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Man survives battle with mother bear by scoring two punch knock-down
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Rick Nelson’s story sounds like something that should be written in Old Norse or King James English. Regular language just doesn’t seem to do it justice.
“And lo,” it might read, “he did come across a bear and verily he did smite it. Twice.”
Really. That’s what happened.
Last Sunday, Nelson, 61 was walking in the wilderness outside Sudbury with his wife’s favourite dog, a five-year-old mongrel named Maggie. He had just reached the top of a ravine and tied Maggie to a tree when a bear cub poked its head out of a nearby thicket.
“It makes out its call and my dog went berserk,” Nelson said. “So now I know the mother’s coming.”
Nelson, who boxed as a young man and still trains on a heavy bag, could have scrambled down the cliff and away from the coming bear. But he didn’t think he’d have time to save Maggie. So instead, he stepped in front of the dog and met the mother bear head on, like Douglas greeting Tyson.
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On Tuesday, Nelson spoke to the National Post about what happened next and what was going through his mind when it did.
NP: Can you describe for me where you were and what you were doing?
Nelson: I was in the Panache region. It’s a hunting area with trails running through the bush. I tied the dog up to a tree and I sat down on a log and ‘pop!’ out comes a cub’s head. Now, I can’t run because I’ve got a cliff behind my back. And I’ve got my dog tied to a tree. And she can’t go down the cliff with me. So all I did was step in front of my dog. And I could hear the bear crashing through the brush to get into the clearing.
NP: Were you consciously thinking through how you were going to react at that point, or was it pure instinct?
Nelson: I was thinking through it enough to look around and see if was there anything I could use as a weapon.
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/ontario-man-survives-battle-with-mother-bear-by-scoring-two-punch-knock-down
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But after that, no, it was pure instinct. So the mother (a black bear Nelson estimates at about 300 pounds) came crashing through and I knew it meant business. This thing didn’t stop. It didn’t stomp. It didn’t snort. It just came straight at me. When it stood up and took its first swing with its left paw, it hooked my front shoulder and as I swung around I went to hit it but I missed because it hit me so hard. I hit it in the lip and teeth, which actually did a lot of damage to my knuckle. And it went down.
NP: Sorry, it went down or you went down?
Nelson: It did. It swung. It went down. I hit it. It came back up again. It swung again, this time with its right paw. And it just vaguely caught my back because I was trying to roll away from it. And that’s what gave me a second shot. This time I used my hand in an uppercut and hit it right in the snout. And it just sat down on its butt.
NP: In that split second after you caught it with the uppercut, what were you thinking?
Nelson: That’s the first moment where I felt fear. Up until then, I just thought, ‘OK, I have to get ready, here it comes’. But in that moment, when it turned around and looked at me, I thought, ‘Ah, shit.’ You know? What’s it going do? But right then the cub called again. And the bear just turned around and walked away, like it had never even met me.
Nelson suffered some minor scrapes and one deeper cut in the fight. He washed his own wounds in a nearby stream and patched one with a bandage. He didn’t go to the hospital. He doesn’t blame the bear, he said. It just did what came naturally.
Nelson: Honestly, a bear attack like I was in, that’s a perfect storm. You just couldn’t get a worse scenario. Just like I was protecting my dog, it was protecting its cub.
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>>55977
you cant be more man with this.............. lol.... i wonder if someone in some places write about the misogyny of he behavior and who he should be ban for walk on the wild cause the menspreading its to much. lol
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>>55988
Could you retype that in english please?
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>>55977
I can believe he punched the cubs, a mother bear would be really impressive.
I would had thrown the fucking cubs at her even the doge, but punching a bear would be the last resort.
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>>55995
Black bears are the ones you stand up and yell at to scare away -- they're pretty timid. Unless, of course, you're between mama and cub, in which case the guy probably did the right thing by getting between the mama and his doge until cub went away. The fight was otherwise symbolic, other than the fact that the mama would have disemboweled him even if she was just intending to push him backwards a little.
tldr; doge should have shut the fuck up.
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wrong response...
Guy was lucky, correct move was letting the dog fight the bear then buggering off as fast as possible
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