The trapper on the adjoining line to ours was a 70-something-old native gentleman who taught me a lot about trapping and nature in general. He lived on his line year-round in a log cabin. He had a husky cross dog that weighed around 100 pounds. once when he went to town for supplies and came back to his dog mauled. When we met him after the incident he showed us the dog. The dog's face was Frankenstiened back together and his body had stitches all over. All done by him in the bush as vets at that time were few and far between. He was so proud of his dog as the grizzly never got into his cabin. The dog still waged his tail and loved to be petted and lived on the line for many more years.
@@tagootuesday6521 Rogan cartoons : it's Rogan and a Big Ass Grizzly Bear taking on hundreds of critter's ! Thad' b fucking COOL ! Joe just firing arrows and taking out anything that strikes his path
I experienced a large brown bear. Not as big mine was proabably 650 lbs. They move very fast. In seconds he covered 30 yrds in the opposite direction , luckily. I was on a quad. The size of my appearance on the quad is what saved me. I still filled my shorts. You have to respect this majestcally powerful creature. Something that large can move as fast as they do. Amazing.
Sort of thing that would happen when your alone and nobody believes you. What a story for the grandkids eh? Oh what the time I rode a 11 and half foot grizzly down a mountain in 100 mile per hour winds?
I watched a 300 + lb black bear climb up to the top of a tree in a matter of seconds.. totally surprised me to see an animal that big go straight up a huge tree with no problem whatsoever.. I knew they could climb but what impressed me was the speed and ease of it.. awesome animal.. black brown red it doesn't matter they are machines..
Big difference between the blacks and grizzlies, here in WA there are black bears everywhere, we've got tons of hikers and people going out to the mountains all the time, like there are millions of people in the Seattle urban area and there are mountains right nearby just swarming with black bears. Literally only one person has been killed by a black bear in this state in 1974, and since 1970 there have been only 19 attacks, that's 52 years and there's only been more people coming in progressively but the attacks aren't increasing, it's a damn peace treaty up here. Meanwhile Grizzly bears inhabit the most isolated and rugged parts of the US, including Alaska. Yet somehow there are way more attacks and certainly way more fatal attacks. I mean Montana, Wyoming, Idaho is literally almost all wilderness just small towns and barely any small cities, and yet there are still attacks all the time, aggressive and fatal attacks. Technically nationwide there are more black bear attacks, (maybe because they live in basically almost every state and near all of the major population centers) but the amount of Grizzly attacks for living in only 4 states and those states being the most isolated?? Jesus no wonder they were hunted to damn near extinction
1,200 pounds, runs 30+ mph, out climbs, out swims any human, jaws that can snap you in half, incredible stregth and stamina. A real life monster, total respect for bears.
Yeah grizzly and kodiak bears are OP. people think lions and tigers are scary (which they are)... But bears just insanely scary. I wouldnt feel safe in a humvee around a mama grizzly
@@karnasingh860 SMH no. We can't kill them. WEAPONS can kill them. You against a bear without a weapon? He'll be shitting out parts of your body, the next morning
Check out the story of Gene Moe. In his sixties, he was attacked by a Kodiak, and all he had to defend himself was a Buck knife. The bear now hangs on his wall.
Biggest thing I ever saw was a Moose in Minnesota. We drove up on it in the early morning in the boundary waters. We thought it was a statue because it was right outside a little campground near the office. Then it moved. Enormous antlers. Huge beast. We all just stopped and stood in awe rubbing our eyes. Beautiful massive creature.
As much as I wish this was all on video I think the fact it's not makes the story better. All the men that experienced what most would consider a nightmare situation now have a story that ties them together stronger than blood or any bond formed through normal means. A true sense of brotherhood.
"The bear started to charge us. I looked over and was terrified to see that squidward had drawn an oval and not a circle. I instantly knew my old clarinet playing friends life was in a lot of danger because ovals do not protect against sea bear attacks."
The bears around here are around 1000 pounds. 1 swipe from them and your dead. The vegetation is dense and hard to walk through, and the terrain is steep and tiring. Joe rogan: what about the elk? They are big Joe rogan: *wow*
He's probably the coolest/dumbest guy at the party, imagine telling people how you literally rode a bear down a mountain. Some would be in total disbelief others would call him a damn liar. But in the end he's the coolest one there because no one can just ride a bear and survive.
You should try to grab a cub if you see it in the wild, Mother bears love it when you grab there cub by the legs and pick it up, to them it’s a fun silly game .
I'm from the UK and we dont have bears here, I have always wanted to see bears in Alaska/Canada, if I ever go this advise will be very helpful to get a good experience. Thank you. 👍
What a great story , it shows you how fast things can happen in life and how unprepared these guys were. They were complacent and it almost cost them ..
Yeah, even from the beginning he recounts how hazardous and inhospitable the landscape was for the group to hike. The Elk and bears there he and Joe described as “giants” and “monsters” They had no fucking business encroaching on bear territory and killing their food/elk. They’re lucky karma didn’t bite back harder. Next time they won’t be so lucky because they’ll continue to go where they don’t belong; looking for trouble.
@@tsering9262 so ur saying we dont belong on this earth and wasnt created by nature or even created by god to live here just as bears are? okay then, next time you see a bear, let it inside your house. see how much it gives a fuck about your territory.
@@tsering9262 I’ll hunt where I want. And I carry a .44 Magnum loaded with Bear Rounds. The food on this land goes to who wins, and a bear, for all its size, is not bulletproof.
@@fireandiron4181 I live near bears. The only other creature here that scares me are the moose. Absolutely aggressive and unpredictable. Those things can easily kill you to.
I was hiking with my son in NJ on the AT and we were cresting a ridge and as I stepped up to the plateau a black bear, I'd say 300 lbs, was crossing the trail, it paused, saw me and kept walking, but in that pause because I was with my 12 year old son, I was scared in a way that I never felt before. It was the most horrible feeling I have ever experienced.
@@obscure323ro doesn't know about bear spray. guns wouldn't work unless you shoot em like 5 times they just have enough momentum. plus, if you see a bear, it doesn't give you the right to automatically kill it. this is why bear spray is necessary
"I've thought about it a million times" The interview took place 3 months after the incident. That's 11,000+ times per day. So once every 7-8 seconds, for 3 months. Impressive dedication.
Bud, I think about the same thing every 3 seconds if I'm stressed or worried. If I got attacked by a fuckin bear, I'd have to be even more of an alcoholic to not think about that shit every day.
