My cousin shot our 3rd buck out of the same other person's stand. It's been up for years they hardly use it (and are the sort that goes out to the hunting shack, drinks a ton of beer, litters the trail with empties on the way out, and generally gives hunters a bad name). Note that I did not mention "gets out in the woods and hunts" as something that they do. I swear they have like 2/6 guys that hunt half a day per year if that.We've used public stands we know are there when we do drives in rifle. Far as I'm concerned if you leave it up on public tying up a good tree its fair game when vacant.