If you haven’t already heard this story out of Wyoming last week, take heed as you prepare to head into the hills this season.
Ron Leming Sr. (pictured) had already missed two standing elk and on this day, was thirty yards downhill from his son, Ron Leming Jr. While calling in an elk, the son heard a noise behind and turned to find himself fifteen feet from a grizzly and unable to get off a shot at it, he jumped behind a tree before tearing off downhill. Ron’s dad let loose an arrow at the bruin as his son went by and was uncertain if it found its mark. ”I took three or four more steps and I fell. The bear was on top of me,” said Ron Jr. Read more…
Heroes
attack, grizzly bear, Wyoming
This story was forwarded to me back in October 2006, about three weeks after the hunting incident it describes occurred. As with most forwarded email, it was interesting to look over the previous recipients and see exactly how it wound up in my inbox; it had definitely made the rounds, having been repeatedly forwarded to at least 40 folks until my friend, we’ll call him Bubba, sent it my way.
It’s a three page Word document and I read it twice, trying to imagine being there for all the drama. Then I opened the included photos. I immediately recognized the guy in the third shot because every picture I’ve ever seen of him, he has that same expression. The hero of the story, Reed Thompson, dates my cousin and both were in Alaska at the time of the incident where they worked as dentists. Reed is a big-time hunter and I asked him about this particular hunt and the story Doug White, the author, tells is exactly how it went down……… Read more…
Bear, Moose
Alaska, close encounter, grizzly bear, Moose, pistol, Reed Thompson, rifle
