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    Exclamation Northwest College wrestlers hospitalized after bear attack..

    Northwest College wrestlers hospitalized after bear attack..


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    A group of college wrestlers from Wyoming faced their toughest opponent yet over the weekend. Kendell Cummings and Brady Lowry - wrestling teammates at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming - were mauled by a grizzly bear Saturday while antler hunting.


    The young men were released from a Billings, Montana hospital this week convinced “someone out there is looking out for me and Kendell,” Lowry told CNN affiliate KSL. Lowry was the first one the grizzly attacked, he told CNN. While making his way back to his car alongside Cummings, Lowry said he noticed bear marks on the ground. Just as he began to point them out to his friend, he “started hearing crashing coming through the tree.”


    Lowry said he only had time to yell “Bear! Bear!” before the grizzly tackled him, causing him to fall about five feet off a small ledge. “It started chomping on me pretty good. It got a hold of my left arm, it was shaking me around, broke my left arm.”


    Cummings tried to get the bear’s attention by yelling and throwing things at it and when that didn’t work “he jumped down and grabbed the bear … and yanked it off me.”


    Then the bear came for Cummings.


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    Isn't that an ordinary Saturday morning claim on campuses all over America?


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    Running at the bear, while making a lot of noise and waving your arms, may seem insane, but in most situations it's really your best chance. A bear can run at up to 35 mph over any terrain and you can't. In this case it doesn't appear that there was any time for defensive moves of any kind. Call me paranoid, but if I ever have to go into an area like that, I'll be the guy with a big can of Bear Spray taped to my right hand.
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    I'll be the one with my .45-70 slung over my shoulder.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Cletus View Post
    I'll be the one with my .45-70 slung over my shoulder.


    Hopefully the bear won't be a sniper.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    Hopefully the bear won't be a sniper.
    I've got a remedy for that too.





    I have had a number of bear encounters over the years and fortunately, they have always been as anxious to get away from me as I have to get away from them.
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    These kids got a lucky break the bear eventually became annoyed enough to back off......

    I saw one of the boys on Fox and he said he pulled on the bears head and ear until it let go of his friend. Of course it turned on him next!
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    Northwest College wrestlers hospitalized after bear attack..


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    A group of college wrestlers from Wyoming faced their toughest opponent yet over the weekend. Kendell Cummings and Brady Lowry - wrestling teammates at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming - were mauled by a grizzly bear Saturday while antler hunting.


    The young men were released from a Billings, Montana hospital this week convinced “someone out there is looking out for me and Kendell,” Lowry told CNN affiliate KSL. Lowry was the first one the grizzly attacked, he told CNN. While making his way back to his car alongside Cummings, Lowry said he noticed bear marks on the ground. Just as he began to point them out to his friend, he “started hearing crashing coming through the tree.”


    Lowry said he only had time to yell “Bear! Bear!” before the grizzly tackled him, causing him to fall about five feet off a small ledge. “It started chomping on me pretty good. It got a hold of my left arm, it was shaking me around, broke my left arm.”


    Cummings tried to get the bear’s attention by yelling and throwing things at it and when that didn’t work “he jumped down and grabbed the bear … and yanked it off me.”


    Then the bear came for Cummings.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    Running at the bear, while making a lot of noise and waving your arms, may seem insane, but in most situations it's really your best chance. A bear can run at up to 35 mph over any terrain and you can't. In this case it doesn't appear that there was any time for defensive moves of any kind. Call me paranoid, but if I ever have to go into an area like that, I'll be the guy with a big can of Bear Spray taped to my right hand.
    They were hunting. This $#@! apparently happens so fast people can't get to or use their guns.
    Another hunter recently warded off a bear with his pistol but wound up shooting himself in the process. His son applied first aid and used his sat phone for help. But what a day, grizzly attack AND gunshot wound.

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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    They were hunting. This $#@! apparently happens so fast people can't get to or use their guns.
    Another hunter recently warded off a bear with his pistol but wound up shooting himself in the process. His son applied first aid and used his sat phone for help. But what a day, grizzly attack AND gunshot wound.
    You'd almost have to make up a story about that one. "I swear to God, the bear wrestled the gun away and shot me!"
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