A Reddit user said one of the wildest things that ever happened to him in the woods came during turkey season on national forest land. He wrote that he was moving through the area like normal when he accidentally walked straight into someone’s marijuana grow operation. From the way he told it, he did not realize what he had stepped into until it was already too late. Then the people running it found him first.
According to his comment, the men there held him at gunpoint for a few minutes. He did not turn it into a long dramatic story or try to add a bunch of details that were not there. The way he told it was blunt, which honestly made it hit harder. He was out turkey hunting on public ground, crossed into the wrong patch of woods, and suddenly found himself looking down the barrels of guns because he had stumbled onto a hidden grow site.
Other people in the thread immediately understood how bad that could have gone. One reply said that was wild. Another hunter said the area he hunted was more likely to have meth labs, which was why he stayed glued to his GPS. That part of the thread made it pretty clear that for some hunters, the fear in the woods is not always an animal or even another armed hunter on the wrong property. Sometimes it is walking into something criminal that has nothing to do with hunting at all.
The original commenter did not spell out every second of how he got out of there, but the core of the story was bad enough on its own. He was hunting turkeys on national forest land, walked into a hidden marijuana grow, and got held at gunpoint for several minutes by the people guarding it. That is the kind of story that changes the way somebody looks at thick cover and backcountry routes from then on.
What do you think — if you realized too late that you had walked into an illegal grow site on public land and the people there already had guns on you, would you try talking your way out, or just do exactly what they said until you could get clear?
Original Reddit post: What’s the weirdest thing y’all have seen out in the woods while hunting?
