G
Guest
I'll check my sources next time, I thought I had located the wild beast
This isn't bad but was a close call. I was visiting a couple of sites at night a few years ago and as I was walking back by the edge of a pond I heard this rustling in the brush behind me. It kept getting closer and closer and louder and louder. I flashed my light on it and it was a skunk making a b-line right at me. I started waving my arms, stomping my feet, and yelling and it froze, tail up. I then turned and ran as fast as I could. Apparently it had a den by the pond's edge and I got a little too close.
lol...great first post. You'll fit in fine here. EnjoyI had a dog once who liked to tear up furniture.
Thanks, no place to go but UP in post quality
The guy I bought my property from told me his mom had a veg garden and old grow site in the back portion of my property. He said it's the only place on the property that gets plenty of sun due to the tall pines and it was used as a grow site during the days of C.A.M.P. (government eradication of cannabis).
before buying the property I went down into the canyon to check it out, nobody had been there in years and it was overgrown with blackberries and poison oak but was still fenced to keep deer out except one spot where a tree fell knocking the fence down.
Couple months after I got the property I figured it was time to clear the old grow site.
On day I was starting to cut the blackberries when I saw what looked like a large tunnel under a huge mound of blackberries growing up the fence. I walked over to check it out and there was a gold colored black bear about 10 feet down the tunnel looking at me. Before I could react he spun around and trotted out the other side of the tunnel and thru the broken section of fence.
After I cleaned out my shorts LOL, I went back with a friend and a shotgun and removed the blackberry tunnel. It appeared the bear was using the tunnel as a den.
Thankfully I haven't seen the bear since!
![]()
One of the best encounter stories I've heard to date! Talk about fight or flight... Jesus lol
I love the fact that you brought the old patch back to life too. You wouldn't be able to grace us with any pics would you?!
That tunnel sounds like a great entrance to a patch btw. Nobody would see that coming.
I thought it would be fun to hear how other growers deal with the wildlife they encounter. Over the years i've had several unpleasant encounters, but the most devestating wasn't a bear or dear, it was a skunk.