There is a world somewhere between reality and fiction. Although ignored by many, it is very real and so are those living in it. This forum is about the natural world. Here, wild animals will be heard and respected. The forum offers a glimpse into an unknown world as well as a room with a view on the present and the future. Anyone able to speak on behalf of those living in the emerald forest and the deep blue sea is invited to join.
01-29-2016, 04:02 AM( This post was last modified: 01-29-2016, 04:03 AM by brotherbear )
The Grizzly Book by Jack Samson - The Big Ones Die Hard by William Marshall Rush.
The vitality of the grizzly was never demonstrated more clearly to me than in these two incidents. The first bear took a bullet wound under the left shoulder that almost tore his leg off. Another bullet went through his lungs, above the heart and a .405 slug into his open mouth, shattering one whole side of his head ( not touching the brain however ). Yet he still had to be shot in the neck to finish him.
The second grizzly had two rifle wounds, either of which would have caused his death, probably, within less than an hour. He had fallen and tumbled three or four hundred feet, some of the falls being vertical drops of twenty or thirty feet, yet he had life enough left in him to crawl twenty feet over large, slippery boulders in a last frantic effort to escape.
Survival Skills of Bears
