Personal Narrative-Out Hunting

It was a mild, dark summer day in the Alaskan wilderness so I was out hunting with one of my buddies, Alex Smith. Me and and Alex first met in 5th grade, we’ve been close friends ever since. I had a Beretta Ballista that shoots a .308 Lapua Magnum so I could shoot long distances and Alex had a AR-15 that shoots a 5.56*.39. I was in the deep woods in a treestand and Alex was just about 20 yards away in a ground blind. I saw some movement in the distance but it was very dark at night with no moon so I couldn't see much so I got my night vision spotting scope out and switched on the night vision on my vortex scope on my ballista. I looked through the spotting scope and I had never seen anything like it before because it was fast and skinny …show more content…
So…I told him to go for the body near the heart and I will go for the head so we both fired at the same time and it disappeared the second we fired. We hurried back to our turbo rzr 1000 and got in and booked it back to our house which was almost 2 miles away from the hunting area. The only thing that slowed us down was the river. It was about 5 feet deep and we usually have a snorkel kit on the rzr but we didn't this time so it stalled in the middle of the river so we had to push it out of the river which was very physically challenging. So once we got it out we were rushing to get it to start and we were looking for something to dry it and we found a flamethrower in the 6 by 6 outlander that we put in the shed near the river and put it together and tried to heat up the engine and it worked we then took the flamethrower back apart because it was too big to fit in the bed of the 6 by 6 when it was put together. Then we looked back and saw the thing standing there staring at us. We both grabbed our guns and aimed at it and it came closer. I told alex to try to flank him since his gun could switch to fully-automatic. I signaled for him to aim and as soon as I looked in my scope it was