Grizzly bear bites elk hunter on hand in Shoshone National Forest in WY

[spectr17]

Stumbling into a grizz has to be the worst luck for a hunter.

http://billingsgazette.com/news/sta...cle_e5192374-f0e6-11e0-bad4-001cc4c03286.html

 

[suavegato]

"the hunter and the bear surprised each other in close quarters." - WOW! That could have and by all accounts "should have" ended a LOT worse for him than "very minor injuries" to his hand... That is one lucky man!

 

[DAWG]

I was just hunting near there... Walked up on a griz sow and cub who was looking the other way... 20 yards away! Got my spray ready and said BOO! She took off with her cub... RELIEF! Saw four more grizzlies as I left the canyon, one big boar and another mama with two cubs (that mama was across a creek and looked me over good enough, but led her cubs away). Six grizzlies in two days. Saw a few more over the next few.... If I saw that many, got to wonder how thick they are....