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this special members only episode a

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talk to Dan about his encounter

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that happened in the Panhandle region

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of Idaho to very intense encounter

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for a few different reasons. And

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one that will not leave my

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Again, enjoy this teaser. It's.

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A good one. There's. A break in the

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tree so I could see these grassy areas like

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kind of went and steps and I just made

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a note to myself hey. I'll come

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back tomorrow. Hit it early, get down there

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and c. L get down there

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before even daylight and you know. Lay

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up somewhere. But I

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decided today on the fall this game trail

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and I turned. Had

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only gonna few steps and

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I hear these five distinct.

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Knox. And

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the best way I could describe I'm it's like

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if you spell that out in a comic book.

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Th. Okay fuck. Just.

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Five. Evenly spaced.

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Fuck fuck. And.

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It. Was coming directly from.

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One. Of those the what I could. Tell.

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It first probably the furthest

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clearing somewhere down there. And.

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I remember stopping in. Looking.

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And going. one someone doing down

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there beating on a tree? There's no people

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up here. This is horrible

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terrain that we haven't seen anybody in a

2:08

couple days and

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I just thought okay, yeah whatever

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that's weird. I don't know. Sound

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carries but sure you

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know sounds like it was about 250-300 yards down slope and I thought I don't

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know what to do but you know

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times daylight's burning I'm gonna leave and

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so I was. I was just gonna keep falling the

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trail and then I hear

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two more. Fuck, fuck and they're

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from the same relative

2:37

position so I

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was like okay you know what I

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haven't seen anything this sounds weird let's

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go see what's going on and

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at this point I kind

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of I was just

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thinking if these are people what would

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they be doing down there? This doesn't

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sound like someone cutting wood it just

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sounds like someone taking a big you

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know a big chunk of wood and just whacking it

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on a tree. I'm like this doesn't

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make any sense but alright

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let's go find out what it is. I'm bored so

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I start going down the slope and like I

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said it would

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go in steps so slope down and then hit

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a little bit of grass in that

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first little patch I actually saw elk

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sign it was a little bit old

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but it was there and I

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stopped because I'm trying

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to listen for additional

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sounds I'm looking down

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there to see if there's movement and

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it's just still absolutely still calm

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day the only day up there

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that was even remotely like that

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hardly even a blade

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of grass was moving and

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I went through that same thought process

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like what the heck is this you

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know I should probably just turn around

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go back up slope probably

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five minutes went by some looking and listening,

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you know, and then whack, I hear

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it again. So now

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I'm like, okay, now I have to go figure out

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what's doing this. So

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my brain switched from this might be

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a person down there doing who knows

4:18

what to I don't know

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what type of animal, you know, I've hunted

4:22

in the Pacific Northwest my whole life. What

4:26

animal could do that? But

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I thought that's the only thing that makes sense

4:30

at this point, I can't imagine a person somehow

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getting up on

4:35

this mountain, not be

4:37

invisible to us on the only road which

4:39

we were at the terminal point of that

4:41

road. And what would they be

4:44

doing down there doing something like that? It

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just didn't make sense. So I'm going

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through animals, maybe a bear's messing

4:50

with a log, maybe something's kicking

4:52

a tree, whatever I'm going to

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find out. So I start

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walking down again. And I'm

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stopping frequently, I had kind of

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gone into stocking mode. So I'm

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walking very quietly, you

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know, try not to even break

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the crust on the snow, that little skiff

5:11

of snow too much. And

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listening, listening, I hear

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nothing, the wind's not blowing, I

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started thinking, maybe it's a tree

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that's bumping into another tree, but

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I would stop and look and a

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slight breeze, maybe five mile

5:27

an hour breeze would come

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up. But hardly enough

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to even wiggle, like I said, grass. So

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okay, that's weird. That's not it. But

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I'm not hearing anything. So I'm like, I once

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again, maybe I should just turn around, forget

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this happened and, you know,

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come back tomorrow. And then I

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get another single knock. So

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okay, well, whatever it is, it's still down

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there doing whatever it's doing. I'm

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gonna keep going. And

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this repeats itself again. And

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I get a third knock. And

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I'm repeating the same process.

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I started

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moving so quietly and slowly because

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I wanted, I started getting this

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weird feeling that these knocks were

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only coming when I was

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stopped. And that didn't make any

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sense, but I wasn't

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hearing them while I was walking.

