JV Hampton-VanSant
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1,473 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 27 Aug
JV Hampton-VanSant’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Something, somewhere, in that area, had taken down a tree, and my mind immediately turned to that tree with the swollen burl that had been torn apart that day.
Roger remained silent as he listened to the sounds of the tree being destroyed, a strange look on his face.
His eyes were narrowed in thought, and I waited for him to speak.
At last, he asked me if I noticed anything funny in that area when I'd collected the trail camera.
Naturally, I told him about the tree I'd seen.
When I did, he got a really strange look on his face.
It was then that he told me his own story, about finding a splintered tree in the woods, and I'll relay it here as best I can.
Roger had been out hunting about a year or so back.
He'd gone out with a couple of friends just like they had a few thousand times before, so it really shouldn't have been any different.
Only I guess this time it was different.
They had a cabin out in the woods where they'd slept and taken care of their kills, and there was this tree not too far from it.
They passed it on their usual trail into the woods.
Now, this tree had its own massive burl that was almost as big as he was.
He said he considered taking an axe to it just to see how much he could get for it.
A good burl can fetch a lot of money, although he also said he'd never considered it that seriously.
Anyway, he and his buddy had gone out for the day and spent most of the day in the woods.
On the way in, they passed the tree with the burl and hadn't thought a thing of it.
They'd had a fairly normal day out, and his buddy had shot a ten-point buck,
They were headed back when he said he heard a sound through the woods.
The sound of splitting wood, followed by a falling tree.
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