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Montana man survives grizzly attack
Casper Star Tribune ^ | June 28, 2003 | n/a

Posted on 06/28/2003 12:45:05 PM PDT by decimon

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To: decimon
Methinks if the bear really wanted him dead he'd be cub food (or cub crap) by now.

He mentioned that he was being very quiet, but unless I'm mistaken it's best to make a good amount of noise in bear country so they have a chance to hear you coming from a good distance and can either move off or stand up and let you know you're on their turf.

All in all, I'm pleased both he and the protective momma made it out of this encounter alive.

81 posted on 06/28/2003 5:33:47 PM PDT by katana
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To: Squantos
Most folks who downplay a "long gun" have never been in bear country. Keep it close at hand and it becomes second nature. On the last elk hunting trip I made in Wyoming, we had a .458 Win Mag and a .44 Ruger that had belonged to a guide in Alaska. He fell out of a canoe and the body was never found. His brother was a neighbor and took his guns along. That .458 packed a heck of a whallop. Thought I had been kicked by a mule. The .44 was fun. We shot everything from robber jays to a porcupine with it.
82 posted on 06/28/2003 5:34:22 PM PDT by SLB
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To: Dan from Michigan
I went with my husband on a grizzly bear hunt in British Columbia in about 1986 or 87. Incrediable experience. We took a small plane, landed on a lake, then walked miles & miles thru slushy snow. Finally we found one. A male, 9+ feet. It almost made the book except for an exceptionally narrow skull. When it heard us it turned & looked at us. I almost died of fright right then.
83 posted on 06/28/2003 5:35:12 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Husker24
I think Cujo was a St. Bernard.
84 posted on 06/28/2003 5:37:48 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: SLB
My Old Ruger Number 1 tropical left the factory as a 458 Win Mag but along the line someone converted it to .460 weatherby......... I actually kinda like shooting it. Recoil has bothered me once when I fired an early model Daisy AMAC .50 BMG that didn't have a muzzle brake......OWWW ! I was in the hurt locker on that shot.

Stay Safe !!

85 posted on 06/28/2003 5:39:00 PM PDT by Squantos (Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.)
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To: Ditter
I almost died of fright right then.

Then I hear the talk here of carrying a handgun and making sure to shoot them in the brain stem. Heck, by the time the fright factor kicks in and your nerves calm down they are on you and you are hoping to get a shot in without dropping your handgun or having it batted out or your hand accidently.

86 posted on 06/28/2003 5:39:40 PM PDT by SLB
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To: Squantos
When I went on that trip I was a whole lot younger and about 75 lbs lighter than I am now. Experience and weight make a difference. Your experience with a .50 BMG reminds me of a Vietnam story where one of our squad leaders held a Ma Duece in his hands had it on single shot and pressed the butterfly. Wow, he dropped it like a hot potato. Nothing to absorb recoil except his arms.
87 posted on 06/28/2003 5:42:49 PM PDT by SLB
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To: kms61
Marcus Aurelius looks like any ol' Rover to you? Harumpf! Think I'll tell him you said that. :-)
88 posted on 06/28/2003 5:45:15 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: BigFisherman
They look like great dogs. It sounds like you're adequately equipped when you head out for the hills!
89 posted on 06/28/2003 5:48:39 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: SLB
Right. There were 2 big rifles on him fortunatly I wasn't holding either of them. LOL
90 posted on 06/28/2003 5:48:42 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: SLB
Ma Duce ???? Did this guy ever get smart enough to get home alive ?

Stay Safe !

91 posted on 06/28/2003 5:48:46 PM PDT by Squantos (Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.)
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To: HairOfTheDog
What a cool guy.

If he's a cool guy then I must be a hot one as I'd be hot-footing it out of those hills. :-)

92 posted on 06/28/2003 5:50:21 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon
"I thought, I'm gonna fight until I die," he said.

In the right context and spirit, this wouldn't make a bad life motto.

Dan

93 posted on 06/28/2003 5:52:18 PM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: kms61
I pulled this out of my files: "The late Earl J. Fleming, an Alaska state biologist, was perhaps the only man to investigate objectively the bear’s reputation for attacking humans. When Fleming encountered a bear, he neither ran nor shot. At the end of his unique study, he had encountered 81 brown bears, and although several staged mock charges, not one actually attacked."

Don't know as I would have the courage to stand up to a mock attack, though.

94 posted on 06/28/2003 5:52:24 PM PDT by hoosierskypilot
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To: witnesstothefall
Rereading my reply, Uh-huh. Easy to say what you would do while sitting at a keyboard but I know that I've messed up before and likely will mess up again., it sounds like I was chastising you. Not my intent.
95 posted on 06/28/2003 5:53:44 PM PDT by decimon
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To: D Rider
. . . at least one hunter that was killed while gutting a Deer or Elk alone.

Terrible. Thanks for the tip on where to shoot. Thanking my lucky stars I've never had to shoot a bear. All I've ever seen in the wild is black bear, which aren't nearly as unpredictable and dangerous as the big old humpbacked ones!

96 posted on 06/28/2003 5:54:08 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: decimon
I never understand the environmentalist that try to live among the bears without proper protection. They seem often to end up dead. The only way I will live around Grizzly bears is if I can shoot them dead if they get too close or if they're behind a cage.
97 posted on 06/28/2003 5:55:49 PM PDT by Porterville (I support US total global, world domination; how's that for sensitive??)
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To: grizzfan
ROFL, totally caught me offguard.

Dan
98 posted on 06/28/2003 5:57:04 PM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: decimon
But more importantly than bears, you should always be armed incase you run into some white-trash-hippy-rapist on drugs in the mountains; they're pretty common in Northern California. Some are even killers.
99 posted on 06/28/2003 5:59:38 PM PDT by Porterville (I support US total global, world domination; how's that for sensitive??)
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To: grizzfan
"That was just an old joke; almost everyone in Montana has some sort of firarm." Everyone except Ted Turner and the Hollywood left-loonies who have moved in and started to throw their well-funded weight around the state. Those arrogant pigs are hell bent and determined on pushing every single native Montanan out and doing for MT what they did to So Cal.Which is: to make it a living hellhole. Thanks Ted, Jane, Peter, Jeff, Glenn, and Co. You egomaniacs suck big time, ya know that?(How do you say "And go the hell back on the horse you rode in on in 'Hollywierd'?")
100 posted on 06/28/2003 6:00:28 PM PDT by leilani
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