Unfortunately the Bear Hunter Got Away

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Black Bear Mauls Hunter Who Shot It

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A Minnesota hunter was mauled by an enormous black bear on Saturday morning after shooting it with a bow and arrow.

The unnamed man was hunting in dense woodland near Duxbury on Friday night when he shot the 525-pound bear. Fearing the bear’s meat would spoil in the day-time heat, the hunter and his friends waited four hours before following the animal’s blood trail.

The group tracked the bear for several miles in the darkness until they found it lying on the ground early Saturday morning. Suddenly, it charged and attacked the man who had shot it, who screamed before stabbing the animal 20 times with a hunting knife.

“I heard him screaming – felt like 10 minutes, but was probably two minutes,” Craig Lindstrom, a fellow hunter, said. “He kept stabbing it and it was pounding on him, a quarter of a ton – a 525-pound bear pounding on him.”

Using first-aid skills he had learned as a Chicago City firefighter, Lindstrom led his friend half a mile out of the woods and called the Pine County Sheriff’s Office.

“I thought he was dead 10 to 15 times,” Lindstrom said. “He would fall down and he told us about telling his parents, his fiancée, his kids – tell them I love them.”

The hunter suffered two broken arms along with wounds to his face, jaw, stomach and legs. He is currently at the North Memorial Medical Center and in stable condition.

The bear eventually died around 50 yards from where it was stabbed, and was dragged out of the woods by the remaining hunters.

Despite the brutal attack, Lindstrom and his friends said they won’t hesitate to hunt again in the future. Lindstrom hoped that his friend would recover in time for deer hunting season.

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12 thoughts on “Unfortunately the Bear Hunter Got Away

  1. Just treatment of the hunter for sure. Bow hunting injures and does not kill right away leaving the animal to wander off suffering for hours, days, weeks or months

  2. Hunting is a abomination any time, any day.Too bad the animal killer only suffered two broken arms. Hunting is akin to serial killing. Humans, hunt each other & leave the animals alone!

  3. Maybe he’ll never walk again or be able to use those evil arms. Waste of space. RIP poor bear. The backward, inbred, lowlifes will one day get their due. Evil humans.

  4. One day … some sweet day … I hope to read that an animal has clawed the balls off of it’s would-be killer. I want to see that in headlines. Really.

  5. Yes, the disgusting group looks nothing more than a lynch mob who caught their victim. Thought firefighters were decent people. We have people, including police, who sit in a sliver of public land to kill deer in my township. Last night I saw a silouette of a doe crossing a small road into cornfield next to a small wooded public land. Monday at sunrise, she will be someone’s target. I don’t understand the dichotomy of human thinking, because they are also living, sentient beings.

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