Longer than I want but have to tell the whole story. I get to the tree I was hoping would be open at 4:50 am. Used my climber and am locked in for 5:10. At 6:28 I see a head bright white headlamp lamp walking towards me. So I turn on my little red headlamp just to let this person know I’m on this tree and move along either way. Bc he was literally walking right the the tree I was already seated in. But it was still pretty dark so no worries. Figured the light would clue him in. It didn’t.

He proceeds to walk right to the base of the tree and says well I see you got my tree but it looks like you got my stand too. I’m like WTF? So I tell the guy no this is my stand. The one I came in with and the one I will be leaving with. He is adamant that it’s his. Bc he left it in this exact tree yesterday. I was like well I guess someone came by and stole it. He says yeah you stole it. Tells me he recognizes the bottom of it and it’s the same straps as his. Well as it turns out it’s the same straps as all summit tree stands have since that’s what it came with. It’s a summit mini viper. That’s what I have. He finally tells me his was a summit open shot climber. I’m like well there you go theses are different stands. I’m not your thief. But he’s not done yet. He says the bases are the same on both models (which they actually are I had to google that but not surprised they prob use that base for a lot of their climbers). So now he is claiming I stole just his base. Thats when I officially confirmed he was possibly on the spectrum. So I ask him, you think I woke up at 3:45 am, drove 45 min and walked almost a mile in here with just the top half of my stand hoping I would miraculously find the bottom half of yours I could use. He clearly thought that was a logical thing someone would try.

I think he did leave his stand to claim that tree. And I had that exact tree in mind. From scouting. It’s a good tree. Prob reason he was there day before. But I beat him to it today. And honestly if his stand was there I would have just found another tree. I might have uttered a curse word or two when I saw it there as a place holder but I’m not that worried about a spot to try and get in any sort of confrontation over it. There’s plenty of woods. But it wasn’t there and I’m sure some local did steal it.

The way this trail is there’s only really one parking spot. And he asked me if that was my truck even though he knew it was already. And said yeah ok and walked off. So I’m like great now maybe I’ll have a keyed truck or flat tires when I get back. But no, He was waiting there when I got back to my truck. And still with the same shite. He’s still mad that I stole his stand. I don’t really have anything new to say so I am putting my stuff up and told him it’s still not his. He says now that he’s had time to cool off he MAYBE believes it’s not his but it’s crazy that I was in the same exact tree and his stand was missing. But he still pissed at me for something I didn’t do. No apology nothing. Just gets in his truck and drives off.

He was a younger kid prob 22-28 if I had to guess and I bet good chance he posts here. If you read this you’re an a-hole and handled that about as bad as you could have. This was all In Livingston section of Maurepas WMA off of King George Rd.