![]() “It’s a good thing I was able to get back behind that one lone-standing tree,” he said. He managed to step back around the tree before the bear was on him. “I was just a little way up over the hill, so he couldn’t see me.” “I yelled ‘bear!’ back at Jon about five times,” he said. “All of this was happening so fast I can’t really tell you how long it took,” Davis said, describing the attack. He charged because of that, not because of the food.” “I must have startled him when I came around that tree. “We later surmised that the bear had already eaten the deer and was bedded down by the time we got there,” Davis said. “He quartered the carcass and hung everything up in trees, and then hidden the buck’s head under some logs.”Įven so, a grizzly managed to find and devour most of the carcass before Davis and Irish could return to the site.ĭavis was moving through some nasty deadfall and was just rounding a lone-standing tree when he saw a huge grizzly coming for him. However, the hunters ran out of time packing in an elk and a deer that others also had killed. Knowing that they were in grizzly country, Brown had intended to pack the buck’s carcass out the same day he shot it. It was about a half-mile from their camp. 11, 2005, Davis and a friend, Jon Irish, agreed to go retrieve a deer that another member of their party, Dean Brown, had killed the day before. He also agreed to share the story of his own harrowing adventure in the Thorofare. So, he was excited when he, his brother Bob and a few of their friends headed into the Thorofare in September 2005 to hunt mule deer and elk.ĭavis recently contacted Cowboy State Daily, reporting he enjoyed a recent article about the Thorofare, which is widely regarded as the most remote region in the Lower 48. His wife Cathy is from Casper, and the couple still frequently visits family there.ĭavis began hunting remote areas in grizzly country near Yellowstone National Park in 1982. “But I was able to get into a ball and cover up my head and neck with my arms and hands,” added Davis, who is from Robinson, Texas.Ībout a month later, he returned, determined to fill his elk tag.ĭavis worked in the Wyoming oil fields from 1981-87. “Knowing what to do ahead of time and actually doing it when it happens are two different things,” Davis told Cowboy Sate Daily on Thursday while described being attacked by a grizzly bear in the remote Thorofare region. ***For All Things Wyoming, Sign-Up For Our Daily Newsletter***īy Mark Heinz, Outdoors Davis’ 2005 elk hunting experience in Wyoming can be summed up in one word. ![]()
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