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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ben O'Brien's Grizzly Bear Encounter' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-11-23. Transcript available.

I was out in this drainage this grizzly bear this grizzly bear my dad's
there and I'm cow calling okay and you think the elk's coming I think this elk's
coming but it's not it's not I see the elk go across this ridge right it goes
across this ridge and then I see this brown flash go down this hill in front
of me and there's there's a bit of a you know if you look like this this this
brown flash has to go down this ridge and then around the corner of the spine
of the ridge and stay down in the valley I know that above me is is a elk carcass
freshly killed yesterday so I'm calling I'm waiting for this big bull elk I'm
looking this way and I turn around I look down below me and 100 yards below me
my
dad's here I'm here and I turn around below me and there's a giant bear 100
yards below me I turn all the way around like dad there's a bear there's a bear
there's a bear there's a bear I have my pistol right here
does your dad have a pistol?
he's not he's a bow only I have a pistol and bear spray
does your dad have bear spray?
he does not at this point he's not so luckily I'm between him and the bear
the bear goes down the drainage I remember as a hunter mostly I'm worried about
is this a
black bear or a grizzly bear I didn't know at the time it was kind of shadowed
in this
ravine as it was going up and I'm looking through the binders I'm like I don't
know
what this is I'm not sure if it's a black or grizzly bear grizzly bears have a
distinct
hump that you're looking for that's different from a black bear and they can be
and this
black bear is sauntering down at the risk of making this a longer story
explain why it's way more dangerous if it's a grizzly
a black bear you and I have experienced this in Alberta together a black bear
is not as aggressive not as predatory
black bear attacks are very less frequent than grizzly bear attacks
I don't know that I could explain kind of just the nature of a grizzly bear and
a black a black bear is an omnivore in many ways
a grizzly bear is a carnivore and in this scenario I would be if it was a black
bear
I would be looking to shoot it rather than being afraid of it because I love
black bear meat it's delicious and black bear fat you've had clay
new come on you make bear grease it's it's one of the best things that there is
so I guess that maybe explains the difference and then for for people like in
comparison it's like a golden retriever versus a wolf
pretty much that's a pretty good comparison it's a completely different animal
I wish there was a wild apologist to kind of really lay it out there but
he'd probably say german shepherd wolf yeah something like that
that's a fucker I'm trying to be like more comedic right this this yeah it's a
different animal
it is and and I would say that you seen it in when we were hunting bait in
Alberta yeah when a black bear
comes in you're willing to stand your ground you know we were on our way we saw
a grizzly yeah in
Alberta when we were on our way to where we're hunting looking eye to eye with
the grizzly is wild it's
a wild thing and when when a grizzly bear comes through a stand of timber or
you know mountainside in
this case things go quiet and we didn't even when i was in Alberta the one i've
seen in the wild was
not that big but the one you saw was big this is one of the biggest bears i've
ever seen i'm talking
big hind end just give me a give me a roundabout i have no idea i would guess
it at the six and a half to
seven feet oh i don't know how to guess the how much it weighed 300 350 no way
more than 450 700
we later found 700 pounds we later found the track on the road
we later found the track on the road where we walk in every morning
to the drainage this little two-track dirt road where we walk in we found this
thing's track
so it is sauntering up this drainage and there's a moment where my mind's not
in the right spot
it's in this in the place of is this a grizzly bear a black bear and i now that
i look back on that
moment it that bear was about two seconds away from ripping my face off oh my
god i'm cow calling
to that bear i'm a cow elk and to me i wasn't scared i wasn't pulling for my
pistol i was watching
it as a hunter might watch any game species that it comes that thinking an elk's
gonna come over the
rich yeah and a grizzly bear up how much how many pounds maybe seven eight
hundred pounds i don't
know i hope i'm not wrong let's be nice let's be nice and say 600. imagine a
600 pound super predator
one swat one full clip towards you i've interviewed many people that have had
