A Wisconsin bear hunter was attacked by a 357-pound black bear and miraculously survives the ordeal.Tye Carlson is an experienced hunter with 40 years, he was surprised when he found himself getting mauled by the large bruin.
Posted on 10/23/2018 5:00:55 AM PDT by w1n1
A Wisconsin bear hunter was attacked by a 357-pound black bear and miraculously survives the ordeal.
Tye Carlson is an experienced hunter with 40 years, he was surprised when he found himself getting mauled by the large bruin.
Carlson and his party were chasing the bear near Wascott, Wisconsin, when the bear got tired of being chased so it decided to stop and attack.
Unfortunately, Carlson was the nearest to the bear when it attacked.
Before Carlson knew it, the bear was on him. "He popped out and he wasn’t going to stop,” he said. “He just ran me over and started biting on me," he said.
Carlson is a big man, he tried to push the bruin off.
The bear bit, clawed and pushed Carlson around effortlessly.
Carlson was able to use his gun to shoot the bear multiple times, but with no effect.
The bear was still attacking even when his party’s hunting dog arrived and engaged.
Finally, someone in his party was able to get a shot in that mortally wounded the bear. See the newscast footage of Wisconsin man survives bear attack.
“W. PA.”?
“A very big Brown Bear?”
Busted!
Only black bears here in Western PA, unless W PA stands for something else.
I'm color blind and I didn't want to call it an african-American bear.
It was back in the 70s and I have no idea what kind of bear it was, I never hunted them, but it was big and looked brown to me {but I once bought a suit that I thought was green and it turned out to be purple}.
I rarely wore it, make me look like a pimp, and I hardly ever engaged in that activity.
;)
Bears are entitled to self-defense, just as we are.
;-)
Not ever, but after a couple of doubles of 12 year old fine scotch whiskey, one of my better retorts.
Mostly true:)
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