A listener writes “Dear Wes,Waaaay back in 1975, I was a junior at Unionville high school in Pennsylvania when three friends and myself decided on taking an extended “deer safari” up on the NY state line in Tioga, Pa.
None of us had ever been there before but decided to do it since our school always closed for the first day of deer season (though I doubt this tradition continues today). One of my friends had a GTO which we got in while the other two drove a pick-up pulling a pop up trailer for us to sleep in. Upon arriving, we drove up a long, overgrown single lane road which dead-ended without an area to turn around in. No matter, it was night by then and we got out and began to set up camp building a fire pit in front of the pick-up. Not having been there before, none of us were aware we were in oil shale country and that the rocks we had gathered for the fire pit did not get along with heat very well. No matter, we got ready to cook dinner and after the fire had been going a while – the damn rocks in the fire pit began to explode.
These were not firecracker pops but were almost like handgrenades and threw out a bit of shrapnel with each explosion. In our panic we grabbed long branches and dragged the rocks away from the fire and with crisis averted we settled for sandwiches instead. Before the rocks had started to explode it was pretty quiet around us but after about 30 minutes we began to hear something moving in the deep brush. It made sound intermittently but we could eventually tell that whatever it was was moving about bipedally meaning it must be a human. The crunching in the deep brush continued eventually moving in much closer and and circling the camp. We called out that we were camping, armed and whoever was out there should acknowledge themselves but no answer came.
We started to become even more concerned and fired two warning shots into the air. Still no answer. The brush on either side of the road was so thick we couldn’t see five feet into it and we all retreated into the camper to sit out the night listening to whatever it was circle our camp on two legs. We eventually all fell asleep clutching our guns and in the morning packed up and slowly backed out of that place never to return. In the scope of other encounters people have had ours was very mild but it was still enough to scare four guys all night long.”
Michael L
Damn good thing that they brought their guns, you would think that most New Yorkers would not have guns due to their leftest biases…oh my mistake they were originally from Pennsylvania..
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James M
A**HOLE!! Get ready for Hillary!
Michele C
Hehehe?
Duke S
Yeah, if you fire warning shots and it don’t scoot, that is not a normal animal!
Erik N
If your from Pennsylvania you always have guns close by . We don’t leave home without them !
Donna A
Got that right Eric! However, a major gun rule is to never fire into the air. Bullets coming down kill, too.
Daniel S
image if you left your guns at home if you had a argument with someone you could just punch on…..your fist wouldn’t fly off and kill some on who just happen to be around…. and you might even live to show off your shiner…..P34c3……
Chris I
why are we allowing political talk on here people???