Posted on 10/05/2015 4:03:23 PM PDT by bkopto
A Montana bow hunter is recovering after he survived a grizzly bear mauling by remembering a tip from his grandmother and shoving his arm down the animal’s throat.
Chase Dellwo, 26, was hunting with his brother northwest of the town of Choteau on Saturday when he came face-to-face with a 350- to 400-pound male grizzly, the Great Falls Tribune reported
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A move not for the feint of heart.
There’s a “right to bear arms” joke hiding here somewhere...
I’m guessing that his grandmother’s nickname was “Lefty”. :=)
I find this story hard to swallow.
Wouldn’t shoving your arm into a bear’s mouth and throat force the bear to chomp down on your arm?
Shoot an arrow down the throat.
But he might not be able to bite it off.
should have kept going, come out the other side, grabbed his tail and yanked hard. he could have pulled that bear right inside out
I’ll try to remember this one for the next time I fight a bear.
LOL!!!
Desperate situations call for desperate measures.
Back in the stone age I received similar advice regarding charging dogs, shove your fist down its throat from the git go cause there will be blood.
It’s all in the wrist action. Gotta give it a good snap.
Great story to tell around hunting camp.
” then I shoved my arm down his throat, ripped out his tonsils, and made me a bow tie! “
If it had happened to Davy Crockett, that’s how the story would have been told....
Gag reflex and it can’t breathe, your supposed to do the same thing if your being mauled by a big dog
Apparently bears have a strong gag reflex.
One armed Chase they call him now.
Good guy but he wants to say it wasn’t the bear’s fault. Who the heck’s fault does he think it was? He didn’t try to kill the bear.
Well, there is the cautionary tale of Kerry’s skills as a negotiator which could have been utilized with the grizzly bear...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPMmC0UAnj0
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