their face ripped off
their testicles ripped off i know the the pure carnage that a grizzly bear like
that can do
and i also know in my pack is is a tourniquet and all the medical supplies a
man might carry
but i also and i'm pretty close to town my dad's there we have our cell phone
service we're not in
the back country i know at this point when i determine it to be a grizzly bear
it's already
walking up the drainage away from me i determined it's a grizzly bear i know
then that if it turns back
to us we got a problem but if it keeps going up the drainage i know where it's
headed it's headed to
that elkirk that was there and so luckily for us it it goes up the drainage
it heads over towards the elk carcass and ducks into the timber and that's
i mean it's not the end of it but that's the end of that encounter and you're
carrying a pistol i
have a pistol what caliber 44 magnum the taurus 44 magnum ultralight and i have
a chest holster
that's from a guy named this rasco a guy in bozeman makes his chest holder that
attaches to the bottom
is this a revolver this revolver and and i have bear spray on the hip uh belt
of my so you can get
off six six shots i can get off six shots six shots and i know
again having been in the industry and talked to a lot of people that have had
encounters i know kind
of how this is going to go and likely how it goes is the the only way you get
out of it is um you get
mauled and the bear loses interest or the person that's with you saves you in
some manner right yeah
um there's a pretty famous dad doesn't have a gun he doesn't he has a bow and
you're in front i'm in
front oh so i'm between these two and and again this is is your pistol in is it
you have to open up
snap to pull it out or is it's fully it's fully in a molded holster that i can
pull out present right
easy it'll be double action because i don't have it cocked and do you have a
thought when that's
happening where he might run away but if i shoot him he might attack me yeah i
mean it's like a
calculation right yeah and again as a hunter i'm i'm more interested in what is
this thing doing why is
it here than i am like i should run away right and that is um i think both
appropriate and also
probably not the best thing to be doing man like you should probably be can you
remember what you
thought like what went through your head when you realized it wasn't an elk and
it was a giant grizzly
bear finally finally yeah because you are in the country where you know dude i
been out in june setting a trail camera and heard a wolf howl i i told you i
talked to the game warden
he's like there's bears around and so the thing that you do is you prepare for
the worst and you
really really prepare for the worst and i and i did it knowing that that there's
folks that i've
talked to like i said that have had had really life-changing experiences one of
them in kodiak a
brown bear ripped off his testicles one of them in alaska a brown bear i think
grizzly bear ripped
off his face and so i know these stories i know them all too fucking well there's
a video of that one
guy yeah pretty recently glenn bond yeah how many four or five years ago right
i would have been uh back
and yeah roughly whatever give or take a few years yeah that one is available
online it's
it's horrendous kind of yeah they keep pulling it offline they put his face
back together again
pretty good i'm i have the full i talked to that guy i know that guy very well
and i have the full
story of that you can listen to it on the hunting collective there's a there's
a podcast with brett
yeah i listened to that it's amazing it's a whole nother show probably but it
it's like that's one
of those conversations where like a vegan or an animal rights activist would be
like good good some
people might say that some people might say that like i'm i don't i'm glad that
fucking and people
said that about that brett bond and his father glenn yeah there was a lot of
people saying like because
they were hunting bears at the time and they were hunting bears in their den on
the denali highway
in alaska yeah and so people were like good you hunt them in their den that's
what happens and again
and that's where i where i come back to the the emotion of finally because so
much of my hunting
life in montana has been anticipation of those encounters and that was the
first ever with a bear
with grizzly bear yeah well not the first ever in my life first ever montana i
was once on a
caribou hunt up in northwest territories they helicopter you out into the
middle of nowhere
and then you have a i think a 12-hour delay before you can hunt once you've
been helicoptered into
the wilderness i think it's 12 or 24 hours but you have a delay before you can
