18:15 – Sievert, Eltringham, and Burrows use a giant slingshot provided by Tod Pinkerton to launch rocks up onto the mountain slope north of the cabin. The men launched about ten rocks from golf ball- to near baseball-size, with some hitting trees and others hitting the ground up on the slope. There seemed to be no immediate response to the men’s “harassing fire.”
18:20 – Intent on zeroing at least one of the Overwatch weapons so that OW could be provided that night, McAndrews began firing the first shots from the Marlin 1895GBL .45-70 with just the ATN ThoR mounted. (Note: We had originally configured the weapons with red dot scopes in front of the thermal scopes but had decided to remove the red dot to improve field of view. This necessitated re-zeroing of the scopes’ reticles.)