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Bloodied survivor of 2 bear attacks recounts experience on viral Facebook video
/Idaho state journal ^ | 3 Oct 2016

Posted on 10/03/2016 1:09:13 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

Orr said he continued shouting as he had been doing all the way down the trail, but the sow charged him. He deployed bear spray when the animal was 25 feet away, but he said the bear's momentum carried her through the spray and into him.

Orr said he dropped to the ground and curled into a ball as the bear bit his arms, shoulder and backpack.

"The force of each bite bite was like a sledgehammer with teeth," he wrote in the Facebook post. "She would stop for a few seconds and then bite again. Over and over. After a couple minutes, but what seemed like an eternity, she disappeared."

(Excerpt) Read more at idahostatejournal.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: bears
...and sometimes the bear gets you!
1 posted on 10/03/2016 1:09:13 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Yeah, let's go hiking in bear country....WITH SPRAY.
2 posted on 10/03/2016 1:14:01 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

First, stop smearing yourself with honey and Spam. ..


3 posted on 10/03/2016 1:15:05 PM PDT by Noumenon (We owe them nothing: not respect, not loyalty, not obedience.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

He’s very fortunate to have survived one bear attack, let alone a second while he was still injured from the first. He’s got to feel lucky to be alive. God has a purpose for him in this life, he needs to find it.


4 posted on 10/03/2016 1:16:35 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Two?...What did he do? Confront a #BearLivesMatter group?................


5 posted on 10/03/2016 1:17:09 PM PDT by Red Badger (YES, I'm Deplorable! I Deplore the entire Democrat Party!....................)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Love the old joke about telling the difference between black and grizzly bear scat. The former contains seeds and berries. The latter has that along with bells and whistles, and it smells like pepper spray.


6 posted on 10/03/2016 1:18:39 PM PDT by katana
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Compare this incident to the guy in Alaska who was carrying a Glock 10mm: one dead bear and part of a toe shot off (self inflicted).


7 posted on 10/03/2016 1:31:33 PM PDT by Jed Eckert (Trump/Pence ***Make America Great Again***)
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To: Red Badger

Same mama griz came back for another try to finish him off.


8 posted on 10/03/2016 1:33:43 PM PDT by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for. The God I worship died for me. [Franklin Graham])
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To: DUMBGRUNT

9 posted on 10/03/2016 1:35:46 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Red Badger

That’s so speciest...because speciest is a word...like microaggression.


10 posted on 10/03/2016 1:36:24 PM PDT by Molon Labbie
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To: DUMBGRUNT

They are around up here. Well armed and very aware at all times when outside is the idea.


11 posted on 10/03/2016 1:40:08 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
I saw this on Facebook. The guy had a pistol and the bear attacked him twice and he never got his gun out. The bear ripped the holster off of him in its .2nd attack. Not that a pistol would be the perfect weapon to shoot a bear but the bear was on top of him both times, he could have shot it in the head.
12 posted on 10/03/2016 1:42:36 PM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: Talisker

Very cool. Don’t know if I’d want a scope on it though.


13 posted on 10/03/2016 1:44:11 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Molon Labbie

Micro = 1/1000000, so a microaggression is one millionth of an aggression......

My spellchecker doesn’t even recognize “microaggression” as a real word...............


14 posted on 10/03/2016 1:59:31 PM PDT by Red Badger (YES, I'm Deplorable! I Deplore the entire Democrat Party!....................)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Clearly, this guy invaded the bear’s safe space.


15 posted on 10/03/2016 2:00:20 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: Red Badger

Lol, the red line of manufactured outrage..


16 posted on 10/03/2016 2:01:37 PM PDT by Molon Labbie
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To: Red Badger

That’s because it’s NOT a real word.....Microaggression....MEH!! SNOWFLAKE LANGUAGE!!


17 posted on 10/03/2016 3:51:39 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

August 2009, different story, different outcome. This man, Greg Brush, lives in Alaska and when he walks his dog
he holsters a Ruger Super Redhawk Alaskan snub nosed .454 Casull.

He heard a twig snap, turned around and saw this 900 pound brown bear charging from 30' away.

“Total luck shot,” he said. “It doesn’t get any closer. He slid by me on his chin when I shot him,” Brush said.

“I was backpedaling as fast as I could. I wasn’t even aiming. I tripped over my own feet as I pulled the trigger.”

18 posted on 10/03/2016 5:37:03 PM PDT by concentric circles
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