Tree stand thieves

I'm glad I live where I do. Where my stands are, no-one is likely to find them and it is pretty useless to hunt there without one so no-one goes there. I have scafolding set up year round tied back to trees on crown land. Would be a half day job to try and steel it and pack it all out. Still considering where I'm going to build anotherone this year. I don't consider it claiming a spot.
What's the big deal, but they are still my property.
If you want to hunt from a stand, build your own.
 
Diablo7101 said:
I'm glad I live where I do. Where my stands are, no-one is likely to find them and it is pretty useless to hunt there without one so no-one goes there. I have scafolding set up year round tied back to trees on crown land. Would be a half day job to try and steel it and pack it all out. Still considering where I'm going to build anotherone this year. I don't consider it claiming a spot.
What's the big deal, but they are still my property.
If you want to hunt from a stand, build your own.
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I have my own stands and I remove then when I leave the area, the only time I've left a stand unattended overnight is when I set it up on private property.
If you want to leave your stands up for years and still claim them as your property, buy some land and "fly at er"
 
Diablo7101 said:
Agree with above. Can I use your truck because you left it on crown land when you went hunting?
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There's a difference between a registered and license vehicle parked alongside an access road and a tree stand in the middle of the woods... Now, to answer your question, if you drove in and left an unmarked and apparently unlicensed truck in the middle of a field and the keys in it on crown land I would absolutely take it for a boot around the field if I felt like it....
 
Diablo7101 said:
Agree with above. Can I use your truck because you left it on crown land when you went hunting?
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There's a difference between a registered and license vehicle parked alongside an access road and a tree stand in the middle of the woods... Now, to answer your question, if you drove in and left an unmarked and apparently unlicensed truck in the middle of a field and the keys in it on crown land I would absolutely take it for a boot around the field if I felt like it....
 
The moral of the story is; buy your own hunt camp (or a share in a hunt camp with hunter friends) as soon as you can afford it.

Amazing how many hunters drive 50,000 souped up trucks, own $10,000 ATVs (and likes of that), but they never consider putting money in a hunt property!

A few years back, I had enough of this B.S. I put the money I had set aside for a new car, in a hunt camp with 3 other friends. Best thing I ever did. Sure, I ended up driving a 10 year old car for 3 more (painful) years, but in return, I have had years of hassle free hunting.... and I still have a little equity in that property for a rainy day.
 
Home3 said:
The moral of the story is; buy your own hunt camp (or a share in a hunt camp with hunter friends) as soon as you can afford it.

Amazing how many hunters drive 50,000 souped up trucks, own $10,000 ATVs (and likes of that), but they never consider putting money in a hunt property!

A few years back, I had enough of this B.S. I put the money I had set aside for a new car, in a hunt camp with 3 other friends. Best thing I ever did. Sure, I ended up driving a 10 year old car for 3 more (painful) years, but in return, I have had years of hassle free hunting.... and I still have a little equity in that property for a rainy day.
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Hey! Words hurt! :)

Speaking as someone who's driving a 2013 Dodge ram sport and has 2 atvs. We're still very novice hunters, and have no problem hunting crown land right now. And I actually do hope at some point to purchase some local land. Probably is around here, 100 acres is going to run me $1 million. And for a couple of hours drive it's still mid 6 figures.
 
Out here (BC) most of the province is crown land...no need for a hunt camp, never know where you might want to go this year. I have a small parcel of land that I can shoot deer on if I want to but don't bother....doesn't seem like hunting when the deer walk out of the bush toward you when they hear the ducks and chickens getting fed. Our camp is mobile...what we bring and no shortage of places to set up. As far as places I set up tree stands (and leave there year round), they are places that not many hunters are ever going to venture. The odds of a hunter stopping his truck at that exact spot on thousands of miles of logging roads and walking into some obscure place where my stand is, is pretty remote.
 
Home3 said:
The moral of the story is; buy your own hunt camp (or a share in a hunt camp with hunter friends) as soon as you can afford it.

Amazing how many hunters drive 50,000 souped up trucks, own $10,000 ATVs (and likes of that), but they never consider putting money in a hunt property!

A few years back, I had enough of this B.S. I put the money I had set aside for a new car, in a hunt camp with 3 other friends. Best thing I ever did. Sure, I ended up driving a 10 year old car for 3 more (painful) years, but in return, I have had years of hassle free hunting.... and I still have a little equity in that property for a rainy day.
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this may work in some provinces, but in BC the crown isn't selling off land, I have had applications in for selected areas for years with no response
 
Superbrad said:
There's a difference between a registered and license vehicle and a tree stand in the middle of the woods...
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what is the difference? If they were both left in the woods why does the vehicle not present a larger disturbance to a hunter than a treestand given the greater size and noise making ability?

Or are you a hypocrite that leaves their vehicle in the woods while hunting?
 
