Steven Rinella

Yeah.

So then my buddy shoots him and kills him.

He's chasing me and my buddy kills it.

And I reach around and he's got my back, you know?

And I reach around and my hand comes up and it's got blood all over it.

And I think he's punctured me with his antler.

But then I realized, because I'd hit him in the brisket, that when he ran over me, the blood from his brisket had got up my back.

So I go like this, you know, and I'm like...

I'm dying.

Shit.

But I wasn't hurt at all.

I wasn't hurt at all.

Any close calls with bears or anything?

Yeah, a few little.

Here's the thing is everything seems like a close call.

And unless you could interview the bear, you don't know if it was a close call or not.

But I had a number of little mix-ups and things that could have been stupid.

There was one time we were bow hunting elk.

It was kind of a weird day, and I remember we were sleeping on a ridge just passing the hot part of the day when nothing's going on, sleeping on this ridge, and something woke me up from a nap, and there's a bull elk coming over the ridge.

And I wake up, and my bow's laying there, and just me trying to grab the bow spooks the elk.