desert dweller
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Post by desert dweller on Oct 3, 2016 9:19:01 GMT -8
CBS NEWS October 3, 2016, 3:52 AM
"Life sucks in bear country"; Man details grizzly attack on Facebook...he fired bear spray in the animal’s face as it charged, but that failed to stop the double attack that was about to unfold.
The bear stopped its attack, stood on top of him, crushing his abdomen and head into the ground, but then left.
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RumiDude
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Post by RumiDude on Oct 3, 2016 10:49:52 GMT -8
Yep, momma don't like strange beasts near her little ones.
I would say he did just about everything correct and though chewed on a bit, he is doing OK.
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Post by Lamebeaver on Oct 3, 2016 11:18:59 GMT -8
Yikes!
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Post by Kevin Palmer on Oct 3, 2016 11:26:31 GMT -8
Wow, this sounds a lot like the bear attack scene in "The Revenant". These are the worst kinds of stories to read about, when the victim does everything right, but still gets attacked.
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Post by tigger on Oct 3, 2016 11:59:15 GMT -8
What a brutal attack...err, attacks. That was hard to read, it was so intense.
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Post by CompassRds on Oct 3, 2016 12:14:02 GMT -8
^ Agreed. Wow.
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Oct 3, 2016 12:20:39 GMT -8
Sometimes you're the windshield and sometimes you're the bug.
Glad he made it with such light injuries. Definitely just a "teachable moment" for one truly pissed off momma bear. Might have simply had a recent bad run in with a boar regarding her cubs and she was extra touchy? Never know. Because had it been a predatory attack he'd be gone.
The video he posted is an oddity imho. A selfie at the ER maybe, but you stop after a grizzly mauls you twice before getting in your truck to record a selfie video?
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Post by johnnyray on Oct 3, 2016 12:38:11 GMT -8
Never miss an opportunity to be internet famous.
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Post by amaruq on Oct 3, 2016 13:29:27 GMT -8
Haven't seen the video yet, but sounds like he's got a pretty good attitude about the whole thing.
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Post by rebeccad on Oct 3, 2016 13:37:59 GMT -8
A selfie at the ER maybe, but you stop after a grizzly mauls you twice before getting in your truck to record a selfie video? I can kind of see that...sort of a feeling that this is such a huge experience, you want to record it. Maybe to be internet famous, and maybe just so you will believe it happened...or so your family will know, if you don't make it? |
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Post by absarokanaut on Oct 3, 2016 16:59:03 GMT -8
I was fully charged five Julys ago by a big boar. Have seen several bears up close but the most afraid for the longest periods has been with sows. I am not hiking in the Absaroka alone nearly as much as I've loved to in reent years. I've had sows scare the proverbial poop out of me twice; once a grizzly 15 years ago just blocking the trail and posturing in GTNP; and six years ago a blackie charged me on the Ranch in the Sage Steppe Absaroka Foothills. I've seen bearspray have little effect on a sow with cubs while that boar rolled up in front of me and had had more than enough and got the hell away from me pretty darn fast. It is indeed wise to go with a group, spray is as someone here once noted like a seat belt. Don't count on it, especially with sows and cubs.
The Forest Service Wilderness Inventorier guy they dug out of 3 holes in 2014 just a few miles from where that boar charged me two years previously was in my understanding likely running. Fed on by both grizzlies and blackies they reportedly were not sure what species killed him. With the Ranger that got killed on his Mt. Bike over the summer up near Glacier I can safely say its time to invest in a block buster called "Claws." Just like the mid 70s when Jaws made everyone afraid to go in the Ocean we're gonna have these forests and tundras to ourselves; unless of course you bring beer.
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Post by bradmacmt on Oct 3, 2016 19:40:12 GMT -8
I've hiked the drainage where the attack occurred many times. All told, I've seen 7 different grizzlies in the area around where this attack occurred. At the end of the day, bow-hunters are doing everything "wrong" at the absolute worst time of year (fall, prior to dening) to be doing everything wrong (off trail, moving stealthily, calling elk, etc). Granted, he was scouting for the rifle season, but this is the time of year bears are in a fever to put on weight. I never worry about grizzlies in summer, it's the fall bears that worry me... Would add, I loved his comment "I sprayed the Shiiit outa that bear"...  Tough guy, he did good. |
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