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Post by DEERTRACKS on Oct 19, 2005 12:48:49 GMT -5
How many of you have arrived at one of your tree stands & found a stranger on your stand & how did you deal with the situation?
I have had this happen twice & it got real ugly, real quick. These clowns mouthed-off to me while I was taking the higher road of calmly telling them to remove themselves from my stands.
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Post by hsstrut on Oct 19, 2005 13:07:09 GMT -5
I've never had that happen because I take my stand in and out everytime. However I've had my opening day of firearms ruined 3 years in a row by someone who showed up after I was already in my stand and told me they had a stand 30 yards away they put out the night before and ALL THREE PROCEEDED TO CLIMB THE TREE 30 YARDS AWAY!!!!!!!
Now granted, this was on public land, but if I'm already in my tree that's my spot! I think the law should be changed on public land so people can't put one out the night before and cause this kind of bull. How was I supposed to know they had a stand out there in the dark?
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Post by Rick Lyon on Oct 19, 2005 14:41:21 GMT -5
If you are hunting your own ground carry a Chainsaw in your vehicle. Go get, return to the tree, fire it up and act like you are going to cut the tree down they are in. It gets their attention.  |
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Post by jkd on Oct 19, 2005 15:06:47 GMT -5
My understanding of Indiana reg on tree stands on public land was that the stand has to be clearly labeled with the owners name, address, etc... if memory serves, there is a section in the hunting guide on this issue.
If they are literally in your tree stand, and it's labeled, then I think you would have to call the ICO.
On private ground, either an ICO or a county sheriff can take care of it as either trespass or a hunting w/o permission violation.
KD
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Post by cambygsp on Oct 19, 2005 15:17:44 GMT -5
This post aint making any since.
If you are on PRIVATE property and the "stranger" don't have permission to be there....call the law!
If you are on public property, and your **portable** stand is clearly marked with your info, I think I would tell them you are there to retrieve the stand....after all, you wouldnt want to sit there anyway, after having an argument at O' Dark Thirty in the morning.
I'll add, I don't understand why ANYONE would leave a portable stand on PUBLIC ground. Most that I have seen are placed illegaly anyway, not having the proper identification, or penatrating the tree by more than a half inch.
We ran into a fella at fairbanks Landing two weeks ago that was telling us about some local stand thieves. He warned us to not leave anything in the woods. I guess there are some goons out of Terre Haute that make regular visits to the property, just to take stands. Said they were PAWNING them in Terre Haute......What some folks do for money!!!!
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Post by indianagooseman on Oct 19, 2005 17:03:42 GMT -5
Most of that is true, one of my hunting partners lives across the street from some of the Fairbanks property and told me that he has had afew stands taken already this year but as far as who took them and what they did with them, who knows. I told him he didn't need to hang 14 stands!
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Post by kevin1 on Oct 19, 2005 19:09:13 GMT -5
I hunt from the ground , mostly in a pop-up , and my tree stand is a climber . I hunt public and private land so I stay portable . I don't see my self going to lock-ons , and I certainly wouldn't leave one on public land . You can avoid a lot of those confrontations that way , about the only thing I encounter is getting beaten to my area of choice . When that happens I just go to Plan B .
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Post by jajwrigh on Oct 19, 2005 21:54:51 GMT -5
I am a strong supporter of the portable approach to hunting.
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Post by mbogo on Oct 20, 2005 6:15:31 GMT -5
I leave my climbers(with locks) out I finish hunting a particular area. I make it a rule to pull all of my stands from the HNF before opening morning of firearms as I have no intention of hunting near a particular group of hunters and see no reason to provide any of them with a stand.
I have never found someone in my stand when I went to it, but a neighbor tends to feel that he can hunt out of any stand he finds. If/when it gets to be a problem, I lock my stands up with a length of steel cable and a lock making it impossible to climb more than an inch or two at a time without unlocking it.
I dealt with hunters walking setting up near me opening morning last year on private ground as well. One thought he was on the HNF, the other was a neighboring land owner who "forgot" where the property line was. Both left after a brief discussion.
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Post by indianadan on Oct 20, 2005 8:12:19 GMT -5
I've never caught anyone in my stand, but last opening morning of shotgun someone hunted one of my stands on my bro-inlaws property! My other bro-inlaw (not the owner) was hunting that morning and said he saw someone climb into my stand with a flashlight on the whole way up the tree.  They left the stand, but took all but the top two tree steps when they left.  I confronted some of my bro-inlaws nephews about it and asked if any had hunted out of my stand or had aquired any new tere steps recently and of course they said no. I told them I didn't mind them hunting my stand if they just asked first. I told them if I caught them in it without permission I would wear them out! Two years ago I was set up way before light and I heard deer running toward me from the bean field. Two minutes behind these deer was an idiot who walked in at first light. He dropped his climber and was going to climb up about 50 yards from me until I cleared my throat real loud on purpose. He jumped a mile and moved on. I guess he was scared of the dark and scared to walk through the woods, becasue he had walked in right at first light and right through the bean field where the deer were feeding. What an idiot! |
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Post by cday on Oct 22, 2005 10:08:14 GMT -5
Indianadan, the walking through the bean was a pretty stupid. But waiting til first light is not. Myself I do not walk in until after legal light. Why because all of you early birds have ran several deer out already going by flash lights. Second this allows me the advantage to see wear everybody else is hunting so I can adjust my plans to another location.
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Post by DDragon47 on Oct 23, 2005 18:26:41 GMT -5
Better safe then sorry, Cday.
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Post by indianadan on Oct 24, 2005 8:46:59 GMT -5
No flashlight unless it's gun season for me.  JMO, but I think deer spook less if they don't actually spot you therefore I try to get on stand in the dark. |
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Post by raporter1 on Oct 24, 2005 19:40:20 GMT -5
No flashlight unless it's gun season for me. JMO, but I think deer spook less if they don't actually spot you therefore I try to get on stand in the dark. If I hunted someplace and had someone come trumping in at daybreak I would not be a happy camper. |
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Post by idhmc on Oct 25, 2005 10:09:37 GMT -5
Tree stand confrontations has also caused alot of friction with hunter to hunter.
Hunters today are rude and ugly. They assume the worst from the get go and cause a sceen in the woods when they could act responsibly and be calm and courtious to a fellow hunter and human being. No one wants to be friendly anymore, everyone wants everything for themselves only.
I once had a hunter in a stand of mine. I noticed him there but didnt want to make a bunch of noice in the woods and ruin my hunting. So I just went to my other stand a ways up the field line and after the hunt I got down and went to informed him that he was on the wrong property and was in my stand that I had planned on hunting.
He explained to me that he had permission on the adjoining property and used the stand thinking it was someone elses.
I could have gotten ugly and loud and made a sceen in the woods but I chose to hunt that day. I figured that heck, if a deer gets taken then it was a good experiance and a fun day whether he or I take it dont matter. As a fellow hunter, I would have helped drag the animal out of the woods with him and congradulated him but also explained that he was on the wrong property.
A little courtesy goes along way. Try it, you may find it rewarding.
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They left the stand, but took all but the top two tree steps when they left. 
