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5 minutes ago, Stay at home Nomad said:

I beat his a$$ and took it ! 

I love that $30 made in NY knife,goes with me anytime I’m in the woods, I’ve beat the crap out of it , comes right back , kinda like me !

Well I hope you use it for its intended purpose- tying it to a big branch and sticking a hog by jumping on it.  

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21 minutes ago, Stay at home Nomad said:

The best Tile ( the pro ) has a range of only 300 feet .  I don’t lock much , never had an issue in 30 plus years I this spot . This year I did lock my Lone Wolf hang on.  Went to take it down today ,had wrong key, my knife and four whacks with a chunk of metal I found nearby did the trick.

Regular presence,along with distance , farm to,the south who I get along with runs a mile , ours to the North just as far . Know locals to the East and West .

 

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Correct! Except that any time it it's a wifi connection it pings where it is at! Please take my shit and put it in ur basement! I'm going to to be knocking on the door! Not you personally! U know what I'm saying 

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Take them down asap..put in barn shed basement .. saves damage from elements and cant steal what isnt there. Had 1 stand stolen off my.place in 26 years a friends who I told to take it down several times. His answer was I'll put it back up in same spot.. went turkey hunting in may..stand was gone... 

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Treestands and camera.  Easy Easy thing.......

 

Make them camo.   Take a new treestand and give it a camo pattern.   Then add a vine along a side or two.   Much harder to see it 50+ yards away.   Trail camera straps.......  Why haven't they been camo yet?    A bit of spray paint makes them much harder to spot at distance.  Leaning a few sticks helps too.

 

Treestand theft..   A few feet of large diameter chain and a nut/bolt.  Tigthen the bolt with the right wrench good.  Then take a size bigger wrench and screw up the hex head.

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Live just over an hour away.  My brother lives on the farm, but isn't in the woods that much.  During that week my blind and stand were stolen, a bunch of trail cameras came up missing on the neighboring properties.  It wasn't the neighbors anyhow.  They are all scared of my temper.  And the farm has a backhoe.

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12 hours ago, Stay at home Nomad said:

The best Tile ( the pro ) has a range of only 300 feet .  I don’t lock much , never had an issue in 30 plus years I this spot . This year I did lock my Lone Wolf hang on.  Went to take it down today ,had wrong key, my knife and four whacks with a chunk of metal I found nearby did the trick.

Regular presence,along with distance , farm to,the south who I get along with runs a mile , ours to the North just as far . Know locals to the East and West .

 

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Is that a military issue knife? That looks a lot like the handle I built the mold for many years ago. Is there a marine Corp. Emblem on it?

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7 hours ago, sailinghudson25 said:

Treestands and camera.  Easy Easy thing.......

 

Make them camo.   Take a new treestand and give it a camo pattern.   Then add a vine along a side or two.   Much harder to see it 50+ yards away.   Trail camera straps.......  Why haven't they been camo yet?    A bit of spray paint makes them much harder to spot at distance.  Leaning a few sticks helps too.

 

Treestand theft..   A few feet of large diameter chain and a nut/bolt.  Tigthen the bolt with the right wrench good.  Then take a size bigger wrench and screw up the hex head.

Dont use a “ full” strap around the tree , they’re easy to spot 360. Use a piece just long enough to stick  out past the camera and nail to tree . Use a short nail and leave head out a bit .

Jeremy , it’s an Ontario Knife company. Spec Plus Marine. No emblem . Don’t see this one listed anymore .

http://ontarioknife.com/fixed-blades/spec-plusr-series.html

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7 hours ago, G-Man said:

Take them down asap..put in barn shed basement .. saves damage from elements and cant steal what isnt there. Had 1 stand stolen off my.place in 26 years a friends who I told to take it down several times. His answer was I'll put it back up in same spot.. went turkey hunting in may..stand was gone... 

As I mentioned above.  It was stolen the first week of November, between VT bow season and rifle season.

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15 hours ago, stubborn1VT said:

Thanks for the replies folks.

This was a first for me in 20+ years.  They came half a mile through the woods and went through at least 3 sets of posters.  I realize that there is no perfect solution.  I was just curious what other people do, since I have never had to worry about it before.  I'm leaning toward grade 70 chain and padlock, or replacing the stolen stand with a homemade ladder stand made of pressure treat.

Pressure treated built stands was our solution.  

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As some have said locks, etc. Only make them work a little harder to steal. Lost a ladder stand and a hang on and climbing sticks on 2 separate occasions, but that was on public land, even though chained and padlocked. Now I don't leave anything in the woods. Some guys leave hang ons, but remove the steps up to 8 or 10 feet and remove the seat. It has never crossed my mind to take someonelse's stuff, but then I was raised that way.

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Treestands aren't even safe on private property .

My son went to his double ladder stand on opening morning of Bow Season . The bottom section was missing and no where to be found .That made the stand useless . It was over 200 yards from the road and farther from any house . 

We also had permission to hunt private property in Mendon . On two occasions the ladder support bar was removed from a stand . That could have been quite dangerous if one of us tried climbing into the stand in the dark .

 

 

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