Man survives bear attack with knife

Riz2530 said:
This illustrates a great point about cutlery and our crazy obsession with high end everything. That knife is some cheap aircrew survival style knife, with what looks like a stacked leather handle and unknown steel. If I had to guess it is a basic carbon like 1095 or a 420 series. And GASP, IT KILLED A BEAR!!!! it just proves that the user is more important than the tool.
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I'm having a problem with the bear being able to attack 3 times. I'm seeing that if he had a bigger knife, he may have been able to cut more surface area, and make deeper wounds.
 
Yo Mama said:
I'm having a problem with the bear being able to attack 3 times. I'm seeing that if he had a bigger knife, he may have been able to cut more surface area, and make deeper wounds.
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It doesn't seem he did much effective damage until round three, when he slashed the bear's throat from inside. A bigger knife might have been harder to wield in there. Now a 12" blade or more might have gone through to a vital organ, but he was always face on with the bear, not much chance to hit the heart or lungs.

Heavy caliber handgun would have been a better bet, tracking a wounded bear in the dark.
 
Yo Mama said:
I'm having a problem with the bear being able to attack 3 times. I'm seeing that if he had a bigger knife, he may have been able to cut more surface area, and make deeper wounds.
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I'm pretty sure the hunter didn't have bear fighting on his mind when selecting a knife.

If you think a bigger knife would've settled it sooner, perhaps you should climb into one of those fighting cages with the knife of your choice and see if you can dispatch a wounded 500-lb bear on initial contact.

Maybe that guy who let the snake eat him could hook you up.
 
He reached into its mouth and stabbed it in the throat from the inside?

Does it get much more alpha? :thumbup:
 
Guy in a bar: "So how did you get those scars?"

Brandon Johnson: "I had a 3-round fight with a 525lb Black Bear over 30 minutes using only a knife with a 5" blade. I won."

Guy in a bar: "Yeah right... Seriously, how did you get those scars?"
 
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This has always been at the back of my mind while tromping through dense Boreal forest.
 
I say ~`Bad Ass~`. One of The Best if not The Best "lucky he had his knife" stories. Now only if it had been an Emerson. Ha! Very fortunate.:thumbup:
 
dejard said:
Guy in a bar: "So how did you get those scars?"

Randy Johnson: "I had a 3-round fight with a 525lb Black Bear over 30 minutes using only a knife with a 5" blade. I won."

Guy in a bar: "Yeah right... Seriously, how did you get those scars?"
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Best reply ever :)
 
Here is my favorite "Man kills bear with knife" story- http://www.outdoorlife.com/articles/larry-mueller-and-marguerite-reiss/2007/09/last-stand

A 69 year old man named Gene Moe killed an attacking grizzly with a Buck 110. This is a well reported story, doing a search for Gene Moe can yield more reading material.

I also know of three other incidents where people have killed attacking bears with knives in the past few decades, not counting the one provided by the OP in this thread.
 
That orange handle looks a lot like the "survivor" knife. No idea who makes it, but its not expensive. :D
 
That is one tough dude. And lucky. Don't know as I'd have fared as well with my Buck 105. They have some big black bears in the upper Mid-west.

I've seen a couple hunting up in northern Wisconsin. A few years back shot a buck, which bounded into a large slashings thicket. I was waiting for my partners to come up and then we'd go in and find him, or one of us would shoot him if he jumped up. Just before we went down the hill and into the thicket, what do we see but a couple hundred yards out was a big ol' black bear, heading into the thicket from the other side. Fortunately, we all didn't meet in the middle. My buck stood up just inside the edge of the thicket, my father-in-law shot him and I dragged him out of there right quick.

A couple years later I was sitting on the ground just after shooting light, scooted up against a brush pile on top of this little knoll, and I hear something coming through the brush off to my left. Didn't sound like a deer, but was sure no squirrel, just sounding like it was crashing through the brush. Sure enough, about 10 yards away out comes a very small bear, and walks right up to me. At about 15 feet he seems to suddenly realize I'm there, let's out a "hooof!" and spins around and ambles off. Meantime, I'm wondering when mama's gonna come and take her ire out on me for messing with her baby, but she never showed up. (Or, more likely, was pretty damn close, like behind me, but I never saw her.)

Next year, and since, I've seen a lot of the hunters carrying revolvers or .45s along with their rifles. I'm told the bow hunters in the area, who are out before the gun hunters, when the bears are more active apparently, pretty much all carry heavy handguns.
 
I'm glad it wasn't some rare super duper steel knife. Everyone would have to rush out and get it.
 
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