Gabe, Bird, and Bear on the hunt for deer in the mountains above Browntown.
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After a somewhat slow season premiere, the Brownsare rolling up their sleeves, taking on some backwoods DIY, smoking salmon, and getting into seriously tense Grizzly encounters.
Bill Brown sets the action in motion with something of a real-life parable:In the winter of 1995, temperatures descended to 39 degrees below zero on Chichagof Island, with more than 120 inches of snow,andthe family had to burn everything including the paneling of their home, stairs, and furniture just to stay alive.
The moral of the tale: Everyone needs to get ready for winter,now.
The boys respond in kind. Noah, ever the tinkerer,turns tobuilding an industrial-size smoker (the last one was destroyed by bears) to preserve all that salmon caught last episode. Matt gets out a shovel and sets off to build a root cellar he calls it an "Alaskan refrigerator" used to store vegetables. Bear, the focus of this episode, arms himself and heads to the mountains to hunt for deer.
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The mile-highascentabove Browntown to the crest of Chicagof Island"s mountainsis steep, densely wooded, and full of grizzlies (Chichagof Island is home to more grizzly bears per square mile than any other place on Earth.)But Bear thinks it will beworth the summitsincehe has previously scouted "thousands" of grazing deer up top.
Before Bear leads the huntwith Bird a serious shotand Gabe ("h**l be able to carry one deer over his back and another under his arm), Bill offers an Alaskan Bush People"s take on anSOS system: three gun shots signals trouble; one answering shot is a confirmation; three more shots means theyre in need of help, at which point the whole family will storm the mountain.
Bear and crewset out in the complete dark of early morning, hoping to arrive at the site just as day breaks, but when theyencounter a grizzly almost immediately, they have to opt for a different, longer route up the mountain. Above the tree-line, the grouplooks around: no deer. Bearinvestigates the surrounding forest and discovers something even worse fresh, severed deer limbs. "This area been hunted in really recently," he says, and "its like ringing a dinner bell for every bear that happens to be in the area."
Just as the group tries to make sense of this new discovery, three loud gunshots ring off from the direction of Browntown. Bear fires back to make sure its a Brown, and three more warning shots answer back. The episode ends with them taking off running down the mountain.
Source: http://www.mensjournal.com/adventure/collection/alaskan-bush-people-recap-shots-fired-20151118
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