In walks the voice of caution.....

In this day and age of illicit "farming and cooking" operations, please remember that the abandoned shack and the field it is in may be in use.

In the days of old one of my jobs in the National Guard (after active duty) was to help clear the pot fields of booby traps before the troops came in to cut the field. I have found rusted fish hooks hung at eye level, punji stake pits, home made shotguns using a rat trap & trip wire and even one honest to God claymore mine. The person who set the claymore had some serious skill too. SOB almost killed me with it. If I had tripped that mine I would have been mush in a bag. (he had enough skill to turn a command det mine into a trip mine with it's own power for the cap)

Next on the list is the chemicals used in the making of crystal meth. None of them are good and you don't want to be near them. No way do you want to be around the folks using/cooking.

Then you have your property owners. Some states (Texas [castle doctrine]) will let you pop a trespasser and then if he lives ask him what he wanted.

Yeah, I know all gloom and doom but please be cautious out there.