Frank's outdoors...

Long story short: Wow, what a turn of events.  I got my feeder and camera back (or will next weekend)!!! Long version: On Friday, my buddy Mark and I were heading up to Crockett to put some T-posts and barb wire at that entrance road that currently does not have a gate.  About 45 minutes before Mark arrives as my house to ride up, my phone rings.  A gentlemen on the other end introduces himself as a member of our lease.  Turns out that he did not get his money turned into the land owner prior to March (which is in our club by-laws).  So, the land owner filled his spot with me.  Well, he called the land owner to tell him he wanted to be on the lease for the coming season but had missed the deadline.  The landowner told him that was fine, but he had already given his spot away.  The land owner told him that there has been a trespassing thief on the property.  He explained that there wasn't a thief, but that he was on his way to the property...

Took me a few days to write this, as I am still a bit in shock about it after only being on this lease 4 or 5 weeks...  I went to the lease this past weekend to do some work, and help my buddy Mark setup a new blind.  When we finally went to my spot to fill feeders, put up a new feeder, etc. we found that I had been robbed!  Initially, I thought the hogs might have knocked over my feeder and it was out of view as we approached, but then we realized it was gone.  Some crook decided to steal one of my low boy feeders full of corn and a Moultrie game camera! What kind of useless piece of $%#$# does this stuff?  I have been robbed or attempted-to-be-robbed 4 times in that past 2 years (laptop from truck, truck tailgate, truck side door, and feeder/camera) and I am sick of it.  Crime has become such an epidemic, that people no longer steal to cover the basic needs of themselves and their family... its ridiculous.  The feeder was full of 300# of corn... ...