Frustration.

Except for hunting with Chase and Booey, my season so far has been pure frustration. This morning I decided to hunt a stand across the road from our house that we've not used yet. The only reason I haven't hunted this stand yet is because there's been so many other people back there hunting. I noticed some new "no hunting" signs up around the property, but wasn't worried because I have permission to be back there. I get to my stand and see this:


Someone hung a sign on my tree! ???The first thing I did was to start checking the straps and make sure nothing had been tampered with. I couldn't find any tampering, so I went ahead and hunted. After setting there stewing for a few hours, I couldn't take it anymore and had to go make some phone calls. I talked to both the landowner and the farmer who leases the land and neither one know anything about the signs. They both told me to call them if anyone ever gives me any trouble on that land. The funny thing is that both thought is was probably the same people putting up the signs; the "outfitter" who leases all the old Peabody mine land around us. If it's true, it's pretty pathetic. They lease 2,000 acres then trespass to run people off the land around the lease? I'm not accusing them, because I have no idea right now who put the signs up, but I'll find out.