Helicopters

whitebb2727

whitebb2727

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ruby fruit said:
im so glad the army 3 month exercise in our area is over before the season started..they had 3 types of choppers flying training missions
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Couple years ago I was sitting in a shed trimming and one of the army pot choppers came right over at treetop level. Yea, freaked or a second.
 
whitebb2727

whitebb2727

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Larry {the} Gardener said:
I heard the chopper on Monday morning. I had gone back to my SOL, GV and Slo patches to spray some nasty looking stink bugs, and to tie up a broken limb. It wasn't over me, but still scared the shit out of me. I did my spraying and repair work, and got the fuck out of there. The high up planes were flying when I went back, but I can stay out of sight from them until I get in the open spots to tend the plants. And with a little crawling, I can get them fed without exposing myself. But the choppers are another animal. Not sure I could hide from one of them if they were really looking.
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Camouflage gear to match the season. I use spring turkey gear with the face mask and all. Tie odd bits of tall grass and other foilage for a gillie suit.

Wash all your gear in scent killer detergent and dryer wipes. Bathe with no scent soap and no scent deodorant.

They make scent lock camo to.

All this added up equals just laying down and not moving if a chopper has flown over.

I've personally watched a police k9 walk within a few feet of a buddy of mine. Police and dog were within a few feet of him and within 50 foot of myself.
 
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Larry {the} Gardener

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whitebb2727 said:
Couple years ago I was sitting in a shed trimming and one of the army pot choppers came right over at treetop level. Yea, freaked or a second.
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Our county has one. They came over my river camp real low one day. {this was before my 11 year break in growing} I was working my orange and grapefruit trees, and didn't really think much of it. About ten minutes later a county car comes roaring up the three trail road. It was a couple of guys I went to school with. They said they had seen pots in the edge of the planted pines, and would I show them around. Luckily the pots they had seen were some old pepper and tomato plants that had been in the spillway of the fish pond the summer before, and when I went to bring them around, they were full of ants, so I had sat them down and forgot about them. I did have a few young plants in a briar patch nearby, so if I had not have been down there, they might have stumbled onto them.
 
Larry {the} Gardener

Larry {the} Gardener

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whitebb2727 said:
Camouflage gear to match the season. I use spring turkey gear with the face mask and all. Tie odd bits of tall grass and other foilage for a gillie suit.

Wash all your gear in scent killer detergent and dryer wipes. Bathe with no scent soap and no scent deodorant.

They make scent lock camp to.

All this added up equals just laying down and not moving if a chopper has flown over.

I've personally watched a police k9 walk within a few feet of a buddy of mine. Police and dog were within a few feet of him and within 50 foot of myself.
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I don't always wear camo pants, but I do wear camo shirt and turkey mask every time I'm in the woods. In the big woods I wouldn't worry about them finding me, but some of my patches are in scrub oak and thinned pines. Not enough cover if they are on top of you. And they can get there in just a couple of minutes after you hear them. When you have buckets of water, it is scary until you decide they are going somewhere else.
 
whitebb2727

whitebb2727

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Larry {the} Gardener said:
Our county has one. They came over my river camp real low one day. {this was before my 11 year break in growing} I was working my orange and grapefruit trees, and didn't really think much of it. About ten minutes later a county car comes roaring up the three trail road. It was a couple of guys I went to school with. They said they had seen pots in the edge of the planted pines, and would I show them around. Luckily the pots they had seen were some old pepper and tomato plants that had been in the spillway of the fish pond the summer before, and when I went to bring them around, they were full of ants, so I had sat them down and forgot about them. I did have a few young plants in a briar patch nearby, so if I had not have been down there, they might have stumbled onto them.
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The one that came over wasn't a black hawk like normally.

It didn't even look like us made helicopter. It was very large.

It shook the whole building going over.
 
whitebb2727

whitebb2727

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Larry {the} Gardener said:
I don't always wear camo pants, but I do wear camo shirt and turkey mask every time I'm in the woods. In the big woods I wouldn't worry about them finding me, but some of my patches are in scrub oak and thinned pines. Not enough cover if they are on top of you. And they can get there in just a couple of minutes after you hear them. When you have buckets of water, it is scary until you decide they are going somewhere else.
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Lol.

I used a Jon boat to put some out. When they would come over I would cover my buckets, soil or whatever I had with me and cast my pole out.
 
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I had a bad feeling a few seasons ago so I did a midnight smash and grab on one of my guerilla plots that I had a little too close to home. Next morning I wake up and call off work to do some trimming when I heard a buzzing noise in back yard. I look out the window and it's the dtf flying right over my plot. I just smoked a fatty of some fire Durban poison so this sight sent me straight to anxiety land. I needed to get away from the stash and calm down so I drove to a friend's house a few miles away and here they came flying his back 40. Almost gave up growing after that.
 
BarnBuster

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whitebb2727 said:
All this added up equals just laying down and not moving if a chopper has flown over.
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in this case non-movement is life. a subgroup under bb2727 about camo, a couple of my places
are in no hunting areas so patterned camo looks out of place.got the whole seasonal wardrobe in all shades of green and tan pants/shirts from VOA collected over a while. nice cause this is a Rich Folks VOA so LLBean, Eddie Bauer stuff
 
whitebb2727

whitebb2727

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BarnBuster said:
in this case non-movement is life. a subgroup under bb2727 about camo, a couple of my places
are in no hunting areas so patterned camo looks out of place.got the whole seasonal wardrobe in all shades of green and tan pants/shirts from VOA collected over a while. nice cause this is a Rich Folks VOA so LLBean, Eddie Bauer stuff
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Some of the new high definition camo really hides a person well.
 
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Indacouch

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My uncle not a Gardner of our type ...was drunk and found my cousins high power spotlight ...was playing with it at night and started shining a chopper ....long story short they sent ground units and detained him ....didn't take him to jail but it was a big deal....I've heard if people getting arrested for that very thing....
 
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Diabolical666 said:
Yous guys are paranoid! Probably the only time you notice the choppers is when you have an outdoor going:p If you are so worried, camo them by adding fake or real flowers on them and randomly around your property
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That's a good idea just plant tie some flowers in .......would it be weird if I liked it so much I did it to my indoor grow as well .....lol. Cool idea though
 
Olive Drab Green

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I see birds fly overhead all the time. Chinooks, Blackhawks, and I think I saw one Little Bird. Honestly, I don't really want to have to, and I'm not saying I won't hate the situation I'm in, but if I have to account for what I'm doing because pharma failed me and I refuse to suffer for two years until medical's up and running, I'll account for every decision I've made, and they're going to fucking hear me. Trial by jury.
 
whitebb2727

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Olive Drab Green said:
I see birds fly overhead all the time. Chinooks, Blackhawks, and I think I saw one Little Bird. Honestly, I don't really want to have to, and I'm not saying I won't hate the situation I'm in, but if I have to account for what I'm doing because pharma failed me and I refuse to suffer for two years until medical's up and running, I'll account for every decision I've made, and they're going to fucking hear me. Trial by jury.
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Same here. A man in Florida beat the charge by trail without a medical law.

More people fight it and win the better.
 
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