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And once again, this whole distance was

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about 250, maybe 300 yards. And

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this whole time me closing on where I thought

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the sound was coming from ended up being about

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50 minutes. So you

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can see that I wasn't

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rushing and bashing through trees and

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obscuring any sound. I'm listening. And

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I never heard that sound until I

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had been stopped for minutes. And

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then I would get a single sound and that

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would keep me going. And

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by the time I had gotten

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the fourth knock and it once again,

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just repeat itself like that whole pattern.

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I was now getting down off

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the slope and into level ground

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towards that grassy area. And

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now, you know, I'm probably 50, 60

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yards out from

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this grassy area. And

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at the end of it was

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basically a wall of young trees

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of different height. And

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as I got, I

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heard that last single fourth knock,

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it really sounded to me like

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it was coming from somewhere behind

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that screen of trees. So,

7:45

okay, well, it's totally obscured from me.

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I mean, what's behind there is obscured.

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So I'm like, all right,

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well, I guess I'm going to have to go right

7:54

up to it and figure out what this is somehow.

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I'm level, I'm walking,

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and to my right there's

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this little, I

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describe it as a long half pipe in

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the ground. It's just, if

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it was run off, boy it cut a

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nice smooth little um,

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gulch there, but I

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knew that in order to get in this

8:23

clearing I would have to cross that, and

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once I crossed that, all the trees that

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I thought I was using as cover, there

8:29

was intermittent freeze that I was trying

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to move behind a little bit because

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my thinking is, oh I'm gonna sneak up

8:38

on some animal doing something weird, so let's

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be quiet and see

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what what it's doing and how it's making that sound. And

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so I'm getting closer,

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and when I reach the edge

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of that little dip in the ground I

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stop and go, okay, once

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you cross this you are now

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in the clearing and you're out

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in the wide open, so if

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something's back there it can possibly

9:06

see you, so I'm I'm

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just kind of like, okay, getting ready,

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you know, I had my rifle to

9:14

my nut up, but get

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a little ready, so butt stock in

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my shoulder, muzzle down

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towards the ground, and

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I take a deep breath, I'm like, all right, here we go,

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and right as I'm about

9:28

to do that comes, I

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can only describe it like a slow rate

9:33

of fire machine gun, but it's the the

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the deep wood knocks just, boom,

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boom, boom, boom, is fast, I mean like

9:42

a machine gun, and

9:44

but loud, deep,

9:47

not like a stick cracking against a

9:49

tree, but the same deep thick

9:52

sounding knocks, but just like rapid

9:55

fire, and

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I just was like, what the What

10:00

is going on here? And

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I'm like, okay, well, and

10:05

I remember saying this in my

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head, I'm like, well, it's definitely behind

10:09

those trees because that's where that sound

10:11

came from. And

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so I'm like, all right, oh

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boy. And I'm getting a little nervous because

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I'm like, I can't see

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into those trees. So maybe I

10:22

should kind of skirt out into this

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clearing and work my way

10:26

around. The trees kind of went in a, imagine

10:30

a capital J and I was below

10:32

the foot of the J and

10:35

the trees kind of arced around.

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And I thought, okay, I'll loop around. So, and

10:40

just keep some distance

10:42

from these trees in case some animal comes

10:44

barreling out at me. So

10:47

take a deep breath, get the

10:49

rifle steady, once you get

10:51

not pointing it, those

10:55

rules of gun safety, I've been handling guns since

10:57

I was four. I didn't have a target. I

10:59

didn't know what was back there. I'm

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not gonna point my firearm at anything. Take

11:06

a deep breath and I step out into the

11:08

open and it

11:10

was like, I made

11:12

it maybe two, three steps. And

11:16

this thing, I

11:19

tried describing it to someone else it

11:23

was like having a bomb go off right in front of

11:25

me. This thing, I don't know what

11:29

the hell it was swinging, but

11:34

it must've been picked up a small tree

11:36

and just the force

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and violence behind this was just a

11:40

kaboom. I

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mean, it just smashed into, I

11:46

don't know. It

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floored me. I mean, I literally, if

11:51

someone could have caught me on video, I just

11:54

stumbled backwards, Almost

11:56

tripped and fell over. I've got all my gear

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on my back, my rifle. Swann, Yen

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and I just staggered back

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in stock. And.

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I look up. And.

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It. All

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in all I could see was. The.

12:20

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