Trespassers trailcam

[buck160]

This weekend a kid called me and had the balls to ask if he could hunt of my stand. Without wanting to piss off the land owner I said yeah, but he could tell I wasnt to up beat about it. Well the weekend went by and he called me at 530 on sunday and said that all my tree stands were stolen and all the gear that went with it. So, I start doing some investigative work and turns out the kid that sat in my tree stand is the one that stole everything. He confessed to me this morning. I was forced to let the landowner know and he is no longer let on the property.

Seriously I be nice and let the kid sit in my stand and then he steals it.

What a retard! I was able to recover everything. He admitted it and then threw it in a ditch and then told me where I could find it.

And for good measure, not sure but if he is a member on this site or looks at this site his name is Ian Sparks from Winterset, IA. People like you give hunters a bad name kid!

 

[Lung Popper]

Buck 160 - that has to be the dumbest kid in the woods!! I would love to find someone taking one of my stands down..........

 

[Shredder]

Either way, 5 acres is small and a pile of apples is considered baiting at this point...at least for 10 days after they are removed. Landowner is your best bet on finding out who else has permission. If you do take it, I would make every effort to find the cams owner explain the boundaries (assuming he/she is trespassing) and return the unit. Despite if they are in the wrong, you approach it with a calm manner, you will have a better outcome long term. JMO

Repeat offenders should be handled differently on a case by case basis

 

[Handcannon]

Talked to the landowner & he said no one else has permission. I think I'm gonna be a nice guy about all this after I get all of this guys information (name, address, etc) just in case my stuff gets stolen. I would really like to own a camera but not like this If it was my property my attitude would be crap & I would own the camera

 

[G6]

I'd do some checking with the landowner about that camera and see what he wants to do.






Your problem started when you didn't check with the landowner or hunter to see if the guy was still hunting. Just because a stand isn't inplace, doesn't mean much. Seems to me, he had reason to be upset also. First with his stand being stolen, then you jumping in without bothering to check with either the landowner or him.

I did check with them and they said they hadn't heard from him, just that he usually hunts there, this was earlier about 2 weeks before bow season opened. I had never seen him out there either in all the times I had hunted there and figured he was just one of those guys that only hunted once in awhile and killed the first deer that walked by. I had just as much right to hunt there as he did in my book and I should really be able to put my stand up anywhere I want just as he does. I don't think I should have to be the one to call him or look him up, if he really cared about the spot he should have asked long before I did, I asked LAST MUZZY SEASON to bowhunt it. He just figures he owns the place because he hunted it before. Just greedy in my book.

 

[G6]

G6-
It funny but I was in the exact opposite position as you last night. I had a tree cleared from the previous year and believe me it took at least 3 hours to get this thing limbed out. I try never to leave a stand out over the winter and rarely leave a stand out anyway, but this particular spot is one of the few that I hunt more than once and justifies a permanent set. Our family, prior to this year were the only ones bowhunting the ~400 acre farm, but during the offseason someone else was able to get permission, which was fine. I spoke with him this winter and he had said he'd seen a number of our set ups and vowed to stay clear of them being the new guy and all. I appreciated it and didn't think much else of it.

Anyway, I headed out last night to set this stand for the Rut and to hunt it as well. After the 3/4 mile walk in I got to the tree only to find a stand sitting in the exact tree I had painstakingly cleared. To top it off a 50 year old cedar tree which provided great draw cover was sawed down as well....making the setup far less appealing.

I decided to just hunt elsewhere, but I would never have had the gall to set my stand in another persons limbed tree (which equates to claiming it as his own in my book) knowing exactly who had done the work on this private farm. I probably wouldn't be as upset if the guy had done a take in/take down job while hunting it, but to go and leave the stand knowing full well that I had not done the legwork to prepare it.....foul play IMO. I certainly won't hunt the stand now since its not mine, but should I (I wont)? There is always 2 sides of the story, I'm not sure of the exact specifics of yours, but it sounds like the other guy had a beef that I find quite reasonable.

As for the guy taking your stand down, probably pretty sketchy, but he was likely heated due to having his stand jacked and it probably just stoked the fire when he got back only to find another stand in his tree to top things off.

Good luck the rest of the season. I try to go by the Golden Rule while in the woods, the problem is, not everyone feels the same about what is proper hunting etiquette.

DOR I can understand your position with clearing out the tree for your stand and having him use it, I really can. This tree the guy had his stand in didn't take much to clear lanes in since it was right on the field edge and I took a few more limbs out when I put my stand there. Like I stated if the guy was going to hunt there I would NEVER have put my stand up there or even put it close to him even though we both had equal right to do so. I think if he was so worried about keeping HIS so called spot then he should have done the legwork to make sure it stayed that way long before the season even opened. As far as his stand missing I can see why he was pissed but he insinuated I took the damn thing before I even told him about the one missing on the neighbors property. I'm sure a thief is really going to put up a stand in the same tree with their name on it?

 

[Tim Hull]

Just leave a note behind telling them where they can get the camera back after checking with the landowner.