Using someone else's treestand?

[JoshIronshaft]

Get a ladder and mount it 7-8 ft higher so the ladder is hanging just out of reach.

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[Steve in PA]

I am a bit surprised to even see the question.

-It belongs to someone else

-the fact that you are asking us implies you do not have permission from the owner

Just the question seems so leftist to me.

If I found your car/truck in a parking lot, unlocked, should I consider getting in, to get out of the rain? Not to take it, just to sit in it while you are not using it.

Was a crime committed by sitting in the vehicle? Nothing from inside was stolen. You weren't trying to steal the vehicle.

[PaleDriver]

I wouldn't use it. More because you do not know how the owner is going to react if he/she finds you in their stand. A consensus here has no bearing on what happens in the woods.

[tollster]

I am a bit surprised to even see the question.

-It belongs to someone else

-the fact that you are asking us implies you do not have permission from the owner

Just the question seems so leftist to me.

If I found your car/truck in a parking lot, unlocked, should I consider getting in, to get out of the rain? Not to take it, just to sit in it while you are not using it.

Leftist WTF does that mean?

The stand is on private property and I have permission to have it there. The land owner and I go way back, perhaps 30 or more years, I started hauling chickens during molting for his dad to earn extra money when I was in school. Anyway, he is as nice as his dad was, and lets pretty much anyone who asks, to hunt there. I went out to get in my stand yesterday afternoon, and found a lot of cigarette butts on one side of the ladder, my rope was missing, and a limb from a pine tree that brushed your back as you climbed the ladder was broken off.
There is one guy I see from time to time during hunting season, it may have been him. But not 100% sure, so I can't really confront the guy when I see him. He is pretty much the only one I ever see there, or at least that deep in the woods.
I was curious how ya'll may feel about it. Honestly, if I'm not in it, feel free to use it, if I come in, I'll bull shit with ya some, then asking if I can sit in my tree stand, hell, I may even go somewhere else nearby. I have never seen anyone in my stands, although I feel sure people do use my stands from time to time, but I do expect ya to leave my shit alone, and take your trash.

Perhaps you may have a few more assumptions from left field Sshucker?

[Sshuker]

Leftist WTF does that mean?

The stand is on private property and I have permission to have it there. The land owner and I go way back, perhaps 30 or more years, I started hauling chickens during molting for his dad to earn extra money when I was in school. Anyway, he is as nice as his dad was, and lets pretty much anyone who asks, to hunt there. I went out to get in my stand yesterday afternoon, and found a lot of cigarette butts on one side of the ladder, my rope was missing, and a limb from a pine tree that brushed your back as you climbed the ladder was broken off.
There is one guy I see from time to time during hunting season, it may have been him. But not 100% sure, so I can't really confront the guy when I see him. He is pretty much the only one I ever see there, or at least that deep in the woods.
I was curious how ya'll may feel about it. Honestly, if I'm not in it, feel free to use it, if I come in, I'll bull shit with ya some, then asking if I can sit in my tree stand, hell, I may even go somewhere else nearby. I have never seen anyone in my stands, although I feel sure people do use my stands from time to time, but I do expect ya to leave my shit alone, and take your trash.

Perhaps you may have a few more assumptions from left field Sshucker?

Leftist as in communist or socialist, where property is not yours or mine, but everybody's.

That is how I see someone that would consider using someone else's stuff without asking.

The fact that it is your stand explains what the question is doing in a right leaning forum such as this.

That does not change the nature of the question from being leftist. With the information you have added, it sounds like you are posing a leftist question because you are trying to figure out what is going on inside the head of someone who would use your property without asking.

So, do not take my post as attacking you or even leftist thinkers for that matter. My post was a simple observation on the question and an analogy that provably hits a bit closer to home for people who do not hunt.

I doubt there is a crime in using a tree stand that does not belong to you just as I doubt there is a crime in sitting in an unlocked car to take shelter from the rain. I think the owner of said tree stand or car would take some offense to finding someone else in either. I presume only a leftist thinker would be ok with sitting in either without getting permission from the owner.

Edit to add:
Part of my surprise in seeing the question here comes from the right leaning tendencies of most people on this forum, but the other part of my surprise comes from the tendency of so few to be open minded enough to ask a leftist question, as a talking point, in an effort to understand what is in the head of someone else.

[daschnoz]

I wouldn't use it. More because you do not know how the owner is going to react if he/she finds you in their stand. A consensus here has no bearing on what happens in the woods.

I'm with this guy. People can be ass holes if they feel that they have been wronged. Add to that the fact that the guy had the entitled mindset to leave his stand on public land to begin with, that's probably not the kind of arrogant ass hole that you want to be confronting when he's pissed that you are in his stand, and both of you are armed.

Pee on some neighboring rocks & trees (spred the scent around), leave a smoked cigarette butt up wind (it will decompose), and move along.

[Hamltnblue]

Leftist WTF does that mean?

The stand is on private property and I have permission to have it there. The land owner and I go way back, perhaps 30 or more years, I started hauling chickens during molting for his dad to earn extra money when I was in school. Anyway, he is as nice as his dad was, and lets pretty much anyone who asks, to hunt there. I went out to get in my stand yesterday afternoon, and found a lot of cigarette butts on one side of the ladder, my rope was missing, and a limb from a pine tree that brushed your back as you climbed the ladder was broken off.
There is one guy I see from time to time during hunting season, it may have been him. But not 100% sure, so I can't really confront the guy when I see him. He is pretty much the only one I ever see there, or at least that deep in the woods.
I was curious how ya'll may feel about it. Honestly, if I'm not in it, feel free to use it, if I come in, I'll bull shit with ya some, then asking if I can sit in my tree stand, hell, I may even go somewhere else nearby. I have never seen anyone in my stands, although I feel sure people do use my stands from time to time, but I do expect ya to leave my shit alone, and take your trash.

Perhaps you may have a few more assumptions from left field Sshucker?

Part of the problem is that you didn't mention any of the above in the initial post. Not that it was yours or that it was on private property that you have permission to access. Maybe the person that used it got permission from the same land owner.

[stack$99]

I definitely wouldn't use someone else's stand that i found in the woods but i would have no problem sitting a few trees down if in fact I thought the spot was a good location for the hunt. Public land…. first come

[bman1187]

I only use someone else's treestand with permission anywhere

[mosseater]

Here's how I would do it.

Walking along one day, looking for a place to hunt, I came across a ladder stand in the woods (where ostensibly, I have permission to hunt). I looks at the stand, and I says to myself, "....self? I don't recalls puttin' no stand in that tree?" That's when it might occur to me that it's what I like to call, "someone elses property", and I'd go right on past. But that's just me. I'm whacky.

Then we don't have all these silly issues about cigarette butts and missing ropes and strangers in the stand when I show up, etc. It really is a pretty simple concept. Yours is yours, and mine is mine. See? Simple.