Any time that you mess with another persons legal hunting opportunities you brand yourself as a unethical hunter and a miserable piece of trash. One of my very good friends told me that he watched another hunter urinate all around my friends treestand. My friend told everyone who would listen and the "pisser" was deny access to many properties in the local area, mine included.

As we would have said in the Navy, "lower than squid s%#^ !"
Hope you get a HUGH deer for your troubles !
Good Luck and good hunting !

Real jerks, really exist these days. Sorry you had an experience with this jerk. I knew a guy personally that would do these type of things and worse. If he could find your stand he would move his stand not 50 yards or less away from yours. Also drive up to your stand on an atv while you were hunting and talk with you and ask if you seen any thing....LOL, I'm sad to say tongue and chick this is probably how hunting accidents happen. There will always be people like this, with no regard for others or respect for anyone but there self righteous ways, and usually have very a big ego. And they will probably die lonely with no family or friends, is the very sad part.

This behavior is unethical, and yes they are jerks!
RESPECT someone else's hunting space that's an unwritten rule with ethical hunters.

last year a party of hunters moved in right on top of our duck hunt.THEY were a trashy bunch,throwing rocks in the water, shining flashlights into the air,etc etc.I got there lic# and got some video of them stashing extra hen mallards.the limit is 2 and they wasted 3.Not to mention allthe garbage they left.THIS year I hope they leave there stupidity back at the rock they crawled out from under.

a few years back a bow hunter said he shot a buck on a neighboring piece of property from our farm and said it ran onto our property. My dad said it was okay for him to enter onto our land and use the gates to get his deer back. Well a few weeks later my dad was walking in the woods when he spotted a new tree stand that neither he or any of my uncles bought. Turned out the hunter who claimed to have shot the buck used the opportunity to but up a tree stand on our land and had been trespassing for quite sum time. Needless to say my dad took down the tree stand and it sat next to the barn for a few month until the hunter worked up the courage to come back and claim it.

i built a large wooden ladder stand and got permission to place it on neighbors property overlooking a large area of public property. i hunted out of it twice during the week long gun season. I went back to take it out about a month later and it was gone. I found four wheeler tracks in the snow leading to an entrance road. the next year i set up climber and was bow hunting when is saw a group of hunters coming in and place up the platform of my stand with a metal ladder attached to it. Like i wouldn't know it was mine. they also brought in 3 other stands during the day. i went out that night grabbed my stand back also left a not thanking for the improvements and took down a ladder to the other stand that was hung by them.

Bioguy...answer is a claymore mine! Really, it is too bad there are jerks like this out there. More now than ever. That's why I saved my butt off and finally bought my own place, but you know what? They're here too! It used to be a hunt club and it's taken awhile, but I think the word is finally out. The last guy was cruising around on his atv with his girlfriend on the back and when he saw me, tried to wheel around and high-tail it. I was in his way though, so he had to stop. I explained the situation, that it's private now, sorry, but no more hunting without permission and he said " yea, I saw your no trespassing signs ".. guess what? That moron is not going to get permission either. I was troubled about cutting off someones' hunting area, but it's happened to me also, and I found that if I respected the owner and ASKED, I usually had access to the property again.
Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I would'nt dream of trespassing on someones property to hunt without permission.

I would give them the same treatment that once was given to some unethical fishermen on one of our local rivers which is "no powerboats" only drift boats allowed. The powerboat offenders returned to the pullout one night to find their boat trailer lying in 12 inch long pieces coutesy of one of the local boys who had a cutting torch rig. LOL

If I found someone's stand on my property, I would chop it into little pieces and leave it at the base of the tree.