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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: wolfbait on June 20, 2018, 01:12:19 PM

Title: Bear mauls man involved in Eagle River search for missing hiker
Post by: wolfbait on June 20, 2018, 01:12:19 PM: Bear mauls man involved in Eagle River search for missing hiker

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/wildlife/2018/06/20/anchorage-police-responding-to-bear-mauling-in-eagle-river/
Title: Re: Bear mauls man involved in Eagle River search for missing hiker
Post by: Broken Arrow on June 20, 2018, 01:20:55 PM: That guys actions saved that pretty girl. Wonder how many people would actually do that ( jump in front of someone to take the attack). Wonder if he was ex military.
Title: Re: Bear mauls man involved in Eagle River search for missing hiker
Post by: Jonathan_S on June 20, 2018, 01:23:27 PM: Eagle River is North of Anchorage, AK
Title: Re: Bear mauls man involved in Eagle River search for missing hiker
Post by: Blacktail Sniper on June 20, 2018, 01:24:07 PM: Seen that after I asked...thanks!!
Title: Re: Bear mauls man involved in Eagle River search for missing hiker
Post by: 2MANY on June 20, 2018, 01:36:41 PM: Well I'm guessing the missing hiker is in the bear's belly.
Title: Re: Bear mauls man involved in Eagle River search for missing hiker
Post by: Kazekurt on June 20, 2018, 02:22:58 PM: The article said the bear was protecting the body of the missing hiker who was most likely killed by the same bear.
Title: Re: Bear mauls man involved in Eagle River search for missing hiker
Post by: 2MANY on June 20, 2018, 02:30:20 PM: Oh.
I only look at the pictures.
Title: Re: Bear mauls man involved in Eagle River search for missing hiker
Post by: wolfbait on June 20, 2018, 04:00:20 PM: A brown bear killed a hiker in Eagle River. A man searching for him was mauled.

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/wildlife/2018/06/20/anchorage-police-responding-to-bear-mauling-in-eagle-river/
Title: Re: Bear mauls man involved in Eagle River search for missing hiker
Post by: DOUBLELUNG on June 20, 2018, 04:48:43 PM: Quote from: Broken Arrow on June 20, 2018, 01:20:55 PM
That guys actions saved that pretty girl. Wonder how many people would actually do that ( jump in front of someone to take the attack). Wonder if he was ex military.
Definitely for my wife and son, probably for quite a few special people in my life, doubtful for a stranger unless it was a kid.
Title: Re: Bear mauls man involved in Eagle River search for missing hiker
Post by: pianoman9701 on June 21, 2018, 08:02:20 AM: No one carrying up there in AK? I don't go to Freddy's without a piece. I used to open carry to the mailbox when a family of Cambodian gangsters lived down the street. I'd absolutely be carrying in Grizzly territory. :dunno:
Title: Re: Bear mauls man involved in Eagle River search for missing hiker
Post by: b0bbyg on June 21, 2018, 08:55:49 AM: I have family that live in Eagle River, praying for the family and hoping others are packing when they go hiking up there.