Posted on 09/12/2017 5:41:40 AM PDT by w1n1
This hunter heard his skull cracking when it was in the mouth of a Montana grizzly! An Idaho hunter is lucky to be alive after a run-in with a grizzly bear in Montana.
Tom Sommer was hunting with another man, named Dan, when the two stumbled across the grizzly feeding on a carcass only 30 yards away.
Yelling didn't scare the animal away and the bear charged. While Sommer’s partner was able to ward off the bear with a blast of bear spray, Sommer’s picked the absolute worst time to malfunction. According to a Facebook post by friend Mike Asker, the bear then chased the hunter around a tree twice before it caught up to him.
Like most prepared hunters in the American West, the pepper spray wasn’t the only defense Sommer was carrying. But like a scene from a movie, when Sommer attempted to shoot the bruin with a handgun, the bear just knocked his hand down with brute force.
This was also apparent when the animal was able to get a hold of Sommer, first biting his thigh before grabbing his head. In what had to be a horrifying experience, Asker’s Facebook post says Sommer heard his skull crack from the pressure of the bear's jaws. Read the rest of the Montana Grizzly bear attack here.
As long as they keep eating white males spoiling nature in the middle of Flyover Deplorable terra firma.
And bears don’t share this close to winter’s arrival.
What a dumb ass. Both hunters carrying rifles and this guy also had a pistol and his first instinct to defend himself against a charging grizzly less than 30 yards away is to pull the pepper spray!
And I have a friend who got 90 stitches when his longtime Staffordshire (Pit bull) attacked him for no reason.
I read, long ago, that if attacked by a bear, shoot for a front shoulder to disable it. True?
From the headline, I assumed the bear was only trying to help him by stitching up his wounds!
I hate it when you hear your skull cracking.
When your life is on the line, start with the handgun, then if need be use the pepper spray as a last resort. He was all messed up — it's time to retire from hunting. Bowling might be a good alternative for him.
Prepared hunters? they were hunting elk, so at least they were carrying 30-06 or 7mm or bigger caliber rifles and one uses a pepper spray and the other a pistol?
What happened to the rifles, they couldn't have been slung, if they were 'hunting' so why not shoot the bear with a large caliber rifle?
I'd never want either one of these two yoyos in my foxhole.
Yipes! Sounds like he’s lucky to be alive.
That’s one un-BEAR-able headache, I’m guessing.
Yipes! Sounds like he’s lucky to be alive.
That’s one un-BEAR-able headache, I’m guessing.
I am asking because I really don’t know much about the subject. (And I didn’t click on the article link.) Would it not have been better for them to just try to back away since the bear was that far away?
Yep, even though killing a griz is a federal offense. better to ask for forgiveness than permission.
Some days you gits the bear,
Some days the bear gits you.
Most days you just gits bear hair all over you.
Sounds like any alternative would have been better. They both screwed the pooch bigtime and are lucky to be alive.
Readers of this story have the luxury of not having a pint of adrenaline suddenly injected in their bodies in a grizzly charge. The brain and body do funny things in those moments.
30 yards is like three long strides to a bear. like 3 seconds.
Okay, thanks.
This bear merely had a bad neighborhood where he was raised and if we could provide him a good job he would be very peaceful and change his ways!!!
I spent a lot of time out in Glacier and Yellowstone Parks recently. The rangers teach that for bear safety, that bear spray will save them! And that bear spray is 90 some odd per cent effective.
When the bear spray doesn't work, then take a defensive position like this guy did and get mauled......
Although I saw no hunting information while I was there, the FEDS in the national parks did NOT want anybody shooting their bears. I am SURE the average hunter carries bear spray and would pull it first based on what is taught.
There was a recent story from Alaska where the older guys in a group got knocked down by a charging bear. A teenager had a shotgun loaded with bird shot (I think I remember) and he killed the charging bear. Bird shot at close range is much more effective than you might think.
After one of the drive down Muslim terrorist attacks on infidels, the London police put out this guidance.
Sometimes gubermint guidance is not what a thinking person would want to do. They figure the average sheeple will do what they are taught but not ALL of us think that way. FORTUNATELY.
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This European guidance modified for America.
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