hunt so you'd literally
have to sit there and wait and we were there at a time in august when there was
no darkness it was
literally light pretty much the entire 24-hour day and so we sat on a ridge
line and we were glassing for
caribou in the in the period where we couldn't hunt and here comes this sal grizzly
bear down this drainage
every bush that she went by whack every piece of moss she's back just crushed
she was upset
she's having a bad day whether a cub got taken or she was just in a predatory
mood it was i remember
glasner with a spotting scope going like hope she doesn't come over here and we
were sitting on kind
of a is that normal behavior when like a club gets eaten by a boar i don't know
if that's normal
behavior i imagine it to be for folks who don't know that that happens a lot
and the females try to
fight the boar off i imagine it to be i imagine them to be aggressive in the
times that they need to
be but i don't i don't know enough to know if that's like every time a cub gets
eaten she goes
out and whacks the shit out of the next thing she sees i don't i don't know
that but in this case
this sal was alone she was not uh she didn't look all that mature but she was
going down this drain it's
just everything she saw she was hidden and i thought well if she comes by me
you're fucked i'm
fucked yeah and we were kind of on a what we would call a glass and tit which
is kind of a raised up
ridge and glass and she got at some point below us where we couldn't see her
what a terrifying idea
of a mad grizzly like a road raging grizzly you're like dude oh and then you
think that is it's like
someone just fucking fuck you and where do grizzlies live right the grizzlies
don't live by the urgent
care right right they live in places where if they whack you you're fucked you're
fucked unless your
friend knows how to break both your legs yeah you have to crawl to safety right
so you can so in the
examples of brett bond who we were just talking about his he saved his father's
father got his face
ripped off by grizzly bear he comes running down the hill with a 454 casual
shoots this bear bang bang bang
bang bang bang kills it it actually i was reading some of the his accounts of
the hunt he measured
five and a half feet from his bootstrap to where the bear died when he was
defending his father's
life his father had been attacked god how much did the bear weigh the bear is
now in glenbon who's 70
he's probably in his 80s now uh is in his living room he got it mounted full
standing mount and it's in
his living room i bet that bear weighed 800 plus pounds and again apologies for
getting that wrong
if that's the case but we got to wrap this up but before we wrap this up yeah
how does that bear
story end is that it yeah the bear uh leaves and goes to eat that elk carcass
how close were
you at the closest time 80 yards toward death how many seconds would it take
for a bear sprint at
you from 80 yards two do you think you'd have time to pull the gun well we did
a whole thing with clay
newcomb if you look on the old meat eater youtube where we tried to figure out
how quickly you could
draw your bear spray or your pistol not so quick not so quickly i probably
would have gotten mauled um
but again that's the reality of the world in which we live joseph that's a nice
thing to say if you
don't get mauled if you do get mauled you should say i should take a roller
skating yeah if you don't
get mauled you're like ah if you don't get mauled like i am going roller
skating from here on out i'm
gonna take up crochet like if you got mauled and you had the opportunity to not
get mauled you're
like yeah i'm gonna do something else i'm gonna keep my face

Ben O'Brien's Grizzly Bear Encounter

I was out in this drainage this grizzly bear this grizzly bear my dad's
there and I'm cow calling okay and you think the elk's coming I think this elk's
coming but it's not it's not I see the elk go across this ridge right it goes
across this ridge and then I see this brown flash go down this hill in front
of me and there's there's a bit of a you know if you look like this this this
brown flash has to go down this ridge and then around the corner of the spine
of the ridge and stay down in the valley I know that above me is is a elk carcass
freshly killed yesterday so I'm calling I'm waiting for this big bull elk I'm
looking this way and I turn around I look down below me and 100 yards below me
my
dad's here I'm here and I turn around below me and there's a giant bear 100
yards below me I turn all the way around like dad there's a bear there's a bear
there's a bear there's a bear I have my pistol right here
does your dad have a pistol?
he's not he's a bow only I have a pistol and bear spray
does your dad have bear spray?