The largest verified size for a captive Kodiak bear was for a specimen that lived at the Dakota Zoo in Bismarck, North Dakota. Nicknamed "Clyde," he weighed 966 kg (2,130 lb) when he died in June 1987 at the age of 22. According to zoo director Terry Lincoln, Clyde probably weighed close to 1,089 kg (2,400 lb) a year earlier. He still had a fat layer of 9 in (23 cm) when he died. Also, an individual named Teddy, which portrayed a killer bear in the movie Grizzly, stood 3.4 metres (11 ft) tall on hind legs and was the largest bear in captivity at the time. Otherwise An average adult male measures 244 cm (8 ft 0 in) in length, and stands 133 cm (4 ft 4 in) tall at the shoulder. The largest recorded wild male weighed 751 kg (1,656 lb), and had a hind foot measurement of 46 cm (18 in). A large male Kodiak bear stands up to 1.5 m (4.9 ft) tall at the shoulder, when it is standing on all four legs. When standing fully upright on its hind legs, a large male could reach a height of 3 m (9.8 ft).
I worked on Afognak years ago. When I was alone I always swam out to a shipwreck in the ocean to relax so I could see anything coming. Though mostly docile those bears are no joke.
That reminds of when me and my girlfriend were hiking in the mountains for a weekend about a year ago. Bear came out of nowhere and tried attacking us. Luckily I brought my 44 magnum with me. One shot to the kneecap took care of it. My girlfriend fell down right then and the bear took her. I was lucky that I made it out alive!
Years ago, I was swamping on a pipe rig delivering piping to a facility waaaay out in the bush of Northen BC, Canada. When we arrived at the site, the driver and I had to go through an hour safety orientation before being allowed to work on the site, which was standard for any oil rig. One of the safety concerns was a grizzly that had been hanging around for a few days, sniffing around for food. Because we were so far into the bush, camps that are set up have incinerators to burn their trash instead of having garbage containers. It's safer, but that smell travels. Another thing to be known about a "site" is that the bush and tress are cleared in a square around the facility, about 100yds in all directions so you can see any wildlife. Remember this, there are bear, moose, wolves and all sorts of wild critters out there. Anyways, we were told that if we saw a bear, first thing was to hit a "bear horn" and scare it off with noise. There were air horns attached to poles set up about 30ft apart throughout the facility. If that didn't work, we were supposed to use a "bear scare bang"(BSB) which were also attached to the poles. A BSB was a bottle rocket type firecracker that made a very loud whistle, then a bang, to scare off any animals that may show up. The guy told us to not aim the BSB directly at a bear to try to hit it, that would only piss the bear off. SO...we're unloading pipe and I've got my back to the bush when my driver stops lifting his end and whispers: Don't fucking move!! that bear is RIGHT behind you!! I think ya right! This guy was an old(67 yr old) bullshitter and a joker and I was about to laughingly tell him to fuck off, when I saw his face. FUCK!! I slowly turn to look around and about 100ft behind me, standing on its hind legs, nose pointed waaaay up, sniffing the air was a really, really, really fucking huge unit of a grizzly bear! The first thing I noticed was its paws. I'm a big guy, and if you put BOTH of my hands together, thumb to thumb, they were about half the size of one of its paws. Tex whispers: don't fucking run!! I whisper back: Why? All I gotta do is run faster than you!! Tex freaks: Don't fuck around! What the fucks wrong with you?! Just then, somebody hit a bear horn and the bear ran back into the bush. That thing was at least 10ft tall. I'll never forget that. Not to mention getting attacked by a rutting bull moose while driving back from the site, but that's a story for another time.
@@shellygiggey2361 FYI? Boats won't help...grizzlies can swim..lol. BC is a beautiful place. Highly reccomend you check it out! Thanks for the comment! Peace.
I’m from alberta right outside of banff, bears have been a part of us forever, keep food covered and don’t have anything out that will attract and your usually ok. Always hike with other people as well. A guy I worked with got in between a grizzly and her cubs, she bit his head threw him on the ground and bit both his knees and ran off. I always tell him, if she would’ve swiped her 6 inch claw would rip your guts out. Her cubs being there and her wanting to get in get out saved his life. If she was alone she would’ve killed him. People underestimate them. They run SO fucking fast
My uncle went on a guided bear hunt years ago and one of the guys shot one about 3 days into the hunt. She ran away and they tracked her for hours but they had to set up camp as it was getting dark. They made a fire and set their tents around it and went to bed. My uncle heard a limb crack and rolled over to see her shadow between the fire and his tent. He grabbed his rifle as she came through his tent shoving the gun stock in her mouth to keep her from biting him. The other hunters awoke to him screaming and shot her multiple times before killing her. The next morning they heard a weird sound and discovered her cub in the woods near their camp. My uncle said they didn't know she had a cub or they never would have shot her. Needless to say this was his first and last bear hunt.
Bear hunts are all about ego. Who wants worm riddled bear meat? Tought chewey tasteless (unless boiled in fat lol) trash. Not to mention the bears are more sentient than elk or deer in most peoples eyes
@@elijahjohnston3172 Bear meat is incredibly good If you didn't like it you didn't cook it good. And bear is perfectly fine to eat when prepared properly.
Not going to say if that part about riding the bear is true or false but he said that he saw the bear take someone away so he asked for a count, everyone shouted back except for one person he asks who's missing and then the guy who rode away on the bear came up from the brush, so I would assume that he fell off in the thick brush and the bear was too panicked to turn back for him
Recently read a story about a grizzly attack that haooened in Alaska years ago. Three men, all armed. One with a 40 caliber, the other two with shot guns. Guy with 40 cal fired 11 shots, the other two 5 shots each. Bear finally went down about 3 feet from them. 21 shots from three men to take it down! Those things are no joke!
In October 1998 was attacked by a adult male brown bear in the coastal region of south western Alaska. I was forced into a corner and boxed the bear for what seemed like hours, i had bloodied his nose he then swatted my face and almost broke my neck it was a vicious battle...undescribable pain. I eventually had the bear in a toe hold as he winced in pain i saw my chance then switched position and fell into a perfect rear naked choke that I had learned from Rickson Gracie the bear slowly lost consciousness then passed out. I thought I had killed him which greatly saddened me as i was considering cpr as he woke up, looked at me with respect mixed with fear and admiration he walked back into the woods and took a shit. I came home and never spoke of the story until now I feel as if a great weight has been lifted from me.
Growing up in the wilderness I have found that Bears don't respect MMA. You have to go old school, Figure four leglocks, piledrivers, and powerbombs. Its why Brock Lesnar left MMA when he moved to Canada and went back to WWE.
