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On the evening of September 6, 2024, Owen Beierman, 12, and his father, Ryan, 43, were hunting bears near Siren, Wisconsin. Siren is about 50 miles north and 50 miles east of Minneapolis, in northwest Wisconsin.Owen shot a 200 lb black bear with his .350 Legend rifle. The bear ran off, leaving a strong blood trail. Even mortally wounded bears often run for some distance. The Beiermans borrowed a Labrador retriever from their neighbors and started tracking the bear about 20 minutes after it was shot. It was already getting dark. Game is often shot just after sunrise or shortly...

The attack happened in Siren, Burnett County, on 6 September, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Owen Beierman, 12, took aim at the bear as it pinned down his dad while they were on a legal hunting trip. The pair were hunting for black bear near the family's cabin when they spotted the 200lb (91kg) bruin. Owen shot and injured the animal, which ran off into dense forest. They gave chase, and as they entered a glade the animal charged at Mr Beierman from about 6ft (1.8m) away. He said he fired eight shots at the bruin with...

It's going to take some time for Ryan Beierman's scars to heal, but he's alive and well today thanks to the quick thinking and good aim of his 12-year-old son Owen. The father and son were on a bear hunt in western Wisconsin earlier this month when Owen spotted a 200 pound black bear emerge in a clearing. Owen fired a shot and struck the bear, but it ran off into the thick brush. Ryan says he and his son waited about 20 minutes for the bear to bleed out before trying to track it. [....]The elder Beierman says he...

A 12-year-old boy slayed a 200-pound bear to save his father’s life during a family outing gone horribly wrong. Owen Beierman, 12, shot-and-killed the black bear before it could fatally maul his dad, Ryan, who became pinned under the monstrous beast when shots fired to kill it missed. ‘My left cheek was sliced open and blood was oozing out of the flap. There were two fang marks in my forehead and my face was smattered with blood,’ Ryan told the Star Tribune. ‘The bear was fighting for its life, and I was fighting for mine,’ he continued.... Owen, a regular...