26 July 2010, 1:52 pm
California doesn't require hunter orange. I hunt in what is generally considered the most crime ridden National Forest in the United States. http://outside.away.com/magazine/0797/9707dark.html "Recent experiences, for example, have taught the LEOs to make eye contact with virtually every woman they encounter in what Shamblin calls a mixed-gender situation. "To see if she has terror in her eyes," he explains. Carjackings, thefts, and sexual assaults often unfold sequentially, according to Shamblin. He has found "a number" of rape victims wandering on remote roads in this forest. "The most recent one started in Whittier," Shamblin says, "where the guy carjacked this woman, forced her to take money out of her ATM, then brought her up here to rape her." Before he could attack her, however, the woman escaped by jumping out of the car as it sped along Highway 39. "Bruised and cut, but not seriously injured," Shamblin recalls. "You want to tell someone like that how lucky she is, though she probably doesn't want to hear it." I am more afraid of someone spotting me waiting for a deer, and shooting me for my gun and gear. Where I hunt is actually pretty isolated, and you don't see many other hunters. The terrain is pretty much straight up and down (10,000 foot peaks) and water is scarce and only down in the bottom of the valleys. Deer are very rare. Without inside information, you will not see a deer. We have all sorts of strange things going on here. About once a year, a serial killer takes someone up here and kills someone up here. They grow marijuana illegally here and kill people who stumble on it.You have meth labs in the forest. All the wierdness and sick stuff of Los Angeles comes up here. Opening day, you have all these guys with bolt cutters cutting open the gates to the hundreds of fire roads and road shooting deer with handguns. I don't want people to see me. I don't wear hunter orange. Am I wrong?... Read More »
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