My grandpa was hunting in colorado a long time ago with his friends, he was walking a trail and didn’t realize that he got between a mama and her cubs, he recalls that he heard the cubs and then heard the mom barreling towards him on his left, he said he had his 357, but it wasn’t enough to stop a mama bear protecting her cubs, luckily the cubs ran out from behind him and over to the mom, that’s what stopped her from attacking him
He was 14 feet tall if he was an inch. And the wind! she was a blowin' 100 mph! He charged me. That's when I juked left, then right. To avoid being eaten alive I flipped like Mary Lou in 84' vaulting past the giant beast. I stuck the landing and grabbed my pistol. As I chased him down the mountain I realized that my brave friend was riding on the behemoth's back, defiantly commanding him, "behave yourself!" as he tried to tame the wild beast.
It's actually not farfetched at all to hear him tell it. When you do things/adventures all the time you realize truth really is always stranger than fiction. Everything is so unpredictable you can't make up what really is gonna happen. People in comments saying the stories bullshit guarantee do nothing. They have no reference for what's possible besides what they read or watch on media.
I’ve always felt the same way about going on hardcore, miserable, freezing cold, dangerous hunts for deer. Going so far out in the woods in freezing temps where you’re actually taking a risk is so rewarding when you make it back home.
@@ShadowMudkip123 It's as clear as day guys. His friend was simply riding the 1,200lb, 11ft brown bear rodeo style while Remi kept juking out of the way like a professional boxer. Just your everyday, standard bear attack.
+Jaydon Goodrich Dude! I was stalled on RR tracks and I stopped the train "coming in hot" the very same way. And you know it's true because I'm alive to tell the story.
Yeah i did the same with OKMULGEE, OK POLICE ... the bear wasn't stoppped, but neither were the cops, what saved everyone was i shit all ovet myself that the bear chas3d me an i was further aaway than the rest of the team..BUT he ended up butt fuckin me in EVERY SINGLE POSITION known to man. fuck... so , many, .... wait this aint year 2000, whoops, party, bitch....OUTTA TIIME!
The weird noises from Joe that were an exact mixture of fear and pure euphoria. You’re scared as shit but recognise the value in how an experience like that rewards you in ways money can not
An old man was telling a story one night about being a bear poker when he was young. Winter was harsh and food was running low. They knew where a bear hibernated so the brothers decided to shoot it. Since he was the youngest and smallest he was voted to wake the bear from it's den. He crawls in with a long stick and pokes it. As the bear wakes he gets out of there in a hurry with the bear on his tail. His brothers are waiting outside with guns, but smaller caliber so it took a lot of bullets to kill it. He ended is story by saying "boy, bears get real angry when you wake them".
i've got very little sympathy for a hunter who gets killed by the game he is hunting. I have nothing against hunting, but humans have all the advantages (GUNS). so if a bear out hunts the hunter, good for him that's nature. kill or be killed
eric nortan the adrenaline rush a bear gets when defending its cubs is incomparable. They can literally take 7 shotgun shots to the skull and still takeout the shooter
A college friend of mine got that tattoo. I'm from Minnesota. He staggered out into the woods at a kegger and ran into a young bear. He thought it was some guy puking. As he goes to help him (he's hammered too) this bear rears up and claws the shit out of he's chest and back. Luckily people hear him yelling; come to the rescue and the bear runs off. He's got some gnarly scars from that. Think I'd rather just get a normal tattoo.
Been in bear (grizzly) territory a bunch. And what they locals always say is if you're in a group of 3 or more you have nothing to really worry about. Bears aren't looking for a fight and they don't generally see people as food.
What Joe was talking about at 3:10 was exactly my Ranger School experience. It was and will continue to be the worst thing I’ve ever done in my life, but I wouldn’t change it for the world.
I owned and operated a firearms and archery shop in Port Angeles, WA from 1978-1988. While it wasn't especially profitable in that small town locale, it kept me in beans and it provided many an entertaining conversation with colorful and interesting characters among my clientele. I watched this interview with Remi Warren, then watched the one with Steven Rinella on the same topic. Both guys mentioned how the bear came in while the group of hunters were preoccupied with having lunch. It reminded me of a story told by a doctor who'd retired to the Olympic Peninsula after having spent his career in panhandle Alaska--at Ketchikan if I remember correctly. The doctor told me about a bear attack incident he had attended as an emergency room staffer. It illustrates the sheer power of the bears. While I have lost some details of the story over more than three decades, two significant ones have stuck with me. First, the victim was one of a pair of loggers sitting on a downed log while eating their lunch sandwiches. Timber fellers through at least the first half of the 20th century did not typically wear hearing protection on the job. Thus, their hearing was doubtlessly little better than that of a World War 2 machine gunner (my late father was one of those). While eating their lunch, the pair never heard the grizzly approaching from behind. The first they knew of its presence was when the bear bit down on one logger's left shoulder. I can't recall why the bear let go, other than perhaps being startled when yelled at by the logger's partner. The second detail that I do remember is the doctor saying that he could look down into the wound and see the logger's heart beating as a result of that single bite.
The way he describes the hunt reminds me of how I think about deployments lol I hated it in the moment and look back on it as some of the greatest memories of my life
I actually spoke to this bear and he said this is not how it happened at all.
"...it's a weird experience," he said, of being attacked by the largest land dwelling apex predator in the Americas.
comedic genius at its finest, kudos
The bear is a payed trans crisis actor.
You're never gonna hear that on human news
@@scottcantdance804 He can't bear to hear these lies
Imagine if bears sat around the river talking about how crazy it was for them to survive human attacks
Lol
LMAO
Oh yeah, we are far more dangerous, people just don't talk about that...
Sounds like a good farside cartoon
How do we know they don’t?
The trapper on the adjoining line to ours was a 70-something-old native gentleman who taught me a lot about trapping and nature in general. He lived on his line year-round in a log cabin. He had a husky cross dog that weighed around 100 pounds. once when he went to town for supplies and came back to his dog mauled. When we met him after the incident he showed us the dog. The dog's face was Frankenstiened back together and his body had stitches all over. All done by him in the bush as vets at that time were few and far between. He was so proud of his dog as the grizzly never got into his cabin. The dog still waged his tail and loved to be petted and lived on the line for many more years.
Dude!!! Whoa
dogs and wolves are a blessing to have
Poor Bubba could care less about his body. Would rather see his owner safe and happy
The greatness of humanity proven. That old man sounds like a blessing to earth.
Holy smokes!
