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Where's my stand?
Hardawaypoints:
In 1985, I arrowed a Doe and backed out of the woods to get a friend to help locate & drag it. While we were back in there looking, we heard a vehicle come down the road & stop. It left within 5 minutes & I thought it was just the farmer at his house. When we found the blood trail, we followed it (easily) and found a gut pile & my broken arrow. On the way back out I stopped to get my stand & it was gone! I was all grades of pi$$ed and have not been back to that property since. It makes me mad to this day to even think about it. If I had come across the thieves, I would have skewered them.
Jim
TRACY:
Mullet, you beat me to it. The old racoon latrine trick sends an excellent message. I like the chainsaw trick too with or without the dispicable coward in it at the time. Stealing stands is just wrong!
Tracy
Ryano:
Hardaway, I had the same thing happen to me with a small buck once quite a few years ago. Blood trail got sparse came up on a fresh steaming gut pile 50 yards away from where I ran outa blood. Talk about pissed off. Why would some one do that ? What possible thrill could it be to take a deer someone else shot? ::)
salad days:
Worst thing about is that the worse the economy around here gets, the more of this crap happens. By the end of the winter last year you couldn't find a place on state land to park that didn't have a deer carcass with the hind quarters and back straps cut out. All is not lost on my season though. Today I went out to another stand that I haven't been too since Sept. 15 and found about 20 really big rubs that weren't there before. I did a lot of scouting around and didn't find a stand anywhere near me. Of coarse the orange army will be out in force for the Saturday opener this year but I might be able to get one early in the morning with my 50 cal muzzleloader. I think I'm gonna try and forget about those other idiots and just remember this lesson for next year.
ricktrojanowski:
Aaron
Good luck most of all stay safe. Opening weekend is like a warzone. I think you will get something. Usually something good ends up coming out of a lousy situation.
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