Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: JW_Halverson on October 04, 2016, 12:49:54 pm
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I imagine most of you have already read or heard about this guy. Goes mano a mano with a griz, survives, begins the 3 mile hike back to the truck, she comes back feeling like sha has not made her point, and he still makes it back to the truck. Not satisfied with having survived TWO attacks from a female griz, he calmly records a video and posts it to Facebook. He then drives himself to the hospital, stopping to ask a rancher to call ahead and alert the hospital he is on the way in. His girlfriend says it looks like someone gutted an elk in the driver's seat!
Wherever this guy lands on the scale of bada$$, look for me at the other end! I'd probably lose a fight with Teddy Ruxpin.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/todd-orr-grizzly-bear-attack_us_57f237c9e4b082aad9bbec90
My hat is off to Todd Orr, the Battling B*****d from Bozeman!
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That's hardcore, a modern day Hugh Glass
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Yowza.. Lived to post another post
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I saw a photo of his trophy room. He has a Chuck Norris rug on the floor in front of his fireplace. No, he didn't kill him. Chuck is just afraid to move.
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Pshhahaha
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He must have been skipping his showers. It would take an awful stink to run a grizzly off.
WA
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The guy stops to make a facebook video while a big chunk of scalp is flopped over onto his ear ::)
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To bad he got mauled, and lucky for the Pig he did not plant a slug between his ears.
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I saw a photo of his trophy room. He has a Chuck Norris rug on the floor in front of his fireplace. No, he didn't kill him. Chuck is just afraid to move.
Best post ever.
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That guys one tough mother. JW that was the best chuck Norris joke I seen in a while! Haha cheers- Brendan
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In my opinion folks that go hiking with Griz without being
totally locked and loaded need help understanding reality.
Kumbaya, can't we all just get along together.
The country and or the state should be held liable for letting
their animals kill and injure our citizens.
Pepper spray, my butt!
Zuma
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Tough sumbitch no doubt, but, i think he was operating on adrenaline. See how much he is shaking? Thats not fear, thats adrenaline.
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Wow. Bet that hurt in the morning. That dude is BA.
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Tough sumbitch no doubt, but, i think he was operating on adrenaline. See how much he is shaking? Thats not fear, thats adrenaline.
That's 100% adrenaline at its finest. He doesn't have a clue about half his wounds. Still crazy.
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I saw a photo of his trophy room. He has a Chuck Norris rug on the floor in front of his fireplace. No, he didn't kill him. Chuck is just afraid to move.
I laughed till I had a tear......
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He was carrying both pepper spray AND a handgun. Lotta people online second guessing him. And I will guarantee all of them have never been in his situation. Armchair ninjas every one of them.
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He said he used the bear spray. Why didnt he use the gun?
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The guy is a legend taking time out from his ordeal to create an amusing post on social media- that's taking one for the team!
It's good he used the spray not the shooter- now those cubs will grow up tone big enough for one of you guys to shoot with an arrow! :o
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I leave bears alone. Even with a gun you arent exactly at the top of the food chain. Besides, they are too kindred an animal.
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Holy heck that is one tough dude. If he would of used is gun I bet those armchair ninjas would persecute him for shooting a mother bear.
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Fascinating. Ya'll think they'll destroy the mother bear?
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Sleek, why didn't he go for the gun before the pepper spray? He didn't say.
Several experts state that the pepper spray has proven much more effective in tests with captive grizzly when you take into account the "effective fire zone". Namely, the spray is far more controllable and covers a larger area than a gun. There is a very low kill rate for people shooting bears at close range in a combat situation.
And again, arguing over what he should have done is just so much armchair ninja posturing until you are in the situation with metabolic residue hitting the rotary atmospheric recirculator at the speed of sound. And ultimately, you have to admit that whatever his actions were, arguably he made ALL THE RIGHT MOVES AT THE RIGHT TIME simply because he survived.
As for whether they will destroy the bear, I kinda doubt they would in this case...my best guess. My line of logic/random thought is this:
1) She was deep in-country, not in a populated area
2) She mauled, but did not kill
3) She acted in a reasonable grizzly-based manner, i.e. defense of cubs. In other words, she didn't start the fight.
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You gotta like and respect a guy like that, glad he survived it. Attacked twice and didn't panic about his injuries, kept his composure and got out alive. One tough ombre.