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the jogan experience I was out in this drainage this grizzly bear this grizzly bear my dad's there and I'm cow calling okay and you think the Elk's coming I think this Elk's coming but it's not it's not I see the elk go across this Ridge right it goes across this Ridge and then I see this brown flash go down this hill in front of me and there's there's a bit of a you know if you look like this this this brown flash has to go down this Ridge and then around the corner of the spine of the bridge and stay down in the valley I know that above me is is a elk carass freshly killed yesterday so I'm calling I'm waiting for this big bull elk I'm looking this way and I turn around I look down below me 100 yards below me my Dad's here I'm here and I turn around below me and there's a giant bear 100 yards below me I turn all the way around I'm like Dad there's a bear there's a bear there's a bear there's a bear I have my pistol right here does your dad have a pistol he's not he's a bow only I have a pistol and bear spray your dad have bear spray he's not at this point he's not so luckily I'm between him and the bear the bear goes down the drainage I remember as a hunter mostly I'm worried about is this a black bear or a grizzly bear I didn't know at the time it was kind of shadowed in this Ravine as it was going up and I'm looking through the binos I'm like I don't know what this is I'm not sure if it's a black or grizzly bear grizzly bears have a distinct hunt that you're looking for that's different from a black bear and they can be and this black bear is uh sauntering down at the risk of making this a longer story yeah explain why it's way more dangerous if it's a Grizzly a black bear you and I have experienced this in Alberta together a black bear is not as aggressive not as predatory black bear attacks are very less frequent than Grizzly rare attacks I don't know that I could explain kind of just the name nature of a grizzly bear and a black a black bear is is an omnivore in many ways a grizzly bear is a carnivore and in this scenario I would be if it was a black bear I would be looking to shoot it rather than being
afraid of it because I love black bear meat it's delicious and black bear fat you've had clay Nukem on you make be grease it's it's one of the best things that there is so I I guess that maybe explains the difference and then but for for people like in comparison it's like a golden retriever versus wolf pretty much that's a pretty good comparison it's a completely different animal I wish there was a wild just to kind of really lay it out there but say German shepherd wolf yeah something like proba say [ __ ] I'm trying to be like more comedic this this it's a different animal it is and and I would say that you've seen it in when we were hunting bait in Alberta yeah when a black bear comes in you're willing to stand your ground you know we were on our way we saw Grizzly yeah Alberta when we we were on our way to where we were hunting looking eye to eye with the grizzly is wild it's a wild thing and and when when a grizzly bear comes through a stand of Timber or you know Mountain Side in this case things go quiet and we didn't even when I was in Alberta the one I've seen in the wild was not that big but the one you saw was big this is one of the biggest bears I've ever seen I'm talking big hind end just give me a give me a roundabout I have no idea I would guess it at the six and a half to seven feet I don't know how to guess the how much it weighed 3 350 no [ __ ] weigh more than that 450 700 6 we later found 700 lb we later found the track on the road where we later found the track on the road where we walk in every morning to the drainage this little two track dirt road where we walk in we found this Things Track so it it is sauntering up this drainage and there's a moment where my mind's not in the right spot it's in this in the place of is this a grizly bear a black bear and I now that I look back on that moment it that bear was about two seconds away from ripping my face off oh my God I'm cow calling to that bear I'm a cow elk and to me I wasn't scared I wasn't pulling for my pistol I was watching it as a hunter might watch any game species
that it comes that thinking an elk's going to come over the rich yeah and a grizzly bear a how many how much how many pounds maybe 7 800 lb I don't know I hope I'm not wrong let's be nice let's be nice and say 600 imagine a 600 lb super Predator one SWAT one full clip towards you I've interviewed many people that have had their face ripped off their testicles ripped off I know the the pure Carnage that a grizzly bear like that can do and I also know in my pack is is a tourniquet and all the medical supplies a man might carry but I ALS and I'm pretty close to town my dad's there we have our cell phone service we're not in the back country I know at this point when I determine it to be a grizly bear it's already walking up the drainage away from me I determined it's a grizzly bear I know then that if it turns back to us we got a problem but if it keeps going up the drainage I know where it's headed it's headed to that El cirkus that was there and so luckily for us it it goes up the drainage it heads over towards the AL carcass and and Ducks into the Timber and that's I mean it's not the end of it but that's the end of that encounter and you're carrying a pistol I have a pistol what caliber 44 magnum a Taurus 44 magnum ultralite and I have a chess holster that's from a guy named it's rasco a guy in bosan makes his chest holder that attaches to the bottom of is this a revolver this a revolver and and I have bear spray on the hip uh belt of mine so you can get six six shots six shot six shots and I know again having been in the industry and talk to a lot of people that have had encounters I know kind of how this is going to go and likely how it goes is the the only way you get out out of it is um you get mauled and the bear loses interest or the person that's with you saves you in some manner right yeah um there's a pretty famous your dad doesn't have a gun he doesn't he has a bow and you're in front I'm in front oh so I'm between these two and and again this is is your pistol in is it you have to open up a snap to pull it out or is it it's full or something it's fully in a a molded holster that I can pull out present right easy it'll be double action cuz I don't have it cocked and do you have a thought when that's happening