he does not at this point he's not so luckily I'm between him and the bear
the bear goes down the drainage I remember as a hunter mostly I'm worried about
is this a
black bear or a grizzly bear I didn't know at the time it was kind of shadowed
in this
ravine as it was going up and I'm looking through the binders I'm like I don't
know
what this is I'm not sure if it's a black or grizzly bear grizzly bears have a
distinct
hump that you're looking for that's different from a black bear and they can be
and this
black bear is sauntering down at the risk of making this a longer story
explain why it's way more dangerous if it's a grizzly
a black bear you and I have experienced this in Alberta together a black bear
is not as aggressive not as predatory
black bear attacks are very less frequent than grizzly bear attacks
I don't know that I could explain kind of just the nature of a grizzly bear and
a black a black bear is an omnivore in many ways
a grizzly bear is a carnivore and in this scenario I would be if it was a black
bear
I would be looking to shoot it rather than being afraid of it because I love
black bear meat it's delicious and black bear fat you've had clay
new come on you make bear grease it's it's one of the best things that there is
so I guess that maybe explains the difference and then for for people like in
comparison it's like a golden retriever versus a wolf
pretty much that's a pretty good comparison it's a completely different animal
I wish there was a wild apologist to kind of really lay it out there but
he'd probably say german shepherd wolf yeah something like that
that's a fucker I'm trying to be like more comedic right this this yeah it's a
different animal
it is and and I would say that you seen it in when we were hunting bait in
Alberta yeah when a black bear
comes in you're willing to stand your ground you know we were on our way we saw
a grizzly yeah in
Alberta when we were on our way to where we're hunting looking eye to eye with
the grizzly is wild it's
a wild thing and when when a grizzly bear comes through a stand of timber or
you know mountainside in
this case things go quiet and we didn't even when i was in Alberta the one i've
seen in the wild was
not that big but the one you saw was big this is one of the biggest bears i've
ever seen i'm talking
big hind end just give me a give me a roundabout i have no idea i would guess
it at the six and a half to
seven feet oh i don't know how to guess the how much it weighed 300 350 no way
more than 450 700
we later found 700 pounds we later found the track on the road
we later found the track on the road where we walk in every morning
to the drainage this little two-track dirt road where we walk in we found this
thing's track
so it is sauntering up this drainage and there's a moment where my mind's not
in the right spot
it's in this in the place of is this a grizzly bear a black bear and i now that
i look back on that
moment it that bear was about two seconds away from ripping my face off oh my
god i'm cow calling
to that bear i'm a cow elk and to me i wasn't scared i wasn't pulling for my
pistol i was watching
it as a hunter might watch any game species that it comes that thinking an elk's
gonna come over the
rich yeah and a grizzly bear up how much how many pounds maybe seven eight
hundred pounds i don't
know i hope i'm not wrong let's be nice let's be nice and say 600. imagine a
600 pound super predator
one swat one full clip towards you i've interviewed many people that have had
their face ripped off
their testicles ripped off i know the the pure carnage that a grizzly bear like
that can do
and i also know in my pack is is a tourniquet and all the medical supplies a
man might carry
but i also and i'm pretty close to town my dad's there we have our cell phone
service we're not in
the back country i know at this point when i determine it to be a grizzly bear
it's already
walking up the drainage away from me i determined it's a grizzly bear i know
then that if it turns back
to us we got a problem but if it keeps going up the drainage i know where it's
headed it's headed to
that elkirk that was there and so luckily for us it it goes up the drainage
it heads over towards the elk carcass and ducks into the timber and that's
i mean it's not the end of it but that's the end of that encounter and you're
carrying a pistol i
have a pistol what caliber 44 magnum the taurus 44 magnum ultralight and i have
a chest holster
that's from a guy named this rasco a guy in bozeman makes his chest holder that
attaches to the bottom
is this a revolver this revolver and and i have bear spray on the hip uh belt
of my so you can get
off six six shots i can get off six shots six shots and i know
