Real life Bear attack

[knzn]

I have put this in the general forum also, but though it should be here too.



I just read in the new "American Rifleman" magazine, where a 69 year old guy named Gene Moe,fought off a 750lb Brown Bear with his knife! (Maybe Kodiak PA knows him.)

Anyway, he had killed a deer and was in the process of dressing it out, and the bear thought he would take it from him. He couldn't get to his rifle in time, but already had knife in hand.

What knife was it? A Buck 110 folding hunter!

The story says he thrust it into the bears neck, cutting up and down. After some cutting, and punching the bear on the nose, he was finally able to get to his rifle and finish the critter off with three bullets.

Mr. Moe was chewed up some, but wow, what a story!

 

[kevinb17]

Wasn't this story also on the Buck website?

I like the 110 alot, but if I recall he wasn't making much progress with it on the bear. Then he punched the bear in the snout, apparently making him, uhhh, "punch drunk".

Folks, don't try this at home.

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[Joe Houser]

We also ran the story in the Buck Collectors club newsletter. Mr Moe came out to Buck and told Chuck the story first hand. You should have seen how scarred up this man was! He was a very interesting person and we had a great time while he was here.

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Joe Houser
Director of Consumer relations
Buck Collectors club Administrator and member #123

 

[glockman99]

WOW! Mr. Moe is DA MAN!.

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I sure wouldn't want to go up against a bear with nothing LESS than my LARGE Buck Intrepid II.

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Dann Fassnacht
Aberdeen, WA
glockman99@hotmail.com
ICQ# 53675663

 

[TennKnifeman]

Chuck Buck loaned us his personal videotape of Mr. Moe describing his experience, and we've given it a lot of space in the December Knives Illustrated.
Here's some opening paragraphs as a teaser:
" There are times when all that stands between a man and eternity is the grace of God and a piece of sharpened steel. For Gene Moe that time came on November 1, 1999.
It’s been said that a survival knife is the one you have with you at the time you need to survive. For Moe his survival knife on this day was a Buck 110 folding hunter with scalloped finger grooves.
Like many horror stories, it began as a routine annual hunting trip."
The issue has lots of other good stuff in it too, should be on your newsstands around the first of October. This is the first issue that I had any control over the editorial.
My personal thanks to Chuck for making the article possible.
Bruce Voyles