Someone srole my blind

[jcar315]

Up to this point I have never had a stand or ladder stolen. I can only imagine how frustrated I would be though if I was walking to my stand before dawn only to find it gone. I have heard that the pop up blinds are really being stolen alot though. Not to be dumb but who is stealing these stands? Are they other "hunters?????" and I use that word losely. These are the ones who give us a negative perception with the public at large. I am going to go out on a limb and say they are the ones shooting into homes, road hunting, etc. Not sure how to reconcile having these type of "hunters" in "big tent" way of thinking that we all need to stick together .....

[joe skipp]

Maggots....Bastids....   :mad:    

[Ssamac]

Hear more and more of this. Used to be you could put up a stand etc and no one would even think of touching it. The NE Missouri Bowmen club does a 3d shoot monthly on public land. They get a permit from DNR to do it. Used to setup Fri night and take down on Monday. Now they have to setup Sat night and someone has to camp there, and take down Sun afternoon otherwise you guessed it, people steal the targets. So that cuts out the winter shoots we used to enjoy. Not enough daylight time.

I think I'd ask people, however, since there's the outside chance someone thought they were doing you a favor or even borrowed it. One 3d target got returned a year ago by a guy who borrowed it to practice. When we called his wife was home and she knew he had it and made him feel like **** for doing that and he brought it  back. Jerk.

Sorry. As the Lord said "forgive them for they know not what they do" Some people are really clueless

Let it go and move on

sam

[Dave Bulla]

After two years sitting in the woods I'd expect it to start falling apart.  Maybe it was and someone else took the "trash" out of the woods and is sitting home wondering what sort of a jerk would leave all that crap in the woods....

Just a thought.

Having had two stands stolen and also my truck broken into during a move and all my guns stolen, I feel your pain but two years is asking a lot.  I'd probably consider it abandoned.  I wouldn't take it, but I might throw it away if it was falling apart.

[wollelybugger]

I hunted on private property and lost all my stands over the winter.  I should of took them down and put them away. I am going to buy a Gullie suit and see how that works out then I wont have to worry about it.      

[Mo. Huntin]

As said above you can't possibly know who comes and goes on that place when you are not their.  Nothing against coon hunters but their dogs don't care about property lines and then their are just thieves.  I am truly amazed how many people leave a 250 dollar climbing stand in the woods I here that all the time.  I know a guy who had a 15 foot tripod stand stolen off of private property,now that is work.  I don't blame you for leaving it their if the property owner does not care but you just have to realize it just might get stolen.

[Buckeye Trad Hunter]

The blind was actually in good shape.  It had been sheltered by overhanging trees which kept most of the rain and most importantly sunlight off of it.  I had just been there to check on it about 3 weeks before.  Although being that this was the first blind I had ever used I do appreciate the info on not leaving them out.  It's really hard to understand how the property is laid out without seeing.  It couldn't have possibly just been some random person walking through.  Any way that wawsn't where I was going with that.  I just needed to vent.        I'm not going to worry about it or let it bother me.  I just know betterfrom now on.

[Dave Bulla]

By the way Buckeye, I wasn't saying YOU are a jerk, just that someone who finds an "abandoned" falling apart ground blind or tree stand in the woods might think badly of whoever "left" it there depending on the situation.

Kinda funny how both sides of a situatuation might leave people feeling frustrated about the other side.

Either way, since you say it was in good shape, my whole initial thought is kinda irrelevent anyhow.

[Buckeye Trad Hunter]

No offense taken Dave.  Didn't think you were calling me a jerk.  I see where you're comin' from though and to be hanest I never really thought about it like that.  Maybe someone is just as mad at me as I was at them.

[bowhunterfrompast]

Either way, since you say it was in good shape, my whole initial thought is kinda irrelevent anyhow. [/QB][/QUOTE]

I had the same thought.

A thief is a thief..no way would I call them a hunter. No more than I would call a poacher a hunter.

We always have to learn some leasons the hardway when it comes to human nature.

Lord protect me from my friends because I know who my enemies are.