In Kodiak there was a 68 year old man named Mike who was out hunting on Sally island which is an island that is close to Kodiak. This man was on his sixth day of his hunting trip with his son in law. They both had rifles and were hiking up a hill one of them had killed a deer on the top of the hill and gutted it. After they were finished gutting the deer they dragged it back down the hill. They decided to take a short break to eat.
They estimated that they were less than a mile away from their boat that they took to get to the island. They started to eat the food they had brought and were hoping to spot another deer. But then they heard some movement in the bushes. So one of the men had shot a bullet into the bush. But he says the bushes were thick in that area so he could not see farther than six feet in front of him.
When they saw the bear they said it looked like it exploded out of the bush. It was charging straight for them. The bear went for Mike and got on top of him and bit the back of his leg. The bear was shaking Mike back and forth and dragging him on the ground. Mike was not able to reach for his rifle.
Mike could not reach for his rifle because it was to far away. So he tried to grab his revolver he had but he was not able to unlatch the revolver from his holster. Then his son in law grabbed his rifle and fired two shots at the bear. The first shot hit the bear in the hindquarters. Than the second shot had hit the bear in the chest.
The bear had dropped but was not dead. The bear was dragging Mike down the hill. Then the son in law fired a third shot and that killed the bear. Mike had to get more than a 100 staples in the back of his leg. But did not get permanently injured.
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