In that attack l talked about earlier ,the wrangler used a whole can of Bear Spray to basically no good effect,it was not until l fired into the ground in front of it as it turned to follow the horse down the river bank that it did a 180 & ran off sneezing & huffing.

When l say no good effect that horse nearly collapsed from it being effected by the bear spray & my wrangler had trouble breathing & seeing for over a hour after.The trouble is a Griz in kill mode will not stop a charge until its lights are put out .

There was a guide killed a while ago while butchering a Elk that had been stuck with a arrow the day before & left a good blood trail.A Griz loading up for hibernation came in on the scent & the first they seen it was a 100 yards away charging full pelt at them ,unfortunately the guide made the rooky mistakes of only having a handgun with him (a 10mm Glock like mine)& putting the handgun 10 yards away up hill on a mound so it would not get blood on it & kept a can of Bear spray on his belt .

By the time they seen the Griz charging in it had already hit him before he could grab the pistol & he wasted time trying to operate the Bear spray ,they found him with a empty bear spray can at arms length that it looked like he had resorted to hitting the bear with as it killed him , so IMO from years in the field watching them hunt their prey , if a Griz is locked on the only thing that will stop it is killing it.

I carry my custom 458 Magnum rifle & the 10mm if I am taking a client into heavy brush hunting in bear country.

Report on Guides Bear attack from our Outfitter association -

Elk carcass trigger

The tragedy that pulled heartstrings and stoked emotions in Jackson Hole and well beyond stemmed from a raghorn bull elk that Chubon’s crossbow hit with a “poor shot” on a Thursday afternoon in mid-September. Uptain, an experienced guide for Martin Outfitters, was with his hunter on Terrace Mountain, a broad peak that’s 6 air miles from the Turpin Meadow trailhead. Uptain and Chubon couldn’t find the elk, but they returned the next afternoon to where it was hit and then found a large blood trail. They followed it into a patch of timber and around 1 p.m. discovered the undisturbed carcass.

It was a warm day — peaking at 73 degrees in nearby Moran — and while field dressing the elk Uptain removed his shirt and left it and his black nylon shoulder strap holding a Glock 10-millimeter handgun 5 or 10 yards uphill of the carcass. A canister of bear spray was slung from a hip holster on Uptain’s left side, but Chubon’s bear spray was left in his pack because it had “become cumbersome carrying it on the horse,” he told investigators.

Uptain was removing the bull’s head, with Chubon nearby, when they heard a sound of rocks tumbling, presaging the attack.

“Mr. Chubon stated he looked up and saw two grizzly bears running full speed directly toward them,” Game Warden Jon Stephens wrote after interviewing the surviving client.

Uptain’s first reaction, Chubon recalled, was “waving his arms and yelling” in the fleeting moment before he was struck and repeatedly bitten. The larger of the two bruins, an adult sow, was the aggressor, while its grown cub was initially “just moving around in the background.”

Chubon’s first reaction was to retrieve Uptain’s Glock from the nearby gear pile, but he didn’t know how to function the slide on the top of the firearm that chambers a bullet.

“Chubon stated that he could not fire the handgun initially because of the bears’ close proximity to Uptain,” the report analysis says, “fearing he would unintentionally shoot Uptain.”

The Floridian client also told investigators he could “not remember if he attempted to pull the trigger.”

When the sow diverted its attack to Chubon he tried to throw the gun to the man who knew how to use it. But the firearm fell short of Uptain and no longer contained the 15-round magazine of 10-millimeter full-metal-jacketed bullets that Chubon “inadvertently ejected” while trying to disengage the safety. The handgun was otherwise functional, Teton County Sheriff’s Office determined after an analysis.

Chubon reported that he was able to sidestep the grizzly, but that it grabbed his right boot with its mouth.

In a brief tussle Chubon suffered abrasions to his right arm, fingers and left knee and a puncture wound on his ankle. Later he refused medical treatment and quickly flew out of Jackson Hole Airport, hours before his guide’s body was discovered. Although the outfitted crossbow hunter has been unresponsive to the News&Guide’s requests for an interview, he told Orlando, Florida, television station WESH he thought he was about to die.

