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Jun 2

SC EP:329 A hunter’s encounter

I am releasing Sunday’s show early. I am working on Sunday’s show for members. One of my guests sent me some audio files I am going through and will be posting for that show.

 

Here is tonight’s show:
A hunter discusses his encounter in Colorado. As the two men slept in their tent something walked up and smacked the tent three times.

Here is a portion of the encounter as the third hunter returned to camp and the men were sitting around the fire: “My view of Matt had in the background the tent and a row of trees ten yards beyond it. Daylight was still hanging on, but would slide into dusk within thirty minutes. As I stared at Matt’s face while hearing him elaborate, bipedal movement of a grey form caught my eye. Usually when I see something grey in the forest, it’s what we deer hunters seek.

Immediately my eyes left Matt’s and locked onto a large, broad-backed figure slipping through the trees about 30 yards away. It traveled from right to left, and seemed to be going away from where our tent stood. It was very tall, and its light grey hair was clearly visible. Its hair was all one short length, starting at the top of its head and continuing without break down its neck onto its massive shoulders and back. Seeing its V-shaped physique struck me unusual because normally people up there on the mountain don’t go around shirtless. We wear either vests or jackets while hunting in the high country. This being wore nothing. It was quartering away as it moved between the lodgepole pine trunks, so I never saw its face.

When Matt saw my eyes shift away from his, my head cocked to the side for a better view around him. He stopped talking, and swung around to see what I was looking at. The creature I saw walked upright, unlike the horizontal body orientation a deer or elk would have. It was exactly the same shade of grey as a mature timber buck, which probably helped draw my eye to it. “What the…?”, I muttered. It continued to pass between several trees that were spaced about five feet apart. Then it disappeared into the thick timber heading southwest. “What’s up?”, Matt asked. “I don’t know…follow me”, I blurted.

I jumped up and hustled up a bank, past the tent, and down into the narrow draw toward the woods where I had seen it heading. With Matt behind me, we swung down and around hoping to intercept whatever it was below the patch of forest. We scrambled up a berm onto the ledge where the trees began. At this point we were exactly in its line of travel; probably thirty yards ahead. We moved in to have a look around. After a couple minutes, it was clear that whatever had passed by was now gone. Wow…whatever it was had to have traveled extremely fast to elude us like that! We got over there quickly, and I expected to intercept its path, hoping to get another look at it. We walked slowly all the way up to the very place it had slipped through the trees. Searching the ground for footprints, we found none… just thick forest duff.”

 

 

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54 Responses to “SC EP:329 A hunter’s encounter”

  4. m99

    That’s a pretty piece of artwork there. Thank you for all you do Wes. I have been a little concerned about you lately because maybe you get to thinking it’s not all worth it, like being second guessed or criticized unduly, even though you try to please us all. I hope you aren’t discouraged at this point, and are aware there are a lot of people here that are supportive of YOU. Blessings and kudos Wes. Thanks for the episode and all your hard work.

    • F S

      Only in a world of pastel-colored “safe places” and participation-trophies for everyone is FEEDBACK equated with “criticism”. NO ONE “criticized” Wes. (Check the feedback from the last show.)
      Businesses like Sasquatch Chronicles pay big money for focus groups and surveys.
      Business owners like Wes Germer usually value candid, respectful insight from their customers. I see Wes striving to continually improve his business whenever he can.
      Wes is a MAN. He also already has a mommy.
      You can put away the bandaids. His boo-boo is all better. Thanks Grandma.
      ??????

      • m99

        You know what, I’ll tell Wes what I want to tell Wes, and I said he may have “felt” like he had been unduly criticized, ie., I was doing a thing that may be foreign to yourself, called “empathy”. If you’ve listened carefully over the last year or so, Wes has often eluded to the fact this all gets cumbersome and he’s thought about “doing something else”. He’s asked people to be nice to his guests, and he pores a lot of himself in the episodes. Stop preaching your negativity. Try to put yourself in someone else’s shoes. How do you think you’d feel after such a negative response. And I can and will show solidarity to Wes whenever I want, and it has nothing to do with pastel colored anything. I am kind, and realistic. PS& BTW, kiss my royal ass.

