A Reddit commenter said one of the times he had to draw started on his family’s farm when something caught his eye across the road. In the thread, he explained that he was talking with his brother and friends when he noticed a glint of blue in the woods and said it looked like there might be a truck hidden up on the hillside. He and his brother went to check it out. According to his comment, the truck was in fact tucked away up the hill, and while his brother went higher, he stayed lower near the vehicle with his phone out.
Then a man appeared with a small dog, coming in from another valley. The poster said the man could not see him at first because the woods were green and he was wearing earth-tone clothes. He let the man get closer until he was about 40 yards from him and only about 10 yards from the truck, then called out. The man froze, looked around, and the Reddit user stepped just enough to make himself visible. He told the man he was trespassing and wanted to know why he had driven past the no-trespassing sign. According to the post, the man claimed he had not seen it, even though it was blaze orange, and said he was “just walking.” But the poster said he could see a bag of mushrooms the man had picked and also saw that he had a knife.
The landowner told him to drop both the knife and the mushrooms and leave. Instead, the man started waving the knife around and arguing that he was on public ground and that nobody could tell him what to do. That was the moment the Reddit user said he had enough. He produced a .40-caliber handgun, kept it low, and pointed it at the ground rather than directly at the man. He said the whole conversation changed instantly after that. The trespasser stopped arguing and started apologizing.
Then it got even worse for the trespasser. The poster said his brother came up on the man’s left side with a gun drawn too, and at that point the man really started apologizing. They told him to get in the truck and leave, while the landowner called law enforcement and gave them the license plate and description. According to the comment, the man later got a trespassing ticket, and that was about all the authorities cared to do with it.
The way he told it, he did not think the man was necessarily going to attack him, but once the knife started getting waved around on private land, he was done taking chances. It started with a hidden truck in the woods and turned into a confrontation with a trespasser holding a blade only minutes later. What would you have done once the knife came out?
