Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Wyoming college wrestlers ambushed in gruesome grizzly bear attack

 "I could hear when his teeth would hit my skull, I could feel when he'd bite down on my bones and they'd kind of crunch."

Two Wyoming college wrestlers have been seriously injured when they were ambushed in a gruesome attack by a grizzly bear while hunting over the weekend.

The incident occurred on Saturday in Cody, Wyoming, when the two men encountered the bear at close range while they were in heavy cover while as they were antler hunting west of the Bobcat Houlihan trailhead on the Shoshone National Forest, the Wyoming Game & Fish Department said in a press release detailing the incident.

One of the men said he jumped on the grizzly to try and get him off his friend, Brady Lowry. "I grabbed and yanked him hard by the ear," Kendall Cummings told Cowboy State Daily in a harrowing account of the gory attack.

"I could hear when his teeth would hit my skull, I could feel when he'd bite down on my bones and they'd kind of crunch," Cummings continued.

...Both men, wrestling teammates at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming, reportedly underwent multiple surgeries after sustaining major lacerations to the body and face. Lowry has a broken arm, reports said...MORE

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