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Dangerous. he s already fired at cops. he knows how to live in the mountains. he s a survivalist. i believe david burgert is out there. david burgert is a skilled outdoorsman, extremely familiar with weapons. he s openly hostile toward government and law enforcement. and he s armed and dangerous. if you have seen david burgert, or have any information as to his whereabouts please call 1-866-the-hunt or go online at cnn.com/the hunt. you can remain anonymous. we ll pass your tip to the proper authorities. if requested, we ll not reveal your name. burgert is a big guy. he s disguised himself in the past. he may have gained weight, lost weight. he s had long hair in the past, he s had short hair. i would encourage anybody that s had dealings with david burgert ....
Uniform is. do not surrender your weapons. by straw poll, dave was made number one. he had been in the battle a long time. he had a lot of knowledge. dave s specialty was firearms. because hey, he was good. i dealt with the militias before here in montana. they have been quite active over the years and you had some core paranoid type people like burgert who somehow came to be seen as leaders. i was designated number two by the group. from time to time, we would get together, we would talk about current events, we would talk about different pieces of information that we had picked up about things that were pertinent, you know, to surviving. people in the counterintelligence business and law enforcement share a similar philosophy. let s stop them before they start. let s get them before they grow into a giant plant from a little seed. so they started to put pressure on project 7. they started to investigate them, and then came the real showdown. the sheriff s department stake ....
Hiding behind his jeep. so we slowly worked up the hill. when we got to the point we could see behind the vehicle, he wasn t there. he was gone. that was the moment that i knew he d just tried to kill me and i had no idea where he was. it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. the fbi and u.s. marshals joined in the hunt for a known militia man, david burgert after he shot at sheriff s deputies. he s armed, at least with a handgun, and is considered extremely dangerous. we didn t know if he had been shot. we didn t know if he was waiting to ambush deputies. we weren t able to find any blood. a lot of times people or animals ....
In january of 2002, david disappeared. his wife said that he went fishing. the sheriff s department went down to the river and found, you know, a tackle box open and a rod there. it looked like mr. burgert had fallen into the river and drowned, but it was not a place where one would slip and fall, so it appeared to us at that point that mr. burgert was ....
Wilderness, trying to isolate us. this wasn t going to end well. once we got toward the top of a ridge line my concern was he was now looking for an opportunity to engage us in a gun fight. forget about project 7. forget about all the militia ideas. now it was david burgert against the cops. he started slowing down. we could see him looking around left to right. i thought, okay, this is it. he s going to get out and start shooting, but he pulled hard to the right and just went offroad. on top of the hill, burgert stopped and jumped out of his vehicle. he got up that hill. i started running up the hill with my rifle. he had a gun pointing at me. i was looking down the barrel of his gun. then i saw the gun go off. he shot directly at me. i fired off five rounds. i assumed we d hit him or he was ....