Ronald Allan Blank, a 63-year-old man, set out on October 6, 2021, for an elk hunt in the mountains near Ten Sleep, Wyoming, traveling the backcountry of Washakie County with his adult son, Dan Blank. The terrain was steep and unforgiving, and as the day wound down they worked their way back toward their pickup, climbing a ridge until a rock face forced them to scramble over it.
In the tight, awkward choreography of that climb, the rifles had to be moved from hand to hand. Reports descri
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