bigred
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Post by bigred on Aug 8, 2006 8:27:27 GMT -5
Anybody leave your climber at the bottom of the tree overnight to return and hunt out of it in the morning? I do all the time. I spray some cover scent on it when I leave, and leave it hanging about head high, or arms reach.
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Post by hunter7x on Aug 8, 2006 8:29:12 GMT -5
I just started using a climber last year and yes I did this several times. Works out pretty well.
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Post by semisneak on Aug 8, 2006 8:42:43 GMT -5
I will leave it only if I will be back in the morning. I bought a cable lock this year to lock it to the bottom of the tree when i leave. After a couple weeks it gets old setting it up every time. Its nice to just get in and climb.
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Post by Sleazy E on Aug 8, 2006 8:54:58 GMT -5
I used to leave my old climber in the woods at the base of the tree I hunted out ot. That is until I came back one evening to find it gone. Now I use lock ons with logging chains and pad locks. I set hem up in August but take the climbing sticks with me and don't put them back up intil the week before season starts. I also use a climber too but I don't leave it behind anymore.
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Aug 8, 2006 9:20:40 GMT -5
Never attached to the bottom of the tree. I spray it down with a neutralizer & cover it with leaves & downed tree limbs in a nearby spot.
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Post by Woody Williams on Aug 8, 2006 9:25:26 GMT -5
When I used to use a climber the only time I would leave it would be at the end of and evening hunt and I was planning on coming back in the morning.
Sad that "supposed deer hunters" would steal from other deer hunters.
We had lost severall hang ons over recent yeras , even though they were locked in.
Last year we set up a POS stand and cheap screw in steps and put up a camera 20' away at the same height.
I also put a trail camera on the trail leading into this stand.
I put it up in a tree pointed down .
We were setting trap for this stand thief.
After all that trouble , last year was the first year that no one stole our stand. We didn't catch him, this time.
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Post by Decatur on Aug 8, 2006 9:27:33 GMT -5
I think alot of theft, at least where I live, occurs at night from coon hunters. I'm not saying all coon hunters are theives, so don't everyone start flaming me, just that it's easier to steal under the cover of darkness.
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Post by psychobubba on Aug 8, 2006 9:41:29 GMT -5
nope not when you lose hang ons and ladder stands ,,,($#@^%$# thieves) what goes in come out hopefully more
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bigred
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Post by bigred on Aug 8, 2006 9:52:03 GMT -5
I hate to hear about the thieves, hadn't happened to me.....Yet.
I was asking this to see if anyone de-scents their stand. I leave mine on the tree and cover scent it. My thinking is less noise in the AM hooking it up, I still have to get in and climb up though. I bought my first lock on last year, am still getting used to it. If I leave it in the tree it is only for a few days at the most. I think I will buy a lock and cable this year.
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Post by Sleazy E on Aug 8, 2006 9:56:37 GMT -5
Not to defend the person or persons who may have stolen mine at all. But it was stolen only after I found thier ground blinds set up in my family's woods. No one has permission ot be back there at all so they were trespassing. No I didn't take them home, (I am nicer than that) I took them down and carried them to head of the trail and set them there all nice and neat with a note that said you are tresspassing so please take your things and don't come back. (this was during early bow) Came back a couple of days later and the stuff was gone but they left me a not so nice note full of four letter words calling me names and such. About a month later (opening weekend of gun season) the only time I left my climber in that woods it dissapeard.
Oh well I chalk it up to a lesson learned and now when I find things back in my woods I take it home with me and leave notes tellign them to come by and pick it up if they would like to have it back, but to be aware that I will ensure the police are there to write thema ticket for tresspassing. Have not found anything back there in awhile now and only occasionaly see foot prints maybe they got the point.
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Post by Woody Williams on Aug 8, 2006 10:09:06 GMT -5
...........My thinking is less noise in the AM hooking it up, I still have to get in and climb up though..... Many years ago we found out what noise can do. On a bear hunting trip to Ontario we found out real quick that bears tune into noise. Any climbing stands that made noise kept the bears away until after dark. We then started just using Loc-On style so we could slip in as quiet as possible and get up the tree. Some bears just go away maybe a hundred yards and lay down waiting on supper time. Hunting in close proximity to a bedding ground of deer would be the same thing. That is one reason I prefer a loc-on to a climber. Getting too old to use a climber is another..
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Post by chicobrownbear on Aug 8, 2006 10:16:47 GMT -5
I think alot of theft, at least where I live, occurs at night from coon hunters. I'm not saying all coon hunters are theives, so don't everyone start flaming me, just that it's easier to steal under the cover of darkness. D, this is coming from a long time coon hunter. The saying down here goes something like this: "There is nothing legal about a coon hunter." ;D
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Post by indianahick on Aug 8, 2006 13:21:23 GMT -5
Yes I have left my climber in the woods befor. But I am one of the unhook and hide it under leaves and brush types. Started doing this way way way back in the 70's when my climber was a Baker and must have weighed 40 lbs or more. At least it seemed like it. Oh I still have that Baker if anyone is interested. Ha Ha.
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Post by eelriver on Aug 8, 2006 14:45:30 GMT -5
Years ago a friend of mine was hunting public ground and left his climber locked in with a chain and pad lock at the base of the tree. Upon returning, he found someone sawed the tree down and stole the stand. It is unbelievable what people will do.
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Post by hornharvester on Aug 8, 2006 16:38:18 GMT -5
ive left mine in the woods on trees over night. its an api grand slam mag with chains that attach around the tree to climb and i used four bicycle locks, one for each hole so no one could take it off, but usually i dont leave it. h.h.
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Post by solohunter on Aug 9, 2006 3:34:27 GMT -5
I have thought about it, but have not. The 5 minutes I may save is not worth the chance to come back and find it gone. |Also, what if I change my mind due to wind, weather, sitings? Then if I need it, I have to go in there and get it which may mess things up , so for me I pack it out each and every time. Solo
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Post by kevin1 on Aug 9, 2006 5:58:10 GMT -5
I don't leave anything but footprints , too many jerks in the woods these days .
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Post by mbogo on Aug 9, 2006 6:22:01 GMT -5
ive left mine in the woods on trees over night. its an api grand slam mag with chains that attach around the tree to climb and i used four bicycle locks, one for each hole so no one could take it off, but usually i dont leave it. h.h. I have the same stand and another older API climber. I removed all four of the pins from each stand and replaced them with long shank hardened master locks so that it is always locked but I don't have to unlock it every time I climb. I always leave my stand out overnight if I am going to hunt that area again soon. I put mine at the very base of the tree, spray them down with scent eliminator and camouflage them as best I can (from both deer and thieves). I can climb quietly without disturbing deer but attaching the stand is much harder to do quietly especially in the dark.
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Post by huxbux on Aug 10, 2006 14:22:40 GMT -5
I always leave mine on the tree overnight when I hunt the weekend. It's a mile walk out (uphill). I put on a cable lock and cover scent. I never leave it out unless I'm coming back the next morning though.
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Post by deerdude on Aug 11, 2006 18:24:01 GMT -5
id love to but theres so many trespassers around my area ,i dont think i would have it long.
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