Creepiest time hunting EVER!!!!

jsquig said:
I was moose hunting in Northern Ontario once. This place was the middle of nowhere, after driving for hours from civilization down a logging road it was another full day ride on the atv to get to where we were hunting.

On the second last day we were there I saw a little bit of orange in the bush so I thought it was one of my hunting buddies. I went up to see what they were up to. It was a guy probably in his 60s (we were all in our 20s) walking through the bush with a rifle (.303 lee enfield of course) in hand and a shotgun (some kind of coach gun) on a sling. He never acknowledged me even though I said hi. He never even looked at me, just a blank stare.

When we got back to our tent later that day I asked my friends if they had seen him. I was sure they would have because there were two very large lakes with a creek/swamp/beaver dam between them and one friend was hunting there while another had been hunting in the direction he had come from. Nobody else had seen him!

What was even weirder was that the whole way out we looked for any sign that someone had come in on the trail (the only way in unless he walked 10-15 miles through nasty bush) and we saw no new ATV tracks or footprints. It had rained the day after we got to the tent so we didn't even have our to confuse them with.

Then when we got back out to the logging road (we were parked at the end of it) we saw no sign of a vehicle, and there were no tracks the whole way in. It was waaay too creepy.
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Hehe. good story.
My experience was with low life druggies who were actually alive. Your experience was with the afterlife,the dead,ghosts,goulies. How the #### do you sleep at night.:)
 
zedex said:
Yea. If i had known who owned the property and who had access to it i probably would have said something. But. I didn't know the area and had never been there before. We arrived in the early morning by quad in the pitch black so i had no clue where i was. It was a weird experience and i have never felt fear for my life like this time. The way they went into huddle and split up i was thinking "holy f**k,wtf is happening" Then seeing these low lifes in person.:)
I can laugh about it now .

Goodtimes.....Goodtimes.:)
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Sounds like a freaky encounter for sure. I've met my fair share of hillbillies, but never to the degree of your encounter. I guess "be prepared" is about the only thing one can do in the wild.
Luckily, hunters (no matter how "back woodsy" they are) generally aren't hunting people. (And through those holes where teeth used to be, there's a beautiful person inside who would love nothing more than to talk to you, but unfortunately, their thin grasp at the english language restricts it.)
Drug dealers on the other hand probably won't bother too much either, unless they catch you stealing their patch.
 
zedex said:
Hehe. good story.
My experience was with low life druggies who were actually alive. Your experience was with the afterlife,the dead,ghosts,goulies. How the f**k do you sleep at night.:)
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No he looked to be alive and real and all that, just no idea how he got there. I guess he could have just decided to spend a month humping through the bush? Oh well I don't hunt there much any more any ways. Too much travel for a moose.
 
The unpleasant reality is meth labs are very portable. The trunk of a car...an old camper parked in the bush...are suitable spots. RCMP have warned us they are often boobytrapped as well.
 
Maybe they were just pissed off at finding some random hunter in the same place they've been hunting for years.

I hunt private land as well, and if some random hunter I didn't know or didn't expect to see walked up to me in the same place I'd been hunting for 20 years to ask what I was hunting for I wouldn't give him the time of day either.
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IF this was public land we were talking about, then your attitude is just one more reason I've left Onterrible.
 
This is an old post I know, but seems interesting.

Running into junkies in no fun anywhere and I doubt a gun registry would affect drug dealers or users at all.

WE had a meth lab about 5-8 km from our farm. The RCMP ERT team came in, removed the operator and gave him a vacation.

What a PITA, if it's not nailed down it's gone. Every loser and junkie walking, hitchhiking or driving stolen ATV's & cars driving thro the area looking for something to trade for meth:chainsaw, tackle box quad, toolbox, whatever. Just before the RCMP caught him there was 4 quads stolen in one weekend within a 10 km radius or less. The drug problems in town seemed to lessen a bit after that bust as well.

JT.
 
I was told to stay off a property I had permission to hunt. I found out later the guys who owned the property next to it had a meth lab. I got told "stay out or a stray bullet might find you". For their sake they had better get me on the first shot.... BTW, got a real nice doe off that property last season and the landowner was more than happy to give me permission again this year.
 
tactical870 said:
I was told to stay off a property I had permission to hunt. I found out later the guys who owned the property next to it had a meth lab. I got told "stay out or a stray bullet might find you". For their sake they had better get me on the first shot.... BTW, got a real nice doe off that property last season and the landowner was more than happy to give me permission again this year.
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Did you call it in? If not why? Do yourself and everyone else around you a favour, if know of a meth lab, call it in. That's the last thing the kids in your town need. I still can't figure out how people get hooked on that #### and why they would even try it?
 
Unfortunatly this same group seems to get off time and time again. By the time I knew about it it was long gone. AFAIK it has been moved out of there now. Never did see anyone else last hunting season.... That being said the local police seem to have little or no interest in drug crime and grow ops...... How many other hunters here have found grow ops while hunting? I'm betting quite a few if you're in ontario.....
 
Found 5 plants out here (real close to where I am) a couple weeks ago, pitiful little plants. They planted 'em right in a field of actual weed lookin' things all about shoulder high.... ingenious little plan. Found bigger ops too while I was in BC, never come across something that big out here yet. Turns out there might have been a guy in the area where I was while I was there. Heard this from a guy out here that was flying overhead with one of those parachute/lawnmower strapped to your back combos. Kinda sketchy, but I had the scattergun with me so I'm not/wasn't too worried. He asked me who my buddy was I said WTF ... I was alone up there. He said nop, there was someone else there. Uhm ... ooooook.

I have never and will never put up with or bend to the will of these characters. If they wanna pick a fight I'm the wrong guy to do it with. They tend to figure that one out pretty quick.
 
jtoews80 said:
This is an old post I know, but seems interesting.

Running into junkies in no fun anywhere and I doubt a gun registry would affect drug dealers or users at all.

WE had a meth lab about 5-8 km from our farm. The RCMP ERT team came in, removed the operator and gave him a vacation.

What a PITA, if it's not nailed down it's gone. Every loser and junkie walking, hitchhiking or driving stolen ATV's & cars driving thro the area looking for something to trade for meth:chainsaw, tackle box quad, toolbox, whatever. Just before the RCMP caught him there was 4 quads stolen in one weekend within a 10 km radius or less. The drug problems in town seemed to lessen a bit after that bust as well.

JT.
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Wow........I live in Cold Lake & I was unaware of these facts.

I'm a member of the Bonnyville Shooting Sports Association too, so I am a regular visitor to your town.
 
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