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I have to wait 8 days til I can hit the stand, well, I would have hit the stand, if it hadn’t gotten stolen that is flame

Went out yesterday to set my son’s ground blind up and put the pads on my 2 person stand (he just turned 14 so he can hunt by himself for the first time this fall) and lo and behold no stand. Sometime between the last time we were out there (late September) and now, someone took it and every last strap.

My bad I guess, it was on public, and I didnt have it locked to the tree. Now I’m just hoping that the ground blind is still there when I get back from outta town next Saturday night. Its on the other side of a 2 track and a couple hundred yards away so hopefully its still there when I take my son out next Sunday morning in the dark. The hardest thing was telling my son what happened when he asked how it went getting the stands ready. He could tell I was bummed. Its not even the money part, it was a cheaper one my wife had got me as a gift when my son started hunting with me when he was 10, its easily replaceable (I’ll probably pick up one after season is over and not even tell my wife about it, I’d probably get the “why wasnt it locked?” line LOL). But, its disappointing all the same.

Good luck to everyone this weekend, I’ll be looking for those pics on here to get me thru til next weekend smile