A Montana man claims he used advice his grandmother once told him and it saved his life when he was mauled by a grizzly.
Chase Dellwo has bruises, hundreds of stitches, a puncture wound and a swollen eye, but he managed to fight off a grizzly without killing it Saturday in northern Montana.
Dellwo was hunting with his brother outside of Choteau, Montana in poor weather when the two apparently woke up a bear. Only armed with a bow and arrow, Dellwo prepared to shoot the bear, but was knocked to the ground. The bear bit the man in the top and back of the head.
After a brief pause, the bear bit his leg and shook Dellwoo before tossing him a distance.
"He came back and bit my lower right leg and gave it a pretty good shake and threw me a ways," Dellwo told The Great Falls Tribune.
The bear attacked for a third time and Dellwo told the Great Falls Tribune that he recalled an article his Grandmother gave a long time ago:
"I remembered an article that my grandmother gave me a long time ago that said large animals have bad gag reflexes. So I shoved my right arm down his throat."
According to Dellwo, the advice worked and the bear left the area.
Though severely injured, Dellwo found his brother and drove to a nearby medical facility.
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