Last summer I started prepping my bowhunting spot. I cut the weeds and cut fallen trees to create travel lanes. I hung my stand in July. One week before opener another hunter, who also had permission to hunt, came in and hung his stand 15 feet from mine. I talked to land owner and found out he had two kids and wanted a spot to hunt. I'm a big supporter of taking kids hunting and have access to other land. Long story short I didn't hunt this stand all season but did leave my stand and trail cam. I wanted to see what I was missing. This fall when I was getting my trail cams ready I noticed someone had taken a knife and punctured the IR lense on my trail cam multiple times. I only had pictures of this guy along with his kids on my camera. Not hard to figure out who did this. I cannot believe he would do this especially with kids around to see. Way to teach your kids sportsmenship! The second one was last fall also. This happened south of Mott during pheasant season. I was traveling down a section line when I came up on a pickup, with SD plates, that had two teenage kids hanging on to the headache rack in the box with guns hanging out the sides. I did call the GNF on this one.
