Man fends off bear attack with his arm

According to WSBTV, the Montana native was hunting with his brother when they accidentally awakened a 400 pound grizzly bear.

While getting his head chewed on by a wild bear Chase Dellwo remembered a few sage advice his grandma passed along to him.

“I remembered an article that my grandmother gave me a long time ago that said large animals have bad gag reflexes,” he told the newspaper.

Dellwo, of Bellgrade, Montana, was driven by his brother to a nearby clinic before being taken to a hospital in Great Falls where he remained on Monday for treatment of injuries that include cuts to his head and face, his wife Rebecca told Reuters.

The advice worked, and the bear left.

“I want everyone to know that it wasn’t the bear’s fault, he was as scared as I was,” Dellwo said Sunday.

Fraley said FWP will forward its report to a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent in Great Falls who will also investigate. Chase was to walk up a narrow creek bed and try to push the herd of animals up to a ridge where Shane would wait.

Well, that, and maybe shoving your arm down its throat as a last resort. With only about a three-foot (one meter) span of distance between the two, Dellwo says his first instinct was still to try and defend himself.

The bear left. Thankfully, the bear was not harmed either, as humans encroaching on bear territory has seen a detrimental ripple effect on bears lately. On the way out he saw a six point bull, which he said was disappointing. “If I had allowed myself to panic, I would still be in there”.

This fall’s bear-human encounters continued to grow over the weekend, when a man shot and killed a charging grizzly near Upper Whitefish Lake north of Olney.

“It was startled, he was startled; the bear engaged in a defensive attack”, he said. As reported by The Telegraph, Dellwo’s brother eventually found him and rushed him to the Benefis Teton Medical Center.

Chase expects to be released from the hospital in the next day or two and will probably sit out the rest of this archery season.

Wildlife managers advise carrying bear spray to ward off attacks.