Real odd one?

Dry Rot

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Didn't need to have walked in, maybe he used a scrambler.

Could have been night hawking, then stashed his detector, to be retrieved unseen when convenient. The fact that there's nothing to be found is neither here nor there, he doesn't know that until he's detected. Now he wants to retrieve his equipment unseen.

Isn't there a better picture? Pictures can be enhanced.
 
Didn't need to have walked in, maybe he used a scrambler.

Could have been night hawking, then stashed his detector, to be retrieved unseen when convenient. The fact that there's nothing to be found is neither here nor there, he doesn't know that until he's detected. Now he wants to retrieve his equipment unseen.

Isn't there a better picture? Pictures can be enhanced.
If it was me, I think I'd rather tough it out in daylight and just apologise and leave rather than leave a grand's worth of detector in the wood, then have to walk 4 miles back for it. Maybe he was out nighthawking, put his detector down and lost it, then had to borrow another pocket detector to find the first one?
 

JeepJeep

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So you are gonna hand a parcel with thousands of pounds worth of drugs in it to a Hermes delivery guy? Yeah, right.

Perhaps quite not Hermes.

You've genuinely no idea...

You're not going to stash 100ks worth 4 miles off the beaten track and equip yourself with NVGs either.

Does it look like he's a 100ks worth of drugs hanging off behind him?
 
Didn't need to have walked in, maybe he used a scrambler.

Could have been night hawking, then stashed his detector, to be retrieved unseen when convenient. The fact that there's nothing to be found is neither here nor there, he doesn't know that until he's detected. Now he wants to retrieve his equipment unseen.

Isn't there a better picture? Pictures can be enhanced.

But why not just ride the scrambler to the exact location?

Why put on NVGs to walk the final distance and why do it at night?

If someone stopped and asked what I was doing with a metal detector I'd just say I was looking for my house keys the wife dropped earlier today.
 
Perhaps quite not Hermes.

You've genuinely no idea...

You're not going to stash 100ks worth 4 miles off the beaten track and equip yourself with NVGs either.

Does it look like he's a 100ks worth of drufs hanging off behind him?

You don't stash drugs in a place which is likely to be frequented by dog walkers, doggers or boy racers. As I posted yesterday there are instances of passers by finding the stash. You use a location well away from any path frequented by anyone so it is unlikely to be found except by people who you need to find it.

Big drug deals are not done face to face due to the fear of being robbed or murdered- you can't just rock up with 100K in red ones and play pass the parcel over the blokes doorstep.

100K worth of drugs won't be a physically huge package. This isn't Colombia we are talking about where they have 5 pallet loads to drop off!
 

JeepJeep

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You don't stash drugs in a place which is likely to be frequented by dog walkers, doggers or boy racers. As I posted yesterday there are instances of passers by finding the stash. You use a location well away from any path frequented by anyone so it is unlikely to be found except by people who you need to find it.

Big drug deals are not done face to face due to the fear of being robbed or murdered- you can't just rock up with 100K in red ones and play pass the parcel over the blokes doorstep.
Yeh you're right.

100k Deal of the century... Equip yourself with NVGs and stash it in the woods.



Imagination... Too much time... Craic on.

You've no idea.
 

Dry Rot

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Livestock Farmer
But why not just ride the scrambler to the exact location?
Because the ground wasn't suitable for motorbiking the final 100m?
Why put on NVGs to walk the final distance and why do it at night?
He put on NVG because he had them! And he didn't want to be seen detecting on private property.
If someone stopped and asked what I was doing with a metal detector I'd just say I was looking for my house keys the wife dropped earlier today.
Five miles up a forestry track?
 

Nithsdale

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:ROFLMAO:

You could send a package of Drugs with Hermes never mind f**king about in the woods.

Or Simply meet and do the swap without f**king about in the woods.

You laugh and mock the suggestion but there's an abandoned farm steading about 3 miles off the main road not too far from me the police routinely visit as it's a known drug exchange point


I really wouldn't rule out drugs as one of the possibilities
 
There are some wackos out there doing stuff the rest of us don't think about. I was contacted by a bloke who was a member of a new-age group who believed (from "online research") that half of a biblical stone tablet was buried under Glastonbury Tor. If it could be reunited with the other half, which was in the possession of the Native Americans, it would bring about a new Age of Aquarius and we would all live happily ever after.
The upshot was that he wanted our Archaeo. Soc. to do the geophyzzing and digging on the pretence of doing an archaeological dig on the Tor, and could we arrange it?
They invited me to the pub for a drink to hear about their theories, but I made my excuses. There are loads of people who believe all this sort of stuff, though and no one would ever guess what they were up to.
 

