Treestand Theft Prevention?
06-03-2008, 08:45 AM
#11
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Mont County, Pa
Posts: 7,368
RE: Treestand Thieft Prevention?
ORIGINAL: bballhead44
if someone wants your stand bad enough to make a second trip out there with a bolt cutters...not much is going to stop them...
if someone wants your stand bad enough to make a second trip out there with a bolt cutters...not much is going to stop them...
06-03-2008, 09:34 AM
#13
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Mont County, Pa
Posts: 7,368
RE: Treestand Thieft Prevention?
ORIGINAL: DropTine249
If they want it bad enough and you dont catch them, its gone.
I use really heavy chains and master locks. The ones that normal bolt cutters cannot fit around.
If they want it bad enough and you dont catch them, its gone.
I use really heavy chains and master locks. The ones that normal bolt cutters cannot fit around.
06-03-2008, 10:33 AM
#16
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Crab Orchard, WV
Posts: 823
RE: Treestand Thieft Prevention?
I think there are several ways to decrease theft. simple lock will make the lazy ones go away, lock on stands a good option. put it up and use a portable latter system or take several of the bottom tree steps out and put them in while hunting. simpliest one I do is location, make them hard to find. not everyone is going to walk through ruff areas, steep hills sides work well. one thing i see in my area is DON'T TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT THEM OR LOCATIONS. If you start to brag, it just might end up gone..lastly use a gps to find stands not markers
06-03-2008, 10:51 AM
#17
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Posts: 1,238
RE: Treestand Thieft Prevention?
I pay a group of guys to sit under all my stands with gunswhen i'm not using them.
Really thow, the private land I hunt, everybody on the boarding properties know each other so it's kinda mutual trust, but we still lock the stands. Also if I know i'm not going to be using the stand for awhile, I will just take out all the tree steps.
When I hunt public I take my climber so there's no need to worry about that.
Really thow, the private land I hunt, everybody on the boarding properties know each other so it's kinda mutual trust, but we still lock the stands. Also if I know i'm not going to be using the stand for awhile, I will just take out all the tree steps.
When I hunt public I take my climber so there's no need to worry about that.