“Somehow, the grizzly let me go and charged Mark again, and that’s when I made the decision just to run for my life,” Chubon told the TV news station.

Chubon told Game and Fish his last view of Uptain was “on his feet, fighting with the bear.” A Teton County Sheriff’s Office report appended to the investigation, however, contradicts that, stating that Chubon’s last view was of Uptain “bleeding severely and being dragged” and “screaming as the grizzly tore into him.”

It was windy, Chubon reported, and after leaving the attack sight and running to two horses 300 or 400 yards uphill, he never heard more yells or gunshots.

Reaching Terrace Mountain’s crest on horse around 4:30 p.m., Chubon found a cell signal, alerted authorities and waited two hours to be flown out of the wilderness. He told dispatch during his first 911 call that he thought the “guide is dead.”

In that attack l talked about earlier ,the wrangler used a whole can of Bear Spray to basically no good effect,it was not until l fired into the ground in front of it as it turned to follow the horse down the river bank that it did a 180 & ran off sneezing & huffing.

When l say no good effect that horse nearly collapsed from it being effected by the bear spray & my wrangler had trouble breathing & seeing for over a hour after.The trouble is a Griz in kill mode will not stop a charge until its lights are put out .

There was a guide killed a while ago while butchering a Elk that had been stuck with a arrow the day before & left a good blood trail.A Griz loading up for hibernation came in on the scent & the first they seen it was a 100 yards away charging full pelt at them ,unfortunately the guide made the rooky mistakes of only having a handgun with him (a 10mm Glock like mine)& putting the handgun 10 yards away up hill on a mound so it would not get blood on it & kept a can of Bear spray on his belt .

By the time they seen the Griz charging in it had already hit him before he could grab the pistol & he wasted time trying to operate the Bear spray ,they found him with a empty bear spray can at arms length that it looked like he had resorted to hitting the bear with as it killed him , so IMO from years in the field watching them hunt their prey , if a Griz is locked on the only thing that will stop it is killing it.

I carry my custom 458 Magnum rifle & the 10mm if I am taking a client into heavy brush hunting in bear country.

Report on Guides Bear attack

Elk carcass trigger

The tragedy that pulled heartstrings and stoked emotions in Jackson Hole and well beyond stemmed from a raghorn bull elk that Chubon’s crossbow hit with a “poor shot” on a Thursday afternoon in mid-September. Uptain, an experienced guide for Martin Outfitters, was with his hunter on Terrace Mountain, a broad peak that’s 6 air miles from the Turpin Meadow trailhead. Uptain and Chubon couldn’t find the elk, but they returned the next afternoon to where it was hit and then found a large blood trail. They followed it into a patch of timber and around 1 p.m. discovered the undisturbed carcass.

It was a warm day — peaking at 73 degrees in nearby Moran — and while field dressing the elk Uptain removed his shirt and left it and his black nylon shoulder strap holding a Glock 10-millimeter handgun 5 or 10 yards uphill of the carcass. A canister of bear spray was slung from a hip holster on Uptain’s left side, but Chubon’s bear spray was left in his pack because it had “become cumbersome carrying it on the horse,” he told investigators.

Uptain was removing the bull’s head, with Chubon nearby, when they heard a sound of rocks tumbling, presaging the attack.

“Mr. Chubon stated he looked up and saw two grizzly bears running full speed directly toward them,” Game Warden Jon Stephens wrote after interviewing the surviving client.

Uptain’s first reaction, Chubon recalled, was “waving his arms and yelling” in the fleeting moment before he was struck and repeatedly bitten. The larger of the two bruins, an adult sow, was the aggressor, while its grown cub was initially “just moving around in the background.”

Chubon’s first reaction was to retrieve Uptain’s Glock from the nearby gear pile, but he didn’t know how to function the slide on the top of the firearm that chambers a bullet.

“Chubon stated that he could not fire the handgun initially because of the bears’ close proximity to Uptain,” the report analysis says, “fearing he would unintentionally shoot Uptain.”

The Floridian client also told investigators he could “not remember if he attempted to pull the trigger.”

