folding knife saves life - grizzly bear attack

I'm not sure what knife it is but it's weird the lady says if not for the guys that helped out he wouldn't have made it. While I'm sure they really helped save his life in the end if not for that knife in his pocket he would be Bear Food! and wouldn't have even made it to the guys that helped him from there.
 
the hole in that knife looks a lot like the buck spitfire - but it doesn't look like a spitfire based on the handle or blade shape...
 
Yeah, lucky guy.
The clip had BUCK on it.
And on the blade tang was CHINA.
Not familar with the model.
But it looks like a recreational or edc folder.
 
Wow, very lucky. The knife looks like the Wally world variant of the inertia knife. (Solid handle instead of perforated) but not sure.
 
I think I found it - the Buck Kingsman - (it might be an exclusive for cdn tire? - I'm not sure)

 
if he had a fixed blade on a belt sheath (even if it was a smaller horizontal type) - it could have helped him sooner and maybe avoid so much mauling... those few seconds were really important
 
Did he say he initially poked the bear
with a ski pole ???
Strange thing to be packing
for a bicycle trail ride :-)
Maybe he'll learn to carry
something more for the next
ride round bear country...
 
Yeah, very lucky guy. Goes to show you that you don't "need" a $400 knife or even one made with particularly good steel.

The knife certainly helped save his life.

+1 for the locking blade.
 
Yowza!

I just moved to grizzly country. 2-3 years ago a biker lost his life to a grizzly in my area. As the story goes, it was also on a logging road.

Here’s part of my kit for every ride.



The Delica stays in my Camelbak.

The bear seasoning stays on my bike in a water bottle cage (via cut up water bottle).



Every few years there’s a shark attack where I used to surf (most recently at Beacons in Leucadia CA). I’ve kinda mentally accepted the situation as “equivalent risk.”

I’m really glad the guy in the sorry will be ok. He’s a total bad-ass if you ask me.
 
4mer_FMF said:
Yowza!

I just moved to grizzly country. 2-3 years ago a biker lost his life to a grizzly in my area. As the story goes, it was also on a logging road.

Here’s part of my kit for every ride.



The Delica stays in my Camelbak.

The bear seasoning stays on my bike in a water bottle cage (via cut up water bottle).



Every few years there’s a shark attack where I used to surf (most recently at Beacons in Leucadia CA). I’ve kinda mentally accepted the situation as “equivalent risk.”

I’m really glad the guy in the sorry will be ok. He’s a total bad-ass if you ask me.
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ETA: I just told this story to my wife and she said, “Buy more knives.”

Hahaha. I might have to take her up on that!
 
7km is no joke, even on flat terrain... on a logging road that must be superhuman while suffering massive thigh bites from a grizzly
(I'm sure he mostly used the other leg, but still)

agreed, tough as nails
 
Wow.........pretty incredible to think that the serious jab of the small pocket knife must have been enough for the bear to realize that his prey had “claws” of its own. Damn.
 
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4mer_FMF said:
ETA: I just told this story to my wife and she said, “Buy more knives.”

Hahaha. I might have to take her up on that!
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I hate to be cliche, but a ka-bar comes to mind...

heck even the kabar kephart if you don't like the rambo-ness of the typical models
 
Bear attacks are hard to figure. In a full-on attack, the bear would not have walked slowly up to him and allowed him to poke its head with a ski pole. Grizzly bears are unbelieveably strong and lightning fast. They can kill a person with one swipe. They have a bite force of 1,200 psi. Nothing in the human body is going to resist that.

I don't know what happened, but I doubt the knife saved his life. More likely, the bear was as curious as it was aggressive. Still a horrible experience for the biker.

I live in a remote area. No grizzly bears, but lots of cougars. A few years back, a guy claimed he out wrestled a cougar and walked away with just a couple scratches on his belly. Not the likely outcome in a fight with a cougar. But everyone was convinced that the wresting moves he practiced with his German shepherd dog were the key.
 
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