where he might run away but if I shoot him he might attack me yeah I mean as there like a calculation right yeah and again as a hunter I'm I'm more interested in what is this thing doing why is it here than I am like I should run away right and that is um I think both appropriate and also far probably not the best thing to be doing man like he should probably be can you can you remember what you thought like what went through your head when you realized it wasn't an elk and it was a giant grizzly bear finally finally yeah cuz you are in a country where you know dude I've been out in June sitting a trail camera and heard a wolf how I I told you I talked to the game W and he's like there's a bears around and so the thing that you do is you prepare for the worst and you're really really prepare for the worst and I and I did it knowing that that there's folks that I've talked to like I said that have had had really life-changing experiences one of them in Kodiak a brown bear ripped off his testicles one of them in Alaska a brown bear or I think grizly bear ripped off his face and so I know these stories I know them all too [ __ ] well this a video of that one guy yeah pretty recently Glenn bong yeah many four or five years ago right I would have been uh back in yeah roughly roughly whatever give or take a few years yeah that one is available online it's it's horrendous kind of yeah they keep pulling it offline un they put face back together again pretty good I'm I have the full I talked to that guy I know that guy very well and I have the full story of that you can listen to it on the hunting Collective there's a there's a podcast with Brett PA I listened to that it's amazing it's it's a whole another show probably but but it it's like that's one of those conversations where like a vegan or an animal rights activist would be like good good some people might say that some people might say that like I'm glad I'm glad that [ __ ] people said that about about BR Bond and his father Glenn who was attacked there was a lot of people saying like cuz they were hunting bears at the time and they were hunting bears in their den on the Denali Highway in Alaska yeah and so people good you
hunt them in their den that's what happens and again and that's where where I come back to the emotion of finally because so much of my hunting life in Montana has been anticipation of those encounters and that was the first ever with a bear a grizzly bear yeah well not the first ever in my life first ever Montana I I was once on a caribu hunt up in Northwest Territories uh they helicopter you out into the middle of nowhere and then you have a I think a 12-h hour delay before you can hunt when you've been helicoptered in the wilderness I think it's 12 or 24 hours but you have a delay before you can hunt so you literally have to sit there and wait and we were there at a time in August when there was no Darkness it was literally light pretty much the entire 24-hour day and so we sat on a ridg line and we were glassing for Caribou in the in the period where we couldn't hunt and here comes this sa Grizzly be down this drainage every Bush that she went by whack and every piece of moss she just crushed she was upset she's having a bad day whether her cub got taken or she was just in a predatory mood it was I remember glassing her with a spotting scope going like hope she doesn't come over here and we were sitting on kind of a is that normal behavior when like a clb gets eaten by a boar I don't know if that's normal behavior I imagine it to be for folks who don't know that that happens a lot and the females try to fight the boar off I imagine it to be I imagine them to be aggressive in the times that they need to be but I don't I don't know enough to know if that's like every time a cub gets eaten she goes out and whacks the [ __ ] out of the next thing she sees I don't I don't know that but in this case this s was alone she was not uh she didn't look all that mature but she was going down this drain it's just everything she saw she was hidden and I thought well if she comes by me you're [ __ ] I'm [ __ ] yeah and we were kind of on a what we would call a glass and tit which is kind of a raised up Ridge and glass and and she got at some point below us where we couldn't see her what a terrifying idea of a Mad Grizzly like a road raging Grizzly you're like dude oh and then that's that is it's like someone just
[ __ ] [ __ ] you and where the Grizzlies live right the Grizzlies don't live by the urgent care right they live in places where if they whack you you're [ __ ] you're [ __ ] unless your friend knows how they break both your legs you have to crawl to safety you can so in examples of Brett Bond who we were just talking about his he saved his father his father got his face ripped off by Grizz bear he comes running down the hill with his 454 cou shoots this bear bang bang bang bang bang kills it it actually I was reading some of the his accounts of the hunt he measured five and a half feet from his bootstrap to where the Bear died when he was defending his father's life his father had been attacked oh my God how much did the bear weigh the bear is now in uh Glenn Bon who's 70 he's probably in his 80s now uh is in his living room he got it mounted full standing Mount and it it's in his living room I bet that bear weighed 800 plus pounds easy and again apologies for getting that wrong if that's the case but we got to wrap this up but before we wrap this up yeah how does that bear story end is that it yeah the bear uh leaves and goes to eat that elk carus how close were you at the closest time 80 yards toward death how many seconds would it take for a bear Sprint at you from 80 yards two do you think you'd have time to pull the gun well we did a whole thing with Klay Nukem if you look on the old mediator YouTube where we tried to figure out how quickly you could draw your bear spray or your pistol not so quick not so quickly uh I probably would have gotten mauled um but again that's the reality of the world in which we live Joseph that's a nice thing to say if you don't get mauled if you do get mauled you should say I should take up roller skating yeah if you don't get mauled you're like ah if you don't get mul like I am going roller skating from here on out I'm going to take up crochet like if you got mauled and you had the opportunity to not get mauled you're like yeah I'm going to do something else I'm going to keep my face