Let me preface this by saying my family owns a small piece of land that we use for hunting. Lately I've been noticing a disturbing trend in the area of total lack of respect property in the area.

All started when, after leaving my tree stand chained to a tree for an extended period of time (I was trying to make the deer accustomed to it's presence) I found it missing, chain and all, on the opening day of bow season. My solution? I found a tree I could easily sit in, but pulled a muscle in my back climbing into it.

Latter that day I took a walk around the property, now my father had placed a camper in one of the fields years ago, and it had been broken into, used as target practice, and beaten up so badly that last year it had began to cave in. This year I found it a total pile of rubble with the aluminum siding missing.

I know people hunt on that land beside me and my family. Do they have our permission? Some might, others don't. That doesn't annoy me at all. But the sheer lack of common decency that would allow someone to walk onto someone's property, and just take something or destroy something that isn't there's, it's sad. And I think it gives a black eye to the area, to hunters (I'm assuming my tree stand thief was a hunter) and it just leaves a foul taste in my mouth.

It's just sad.