Old 03-26-11 | 02:38 PM
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NoReg
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"It's the "stealth" part that can really get one in trouble."

Well yes and no. I have a piece of property on a lake, and people come onto it. I have stalked them, and hung back in the bush (kinda one of the easy routes to the place they normally land, less Deliverance than it sounds). If they aren't lighting fires, etc... I don't bother them. Stealth cuts both ways. Lets say you came across a bike camper, who has stealth camped on your property. Maybe he believes in the leave only footprints part of the thing. Maybe he is packing also, and has equally violent attitudes about being met by armed people on non-posted property, he wasn't even aware was private. Or even if he was aware. I am not sure I see the upside of that encounter. Either you really know what is going on, it's some harmless person, in which case who cares, or you don't know what you are getting yourself into, and you may end up in a gunfight. Even a trespasser with a reasonable apprehension that his life is in danger, can shoot you first and ask questions later. Maybe you are the armed pot grower.

I'm sorry, if I see a guy riding a Thorn, hanging in a Hennesey, snoring away, why would I bother that guy?

On the other hand, the whole point about stealth is that it is stealthy. In theory, people should never be visible to the landowner, or anyone who might report to him. One should take that seriously. I'm no Navy SEAL, but I practice stealth, and get past the eyes of some pretty amped up animals. If you really have no idea of how to go about that stuff, then one isn't engaged in SC. We need another thread for people who stealth camp without stealth.
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