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Hunter impales charging brown bear with ice axe

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16 November 2022, 19:42
Kathi
Hunter impales charging brown bear with ice axe
https://www.outdoorlife.com/su...n-bear-with-ice-axe/


Link to photos and story.


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17 November 2022, 01:44
Colorado Bob
Damn
17 November 2022, 03:36
Aspen Hill Adventures
Sounds like he needed a bigger axe.


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17 November 2022, 03:39
chuck375
Quick thinking and pretty damn brave Smiler


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18 November 2022, 02:46
p dog shooter
I read of a case where the ice axe user killed the bear by driving the pick end into the bears brain.
18 November 2022, 04:18
Grizzly Adams1
Timing would be everything. Wink

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18 November 2022, 16:23
2th doc
Surprising what humans can accomplish when gut reaction takes precedence.
19 November 2022, 16:19
Bill/Oregon
What an incredible scrape. I hope the bear didn't suffer too long. I'd like to hear more about that rifle ...


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03 December 2022, 08:52
Use Enough Gun
Wow! What a story! I can't see how that ice axe strike-its depth and the width of the ice axe- couldn't eventually have killed that bear. I wonder if there was any follow up by officials.
05 December 2022, 21:36
Bull Sprig
quote:
Originally posted by Use Enough Gun:
Wow! What a story! I can't see how that ice axe strike-its depth and the width of the ice axe- couldn't eventually have killed that bear. I wonder if there was any follow up by officials.


Must not have entered the skull.....ie. stayed under the skin. As in any self-defense situation, distance between you and the attacker is paramount to be able to actually do something.


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06 December 2022, 02:38
chuck375
It took a lot of grit to fight that bear with an ice axe. If he's not dead, I'm guessin he's pissed as hell though. Wouldn't want to meet Old Axey in the thick stuff in the spring.


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Chuck



"There's a saying in prize fighting, everyone's got a plan until they get hit"

Michael Douglas "The Ghost And The Darkness"
07 December 2022, 08:05
Use Enough Gun
quote:
If he's not dead, I'm guessin he's pissed as hell though. Wouldn't want to meet Old Axey in the thick stuff in the spring.

This^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
07 December 2022, 15:10
p dog shooter
Most likely with 5 rounds fired at close range the bear if he made into a den.

Most likely well die there.

Doesn't sound like there was any follow up.