You are asking to give them away. Such items spout legs on private land, let alone on public. Good Luck.

 

They'll be stolen within a week. Why would you do that to yourself?

 

I have four ladders and two blinds out all season on public land currently. One camera as well. Have been doing this for about 7 years now. In that time I have had two blinds stolen... both were close to the road and a parking area. I lock my ladders and don't cleave them where it would be easy to carry them out. I am sure other hunters have seen them and or even hunted out of them. Most are not willing to put in the work to take them. The camera is in a very out of the way areas or I am sure it would be stolen. Not all public land is the same. The area I hunt is very nasty strip min terrain. Very little pressure compared to say a state park or other popular area..I buy cheap stuff and goin knowing it could be stolen. Just part of the cost of hunting. My success has gone up big time with ladders in place and blinds as well.

 

Check the regulations in your area first. Here at alum creek and Delaware state park it is illegal to leave stands. Other than that go for it but if someone wants to hunt it or even take it you have no legal recourse due to common property laws.

 

I think it's ever were in ohio. The hunt regalation book is a short summary of the law is on state public land. Fish and game ohio advise code SSSS permanent stand it cover all stands. If can care them in and when leave you are to take with you when leave and can be replace when you return to that spot were set u at. I post it. I didn't reliaze it either until last year. I don't even hunt state to other mushroom. There stand setting ever were and there also law thar any stand still on public land to be removed by end February the Dnr said there abandon and can be removed by then or if Any one calls can get there permission to take them after February..
I read the full law and not summary thar in the book. It's just short version and your to research the full law on it.

 

I have left 2 cams up in a state forest since April have many pictures of other hunters, no one has messed with them, or they just don't know they are there. Was thinking about getting a ladder stand next season and leaving deep down in a ravine. The cams are just cheap $90 moultries.

 

Hey, not everyone steals, I see stands and even cameras and won't touch them. I do like to have my picture taken with a grin though. The thing is you take a risk anytime you leave items out anywhere for people to take. There's more honest people then thieves, but only a couple thieves will ruin it for anyone.

 

I've experienced a mixed bag. I've had stands go all season, and I've had some stolen. I've put game cams out in state parks and never had one of them touched. My stands weren't in the easiest places to find, but some of them got found anyway. You pays your money, and you takes your chances.

 

I wouldn't personally do it. I had 3 cameras stolen off of private land last year and I haven't put another one back out. I have two stands on that same property and there are 3 cable locks on each of them. Figured someone wouldn't go through that much work to get them. I think if you are going to put them up on public land I would try to get them as far off the beaten path as much as possible and definitely lock them up. Make it as hard as possible for someone to take them. I have a few friends that take the bottom section or two of a lock on stand off when they leave and bring them back when they come in to try and deter people.

 

I've hunted public land since I started hunting back in 81. I've left hang on stands and ladder stands in the woods for many yrs. I've only had one stand that was stolen from me. but I don't think I would leave cameras in the same woods. I now use a climbing stand and have left it in the woods over night but wouldn't take the chance to leave it any longer. in Indiana it is now illegal to hunt from someone else's stand. and you have to have your name and address and phone number on a stand to use it on public land. I think this deters the theft of stands here. we have been checked carrying our stands back to the parking lot.
sherman

 

I would advise against doing so. I hunt public land and have come across several stands and cameras. I shake my head when I see them- not everyone out in the woods is honest like me. I have left some note on a few stands letting them know I found their stand- and if I found it- others that are not as honest can find them as well. If you are worried about the noise going in- get in the woods earlier, hours earlier and enjoy just being in the woods.

 

lock em down and only leave camers overnight of you will be back in morn just so i know if u got deer on cam.

 

 

i hunt public area a lot… And I always come across ladder stands, climbers at the base of trees, and cameras… Doesn't bother me a bit that they're out there… I'm not gonna take them… However, I do mark on my map where they're at and it usually pays off when I hunt that area during the week when no one's there. 😉 just consider them a tool in your arsenal when scouting…

 

Any land marked "USA" on the property map - you cannot leave stands up period and they must come down and be removed each year. Somebody must have called on my neighbor and his buddy - they are a couple guys in their late 60's that have owned property joining the public since 1990. They have had stands up for decades and hunted the public land. I found most of them when I bought my place a few years ago. There have been a couple properties change hands so he assumes one of them called. He had a federal wildlife officer from the Nelsonville office call him. He admitted yes they were his stands and had been there for many years. The officer scheduled an appointment and came to his house that Sunday. The officer was nice, said somebody had called it in and he had walked the property and located the stands marking them on his GPS. He said every one of them was a ticket. He did not give my neighbor a hard time and told him since he was honest he would write a single ticket and had him take them all down. The officer said you cannot even break a branch, make a visible path or trim a limb. You can use dead branches to build a blind, but the rules are quite strict and seldom followed that I can see (I hunt a lot of public land and see many violations).

 

Yes. There is lot violations with the tree stand. I am live central ohio. Public lands have swamp with stand placement and the guys putting them up and leaving them there. They're getting to point they act like they own that around the stand then. What i have look up and the hunting regalation have a summary of what stand are as being portable stands. And the type of permanent stand that not allowed. Stands are allowed to be USED from September to last of February. It does not say that they can place a stand on public and leave them in that period to any tree. It then is a permanent type stand of a hunter can return to it daily or when hunter wants to hunt. It's not a portable stand as of then. It's permanent type stand even tho it's maybe a climber stand or a ladder stand or a hang on stand that be portable stands that can be used to aid a hunter. Once there place rhere and left on public land even thru the month that allowed to USE them. They then fall under a permanent type tree stand. The Ohio Regulation hunting book does not show the full laws to this issue. This is do to the book been shortin and to be used for a reference to help a hunter to look it up on the Ohio codes. It right in the book when hunter opens it above contents. It's say the book is a summary and dont have all the laws or the Regulation or there subjected to change. That you can get full copy thru Dnr or ohio.codes.gov. lot hunter don't even know or really understand this and supriseing the hunter Ed does not explain this to any one that the book a shortin to fit down to summary and they need to look the law and regulations up. These stands are getting out control and they need to stop all stand used or being place and left. And abandoned.