A Reddit user said he was dealing with one of those property problems that gets uglier the more closely you look at it. According to the post, he found a stand on his land that did not belong to him, and the stand itself was only part of the problem. From the way he described it, whoever had been using that area had also cut an illegal trail through the property and was leaving behind more signs that this was not some one-time mistake by a hunter who wandered too far in the dark.
He made it clear he was not just irritated about somebody hanging a stand in the wrong spot. The bigger issue was everything that came with it. In the thread, he talked about the trail that had been made where it should not have been, the fact that there was bait involved, and the possibility that whoever was doing it was poaching as well. That was what changed the situation from a simple trespassing complaint into something a lot messier. Somebody had not just stepped onto the property. Somebody had started altering it and hunting it like they had every right to be there.
The landowner said he set up cell cameras on the stand to try to catch the people responsible. He also told neighbors to keep an eye out for anyone trespassing because, from the sound of it, he had already moved past hoping the problem would stop on its own. He was trying to build a record and catch the person in the act. In the way he described it, the stand had almost become bait for a different kind of hunt, because now the real target was figuring out who had put it there and who kept coming back to use it.
What made the whole thing feel worse was the way he described the setup around the stand. It was not just a platform in the trees. It was part of a larger pattern that included the illegal trail and the bait. From the comments and the way he framed the post, it sounded like he believed whoever was behind it had gotten comfortable enough to assume the property owner either would not notice or would not push back hard enough to matter. That kind of confidence tends to come from repeat behavior, and the thread read like a man who knew it.
The discussion turned quickly toward what he should do with the stand and how aggressively he should involve the law. Some people told him to go straight to a game warden, especially because of the baiting issue. Others focused on the cameras, saying the smartest move was to leave the stand where it was for the moment, let the cameras do their job, and catch the trespasser returning. That seemed to be the direction the poster was leaning anyway. He sounded less interested in ripping the stand down on impulse and more interested in making sure the next person who climbed into it had nowhere to hide afterward.
So the story he told was not just “I found a stand on my land.” It was that he found someone else’s stand, saw signs of a trail cut through the property, believed there was baiting involved, suspected poaching, and responded by setting cell cameras to catch whoever thought they could keep using the place. The stand was the first thing he noticed, but by the time he finished laying out the details, it was obvious the real problem was bigger than one platform in a tree.
What do you think — if you found a stranger’s stand on your property and also saw signs of baiting and an illegal trail cut in, would you pull the stand immediately, or leave it there and use cameras to catch whoever comes back?
Original Reddit post: What does Reddit think I should do? My land, not my stand.
