Ok, I'm trying to visualize this hunter. And somebody saying this clump of woods was not that far off the road. ugh, I'm just not seein it. If it was thick underbrush, hunters don't usually just go barging into that. There are hogs in those thickets and it's not hunting season so what kind of protection does he have? (LOL, remember there are those "hogzillas" still around - half joking, half not). And if you think deer are layin up in there, so what. Usually you are looking for trails the deer take. I can't imagine a hunter going into a thick stand to look for evidence of deer. You look at the trees to see where they are ruttin - where they rub their antlers on the trees. You look at the dirt road for their tracks. But the thing I'm mostly hung up on is the plastic bag with his name on it - for gosh sakes. If that is legit info - it makes one go :waitasec:
Does he stay in homeless shelters and do they write names on bags of your belongings? And was he re-using one of those type deals? Otherwise if you are a loner, why write your name on your stuff!
Again - 2 years - nobody has found it - not even scumbags who would have pilfered it (and there are some scumbags who do hunt out there too along with the good hunters), - and nobody has found it -- BECAUSE HUNTERS DON'T GO SCROUNGING AROUND IN THICK STANDS. You can "walk up" a deer with your dog around those thick stands, but the dog goes into the stand of thicket, not you. So what was this guy doing in there? Nope, I smell a rat. Hunters don't look in stands of thickets - they look for tracks, signs on the trees, places where deer might lay up - but they don't go walking into a place like that.