This Grizzly Tried To Tear Bram Schaffers Leg Off

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Welcome back to Scary Bear Attacks! Today’s episode takes us to the remote and rugged mountains just north of Yellowstone National Park in southwest Montana. The granite peaks soar over valleys stuffed with plants and animals. Each season brings its own state of energy as fall season transitions to a slower time. Pines, fir trees and Aspen trees markout the horizon and willow, blueberry and buckbrush hug the lay of the land. In this area, elk, moose, deer, sheep and goats adorn the hillside and black and brown bear, cougar, wolves, coyotes and bobcat stalk the shadows.
In September of 1995 the Schaffer family were on their last day of muzzleloader hunting for elk on Horseshoe Mountain in Montana. None of the hunters have successfully harvested anything yet, but the group is optimistic today is their day. Horseshoe Mountain is a 10,000 foot peak that lies just north of Yellowstone National Park and is surrounded by remote and rugged wilderness.
As the hunters climb to the peak of the mountain they can see the distant clouds of a storm blowing in. They spread out a bit to push through the timber and agree to meet back at camp at the bottom of the mountain for dinner. Bram is at the far end of the line of hunters and is an energetic high school football star who just graduated from high school the prior spring. He heads over a nearby ridge and separates himself from the group trying to go into a different area than they had previously covered.
Bram is cocky and strong in his youth and quickly gets into some promising elk habitat. He starts to see some older elk sign but nothing promising. As he looks around for more recent tracks he notices that the birds are not singing and usual forest sounds are all quiet. He begins to feel a sense of impending disaster and he suddenly sees a huge grizzly bear speeding toward him, growling, drooling and popping her jaws as she surges toward him. Bram had inadvertently walked right between a sow grizzly bear and her cub as they were guarding a nearby elk carcass they were feeding on.
As the sow blurs toward him, Bram yells for her to stop and tries to get out her way thinking maybe she will run past him and leave him be. The sow sprints straight up to him and shoves him to his back with her paws like an NFL lineman.
The sow shreds Bram’s down jacket and blaze orange hunting vest as she digs her 2 ½ inch canines deeply into his shoulder. Then she paws him across the head and rips his scalp away from his skull. Bram decides he has to fight back and punches the bear in the nose and she chomps a hole through his thumb joint. It is a one sided fight at best but Bram has no choice and fights for his life.
Bram searches for his muzzleloader frantically and sees the enraged bear is now sitting on it. She puts her massive head on his lap and huffs her anger at him several times as if to tell him to stay away from her cub. She opens her enormous mouth filled with long yellow teeth and bites into Brams right thigh and lifts him off the ground. She thrashes her head around tossing him back and forth several times. When she does this she tears a huge chunk of his muscle and tissue from the bone and rips it down toward his knee a few inches. She then slams him to the ground and he plays dead.
The sow then walks a short distance away and continues to watch Bram, to see if he is still a danger to her and her cub. Bram tries to lay still and slowly grabs his muzzleloader and points it in the sows direction. She sees the movement and starts to return to finish him off, but Bram somehow squeezes off a shot. The bullet placement is lucky and drops her dead instantly.
Bram is still trying to make sense of this terrifying and rapacious attack as he begins inventorying his injuries. His shoulder hurts very badly, and he feels his head and replaces a portion of his displaced scalp. He is covered in blood and feathers. Pieces of his hunting vest litter the area around him. He slowly works his way to his feet but collapses. His right thigh is shredded. It looks like large pieces of meat hanging from his wound and he can see his femoral artery pulsating, now exposed to the air. He painstakingly pushes the meat and skin back into place and growls with pain as he tightens a makeshift tourniquet from his hunting vest. He knows he needs help immediately so he raises his pistol and fires three shots in succession.