Imagine telling your friends that you were attacked by a bear and you ended up riding him like a giga chad. Nobody would believe that ever haha
True dat
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Yeah, except for the gullible plebs in this comment section.
Just like nobody believes this.
Bear charges joe rogan:
Joe rogan: DEVISTATING SPINNING SIDE KICK
Devastating
Jay Koncepts if you think that bears gonna get up after that spinning side kick ur trippin
@@tagootuesday6521 Rogan cartoons : it's Rogan and a Big Ass Grizzly Bear taking on hundreds of critter's ! Thad' b fucking COOL ! Joe just firing arrows and taking out anything that strikes his path
@@codyciepiela1287 there is such a thing as a spinning side kick
He would just annoy the bear and then get his neck punctured. No contest.
“I broke the bears ankles with my sweet juke moves and the bear then realized he didn’t want any smoke”
Imagine Kobe crossing up a bear a d breaking tf out its ankles
"and then I yelled to the bear, YOU can't guard me and it ran off"
TheLdjm and then I drilled a three in the bears absence
This fuckin killed me
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You have to interview the bear next
I experienced a large brown bear. Not as big mine was proabably 650 lbs. They move very fast. In seconds he covered 30 yrds in the opposite direction , luckily. I was on a quad. The size of my appearance on the quad is what saved me. I still filled my shorts. You have to respect this majestcally powerful creature. Something that large can move as fast as they do. Amazing.
I would've "filled my shorts" as well 😂. Bears, beautiful but deadly
Surprisingly nimble also.
Lol im bringing an ak47 next time when I hike
@@whysoupset9286
🤣 Fr tho
you busted a nut??
Dude accidentally rode an 11+ foot 1200lb bear down a mountain. Nice
Sort of thing that would happen when your alone and nobody believes you. What a story for the grandkids eh? Oh what the time I rode a 11 and half foot grizzly down a mountain in 100 mile per hour winds?
@@chipsthedog1 while tripping on DMT!
when they say 11 feet they mean standing up. not on all fours
@@sprinklls4260 No way, they totally meant on all fours. You're not a bear expert.
@@sprinklls4260 yeah. You don't know shit about how bears are measured
“The bear had the craziest look in his eyes, and at one point he said, let’s get it on”
I was talking about the fight I'm so not a raper
“I’m so not a raper”
So not a raper
So not a raper
That's bear was so not a raper
I watched a 300 + lb black bear climb up to the top of a tree in a matter of seconds.. totally surprised me to see an animal that big go straight up a huge tree with no problem whatsoever.. I knew they could climb but what impressed me was the speed and ease of it.. awesome animal.. black brown red it doesn't matter they are machines..
My wuss Border Collie chased a big black bear up a tree. It was comical though I did not recommend he do it again.
With Eeeeaaaaasssseeeee
They can climb up a tree like a Damm squirrel
Big difference between the blacks and grizzlies, here in WA there are black bears everywhere, we've got tons of hikers and people going out to the mountains all the time, like there are millions of people in the Seattle urban area and there are mountains right nearby just swarming with black bears. Literally only one person has been killed by a black bear in this state in 1974, and since 1970 there have been only 19 attacks, that's 52 years and there's only been more people coming in progressively but the attacks aren't increasing, it's a damn peace treaty up here.
Meanwhile Grizzly bears inhabit the most isolated and rugged parts of the US, including Alaska. Yet somehow there are way more attacks and certainly way more fatal attacks. I mean Montana, Wyoming, Idaho is literally almost all wilderness just small towns and barely any small cities, and yet there are still attacks all the time, aggressive and fatal attacks. Technically nationwide there are more black bear attacks, (maybe because they live in basically almost every state and near all of the major population centers) but the amount of Grizzly attacks for living in only 4 states and those states being the most isolated?? Jesus no wonder they were hunted to damn near extinction
@@geechyguy3441 Black bears are dogs. Grizzly are wolves...
6:17 "I think it was 11 and a half feet and maybe 1200 pounds"
joe: *ejaculates*
😂
Joe "I wear a hat when interviewing hunters" Rogan
Tanner Rienbolt so fucking true lmao
LMAO and a Hoyt archery hat nonetheless. Hahaha
Busted his ass with this one
💰💰
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1,200 pounds, runs 30+ mph, out climbs, out swims any human, jaws that can snap you in half, incredible stregth and stamina. A real life monster, total respect for bears.
And we can still kill them Respect for humans
Man...I’m already scared when it’s on all fours...then it stands up ahh man...a gladiator basically big foot hell
Yeah grizzly and kodiak bears are OP. people think lions and tigers are scary (which they are)... But bears just insanely scary. I wouldnt feel safe in a humvee around a mama grizzly
@@karnasingh860 SMH no. We can't kill them. WEAPONS can kill them.
You against a bear without a weapon? He'll be shitting out parts of your body, the next morning
@@davidleonard7439 Of course we need need weapons brah 😂
Check out the story of Gene Moe. In his sixties, he was attacked by a Kodiak, and all he had to defend himself was a Buck knife. The bear now hangs on his wall.
Love that story. Calling down the power of god on that bear
As the man who rode the bear down the mountain I can confirm it was by my own free will and a life long goal to achieve.
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@@anabella4166Liked, but -2 for the fr.
8:25 “we’d barely eaten”
And then you were almost bearly eaten 🐻
Every comedian ever just went bankrupt with this one joke. Move over Carlin!
Most underrated comment lfmao
Boris Müller Nice.
Creative
@@wighensakgr Carlin died.
"We were sitting in a semi circle"
That's your problem right there.
YUP!
Full circles, definitely not ovals
Is this a spongebob reference lol
Aaaaaaa sea 🐻 draw a circle
After the attack, they were sitting in semi fecal.
Biggest thing I ever saw was a Moose in Minnesota. We drove up on it in the early morning in the boundary waters. We thought it was a statue because it was right outside a little campground near the office. Then it moved. Enormous antlers. Huge beast. We all just stopped and stood in awe rubbing our eyes. Beautiful massive creature.
Moose is nothing compared to a grizzly bear. They’re like giraffes who are not king but more like the biggest dweebs of the jungle.
MOO (se) !
@@nickb3345 Moose don’t hesitate to charge a grizzly if it feels threatened
@@roronoalaw7772 Then get Murked.
@@nickb3345 Not all the time
As much as I wish this was all on video I think the fact it's not makes the story better. All the men that experienced what most would consider a nightmare situation now have a story that ties them together stronger than blood or any bond formed through normal means. A true sense of brotherhood.
Plus if they were messing with their cameras at the time, they may not had survived to tell the tale.
