Lessons learned from hunting four legged creatures to two legged.

Contrary to popular opinion, Sobchak Security LLC renders services that provides customers with a sense of strength security, and Piece of Mind, not hot-rodding cartridges with the latest bimetal brass, stretching the legs of the AR-15, or providing ranging solutions that you often see here. Recently, Walter and Donny have been getting back to their core business of providing security service to paid customers and have been chasing down some vegrants that have been repeatedly trespassing and breaking into local domiciles. When seconds count, the police are minutes away, and Walter is a firm believer in the ethos of self-reliance and solving problems locally. With this recent gig in mind and fresh off hunting season, Walter would like to take some time to lay out how bowlers can use skills, techniques, and equipment from hunting four-legged creatures to finding and dealing with two-legged ones.

The first step of finding any wild animal, either two-legged or four-legged, is to find sign, evidence of presence, and tracks. In the case of trespassing and home invasion, Walter likes to look for points of egress and regress, footprints, tire prints, and clues left behind. The more sophisticated the animal or perpetrator, the harder this is, but in the recent case that Walter and Donny tackled, vagrant tweakers left all sorts of signs, so this was easy. There is no substitute for spending time in the woods or time area of intrigue. Early on, Walter identified bicycle tracks in the mud on the driveway, tipping him off to this means of transportation as a primary means of egress and regress.

Once key areas are identified, the next step is to establish a pattern of life. When are the animals coming and going, which routes do they take, how often are they moving, etc.? Walter's preferred way to do this is with game cameras, specifically cellular ones like Reveal Tactacam. Traditional game cams are great too, but there is no substitute for getting real-time updates. Once the said game, either two-legged or four-legged, is caught on camera and a pattern is established, the next step is finding where they are coming from or going to after going through your area of interest. Usually, all animals travel for food and water. In Walter and Donny's instance, the vagrant was showing up using the service driveway shortly after 8 by bike and then waits to see if anything is moving before approaching the premises on foot. Why 8? Well, that's when the local country store closes and gets rid of their corn dogs and hot dogs for the day.

With this pattern of life established, a hunter, or bowler, can now plan next steps. Walter and Donny opted to stake out the store, watching to see when the vagrant comes and goes and if he was traveling alone. So for three hours, on a rainy night in early January, Walter and Donny sat, parked in a car in the adjoining parking lot, masked by the shadows, watching the parking lot for signs of their prey. Dorned, head to toe in Sobchak Security LLC gear, to avoid confusion and convey an ethos of authority and strength, Walter and Donny's suspicions were confirmed when the flashing headlight of a bike appeared in the parking lot.

"It's him." Donny announced, sucking the last gasps of a monster rehab from a recycled In-N-Out cup. For the sake of legal exposure and self incrimination, the ensuing confrontation was not documented or described in this article, but it involved a bolt cutter, some ratchet straps and industrial grade lye. In the realm of preparedness and bowling, Watler thinks that there is an overemphasis on the consumption of new equipment as opposed to learning skills. For many, learning skills is synonymous with another form of consumption, paying heavily to shoot paper targets at 20 yards with a Socom dude, with the hopes of some external validation and a good war story. Instead, Walter suggests setting up a game cam in the woods somewhere, walking around looking for animal sign, and getting good with some binos. You never know when you'll want to apply those skills to hunting two-legged creatures.