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I'm curious if anybody has ever come across someone sitting in their stand. How did you respond? How did the other hunter?A friend of mine said that he once came across a hunter in one of his ladder stands on state land. The other guy immediately climbed down, but was so friendly (and abashed) that my friend told him to stay there, and moved on to another one of his stands.Not how it will always go down, of course, but it seems like that's a pretty good outcome.
Quote from: smithkl42 on June 27, 2019, 10:10:53 AMI'm curious if anybody has ever come across someone sitting in their stand. How did you respond? How did the other hunter?A friend of mine said that he once came across a hunter in one of his ladder stands on state land. The other guy immediately climbed down, but was so friendly (and abashed) that my friend told him to stay there, and moved on to another one of his stands.Not how it will always go down, of course, but it seems like that's a pretty good outcome.This is a sportsman with ethics.
Quote from: pianoman9701 on June 27, 2019, 10:14:05 AMQuote from: smithkl42 on June 27, 2019, 10:10:53 AMI'm curious if anybody has ever come across someone sitting in their stand. How did you respond? How did the other hunter?A friend of mine said that he once came across a hunter in one of his ladder stands on state land. The other guy immediately climbed down, but was so friendly (and abashed) that my friend told him to stay there, and moved on to another one of his stands.Not how it will always go down, of course, but it seems like that's a pretty good outcome.This is a sportsman with ethics. Yeah, both of them!
Just because something is "legal" doesn't mean it's right.Quote from: KFhunter on June 23, 2019, 08:08:15 PMTypically the stands require bait to be active, if the stands are 'freshened up' with bait then they're being used and I don't want to hunt there anyways. If the stands have been sitting dormant and there's no bait then they aren't worth sitting in. What I wouldn't ever do is freshen up someone else's stand with bait, I'd make my own if I wanted to do that...I don't.Minor thread jack, but we've killed lots of whitetails back east out of tree stands without any bait whatsoever. Put the work in patterning them and scouting and you can kill whitetails all day long without bait.
Typically the stands require bait to be active, if the stands are 'freshened up' with bait then they're being used and I don't want to hunt there anyways. If the stands have been sitting dormant and there's no bait then they aren't worth sitting in. What I wouldn't ever do is freshen up someone else's stand with bait, I'd make my own if I wanted to do that...I don't.
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