Treestand Theft Prevention?
06-02-2008, 08:00 PM
#1
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Deer Country
Posts: 2,244
Treestand Theft Prevention?
In light of stolen stands, I am wondering if anybody here has used a "dummy sign" a lamanated sign hung somewhere on your treethat say'ssomething to the effect of...
"Before you committ to thieft..smile.. you have been photograhed by 2 different trail cameras" Or something along those lines?
Think it wouldstop athief?
"Before you committ to thieft..smile.. you have been photograhed by 2 different trail cameras" Or something along those lines?
Think it wouldstop athief?
06-02-2008, 08:13 PM
#2
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Dover, PA USA
Posts: 5,497
RE: Treestand Thieft Prevention?
One thing I do on one of my farms where I have written permission is to hang a copy of my permission letter on my climbing stick.
The land is hunted hard by relatives (most of which I do not know) in rifle season and I'm sure it prevents any confusion or a relative thinking I'm trespassing and taking my stuff.
So far in 4 years of hanging stands there nobody has (knock on wood) touched anything of mine.
The land is hunted hard by relatives (most of which I do not know) in rifle season and I'm sure it prevents any confusion or a relative thinking I'm trespassing and taking my stuff.
So far in 4 years of hanging stands there nobody has (knock on wood) touched anything of mine.
06-02-2008, 10:33 PM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Where the ducks don't come no more
Posts: 4,420
RE: Treestand Thieft Prevention?
Personally, I'm kinda wondering what stands are doing hanging in early June..... other than rusting/rotting and getting stolen? No offense to any of y'all that have them hung already, but personally mine come down in February and go back up usually around August/September...sometime even the day of the hunt. I get a lot more life out of them that way.
Everyone has their own theories I suppose. I've been lucky to never have one go UA on me. I've found a few belonging to tresspassers.... and I prefer the polite but firm written note in a gallon zip-lock.... every time the stands have been removed within a week. Usually its just confusion... being that I'm hunting a new lease for example and someone who got permission five years ago thinks they have a lifetime pass.... Since I've been polite about it, and never messed with their property, I fully suspect thats part of the reason none of our stuff has ever been tampered with. Had we taken a different approach to it.. they might have also.
Everyone has their own theories I suppose. I've been lucky to never have one go UA on me. I've found a few belonging to tresspassers.... and I prefer the polite but firm written note in a gallon zip-lock.... every time the stands have been removed within a week. Usually its just confusion... being that I'm hunting a new lease for example and someone who got permission five years ago thinks they have a lifetime pass.... Since I've been polite about it, and never messed with their property, I fully suspect thats part of the reason none of our stuff has ever been tampered with. Had we taken a different approach to it.. they might have also.
06-03-2008, 08:00 AM
#9
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Mont County, Pa
Posts: 7,368
RE: Treestand Thieft Prevention?
My stand (climber)gets put up the very moment I arrive at my hunting site, and gets removed when I leave that same hunting site.I find this to be the MOST effective deterent against theft!
06-03-2008, 08:36 AM
#10
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: wisconsin
Posts: 240
RE: Treestand Thieft Prevention?
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...try all you want but people are greedy and nine times outta ten you wont be able to find them...its a shame how people act with tresspassing and stealing but do all things necessary to make it as hard as you can and make them think twice