Posted on 12/14/2015 4:12:17 PM PST by daisy12
RE: the dress of the unknown man
Clearly Middle Eastern features, and the cheap, inappropriate clothing says as much. I’d bet he’s a recent immigrant from ME.
“Prepper” doing what is described in most prepper novels. . .burying caches of weapons and explosives?
I hear you. Strange things are happening in the world these days.
“The man is not carrying anything so why is there suspicion about him?”
1. His body language is wrong for the time and place.
2. His clothing is wrong for the time and place.
3. He looks middle-eastern.
The fact that he is carrying nothing is itself suspicious. Who goes out into the woods with nothing?
LOL. Only a local would know that he's not a local. I have a worker who comes Upstate from NYC and he dresses like the dude in the photo. He goes mushroom hunting dressed like that. I just look at him and shake my head.
Anyway, the dude in the photo obviously knows nothing about hunting or he would not have walked over a deer seed trap.
where is the trap?
the circle covered in sawdust? What is underneath it?
Sawdust? I thought it was just seeds sprinkled on top of soil to attract deer or turkey for the hunter.
I should have said lure instead of trap.
Obviously I am not a hunter, LOL. Before I looked closely I thought it was sunlight coming through the trees.
It’s just standard procedure. Kind of what we have to do when someone posts a picture of MoDo.
Pulasky county is where a skinhead, kkk type org was operating just outside the back gate of Ft Leonard Wood.
It’s cracked corn, a cheap bait to put out if you are interested in photographing wildlife along a game trail. Cheap and tasty for deer or turkey, doves or coons, though turkey prefer black oil sunflower, which is a little more expensive.
Some people just put it out as a matter of curiosity, to get pictures to see what is frequenting a given trail. Others do it to accustom animals to travel a certain route in order to “cheat” - in some states it is legal to hunt over bait, in others you may have to stop baiting in the season but of course the animals are still used to travel to the spot... others don’t allow it at all. Missouri is usually a feed plot state rather than a bait state or at least it was in my area... you wouldn’t put out feed directly but might plant an area in some type of forage like turnips or wild plants that would entice deer or other game- not just to improve hunting success but to keep them from feeding on your vegetable garden. Most of the people I knew just studied the deer trails and looked for where deer liked to leave scent and rub their antlers and didn’t try to lure deer since they already knew where the deer bedded down or did this or that from long observation.
I don’t think beggar ticks are found in the northeast, they seem to be an Ozark thing though there is a closely related species with smaller parallelogram-shaped seeds here in FL.
If so he may not have to worry about those things catching in his clothing- every region has its own distinctive plant life.
If you have a lot of cattle they’ll eat them up too, so the field will be clear of them. They are a legume and the seeds are edible an rather tasty.
Also, if he goes mushroom hunting for morels it would be in the spring and the seeds are long gone by then- they are a late summer early fall annoyance. There are some edible shrooms in the autumn woods, but spring is favored for the most delicious, the morel, and with the chill sweatpants would be OK then but you might have to worry about them getting soggy below the knee with mist and dew.
I wore sweats once out in the woods because after a canoe trip I was really sunburned and they were soft.
Once.
Nothing is as fun as walking full stride into cat briars in wimpy sweats and then trying to back out.
Thanks! I learned something new.
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