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to Dan about his encounter that happened in the Panhandle region of Idaho. It's
a very intense encounter for a few different reasons, and one that will not
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tees. It's a good one. There's a break in the tree, so
I could see these grassy areas and they kind of went in steps, and
I just made a note to myself, Hey, I'll come back tomorrow.
Hit it early, get down there and see, you know, get down
there before even daylight and you know, lay up somewhere. But I decided
today I'm gonna follow this game trail. And I turned had only gone a
few steps, and I hear these five distinct knocks, and the best way
I could describe them, it's like if you spelled it out in a comic
book, thok fuck, just five evenly spaced fuck fuck. And it was
coming directly from one of those. What I could tell at first probably the
furthest clearing somewhere down there. And I remember stopping and looking and going,
what someone doing down there? Beating on a tree? There's no people up
here. This is horrible terrain that we haven't seen anybody in a couple of
days. And I just thought, okay, yeah, whatever, that's weird.
I don't know sound carries, but sure, you know, sounds like
it was about two hundred and fifty three hundred yards downslope, and I thought,
I don't know what to do, but you know, times daylight's burning,
I'm gonna leave. And so I was. I was just gonna keep
falling the trail, and then I hear two more fuck fuck, and they're
from the same relative position. So I was like, okay, you know
what, I haven't seen anything. This sounds weird. Let's go see what's
going on. And at this point I kind of I was just thinking that
if these are people, what would they be doing down there. This doesn't
sound like someone cutting wood. It just sounds like someone taking a big,
you know, a big chunk of wood and just whacking it on a tree.
I'm like, this is this doesn't make any sense, but all right,
let's go find out what it is. I bored, so I start
going down the slope and like I said, it would go in steps,
so slope down and then hit a little bit of grass. In that first
little patch, I actually saw elk sign. It was a little bit old,
but it was there, and I stopped because I'm trying to listen for
additional sounds. I'm looking down there to see if there's movement, and it's
just still absolutely still calm day the only day up there that was even remotely
like that. Hardly even a blade of grass was moving. And I went
through that same thought process, like what the heck is this? You know,
I should probably just turn around and go back up slope. So probably
five minutes went by because I'm looking and listening, you know, and then
whack I hear it again. So now I'm like, okay, now I
have to go figure out what's doing this. So my brain switched from this
might be a person down there doing who knows what to I don't know what
type of animal. You know, I've hunted in the Pacific Northwest my whole
life. What animal could do that? But I thought, that's the only
thing that makes sense at this point. I can't imagine a person somehow getting
up on this mountain not being visible to us on the only road, which
we were at the terminal point of that road, And what would they be
doing down there doing something like that. This didn't make sense. So I'm
going through animals. Maybe a bear's messing with a log, maybe something's kicking
a tree. Whatever, I'm gonna find out. So I start walking down
again, and I'm stopping frequently. I had kind of gone into stalking modes.
So I'm walking very quietly, you know, try not to even break
the crust on the snow, that little skiff of snow too much, and
listening, listening, I hear nothing. The wind's not blowing. I started
thinking, maybe it's a tree that's bumping into another tree. But I would
stop and look, and a slight breeze, maybe five mile an hour breeze
would come up, but hardly enough to even wiggle, like I said,
grass, So Okay, that's weird, that's not it. But I'm not
hearing anything. So I'm like I, once again, maybe I should just
turn around forget this happened, and you know, come back tomorrow. And
then I get another single knock, So okay, well, whatever it is,
it's still down there doing whatever it's doing. I'm gonna keep going.
And this repeats itself again, and I get a third knock, and I'm
repeating the same process. I started moving so quietly and slowly because I wanted
I started getting this weird feeling that these knocks were only coming when I was
stopped, and that didn't make any sense. But I wasn't hearing them while
I was walking. And once again, this whole distance was about two hundred
and fifty maybe three hundred yards, And this whole time me closing on where
I thought the sound was coming from ended up being about fifty minutes. So
you can see that I wasn't rushing and bashing through trees and obscuring any sound.
I'm listening and I never got I'd never heard that sound until I had
been stopped for minutes. And then I would get a single sound and that
would keep me going and by the time I had gotten the fourth knock,
and it once again disrepeated itself like that whole pattern. I was now getting
down off the slope and into level ground towards that grassy area. And now
you know, I'm probably fifty fifty sixty yards out from this grassy area,
and at the end of it was basically a wall of young trees of different
height. And as I got I heard that last single fourth knock, it
really sounded to me like it was coming from somewhere behind that screen of trees.
So, okay, well, it's totally obscured for me. I mean,
what's behind there's obscured. So I'm like, oka, right, well,
I guess I'm gonna have to go right up to it and figure out
what this is somehow. So I'm I'm level, I'm walking, and to
my right there's this little I describe it as a long halfpipe in the ground.
It's just it if it was runoff. Boy, it cut a nice
smooth little gulch there. But I knew that in order to get into this
clearing, I'd have to cross that. And once I crossed that, all
the trees that I thought I was using as cover there was intermittent trees that
I was trying to move behind a little bit because my thinking is, oh,
I'm gonna sneak up on some animal doing something weird, so let's be
quiet and see what it's doing and how it's making that sound. And so
I'm getting closer, and when I reached the edge of that little dip in
the ground, I stop and go, Okay, once you cross this,
you are now in the clear and you're out in the wide open, so
if something's back there, it can possibly see you. So I'm I'm just
kind of like, okay, getting ready. You know. I had my
rifle to my not up, but it all low ready, so but stuck
in my shoulder, muzzle down towards the ground, and I take a deep
breath. I'm like, all right, here we go. And right as
I'm about to do that comes I can only describe it like a slow rate
of fire machine gun, but it's the the deep wood knocks just boom is
fast, I mean, like a machine gun, and but loud, deep,
not like a stick cracking against a tree, but the same deep,
thick sounding knocks, but just like rapid fire. And I just was like,
what the kids going on here, and I'm like, okay, well,
and I remember saying this in my head. I'm like, well,
it's definitely behind those trees, because that's where that sound came from. And
so I'm like, all right, oh boy. And now I'm getting a
little nervous because I'm like, I can't see into those trees. So maybe
I should kind of skirt out into this clearing and work my way around the
trees. Kind of went in a imagine a capital J and I was below
the foot of the jay, and the trees kind of arcd around, and
I thought, okay, I'll loop around so and just keep some distance from
these trees in case some animal comes barreling out at me. So take a
deep breath, get the rifle steady, you know, once to get knock
pointing it. You know those rules of gun safety. I've been handling guns
since I was four. I didn't have a target, I didn't know what
was back there. I'm not going to point my firearm at anything. Take
a deep breath, and I step out in the open. And it was
like I made it maybe two three steps, and this thing. I tried
describing it to someone else. It was like having a bomb go off right
in front of me. This thing. I don't I don't know what the
hell it was swinging, but it must have been picked up a small tree,
and just the force and violence behind this was just a kaboom. I
mean it just smashed into I don't know, it floored me. I mean
I literally, if someone could have caught me on video, I just stumbled
backwards, almost tripped and fell over. I've got all my gear on my
back, my rifle slung in, and I just staggered back in shock.
And I look up and it well, you know, all I could see
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