@@Alyyyyy Everyone knows that the camera man are invincible. But this story is fake anyway
"The bear started to charge us. I looked over and was terrified to see that squidward had drawn an oval and not a circle. I instantly knew my old clarinet playing friends life was in a lot of danger because ovals do not protect against sea bear attacks."
Lmao great shit man
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One of my favourite SpongeBob episodes
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So funny. Only parents with youngins would know this one! Classic
The bears around here are around 1000 pounds. 1 swipe from them and your dead. The vegetation is dense and hard to walk through, and the terrain is steep and tiring.
Joe rogan: what about the elk?
They are big
Joe rogan: *wow*
Lmaoo
Lmfao
There are 2,000 lb wild polar bears, biggest one recorded was 2,200 lbs.
@@alantaylor6691 wow, thats crazy
Joes such a fuckhead.
what a story to tell the grandkids..how grandpa rode a wild bear 🐻
Then the grandchildren think , wow what a cunt you are for hunting harmless animals. Hopefully the bear gets him next time.
Dude hitting the bear with a trekking pole is like trying to take out Joe Rogan with a chop stick
adrenaline, ever heard of it?
Probably very easily done.
I wanna hear the guy who rode the bear's story!
Hell yeah!
He's probably the coolest/dumbest guy at the party, imagine telling people how you literally rode a bear down a mountain. Some would be in total disbelief others would call him a damn liar. But in the end he's the coolest one there because no one can just ride a bear and survive.
@@sunken7403 that’s who I wanna be. The bear guy
That story is soooo fishy!
You should try to grab a cub if you see it in the wild, Mother bears love it when you grab there cub by the legs and pick it up, to them it’s a fun silly game .
I'm from the UK and we dont have bears here, I have always wanted to see bears in Alaska/Canada, if I ever go this advise will be very helpful to get a good experience. Thank you. 👍
@@choughed3072 i hope you're joking...
just me 😂😂😂
The legend of Saint Charles your mother must be proud
Telling me to off myself then deleting the comment 😂 the man
What a great story , it shows you how fast things can happen in life and how unprepared these guys were. They were complacent and it almost cost them ..
Yeah, even from the beginning he recounts how hazardous and inhospitable the landscape was for the group to hike. The Elk and bears there he and Joe described as “giants” and “monsters” They had no fucking business encroaching on bear territory and killing their food/elk. They’re lucky karma didn’t bite back harder. Next time they won’t be so lucky because they’ll continue to go where they don’t belong; looking for trouble.
@@tsering9262 so ur saying we dont belong on this earth and wasnt created by nature or even created by god to live here just as bears are? okay then, next time you see a bear, let it inside your house. see how much it gives a fuck about your territory.
@@tsering9262 It's not "their" food. We need to eat too, fool.
@@tsering9262 I’ll hunt where I want. And I carry a .44 Magnum loaded with Bear Rounds. The food on this land goes to who wins, and a bear, for all its size, is not bulletproof.
@@fireandiron4181 I live near bears. The only other creature here that scares me are the moose. Absolutely aggressive and unpredictable. Those things can easily kill you to.
I was hiking with my son in NJ on the AT and we were cresting a ridge and as I stepped up to the plateau a black bear, I'd say 300 lbs, was crossing the trail, it paused, saw me and kept walking, but in that pause because I was with my 12 year old son, I was scared in a way that I never felt before. It was the most horrible feeling I have ever experienced.
Yall need to change your gun laws.
dude if you cannot arm yourself, you should not go hiking in bear country, bottom line period. irresponsible on your part if thats the case..
Terrifying - do you stil hike ?
@@obscure323ro doesn't know about bear spray. guns wouldn't work unless you shoot em like 5 times they just have enough momentum. plus, if you see a bear, it doesn't give you the right to automatically kill it. this is why bear spray is necessary
@@YuriGoofov Yeah, now you come with the advice. lol Better not forget the wife's birthday again.
"I've thought about it a million times"
The interview took place 3 months after the incident.
That's 11,000+ times per day. So once every 7-8 seconds, for 3 months.
Impressive dedication.
Best pointless math ever
Bud, I think about the same thing every 3 seconds if I'm stressed or worried. If I got attacked by a fuckin bear, I'd have to be even more of an alcoholic to not think about that shit every day.
He also said he thought about it in his mind, as if he could think about it anywhere else, lol
Watch out guys. You be hyperbolic around this guy.
He was implying that he had thoughts about it prior to the incident. Most predator hunters probably do.
When the bear attacked we adopted the “every man for himself tactic.”
A modern version of that would be " Fuck this shit im out m-m..."
I don't have to run faster than the bear. I just have to run faster than you.
This got me 😂
Uh yeah
LOL
The largest verified size for a captive Kodiak bear was for a specimen that lived at the Dakota Zoo in Bismarck, North Dakota. Nicknamed "Clyde," he weighed 966 kg (2,130 lb) when he died in June 1987 at the age of 22. According to zoo director Terry Lincoln, Clyde probably weighed close to 1,089 kg (2,400 lb) a year earlier. He still had a fat layer of 9 in (23 cm) when he died. Also, an individual named Teddy, which portrayed a killer bear in the movie Grizzly, stood 3.4 metres (11 ft) tall on hind legs and was the largest bear in captivity at the time.
Otherwise An average adult male measures 244 cm (8 ft 0 in) in length, and stands 133 cm (4 ft 4 in) tall at the shoulder. The largest recorded wild male weighed 751 kg (1,656 lb), and had a hind foot measurement of 46 cm (18 in). A large male Kodiak bear stands up to 1.5 m (4.9 ft) tall at the shoulder, when it is standing on all four legs. When standing fully upright on its hind legs, a large male could reach a height of 3 m (9.8 ft).
I think the biggest bear in the wild Overall was an polar Bear which weighed a Ton. Its insane that there are Land Predators of that size
I read the biggest grizzly on record was 1400 lbs.
@@jerrywoods4066 just google it. Largest Kodiak bear you may have read on in the wild.
@@Wattawalkka I have
@@jerrywoods4066 that's what pops up for me and he was super tall too like a polar bear
I worked on Afognak years ago. When I was alone I always swam out to a shipwreck in the ocean to relax so I could see anything coming. Though mostly docile those bears are no joke.
Can't see shit swimming underneath you man, I don't do the ocean 😂 I'll take my chances with the bears!
@@wyattgrigor1995 Brown bears don't do underwater. They'll stand in water or swim on the surface but underwater humans have the advantage.
@@wyattgrigor1995 good luck, mate.