Beefysheeps

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So are your hens 5 miles from civilisation as well
? No their down other end of valley at farm yard.. the walk he’s taken to go around and come through this gate, from nearest track to park would be that far to walk thou. Hence why would of been easier to cut across fields rather than go so far around
 
Because the ground wasn't suitable for motorbiking the final 100m?

He put on NVG because he had them! And he didn't want to be seen detecting on private property.

Five miles up a forestry track?

Ok, so he was metal detecting. Miles from anywhere. Only he walks up to the approximate location, puts on night vision gear, wanders off and is back 10 minutes later. Why not wear his fancy gear the whole way? Why wear it at all if he has a head torch which he is more than happy to wear on his way out? None of it makes sense.
 

Beefysheeps

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Didn't need to have walked in, maybe he used a scrambler.

Could have been night hawking, then stashed his detector, to be retrieved unseen when convenient. The fact that there's nothing to be found is neither here nor there, he doesn't know that until he's detected. Now he wants to retrieve his equipment unseen.

Isn't there a better picture? Pictures can be enhanced.
I don’t know what detector that you use but I’ve not seen one that shape before?

Also why not get over the fence and come across the fields if he’s got all of that gear on he could still see anyone about.. why take such a difficult walk to come through where he’s come through.
And if he’s gone through that much hassle to do all he’s doing surely he would do a bit of research of the area and realise that the area there is nothing of interest.
Where nearby there is Roman foughts that would be of more interest and again probably a lot easier to get to.

Also if he has a scrambler Why go for the effort of not being seen when you get there? he would’ve made a lot of noise getting there and it would make a lot of noise leaving there, chances are we would hear him make it to the track that he would have the only access of getting out of and stop him.
Just to put it in the point of view of practicality
 
There are some wackos out there doing stuff the rest of us don't think about. I was contacted by a bloke who was a member of a new-age group who believed (from "online research") that half of a biblical stone tablet was buried under Glastonbury Tor. If it could be reunited with the other half, which was in the possession of the Native Americans, it would bring about a new Age of Aquarius and we would all live happily ever after.
The upshot was that he wanted our Archaeo. Soc. to do the geophyzzing and digging on the pretence of doing an archaeological dig on the Tor, and could we arrange it?
They invited me to the pub for a drink to hear about their theories, but I made my excuses. There are loads of people who believe all this sort of stuff, though and no one would ever guess what they were up to.

Glastonbury? Say no more. Even true born and bred Somersetians will tell you the place is just weird.
 
Also they don’t tend to sit there waiting for you while you dig down to them ....... once you’ve located them (how?) and cut down through the tree roots cos you decided to dig a set in a woods. Badger baiting is basically not a thing it’s just something that lacs says when someone kills a badger, any badger killing is “baiting”. No one in their right mind who wanted a badger would go out alone at night into the woods with no shovel or terrier and try to extract a badger from an earth with a loop on the end of a stick !
Well you don’t dig them in the middle of a field where everyone can see you! A lot of people send a dog down with a tracker on and then tracker locates them and dig to the dog
 

Beefysheeps

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I don't think the `OP is being quite kosher with us. He says he keeps hens and is concerned about foxes. In 5,000 acres of forestry? Pheasants maybe! :ROFLMAO: One little porkie and the teller has lost credibility in my eyes. I think this is a big windup.
He’s a she 😉

and I have said the farm is at the other end of the valley, the end where that you have easy access into the farm. Is at other end where said chickens also live 😆

The fields then spread out up through the farm and the valley, the farm then is circled by three sides of it / the perimeter, by forestry land, which is on steep slope.
It is not easy access through the forest.

The track that would be nearest to get into the forest is further up the road from us. You can park there but therefore if you walked through the wood you could cut across and come out in one of our fields, further up from the farm and have easy walking up to the points that he’s reached .
Instead he’s walked right around the outside and then come in through the gate that is at the furthest point. The gate that we use to go through with beaters or picker ups. (he’s taken the hardest route possible, and with the gear that he’s got on it would’ve made more sense, to have popped over the fence and walked across the fields he could’ve still seen with all of his gear if anybody was coming up from the end of the farm. Instead he’s taken difficult walking through Woodland on a slope to get where he has.
 

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