https://www.cbsnews.com/news/g...ational-park-alaska/

A hunter was killed by a grizzly bear in a national park in Alaska over the weekend, the National Park Service said Tuesday. The attack marked the first known fatal bear mauling in the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve since it was established in 1980.


The National Park Service said the hunter was on a 10-day moose hunt with a friend near the Chisana River when the attack happened on Sunday.

The name of the hunter who was killed, as well as specific details of the attack, have not yet been released. An investigation is pending.

Hard to judge without details, could be a lot of factors at play.

Grizz

I read that too on Fox News. Didn't have any details other than the area and that it was a moose hunter.

And then there was also the story of the grizzly getting under the fence at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage and killing the famous Lama. Been to that zoo many, many times with the grandkids who live in Eagle River. That bear was tracked down and put down.

Anchorage Daily News just said that the hunter was killed in a surprise bear attack while field dressing his moose. A 22 year old man from Ohio.

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Anchorage Daily News just said that the hunter was killed in a surprise bear attack while field dressing his moose. A 22 year old man from Ohio.

I read that. A good news outlet to follow, seems to be a lot of shit happening up there.

Grizz

Similar to another fatal Grizzly attack in recent years involving a downed Moose.

https://www.bizjournals.com/me...in-grizzly-bear.html

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Originally posted by Use Enough Gun:
Anchorage Daily News just said that the hunter was killed in a surprise bear attack while field dressing his moose. A 22 year old man from Ohio.

I read that. A good news outlet to follow , seems to be a lot of shit happening up there.

Grizz

That would depend on how you define "good". The ADN's reporting bias is very obvious and has been for a very long time.

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That would depend on how you define "good". The ADN's reporting bias is very obvious and has been for a very long time.

Most of the time they are, in my experience! But so are most newspapers today!

Not to mention mainstream media in general.

Was moose and Caribou hunting up off a tributary of the Noatak a bit over 30 yrs ago. My hunting partner and I had killed two moose. we were floating the tributary with two rafts. One with meat and horns and the other with us. We must have floated a mile prior to finding a clearing big enough on the side of the stream to camp.
It was extremely thick on both side of the stream with Alders.
We pulled on shore and there were a ton of fish littered on the bank but looked pretty old.
we pitched camp and set our meat on the other side of the stream about 40 yrs away and pulled the rafts away from it.
No problem over night. Next morning I wanted to get up on a little ridge about 200 ft above the stream but I had to fight through about 1oo yds of thick alder to get there.
was working my way though a little trail about 1/2 in when I walked up on a steaming pile of bear crap. It could not have been 5 minutes old.
Never eased my rifle off safety so fast and eased back out of there.
Never saw anything but my senses were on high alert.

Those trips were adventures I will never forget.

EZ

eez:

Yours is months old, my Dad's story is from
'66.

Folks drove up from CO. Moose, caribou, goat, brownie, couple months seeing Alaska and fishing all they could.

Hired a local with a boat to take him across to Admiralty. They looked around awhile without seeing anything. Local went back to the mainland. Dad laid canvas and bag down on the beach and went to bed with his .375.

Next morning, fixed eats, looked around. Found a bear tunnel and crawled up it about 1/4 mile
til he found a hot pile of bear shit too.
"stuck my hand in it and it was HOT" "About that time I realized just how damned stupid I was and crawled out. Took quite awhile to get the guys attention, then forever until he got across to pick Dad up" So much for his brown bear hunt.

George

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Anchorage Daily News just said that the hunter was killed in a surprise bear attack while field dressing his moose. A 22 year old man from Ohio.

Ladies and gentlemen, This is the reason I always have a 41 mag Ruger Black Hawk handgun in my tanker chest rig on me when hunting or cleaning game or doing camp chores in Alaska. Laugh if you want but it doesn't effect me. It may not save my life, but it leaves something for my family to take home for the funeral, because it will kill the bear's appetite for a Texan raw meat dinner. ................................... MacD37.

I agree. It's pretty hard to clean and cut up an animal holding a rifle. Three feet away can be too far.

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I agree. It's pretty hard to clean and cut up an animal holding a rifle. Three feet away can be too far.

I agree nothing can beat having it on your body. I always tried to make sure I had a gun within arms reach at all times. If I couldn't reach out and touch it I'm doing it wrong, even during camp chores, etc.

I really liked having a sitting height bipod on my rifle. Aside from its use shooting over low tundra scrub, it was very nice to set up beside me with the legs fully extended when skinning. Skinning a bear on Kodiak with a buddy I was stunned when one seemed to appear out of open tundra just a few yard away!

Just ordered a tanker rig lol....may never need it but I hope to be in the same exact position the hunter was in when he was attacked soon.