Turkey hunters have loud bang on camper at night in Colville National Forest witnessed in Ferry County, Washington

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Event: My hunting partner and I arrived at our favorite camping/hunting spot, known to hold turkeys year after year. Upon our arrival around 6:30PM, we noticed previous campers had left garbage, a cooler, and cooking utensils/pots/pans in a pile. Two logs, resting in small pine trees above the pile were cris-crossed in a "teepee" fashion above the garbage pile. We found this was unusual as many years in a row, this particular spot was always maintained - i.e. fire pit always cleaned/put out, no trash, barbed wire access gate always closed. After driving for 6 hours to arrive there, we didn't put too much thought into it (other than being irritated that we were going to have to remove the trash left behind) as we were both tired from the drive, and wanted to set up camp. My partner has a ' ton 4wd pickup with a camper on the back, which we didn't remove from the truck bed, but left on. After getting the truck unloaded, and camp set up, we cut up some downed firewood, built a fire...