Chadd Wright

And them sows would get...

They would get mad at us for being in there and start popping their teeth and making racket.

I took a young man with me down in there one time.

First time he ever been coon hunting.

I was hunting a dog called a leopard cur.

And I cut that dog loose in there and he went down in there.

Oh, boom, slam, treed.

I thought, all right, this is good because coon hunting can be rough.

We walked down in there and I had this young guy with me.

He had the rifle.

We got up to the tree and I walk up to that dog and leash it up.

And I'm fooling with the dog, getting it leashed back on the tree there.

And he said, what is that?

I said, what are you talking about?

He said, stop and listen.

And I stopped, and that dog quit barking for a second.

And all of a sudden, I could hear bark raining down on the leaves above my head because it was summertime.

About that time, about a 300-pound black bear comes sliding down out of that tree like it was on a fireman's pole.

I'm talking about that jugger landed right in the midst of me, him, and the dog.

And he's standing there.