During Festivus 2004, ten men, two shotguns and two Dollar Tree shopping bags full of Christmas knickknacks entered a forest outside of Estacada.

Only the ten men and the two shotguns returned.

The men, among them a musician, a journalist, a law student, a doctor, a teacher from Japan and a soldier, really should have been above this sort of thing.

But that didn't stop them.

Hey, some guys celebrate their last day of bachelor freedom with booze and strippers, others celebrate with shotguns before moving on to the booze and strippers. Yes, that sounds ominous but I couldn't think of a better way to phrase this as a joke. Work with me here.

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Literally chilling. It was below freezing out there. Brrrrrr.