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So, we were in British Columbia,
huntin' moose, me and my friend Ryan Callahan. We were going down this very narrow river, we get out of the raft
go check this area, and I hear "mmp",
like a bull moose. That's what it sounds like, "mmp, mmp."
Callahan thinks he heard the moose, too. But we're like, "I can't tell."
I kinda like advance toward where I think the bull was a little bit.
Ryan gets back, and I look and I see the brush shake.
I signal to Callahan - he doesn't see anything. I said to him, "get down, start callin'."
So he starts layin' it out, y'know, like "eeuh!" kinda deal. *moose call*
He starts comin' flat-out.
I can hear him, and pretty soon, the first glimpse I get of this thing, he's just starin' at me
through the brush.
I see him just give me the stink-eye through the brush.
I'm excited. I line up for a brisket shot - deadly on deer.
A moose has got so much up front, though. One shouldn't do this, but I do it. BOOM!
He just goes down but something tells me, ehh, that's probably
not enough to seal the deal, so I rack another round,
start walking over there, and I get there and the bull's not there.
So Ryan starts going is already going, he's thinkin' he's gonna come around to intercept this bull.
I get up in the brush, I look, I can see the bull humpin' along,
BAM! I shoot again. He vanishes from view, and I go haulin' over there.
Chased him. It's like, the thing you don't do with moose is chase 'em. I chase him.
And I run after him,
I got a cameraman with me, goin' through the woods, and we catch up to the moose.
I got 'im.
And the moose down, with his head up. You walk up to that moose, you just see that thing layin' there,
it's just like bone and muscle up front there; their brisket is like raaargh! Like rocks
and stuff, it looks like it's made up out of.
And I raise up, fixin' to hit him here, and...click!
It was like a rally cry for the bull when that thing goes "click". I'm still standin', like what happened? Why didn't my gun go off?
And this bull stands up and spins
and is just comin'.
And I'm just yellin' out, I don't know what I'm yellin', and the bull just comes like a cartoon - head down
and I just feel my *** get popped by somethin'.
It felt like if someone took a broom handle and went BOOM in your ***.
And I fall down, and I get up,
kinda scurry out of there, and go around this brush, and Ryan's standin' out in a beaver pond,
or he's standin' across a beaver pond,
and the moose comes out, stops, Ryan's like BAM and knocks the moose down.
- You guys okay? - Yeah, I got run over, but he charged me.
It was the stupidest thing I've ever done, and I'll never do it again. But now, here, as a guy that's not messed up,
I'm like so glad that happened, 'cuz it was such a...
It just wakes you up, you know?
Gettin' charged by a moose.