So It's come to this?

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VARMINT_SLAYER

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Did anyone read the Meth Wars article in Outdoor life. It's kind of scary. Not only do you have to worry about stumbling across a lab and being blown to pieces; but you could be shot on your way to your stand by a paranoid meth cooker who has taken over your blind. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
You know that meth is a serious problem when Outdoor Life is printing stories about it.
 
A rancher/friend of mine found a burned out camper trailer on one of his places that had been used as a metyh lab,the cops came out and hauled it off along with a huge pile of garbage they left behind.
 
Pot farmers are a problem in lots of areas too. An ex-army student of mine told me that the orientation at Ft Campbel, KY included warnings about where not to camp etc because of them.
 
It's core problem is from todays society. And it's drug culture. As long as there is a demand there will be the lure of easy money.
 
Meth labs could be anywhere, especially in the West. Tweek cookers thrive off isolation. There have been a high number of major lab busts around here well outside of the metro Salt Lake area. Someone hunting could unwittingly stumble upon a lab, or pot operation as someone mentioned, and have a lot more on their hands than they bargined for. Just one more reason to take a sidearm and a cell phone with you when hunting.

OC and Tazers have little effect on some tweekers. As Michael mentioned, even providing you're shooting is more accurate some tweekers don't know they're just supposed to lie on the ground and bleed to death after they've been shot.
 
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It is getting to be a sad state of affairs. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif
This fall I went with a few friends to rabbit hunt. We had a close to a dozen beagles on the ground and there was six of us. All of us were carrying shotguns.
We hadn't gone very far into the thick stuff, trying to get set up for the beagles to bring the rabbit around, when a guy popped out of the woods less than 100' or so.
He was acting crazier than a duck in the desert. We tried to make small talk with him, but he was giving me the willys for sure. My buddy who had worked a few years on the Governors Drug Task Force, whispered to me that he thought the guy was cooking meth not too far from where we were standing.
After a few more tense moments of trying to make idle chit chat with this guy, we decided to catch up our dogs and move on. My buddy called a drug enforcement friend of his and told him his suspicions.
What became of that guy, I don't know. Don't even know if he was cooking meth. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
I just know I was glad to be accompanied by several friends and all of us carrying scatterguns. Only the Lord knows what could/would have happened if it would have been just one or two of us.
 
The money is not what drives meth. Why buy it when you can make it?

You never see a rich meth head and most of them are consuming more of their product than they are selling.
 
It may not be all about the money, but it's a big part of it. As many labs as there are, and as much of a danger as they present, still the vast majority of meth in the US is manufactured in Mexico and brought in. The labs run by various narco-trafficker syndicates out of Mexico make most domestic operations look small time. Those guys generally don't use what they make and market.
 
Unarmed, yah I'd have some concern. Armed...answer would be no.

Many yrs ago, my old school friend & his buddy...tresspassed[idiots]. They were met back at the roadway [their vehicle was blocked in]. By a group [6-8]of angry farmers.

They had their shotguns, ripped from their hand's, then beaten [badly]. By a couple of big husky farm boys. I told my friend later, if it woulda been me. Then their would've been a shootout. I don't take beatings.

After all the legal wrangling, all charge's were dropped by all parties involved.
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My point in all of this is, they could've been beatin to death. If I'm going to get beatin or killed. Then I'm taking someone with me.
 
Missouri was, at one time, known as the Meth capitol of the country. A lot of our sheriff's departments had officers doing nothing but prowling the areas along the river on foot. It was amazing the number of homemade booby traps that were found. The Pot Patches can usually be found by fly-overs as the Marijhuana crops show up as bright green during the harvest season. But the meth labs can be in the trunk of an abandoned car, chicken house, or out in the open.... They are extremely volatile and the danger of explosion really high.
There is a lot of money to be made at the production end.. even more at the street level.
The producers are usually highly paranoid and will readily resort to violence to keep their identity unknown.
 
I have came accross several methlabs while coon hunting. None of the cookers have shot at us yet. When they come runnen' out we QUICKLY yell that we are only coon hunters and for some unknow reason they leave us be. Shortly after this happens I make a phone call to my buddy on the Drug Task Force and about an hour later there are more than coon hunters and meth cookers in the woods.

I really love it when they decide to blow themselves up, that usually makes for an interesting call.

Later /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

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