# @outdoor_life on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C-9CzC7s_JH
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/22495874-outdoor-life-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-08-22T01:30:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Outdoor Life (@outdoor_life) — https://gondola.cc/outdoor_life

## Caption

Tyler Johnson sustained wounds including a self-inflicted gunshot to the leg when he was attacked by a brown bear while hunting in Alaska.⁠
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“I suspect the bear tried to paw me, which I don’t remember, but I think it hit my backpack. I have claw marks on the external frame and on my shoulder. It knocked me sideways, and at the same time, it gripped into my right quad. I was falling backward at this time. It was like getting hit by a train.” — Tyler Johnson⁠
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Somehow Johnson managed to draw his sidearm at about the same time the bear was on him, but only after the bear clawed his left shoulder and right thigh, and bit his right calf.  He believes he shot himself in the left leg as he was flying backward from the impact.⁠
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#bear #bears #bearattack #brownbear #brownbears #alaska #kenaipeninsula #animalattack #outdoors #nature #wildlife #outdoorlife⁠
📷: Bob Wick / mypubliclands⁠
Story by: alicejoneswebb

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outdoorlife, bearattack, animalattack, brownbear, outdoors, nature, kenaipeninsula, alaska, bears, wildlife, brownbears, bear

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