When the sow diverted its attack to Chubon he tried to throw the gun to the man who knew how to use it. But the firearm fell short of Uptain and no longer contained the 15-round magazine of 10-millimeter full-metal-jacketed bullets that Chubon “inadvertently ejected” while trying to disengage the safety. The handgun was otherwise functional, Teton County Sheriff’s Office determined after an analysis.

Chubon reported that he was able to sidestep the grizzly, but that it grabbed his right boot with its mouth.

In a brief tussle Chubon suffered abrasions to his right arm, fingers and left knee and a puncture wound on his ankle. Later he refused medical treatment and quickly flew out of Jackson Hole Airport, hours before his guide’s body was discovered. Although the outfitted crossbow hunter has been unresponsive to the News&Guide’s requests for an interview, he told Orlando, Florida, television station WESH he thought he was about to die.

“Somehow, the grizzly let me go and charged Mark again, and that’s when I made the decision just to run for my life,” Chubon told the TV news station.

Chubon told Game and Fish his last view of Uptain was “on his feet, fighting with the bear.” A Teton County Sheriff’s Office report appended to the investigation, however, contradicts that, stating that Chubon’s last view was of Uptain “bleeding severely and being dragged” and “screaming as the grizzly tore into him.”

It was windy, Chubon reported, and after leaving the attack sight and running to two horses 300 or 400 yards uphill, he never heard more yells or gunshots.

Reaching Terrace Mountain’s crest on horse around 4:30 p.m., Chubon found a cell signal, alerted authorities and waited two hours to be flown out of the wilderness. He told dispatch during his first 911 call that he thought the “guide is dead.”

In that attack l talked about earlier ,the wrangler used a whole can of Bear Spray to basically no good effect,it was not until l fired into the ground in front of it as it turned to follow the horse down the river bank that it did a 180 & ran off sneezing & huffing.

When l say no good effect that horse nearly collapsed from it being effected by the bear spray & my wrangler had trouble breathing & seeing for over a hour after.The trouble is a Griz in kill mode will not stop a charge until its lights are put out .

There was a guide killed a while ago while butchering a Elk that had been stuck with a arrow the day before & left a good blood trail.A Griz loading up for hibernation came in on the scent & the first they seen it was a 100 yards away charging full pelt at them ,unfortunately the guide made the rooky mistakes of only having a handgun with him (a 10mm Glock like mine)& putting the handgun 10 -15 yards away up hill on a mound so it would not get blood on it & kept a can of Bear spray on his belt .

By the time they seen the Griz charging in it had already hit him before he could grab the pistol & he wasted time trying to operate the Bear spray ,they found him with a empty bear spray can at arms length that it looked like he had resorted to hitting the bear with as it killed him , so IMO from years in the field watching them hunt their prey , if a Griz is locked on the only thing that will stop it is killing it.

I carry my custom 458 Magnum rifle & the 10mm if I am taking a client into heavy brush hunting in bear country.

In that attack l talked about earlier ,the wrangler used a whole can of Bear Spray to basically no good effect,it was not until l fired into the ground in front of it as it turned to follow the horse down the river bank that it did a 180 & ran off sneezing & huffing.

When l say no good effect that horse nearly collapsed from it being effected by the bear spray & my wrangler had trouble breathing & seeing for over a hour after.The trouble is a Griz in kill mode will not stop a charge until its lights are put out .

There was a guide killed a while ago while butchering a Elk that had been stuck with a arrow the day before & left a good blood trail.A Griz loading up for hibernation came in on the scent & the first they seen it was a 100 yards away charging full pelt at them ,unfortunately the guide made the rooky mistakes of only having a handgun with him (a 10mm Glock like mine)& putting the handgun 10 ft away so it would not get blood on it & kept a can of Bear spray on his belt .

By the time they seen the Griz charging in it had already hit him before he could grab the pistol & he wasted time trying to operate the Bear spray ,they found him with a empty bear spray can at arms length that it looked like he had resorted to hitting the bear with as it killed him , so IMO from years in the field watching them hunt their prey , if a Griz is locked on the only thing that will stop it is killing it.

I carry my custom 458 Magnum rifle & the 10mm if I am taking a client into heavy brush hunting in bear country.