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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. daves 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 ...

Ponce, or have any information as to his whereabouts, please call 1-866-the hunt or go online at cnn.com/thehunt. you can remain anonymous. we will pass your tip on to the proper authorities and if requested, will not reveal your name. dave burgert was not your normal rational citizen. he was the kind of guy that just didnt fit well in society. david forever has had a hard time with authority. >> i have information --

In january of 2002, david disappeared. his wife said that he went fishing. the sheriffs 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

Prove that i am who i say i am. david arrives at the scene and his relationship being what it was with all members of law enforcement in flathead county, was told to get back in his car immediately. david refuses to get back in his car after hes told to do so. and is pepper sprayed in the face. an officer puts him in handcuffs. >> i am real familiar with david. i dont want him with his history behind my back while im on a traffic stop, okay? >> this had to be a moment where david really snapped....

Weapons violations. >> there were several people federally indicted. the culmination of the project 7 investigation and people did go away to federal prison for a period of time. >> i was the only one that went to trial. everybody else pled guilty. david pled guilty, too. >> he went to prison for seven years. >> were all lucky this case ended at least for us back then the way that it did. and then i didnt hear dave burgerts name for years until he got into a shootout with missoula county deputie...

We just werent going to go away. once the reality of that sunk in, he sits down, puts the gun to his own head and we begin talking to him and attempting to get him to give up without any violence to us and without harming himself. >> eventually the negotiators convince him to put the gun down and then they arrested him. >> once mr. burgert is arrested, more and more things came to light. project 7 had a huge stockpile of weapons and ammunition. some of these were actual machine guns that it was ...

Attempting to stage his own death or disappearance, and we didnt believe that he would stay missing for very long. >> in february of 2002, we get a 17-year-old male individual who came to us and said that mr. burgert was not dead, he had been living up in the woods with his girlfriend, tracy brockwood. >> tracy brockwood was having an affair with david. >> and they were members of this militia group known as project 7. >> project 7 believed that if big brother or big government becomes too oppre...

And forgot his pistol. woke up the next day and he didnt have his gun, wanted to find it and he asked the sheriffs department if they had found it. >> in his mind, he had made a mistake, he got too buttered and he left his gun in the trailer that he broke into, and then he was even dumber when he called the cops. it was me, i didnt really do anything that bad, little b & e, i left my gun, i wasnt going to hurt anybody, give me the gun back. how did they repay david burgert for his honesty in fes...

Like citizen watchdog in his mind, i think. >> the guy was notorious for being just a pain in the ass. >> he was just one of those very confrontational individuals. >> the people who knew dave felt that it was just a matter of time before something happened. >> in november of 2001, david worked as a process server for a missoula based attorney and that attorney was in kalispell trying to serve a woman, and was having a hard time tracking her down. finally, he said i got to go back to missoula an...