Someone screwed with my stand, a little..

[Al Bundy]

I arrived to my stand, tied my bow on the string and climbed up. Went to pull up my bow and noticed the string was wrapped around an upper branch. Literally looped around. At first I was like well maybe I wrapped it last year. But leaving stand today noticed no way that was possible. I was able to stand on a branch and pull up my bow and unwrap the string. A bit loud, a bit clunky, but only a pain in the ass and not dangerous. Wtf...

[jjb4900]

wow, that's crazy....

[G-Man]

Damn squirrels. .

[two 10s]

Amazing what the wind can do to your string throughout the year.

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[Al Bundy]

Doubt wind did that. The string hangs to about five feet off the ground so I can easily grab it. It was looped 10-15 ft above that. No way wind would be able to blow that much line. Would have hung up on branches, even if wind blew that hard.

[growalot]

I always tie mine off on a rung whenI leave...I have seen mine in the trees next door limbs when not....

[fasteddie]

I leave stands up year round but wouldn't leave a pull up string out in the weather . I wouldn't want to take a chance on the string breaking and my bow or whatever falling to the ground . 

[Jeremy K]

I used to tie mine but i started using a carabiner , i hook it to a ladder rung when i leave and it makes hooking it up to the bow quick.

[turkeyfeathers]

Just a thought ; could a bird have wanted to use it for nesting ? Grabbed it, landed on branch and then wind whipped it about ? That would be my bet without seeing it

[phade]

No, somebody did this. And, chances are their either a jerk, or a relatively smart hunter (if they can be there).

 

They were trying to see if the stand is being actively used and maybe how frequently.

 

I prefer to take downed branches and place them in the rungs of ladder stands or into platforms, to see if they get removed. It helps you map out pressure.

Edited October 3, 2015 by phade

[jjb4900]

well, thankfully nobody got hurt....

[NFA-ADK]

Make sure you check the stand every time.  Straps where cut on one stand causing major injury to one hunter, be safe! 

[Nomad]

I have one cord for all my stands and it stays in my pack.

I use the water bottle holder like one uses a rope bag.

[WNYBuckHunter]

Could be someone did it, but I have all kinds of goofy things happen to our hoist ropes from the wind. Every year when we check our stands, we find them wrapped up, looped on things, etc. We dont generally just let ropes dangle, we will clip them to rungs on ladders or something else, just so the wind doesnt get them all tangled up during the season.

[moog5050]

No, somebody did this. And, chances are their either a jerk, or a relatively smart hunter (if they can be there).

 

They were trying to see if the stand is being actively used and maybe how frequently.

 

I prefer to take downed branches and place them in the rungs of ladder stands or into platforms, to see if they get removed. It helps you map out pressure.

 

No wonder I am always tripping over branches when I climb your stands.  Nice of you to mention this to me.

[Fletch]

My vote is wind/ bird

A year of wind and storms...........

[mxsmitz201]

I used to climb cell towers for a living, I've seen loaded grunt bags over 60lbs fully loaded on a handline catch the wind on a windy day and fly out to the point you'd think the bag was gonna empty because it was almost flying parallel to the ground, at least that's what it looked like. Hard to put in perspective behind a keyboard but my vote is the wind.

[skully]

wind could have easily done it