This was no ordinary bear, this...was a sea bear..
uh Patrick, whats a seaa beaar?
Hilarious 😂 😂 😂
Luckily, it wasn't a sea rhinoceros. This story would have ended badly.
Man-Bear-Pig!
He left the circle 🤦🏼♂️
That reminds of when me and my girlfriend were hiking in the mountains for a weekend about a year ago. Bear came out of nowhere and tried attacking us.
Luckily I brought my 44 magnum with me. One shot to the kneecap took care of it. My girlfriend fell down right then and the bear took her. I was lucky that I made it out alive!
Hahahahah
lol savage
😂
Dude you're hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂
Hey man, that's tough! I'm going to steal that joke man!
Years ago, I was swamping on a pipe rig delivering piping to a facility waaaay out in the bush of Northen BC, Canada.
When we arrived at the site, the driver and I had to go through an hour safety orientation before being allowed to work on the site, which was standard for any oil rig. One of the safety concerns was a grizzly that had been hanging around for a few days, sniffing around for food. Because we were so far into the bush, camps that are set up have incinerators to burn their trash instead of having garbage containers. It's safer, but that smell travels.
Another thing to be known about a "site" is that the bush and tress are cleared in a square around the facility, about 100yds in all directions so you can see any wildlife. Remember this, there are bear, moose, wolves and all sorts of wild critters out there.
Anyways, we were told that if we saw a bear, first thing was to hit a "bear horn" and scare it off with noise. There were air horns attached to poles set up about 30ft apart throughout the facility. If that didn't work, we were supposed to use a "bear scare bang"(BSB) which were also attached to the poles. A BSB was a bottle rocket type firecracker that made a very loud whistle, then a bang, to scare off any animals that may show up. The guy told us to not aim the BSB directly at a bear to try to hit it, that would only piss the bear off.
SO...we're unloading pipe and I've got my back to the bush when my driver stops lifting his end and whispers: Don't fucking move!! that bear is RIGHT behind you!! I think ya right! This guy was an old(67 yr old) bullshitter and a joker and I was about to laughingly tell him to fuck off, when I saw his face. FUCK!!
I slowly turn to look around and about 100ft behind me, standing on its hind legs, nose pointed waaaay up, sniffing the air was a really, really, really fucking huge unit of a grizzly bear!
The first thing I noticed was its paws. I'm a big guy, and if you put BOTH of my hands together, thumb to thumb, they were about half the size of one of its paws.
Tex whispers: don't fucking run!!
I whisper back: Why? All I gotta do is run faster than you!!
Tex freaks: Don't fuck around! What the fucks wrong with you?!
Just then, somebody hit a bear horn and the bear ran back into the bush.
That thing was at least 10ft tall. I'll never forget that.
Not to mention getting attacked by a rutting bull moose while driving back from the site, but that's a story for another time.
GEEZus Murphy!
BC is in my future but I'm not fooling myself, I won't go looking for them, unless I'm on a boat tour, ON the water.
@@shellygiggey2361 FYI? Boats won't help...grizzlies can swim..lol. BC is a beautiful place. Highly reccomend you check it out! Thanks for the comment! Peace.
WOW!!! Joe talks to a ton of amazing humans.. glad this dude and his hunting comrades survived!! what a STORY!!!
This reminds me of the time I fought off a schizophrenic unicorn with a teaspoon.
Me too, though instead of a unicorn it was a schizophrenic guy
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I just choked on my own tongue 🤣
This Is Actually Documented On Meateater Tv Show
Have you tried DMT?
Joe “I climax when people talk about bears” Rogan
*also wolves
Alligators make him limp
5:34
@@dompie247 I’m upset I can’t double like your comment but also 9:58 🤣🤣
I have a bear tattoo on my ass that he might like 🤣
I’m from alberta right outside of banff, bears have been a part of us forever, keep food covered and don’t have anything out that will attract and your usually ok. Always hike with other people as well. A guy I worked with got in between a grizzly and her cubs, she bit his head threw him on the ground and bit both his knees and ran off. I always tell him, if she would’ve swiped her 6 inch claw would rip your guts out. Her cubs being there and her wanting to get in get out saved his life. If she was alone she would’ve killed him. People underestimate them. They run SO fucking fast
Wow, barely a minute in, and your delivery already has me invested.
That's a quick subscribed.
My favorite pass time has to be reading the JRE comment section.
Not really. Everyone is doing the same. Either a dmt comment or Joe "blablabla" rogan.
Oh and copying top comments.
Once in a while it can be fun
@@djaxup joe "I don't read my comment sections" rogan
@@jamesdownes3284 exactly 😁
Joe talks about bears the way I wish my gf talked about me
You're about 1500lb
I see what you did there!! 🤣🤣🤣👍
Anthony Clemente I wanna meet the joe rogan bear
This huge, aggressive, hairy, powerful, dangerous, monster
I can relate. 😵
Friggin crazy story.. So glad all these men got out of that with such a great story to tell.
My uncle went on a guided bear hunt years ago and one of the guys shot one about 3 days into the hunt. She ran away and they tracked her for hours but they had to set up camp as it was getting dark. They made a fire and set their tents around it and went to bed. My uncle heard a limb crack and rolled over to see her shadow between the fire and his tent. He grabbed his rifle as she came through his tent shoving the gun stock in her mouth to keep her from biting him. The other hunters awoke to him screaming and shot her multiple times before killing her. The next morning they heard a weird sound and discovered her cub in the woods near their camp. My uncle said they didn't know she had a cub or they never would have shot her. Needless to say this was his first and last bear hunt.
i mean this is why hunters dont generally shoot females.
Wish the bear got some of them lol
Bear hunts are all about ego. Who wants worm riddled bear meat? Tought chewey tasteless (unless boiled in fat lol) trash. Not to mention the bears are more sentient than elk or deer in most peoples eyes
@@elijahjohnston3172 Bear meat is incredibly good If you didn't like it you didn't cook it good. And bear is perfectly fine to eat when prepared properly.
Too bad the Bear did not eliminate the hunters.
*giant 11.5 feet tall brown bear attacks camp*
"This is a rough day"
I’m literally crying
Can't believe Joe didn't ask how the guy riding the bear got away. Crucial detail missing from the story.
probably jumped off and started running after the bear
Yeah, it's almost as if nobody actually rode or juked a 1,200lb grizzly bear. Weird.
@@allanshpeley4284 Lol Yea this guy screams bullshit.
