New Pot Grower

Started by peternap, October 06, 2012, 11:09:40 PM

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Today was the opening day of bow season. I got out early and had a good buck come by which I passed on. I have a mental list of the bucks I want to cull and he isn't one.

Next came a Doe and her fawn. It must have been a late birth because it was still very small and no sign of losing it's spots. They got safe passage too.

A turkey showed up about 75 yards off and even if it had gotten in range I'm trying to increase the turkey population.

So other than really enjoying myself, the morning was a bust.

I can't sit in a stand more than 3 and a half hours anymore, so I finally came down and decided to take a walk until the afternoon. The river was low so I crossed over. There is a couple of hundred acres that the owner is sick and has moved in with his daughter in another county, that I want to lease the hunting rights to and I wanted to look over.

About 2 miles from me is a new fellow. I stopped by to say hello last year and he's not very talkative. He's from up north judging by the accent and according to local gossip, doesn't have a job but seems to have a little money. He put a doublewide on his place and minds his own business.

Anyway...I came up on his land and saw a couple of green houses right in the middle of a thicket. He had a few forklift batteries hooked to them and I guess solar panels that I didn't see somewhere. I took a peek in one of the greenhouses and sure enough, a pretty good pot crop being raised in it. This wasn't on his land BTW. That area has thousands of acres that are old estate property and the family has long since moved away and I suppose are paying the taxes but never see it.

I decided it was probably time for me to mind my own business and go back to hunting, so I did.

Now I don't really have any issues with growing pot. Virginia has a long tradition of moonshining, especially in the mountains where I grew up. A lot of moonshiners switched to pot for whatever reason and as a rule, are pretty decent people just as long as you leave them alone. Meth labs are different but I didn't see any sign of that going on.

I do worry a tad more about new people that buy a small piece of land and immediately set up an operation though. That's not the same thing as Farmer Jones growing some pot to balance out the books for the year. Farming is a tough way to make a living these days.

There isn't a point to this post other than an interesting day hunting and another area probably left alone.
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Some of my best days hunting are like yours, even if I never pull the bow or shoulder the rifle

the older I get the more I enjoy the experience of just being out there -- taking a deer is becoming much less important
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Quote from: peternap on October 06, 2012, 11:09:40 PM

Anyway...I came up on his land and saw a couple of green houses right in the middle of a thicket. He had a few forklift batteries hooked to them and I guess solar panels that I didn't see somewhere. I took a peek in one of the greenhouses and sure enough, a pretty good pot crop being raised in it. This wasn't on his land BTW. That area has thousands of acres that are old estate property and the family has long since moved away and I suppose are paying the taxes but never see it.

I decided it was probably time for me to mind my own business and go back to hunting, so I did.

Now I don't really have any issues with growing pot. Virginia has a long tradition of moonshining, especially in the mountains where I grew up. A lot of moonshiners switched to pot for whatever reason and as a rule, are pretty decent people just as long as you leave them alone. Meth labs are different but I didn't see any sign of that going on.


Hrmmm... what good could come from marijuana legalization... fewer people in jail, less money spent on law enforcement , more money on the books from taxation, 30% or more of the "Mexican Mafia's" cash stream removed... Maybe we would even have less of a problem with meth and pills... Yeah, Nixon was right to ignore the Shafer commission

Good idea to stay away from that area, in my state the growers set up shotguns and the feds set up cameras and either of those can get you killed
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