I sold that house and moved to the NC mountains.
I had a nice ladder tree stand on that lease. I more or less forgot about it in the move.
NC mountains have pathetic deer hunting, so I pretty much got out of hunting for several years.
In 1998 I went back to central Georgia to hunt with a friend. I decided to go back to that lease and see if my stand was still there. I had it locked to the tree with a motorcycle lock.
To my amazement, the stand was still there! I could see that somebody had been hunting it, as there were cigarette butts on the ground, and the branches had been cleared.
Also I could see where somebody had tried to cut the chain, but had been unable to.
I even had the key with me in my green hunting bag.
I unlocked the chain and recovered my stand.
I still use that stand, though I did have to replace the plywood seat.
 
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