Not going to say if that part about riding the bear is true or false but he said that he saw the bear take someone away so he asked for a count, everyone shouted back except for one person he asks who's missing and then the guy who rode away on the bear came up from the brush, so I would assume that he fell off in the thick brush and the bear was too panicked to turn back for him
@@GuhbsBeats why does everyone else tell the same story?
Why isnt anybody talking about the one guy that was just riding on the bears back like its another day in the office? :D
I can't even imagine how confused that bear was when he realized its intended prey was now riding it.
The one guy who smacked the bear in the face is such a legend and 🤣🤣🤣 crazy story and what a blessing that they all made it out without any injuries!
It's easy to survive a lie
@@Praescribo ikr a whole film crew and none of it caught on a film
@@vang-toulee8351 so you standing around and recording it when a bear runs in easy meal for it
Facts big legend
@KiNG ScUmBaG Tons of people know who Janis Putelis is
When you spot a bear at 200 yards but want a cooler story than that
Wild story. I couldn't even imagine being in that situation
It's amazing how agile bears are. They can weigh like 650+ pounds and run up the tree in a split second so damn agile it's terrifying
If i ever get into a fight with a bear, help the bear.
-Khabib
Fabian Pacheco Mystical Khabib
LoL... 9999
Yes!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
"If I ever get into a fight, help the bear.
Chances are I will be dead and he will be choking on my bones."- Me
WHEN EVER I AM IN BEAR COUNTRY I ALWAYS CARRY MY S&W 500 SHOOTS THROUGH MOSQUES
When he was describing the size of the bears there it sounded like joe was getting the best head of his life😂
- Cicero like you?
HOooaaah
12:55
LMAO! All grunting and shit!
9:58 is a good one
Recently read a story about a grizzly attack that haooened in Alaska years ago. Three men, all armed. One with a 40 caliber, the other two with shot guns. Guy with 40 cal fired 11 shots, the other two 5 shots each. Bear finally went down about 3 feet from them. 21 shots from three men to take it down! Those things are no joke!
Only 3 shots actually hit Yogi. Lol
What was the 40 caliber?
I was thinking about a solo fishing trip to the Afognak River when I go to Kodiak this summer. This story makes me reconsider.
In October 1998 was attacked by a adult male brown bear in the coastal region of south western Alaska. I was forced into a corner and boxed the bear for what seemed like hours, i had bloodied his nose he then swatted my face and almost broke my neck it was a vicious battle...undescribable pain. I eventually had the bear in a toe hold as he winced in pain i saw my chance then switched position and fell into a perfect rear naked choke that I had learned from Rickson Gracie the bear slowly lost consciousness then passed out. I thought I had killed him which greatly saddened me as i was considering cpr as he woke up, looked at me with respect mixed with fear and admiration he walked back into the woods and took a shit. I came home and never spoke of the story until now I feel as if a great weight has been lifted from me.
Liar that’s like not even possible
@@billyhewitt725 It's obviously a joke goofy.
BassGod whoooooooosh
Funny stuff dudes
Growing up in the wilderness I have found that Bears don't respect MMA. You have to go old school, Figure four leglocks, piledrivers, and powerbombs. Its why Brock Lesnar left MMA when he moved to Canada and went back to WWE.
Bear clearly has the same problem I do when I'm playing cod and 3 guys roll around a corner in front of me.
RainbowGnarWhale fax, just shoot in between all of them and miss everything
@@ballivareso8225 Who should I go for, the left or right guy? Fuck it guess I'll just shoot in between them and die
@@ballivareso8225 holy hell, that happens on every game lmao.
Yupppppp
I like to think we’re being kind and firing warning shots 🤣👌🏿
My grandpa was hunting in colorado a long time ago with his friends, he was walking a trail and didn’t realize that he got between a mama and her cubs, he recalls that he heard the cubs and then heard the mom barreling towards him on his left, he said he had his 357, but it wasn’t enough to stop a mama bear protecting her cubs, luckily the cubs ran out from behind him and over to the mom, that’s what stopped her from attacking him
Well ya pa pa lied son, mama don’t stop.😂😂😂
I really respect the sense of control/respect these guys had in not shooting the bear after it charged multiple times.
Then told their trophy hunting chums how big the bear was and BANG...nice rug and bear head for the lodge
He was 14 feet tall if he was an inch. And the wind! she was a blowin' 100 mph! He charged me. That's when I juked left, then right. To avoid being eaten alive I flipped like Mary Lou in 84' vaulting past the giant beast. I stuck the landing and grabbed my pistol. As I chased him down the mountain I realized that my brave friend was riding on the behemoth's back, defiantly commanding him, "behave yourself!" as he tried to tame the wild beast.
I like this story much better
lmfao, 10/10
Exactly. Everything puts them in a good light. Bullshit.
Geez I thought you were joking. Then i watched it...
It's actually not farfetched at all to hear him tell it. When you do things/adventures all the time you realize truth really is always stranger than fiction. Everything is so unpredictable you can't make up what really is gonna happen. People in comments saying the stories bullshit guarantee do nothing. They have no reference for what's possible besides what they read or watch on media.
Wait so this is the guy who wrote "bear speed is 33 mph but feels like 25mph" on that website
😂💀
Best Comment!
Im surprised that 72 people got it
Such an underrated comment....🧸☠️
I’ve always felt the same way about going on hardcore, miserable, freezing cold, dangerous hunts for deer. Going so far out in the woods in freezing temps where you’re actually taking a risk is so rewarding when you make it back home.
The bear attack scene in The Revenant was actually fucking terrifying....😣
I feel like he really glossed over the whole "dude was riding on the back of the bear" part. Need more details asap...
Completely glossed over
I'd want to hear that guy's story. Remi himself said he thought the guy was in the bear's jaws, not that the guy was riding on the bear.
@@ShadowMudkip123 It's as clear as day guys. His friend was simply riding the 1,200lb, 11ft brown bear rodeo style while Remi kept juking out of the way like a professional boxer. Just your everyday, standard bear attack.
You can hear the full story on the meat eater podcast episode The Meat Tree
agreed dode
*Joe rogan explains how barboza survived khabib*
yeah lol,but the bear is inn chains,so fuck khabib the big blanket
He beat khabib with the pirates curse and with the help of jack sparrow
But Barbosa did not survive Tony......he was finished!!
"it was a weird experience." what a poet.
The part where he mentioned everyone counting off made me laugh so hard😂
"I’d always thought it would be cool to get attacked by a bear..."
Be careful what you wish for
If a bear charges you, espically if it's "comin in hot" just say "SIMON SAYS STOP" and the bear will. FACT.
