Mysterious Tent Shanking

[Nuts]

There is little to understand about meth heads or pigs.

 

[COEngineer]

I still don't get it. Are you using "shanking" to indicate that someone intentionally cut the tent in pieces? If so, I assume it's not the original owners, but someone who saw the tent had been there a while and rather than trying to unzip the door, they just cut their way in to see if there was anything or interest or value.

 

[Straight Arrow]

Once while jogging along the YNP boundary up Teepee Creek in early summer, I found a campsite with a plastic tent that appeared shanked, with other garbage to include an old pair of boots, whiskey bottle, broken bow saw, and clothing. 'Went home, recruited my wife, put on freight pack and hiked back up the next day to clean up the site. Under the "shanked" tent were two suspicious looking characters, one with rifle and one with shotgun. (grouse feathers indicated a poached meal). As I scolded them and insisted they clean up the mess, my wife prodded me to leave.
After we hiked away from them, my wife said, "Not a good idea ... you with only a camera, scolding them ... as they were armed and looked as though they could have easily shot or shanked you!"

 

[CRJR45]

I believe the "Shanking" is a reference to a hunt gone bad story where someone took a knife to his own tent for reasons I never understood . It was either here or on the Slide ?

 

[BenP]

I still don't get it. Are you using "shanking" to indicate that someone intentionally cut the tent in pieces? If so, I assume it's not the original owners, but someone who saw the tent had been there a while and rather than trying to unzip the door, they just cut their way in to see if there was anything or interest or value.

Montana Mountain Goat- at wits end

@Marshian, did you come up with a plan?

www.hunttalk.com

Shanking starts with post #22

 

[COEngineer]

Unfollowing. Apparently it's an inside joke that is too clever to share.

 

[CRJR45]

Unfollowing. Apparently it's an inside joke that is too clever to share.

It’s not really , just an old story line that gets brought up .
A guy was on a really frustrating hunt and cut his tent apart for some reason , then was roasted for it .
And roasted , and roasted , and still in threads like this .

 

[MTGomer]

Unfollowing. Apparently it's an inside joke that is too clever to share.

We all get to be a little dense on the Monday after the holidays. The story is hyperlinked a few posts back.

 

[2rocky]

If they unwittingly camped transiently in a cow grazing area and awoke to a peaceful Land Manatee sniffing their fabric abode, it is conceivable they used a crude pointed device they had at their disposal to "defend" against what could be imagined as a bear.

Good chance they had food there and the cows investigated and further defiled the tents. Nylon tears in straight lines and could have just caught on the hooves.

Might be a good spot for a future game camera....

 

[gouch]

Opening week of deer season, I drove past a camp with a real nice fair weather, family sized tent set up and a baby swing hanging from a game pole. There was nobody around, but I didn't think too much about it. I drove by again six weeks later and the tent was still there, only now partially collapsed from heavy rain. So, I investigated. Inside the tent was two king size mattresses, an old gas camp stove, some kids toys and a bunch of dirty diapers. Behind the tent was eight large lawn bags full of garbage. I guess a couple with a little kid lived there all summer and then just decided to leave and abandon everything.

I thought about cleaning it up, but it would have taken two 80-mile round trips to the dump for the garbage, and I don't have a clue as to what I would do with those huge mattresses. Then with my luck it would have turned out to be a crime scene.

 

[BenP]

Unfollowing. Apparently it's an inside joke that is too clever to share.

It is ironic that your post on this thread is also #22. Just look at my last comment to you, I added the thread and the defilement of the tent happened on post #22 of that thread.

 

[Hem]

Certainly an all-time HT classic.
The OP took it in stride.

 

[CRJR45]

Certainly an all-time HT classic.
The OP took it in stride.

He did , KUDOS , if he’s still around .

 

[thebestusernamesaretaken]

That is what wife said they are. How did you know this? Were you saying normal people don’t shank Hilleberg and Big Agnes due to cost?

Not all people are normal