A 61-year-old man won a life-and-death struggle with a cougar outside a small northern Vancouver Island village, killing the animal with his 7.5-centimetre pocket knife. It's a bad bear. But Johnson had a 5-inch knife … I’ve seen and shot bears up close (with rubber bullets from a 12 gauge shotgun and a 30′06 rifle handy just in case.) Hirsch had only a 3 1/2-inch knife blade when he came across the bear in his backyard in Williams Lake, about 190 … ... says he was about to stab the bear in the eye with his pocket knife … Man armed with knife kills hungry bear THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WILLIAMS LAKE, British Columbia -- John Hirsch went toe-to-claw with a black bear - and won. "The bear was on me, and he got me in the arm," says Gene. I knocked him off, and I fell here. “The bear is on top of Brandon ripping him up, and Trevor is watching all of this happening from maybe 10 yards away. Thankfully, Dowler remembered he had a knife in his pocket, a gift from his father just a few weeks before, and managed to retrieve it from his side and stab the bear in the neck. 11 Feedbacks on "55 Year Old Ontario Man Kills Bear With Knife" Steve Bodio. They thought the bear was heading away, but it turned and came back at Johnson. Associated Press. I got up before the bear got up. All Gene had to defend himself was a knife. Canadian Colin Dowler was attacked by the bear … "Then he knocked me down. Oh and who could forget the grandpa that took out a cougar with a folder, don't recall the model but want to say Schrade LB5 or similar. Man and Buck Knife defeats grizzly bear Discussion in 'The Powder Keg' started by Rocky7, Aug 9, 2019. I’ll shoot anything that goes after my dogs, including– sorry– a … This is at least the third bear killed buy a knife that I've heard of, the others where done in with a Buck 110 and a Buck 119 or 120 can't remember. It knocked him down and began biting his arms, legs and face. Johnson fought back, stabbing the bear repeatedly with his knife. Page 1 of 2 1 2 Next > Aug 9, 2019 #1 . Being that it is Canada, especially eastern Canada, I’m half- surprised they haven’t banned big knives or “pitbulls”. If at first you don’t succeed, sky diving and knife killing bears might not be your thing. Just like humans, some of them are bad actors. But you know what? Helle A man who could hear "bear teeth grating on bone" has survived a grizzly bear attack by stabbing the animal with a small knife. Man Armed With Pocket Knife Survives Bear Attack in Kentucky. Rocky7 G&G ... That's not why it was killed. "One tooth of the bear just broke the (left arm) bone right in half," he said. Dave Parker was jumped from behind while walking on an industrial road two kilometres south of Port Alice, a village of 1,300 about 370 kilometres north of Victoria. Rocky7, Aug 10, 2019. 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