+Jaydon Goodrich Dude! I was stalled on RR tracks and I stopped the train "coming in hot" the very same way. And you know it's true because I'm alive to tell the story.
Yeah i did the same with OKMULGEE, OK POLICE ... the bear wasn't stoppped, but neither were the cops, what saved everyone was i shit all ovet myself that the bear chas3d me an i was further aaway than the rest of the team..BUT he ended up butt fuckin me in EVERY SINGLE POSITION known to man. fuck... so , many, .... wait this aint year 2000, whoops, party, bitch....OUTTA TIIME!
I'd get a bear that doesn't habla english
Nearly pissed my self from 😆 😂🤣🤣
The weird noises from Joe that were an exact mixture of fear and pure euphoria. You’re scared as shit but recognise the value in how an experience like that rewards you in ways money can not
This is one crazy but great story, Glad they made it out alive🐻👏🏽👏🏽👍🏽
That bear had a good story to tell his friends.
A Hooman rode me today lol
I wish a human would ride me #single
I have some pretty scary bear attack stories from playing Red Dead Redemption but this takes the cake.
An old man was telling a story one night about being a bear poker when he was young. Winter was harsh and food was running low. They knew where a bear hibernated so the brothers decided to shoot it. Since he was the youngest and smallest he was voted to wake the bear from it's den. He crawls in with a long stick and pokes it. As the bear wakes he gets out of there in a hurry with the bear on his tail. His brothers are waiting outside with guns, but smaller caliber so it took a lot of bullets to kill it. He ended is story by saying "boy, bears get real angry when you wake them".
No words for the cruelty and sheer stupidity of doing that.
@@mortalclown3812I'll do it for Free
Its common in Alaska for bears to be hunted for food
“Things are terrible but you look at them fondly” my army vets check in😭
Afognak is no joke. Lots of guys die there. Mostly from logging but plenty of bear attacks.
In Kodiak, you have to be a local or get a guide to hunt bear on the island.Cause a noob will get killed.
@@deadmoosemeat7952 What's A Noob!
i've got very little sympathy for a hunter who gets killed by the game he is hunting. I have nothing against hunting, but humans have all the advantages (GUNS). so if a bear out hunts the hunter, good for him that's nature. kill or be killed
@@ericnortan9012 You don't know your ass from a hole in the ground.
eric nortan the adrenaline rush a bear gets when defending its cubs is incomparable. They can literally take 7 shotgun shots to the skull and still takeout the shooter
The dude that rode the bear I would imagine has a hell of an angle to tell his story from. I really hope his friends call him "Cowboy" now.
Guy was probably wishing he had worn his spurs
I used to troll joe Rogans videos, now I love everything about this man. Drugs are a hell of a thing kids
Joe put on his little bow hat and long John for this guy. Total man crush
Joe is kinda building uoto going hand to hand combat with a bear
Best bear story ever! His insight to what the bear was thinking was hilarious yet almost definitely true
A college friend of mine got that tattoo. I'm from Minnesota. He staggered out into the woods at a kegger and ran into a young bear. He thought it was some guy puking. As he goes to help him (he's hammered too) this bear rears up and claws the shit out of he's chest and back. Luckily people hear him yelling; come to the rescue and the bear runs off. He's got some gnarly scars from that. Think I'd rather just get a normal tattoo.
How did he know the bear was drunk?
Dont fuck with a drunk bear
@@sicknaramu especially not when it’s throwing up. Do they not teach you any of the basics in Minnesota 🤣
@Use Your Brain This, I just piss 10 feet away lmao.
Never ever chill with a drunk bear. Stoner bears are ok
it really happens so fast, most animals in general but bears way more elusive than you think.
Been in bear (grizzly) territory a bunch. And what they locals always say is if you're in a group of 3 or more you have nothing to really worry about. Bears aren't looking for a fight and they don't generally see people as food.
Joe “was there any dmt taken before the bear attack” Rogan
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
😂
Did you know that if you ride a 1000lb bear your body actually releases chemicals to give you a DMT trip
Lolll
I guess that's one way to "ride bear back".
Paul best comment
Jeremiah Johnson has the best bear riding scene
Why is the full episode private?
I still can’t get over the fact that a guy rode a giant angry bear down a mountain.
Milla Jovovich could do it. 😊
Because it never happened
I feel bad for his friend who rode the bear, because when he tells that story, nobody is ever going to believe it
Joe should get Jeremy Evans as his quest, that man survived a horrific bear attack.
Glad you guys weren’t killed nor harmed. You were SO lucky!
The three charges sounded absolutely horrifying
Joe “but what if the bear was on DMT” Rogan
It could be entirely possible
I love the gasping sounds Joe Rogan makes
First time I didn't skip a commercial
What Joe was talking about at 3:10 was exactly my Ranger School experience. It was and will continue to be the worst thing I’ve ever done in my life, but I wouldn’t change it for the world.
Crawl, Walk, Run
I owned and operated a firearms and archery shop in Port Angeles, WA from 1978-1988. While it wasn't especially profitable in that small town locale, it kept me in beans and it provided many an entertaining conversation with colorful and interesting characters among my clientele.
I watched this interview with Remi Warren, then watched the one with Steven Rinella on the same topic. Both guys mentioned how the bear came in while the group of hunters were preoccupied with having lunch. It reminded me of a story told by a doctor who'd retired to the Olympic Peninsula after having spent his career in panhandle Alaska--at Ketchikan if I remember correctly.
The doctor told me about a bear attack incident he had attended as an emergency room staffer. It illustrates the sheer power of the bears. While I have lost some details of the story over more than three decades, two significant ones have stuck with me. First, the victim was one of a pair of loggers sitting on a downed log while eating their lunch sandwiches. Timber fellers through at least the first half of the 20th century did not typically wear hearing protection on the job. Thus, their hearing was doubtlessly little better than that of a World War 2 machine gunner (my late father was one of those). While eating their lunch, the pair never heard the grizzly approaching from behind. The first they knew of its presence was when the bear bit down on one logger's left shoulder. I can't recall why the bear let go, other than perhaps being startled when yelled at by the logger's partner. The second detail that I do remember is the doctor saying that he could look down into the wound and see the logger's heart beating as a result of that single bite.
Oh...my...GOD!
Good grief! Shocking!
WOW... Oh. My. God! That's terrifying 😳
Yikes!! Ugh!!
wow
Perfect Example of "you don't have to be the Fastest, just can't be the Slowest person".
The way he describes the hunt reminds me of how I think about deployments lol I hated it in the moment and look back on it as some of the greatest memories of my life