  5. F S

    Okay – 34:00 into the interview – still building up to the encounter.
    I gotta go get some gorp and refill my canteen. It’s gonna be a long one.

    • Lisa C

      I only made it to 21 minutes. Telling an encounter that just drags on makes me fall asleep. Maybe its the cop in me. Im used to people getting to the point when I took reports from them. 6 years retired now and Im still wanting this poor man to “get to the point.”

  11. Janetta V

    No wonder it took him 15 pages to tell this story to Wes. Who needs all of those details. Just tell the encounter. We are all veterans here and know all of the small talk. Anyway still a good show and thank you.

    • F S

      Agree.
      Never did get to the actual encounter.
      Seems like a nice gentleman.
      From what I heard I believed him.
      We all have different styles.
      Maybe editing the recoding would have helped?
      Thanks Wes.

  13. Richard L

    Janetta, it would have been a 10 min encounter… we need to know everything before and after to get the feel of it ?
    Awesome episode for me !

    Thanks for sharing Your story !!
    And as usual good job Wes !!

    • Karen C

      I think Janetta means well in her interpretation of his story but, I’am with you Richard we do need to know the facts and don’t leave anything out it’s gives me a chance to grab another beer…HeHe…

  15. Nicolas B

    I heard James Hetfield spends his time hunting in Colorado, I know he would be crazy enough to shoot lol. We need people that are a tad crazy for that task! AHAH!! FACE THE THING THAT SHOULD NOT BEEEE!!! 😀

  17. Stephen W

    Enjoyed it , another fascinating encounter from a genuine guy and experience hunter very detailed description of the encounter,seemed to be a relief to get it off his chest ,good job

  22. Trey

    Great show Wes and Doug. Glad to see I’m not the only one that without thought took off after one of these things. Not that that’s the right thing to do but still. Great show great encounter

  23. doug w

    I live and hunt in colorado. Matter of fact my wife and myself were up near monkey Creek today scouting it out for sign. For those that don’t know it’s called monkey Creek for a reason. The road is 14 miles back in through some great country.
    BTW for anyone interested there is a BORO town hall in Estes park on the 17th.

  25. ROBERT V

    Hello,

    I wonder if the reason they are banging on a tent or house is to get the person inside to go outside. I’m speculating if they have a thing about going inside. I’ve heard of reports of them going inside but that’s rare. I wonder if they feel if we’re inside of something: house, tent, cave, car, we’re inside of our “territory” but once we step outside we’re in their territory.

    Bob

  26. Michelle L

    Good show – guest is a talker but so what, we all tell our stories differently. I don’t mind a bit more detail. I see a fight broke out above in the comments – felt like a hockey game. Kudos to M99 for explaining their position and standing up to a bully.
    Another great show – thanks Wes.

  27. Seamus J. C

    People want the climax before the story–OK, it’s an impatient, action-movie age. But there’s something fucked up about that, I feel. In fact, hunters cultivate patience in a way that most modern people do not, sitting and waiting for prey to appear at a shootable range…..all…..the…..morning…long. Or for fourteen hours, I think he said. Eskimoes used to kneel on the ice for hours waiting for one seal to come up in a hole in the ice for air.

    I, also, felt a bit impatient for him to get to the encounter, but I appreciate the build-up and the fact that I am impatient sometimes.

    Another thing to appreciate is that the witness–and he mentioned this–was, by telling the story, stirring up the fear that the experience had brought on. Telling details allows witnesses to sort of tiptoe up to the most intense part.

    Also, I found the details about hunting interesting, since I do not hunt but would like to. I imagine the details sound more mundane to other hunters, but they are very interesting to me.

    And I love the conversation between Wes and the witness–he was asking questions I would like to ask Wes. Thank you, Doug! I’m going to listen to it again, when I have some time.

    Wes, you’re the man.

  30. giancarlo r

    Message for Doug the hunter, if you ever want company on a hunter let me know. I’ll drive up from El Paso. I won’t hunt cuz I’m assuming the non resident fees would be ridiculous even for active duty. But I’d love to tag along for encouragement and the chance of a sighting.

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