An elk hunter in Montana was attacked not just once but twice. The thing is he seemed to do most things right to protect himself, except he just ran into one angry sow and her cubs. He was audibly calling out, carried both bear spray and a pistol for defence but that didn't stop the attack.

After the first attack he trying making his way back to his vehicle but was intercepted again by the sow. He protected himself as best he could with his arms and hands over his neck and lied down face first.

In a Facebook post Sunday, Orr told his full story.

It began in the black Saturday predawn, when he ventured into the untamed Montana wilderness to scout for elk.

He hiked nearly 5 kilometres into Madison Valley, about 160 kilometres south of Bozeman. Every 30 seconds, he would stop and “holler out, ‘Hey bear,'” in an attempt to “not surprise any bears along the trail.”

Orr was no amateur, though, so he didn’t merely rely on audible warnings.

Hanging from his side was a holster, a pistol snug inside. More importantly, in his bag was a canister of bear spray, a pepper spray made to repel bears that Chuck Bartlebaugh, founder and director of the Center for Wildlife Information in Missoula, Mont., told National Geographic is “the single most important innovation to emerge for both hunters and hikers passing through grizzly country in the last 50 years, if not ever.” Studies have shown it can stop a bear charging at 56 kilometres per hour.

Orr was prepared for anything, or so he thought....

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/...th-same-grizzly

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