Bozeman man attacked by grizzly while bow hunting

A grizzly bear attacked a Bozeman bow hunter in the southern Gravelly Mountains last Sunday morning, according to a state game warden. Matt Menge suffered a broken right forearm and large cuts on his head from the attack, which he described as a fast and sudden attack in dense forest, said Warden Sam Sheppard with the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Sheppard said Menge was bow hunting near the west fork of the Madison River south of Ennis. While he had driven up to the area with a friend, he was hunting alone, traveling back to his truck when the attack happened, he said. "This is just something that has the potential to happen when people archery hunt in those areas with a resident grizzly bear population," Sheppard said. "You're stealthing along, cammo-ed up, being extremely quite and you just bump into them." Menge was carrying pepper spray, but could not reach it before the bear reached him, Sheppard said...more