Brian46 said:
this may work in some provinces, but in BC the crown isn't selling off land, I have had applications in for selected areas for years with no response
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Not sure what has happened to the B.C. land values, but 10 years ago I actually did some woodland shopping in interior B.C. (somewhat North-ish). Large parcels of land where both available and affordable (non-waterfront). Of course, B.C. is a large province and we both could be right, depending on the area. Either that or times have really changed in the last 10 years in B.C. Maybe Alberta petro money finally did what B.C. folks were afraid of. ;)

Even more reason to take advantage of cheap, available land in places like Ontario for those who can. Provided that you are prepared to drive 4-5 hours. In Ontario, that means North of Sudbury/North Bay.
 
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ok wildlife regs say I can leave a stand up all hunting season, infact I can leave it up from 2 weeks before till two weeks after season opens if hunting certain types of game. I need only put my name and number on it.

As for the truck blocking a cut line, yes I always do that. You know why? because then people know I'm down that cut line. Its a two fold benefit; 1) people know I'm there and don't blunder in wrecking my hunt, 2) people know I'm there and don't shoot at me thinking I'm a deer. the second one might sound extreme, but the hollywood hunters out here shoot at anything thats brown and moves from the windows of their trucks down a cut line. If my truck is blocking line of site, it is much less likely that I will get shot at. In certain areas there is more hollywood hunters then regular hunters and you can hear and see the trucks racing around from oil lease to oil lease coming to a stop at every cut line all day (and sometimes at night).
It was some of these winners that pushed past my truck, scared off my buck and pointed a gun in my face last year...
 
I always chain and lock mine. Plus the land owner who lets me hunt there is quite trigger happy so he tend to keep the douche bags at bay. Gotta love grouchy old farmers with guns haha. I also hide a trail cam facing my stand so if some dickhead takes it ill know who it is I live in a pretty small town
 
LordEvilPepper said:
um the one I was watching waiting for it to come out a bit further out of the birch trees so I could shoot it....

they came in honking the horn and blasting music...
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Probably pissedoff at the guy that blocks trails, and leaves his stand up all the time, because honking horns doesn't sound like hunting. What's the story on the gun in the face?
 
no stand, not a trail so much realy. it was a shut down oil lease (hence the birch growing near the edge) 200 ish meters off the oil lease main. a berm had been erected to deactivate the road leading in to the clearing. I was set up in the conifers on the one side watching the other side where I had located tracks leading in and out in and out and a well used deer bed. I parked across the entrance since I wasn't that far from the main and I didn't want people stumbuling in or shooting down the trail were it could easy hit me. as I was only 20 feet off to the edge and a wayward shot at a deer along the road edge would be coming at me. these guys pushed around my truck, up to the berm and had music going on external speakers and started laying on the horn. The buck I was watching took off into the woods, i got up walked out carrying my gun trailed. the guy hanging out the window with a rifle swung on me, and kept tracking me through the scope as I approached, when I got with 50 meters I yelled "WTF did you ruin my hunt, and get that Fing gun off me", they called out "LOSER" then took off spitting gravel all over my truck.

thats hollywood hunters for you, come screaming in with the truck; a guy hanging a gun out the window, honk the horn to spook any game into standing up/moving. If it yields nothing take off to the next lease or cut line.
 
Home3 said:
Not sure what has happened to the B.C. land values, but 10 years ago I actually did some woodland shopping in interior B.C. (somewhat North-ish). Large parcels of land where both available and affordable (non-waterfront). Of course, B.C. is a large province and we both could be right, depending on the area. Either that or times have really changed in the last 10 years in B.C. Maybe Alberta petro money finally did what B.C. folks were afraid of. ;)

Even more reason to take advantage of cheap, available land in places like Ontario for those who can. Provided that you are prepared to drive 4-5 hours. In Ontario, that means North of Sudbury/North Bay.
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that would be an expensive deer if I bought land in ontario and flew in every weekend to hunt:rolleyes:

There is tons of crown land in BC, the problem is the un resolved native land claims that exist for every square inch of our province, The provincial government will not sell any crown lands untill they are resolved. The land you can buy was sold by the province many years ago and the lack of any new available land has artificially inflated the prices of what is available to very high levels, almost all the available land has been worked over for farming of some type rather than bush for hunting.
 
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The last fellow I found that blocked a road to prevent others from accessing the 50 km of roads behind him came back to find his truck in a very steep drainage ditch. After a long walk and a few calls from a cell he managed to retrieve it the next day with a wrecker. He won't be blocking roads I maintain anymore....

Another time, I had plowed a public boat launch (semi abandoned) mid winter for ice fishing. Plowed a large parking area and then a road about 1 km long across the lake to let others have easier access to a local fishing hole. Two days later I return to head out fishing, and someone had blocked the entrance off the highway with his pick-up and sled trailer, again, to have the lake to himself. Since I pack tire chains, and have a fairly heavy pick-up with decent clearance, I just plowed a road around him in the ditch. When I returned later that day, the truck was still there.

He had to call a wrecker to pull his truck and trailer out of 6 foot tall snow banks someone had plowed all around him while making a different access around his truck.



I have no sympathy for those that feel they are entitled to "own" crown land whenever or wherever they please and deny the right of other to use the same land.
 
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