Bear Hunter Attacked By Grizzly—And Shot By Friend
Talk about your bad luck, from Denver’s CBS 4 News: _A hunter attacked by a grizzly bear in southern Montana...
Talk about your bad luck, from Denver’s CBS 4 News:
_A hunter attacked by a grizzly bear in southern Montana also had the misfortune of being shot in the arm by a companion trying to stop the attack. . . .
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_Park County Sheriff Allan Lutes says his office looked into the shooting of the hunter and found no negligence. . . .
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_Lutes says the hunters thought they were tracking a black bear near Cooke City.
They entered a grove of very dense, second-generation pine six to eight feet in height when their quarry, which actually was a grizzly, jumped one of the hunters.
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_”He was yelling at his partner to shoot the bear,” Lutes said.
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The first shot struck the hunter in the arm. Subsequent shots hit and killed the grizzly, which Lutes said was estimated to be 20-25 years old.