again having been in the industry and talked to a lot of people that have had
encounters i know kind
of how this is going to go and likely how it goes is the the only way you get
out of it is um you get
mauled and the bear loses interest or the person that's with you saves you in
some manner right yeah
um there's a pretty famous dad doesn't have a gun he doesn't he has a bow and
you're in front i'm in
front oh so i'm between these two and and again this is is your pistol in is it
you have to open up
snap to pull it out or is it's fully it's fully in a molded holster that i can
pull out present right
easy it'll be double action because i don't have it cocked and do you have a
thought when that's
happening where he might run away but if i shoot him he might attack me yeah i
mean it's like a
calculation right yeah and again as a hunter i'm i'm more interested in what is
this thing doing why is
it here than i am like i should run away right and that is um i think both
appropriate and also
probably not the best thing to be doing man like you should probably be can you
remember what you
thought like what went through your head when you realized it wasn't an elk and
it was a giant grizzly
bear finally finally yeah because you are in the country where you know dude i
been out in june setting a trail camera and heard a wolf howl i i told you i
talked to the game warden
he's like there's bears around and so the thing that you do is you prepare for
the worst and you
really really prepare for the worst and i and i did it knowing that that there's
folks that i've
talked to like i said that have had had really life-changing experiences one of
them in kodiak a
brown bear ripped off his testicles one of them in alaska a brown bear i think
grizzly bear ripped
off his face and so i know these stories i know them all too fucking well there's
a video of that one
guy yeah pretty recently glenn bond yeah how many four or five years ago right
i would have been uh back
and yeah roughly whatever give or take a few years yeah that one is available
online it's
it's horrendous kind of yeah they keep pulling it offline they put his face
back together again
pretty good i'm i have the full i talked to that guy i know that guy very well
and i have the full
story of that you can listen to it on the hunting collective there's a there's
a podcast with brett
yeah i listened to that it's amazing it's a whole nother show probably but it
it's like that's one
of those conversations where like a vegan or an animal rights activist would be
like good good some
people might say that some people might say that like i'm i don't i'm glad that
fucking and people
said that about that brett bond and his father glenn yeah there was a lot of
people saying like because
they were hunting bears at the time and they were hunting bears in their den on
the denali highway
in alaska yeah and so people were like good you hunt them in their den that's
what happens and again
and that's where i where i come back to the the emotion of finally because so
much of my hunting
life in montana has been anticipation of those encounters and that was the
first ever with a bear
with grizzly bear yeah well not the first ever in my life first ever montana i
was once on a
caribou hunt up in northwest territories they helicopter you out into the
middle of nowhere
and then you have a i think a 12-hour delay before you can hunt once you've
been helicoptered into
the wilderness i think it's 12 or 24 hours but you have a delay before you can
hunt so you'd literally
have to sit there and wait and we were there at a time in august when there was
no darkness it was
literally light pretty much the entire 24-hour day and so we sat on a ridge
line and we were glassing for
caribou in the in the period where we couldn't hunt and here comes this sal grizzly
bear down this drainage
every bush that she went by whack every piece of moss she's back just crushed
she was upset
she's having a bad day whether a cub got taken or she was just in a predatory
mood it was i remember
glasner with a spotting scope going like hope she doesn't come over here and we
were sitting on kind
of a is that normal behavior when like a club gets eaten by a boar i don't know
if that's normal
behavior i imagine it to be for folks who don't know that that happens a lot
and the females try to
fight the boar off i imagine it to be i imagine them to be aggressive in the
times that they need to
be but i don't i don't know enough to know if that's like every time a cub gets
eaten she goes
out and whacks the shit out of the next thing she sees i don't i don't know
that but in this case
this sal was alone she was not uh she didn't look all that mature but she was
going down this drain it's
just everything she saw she was hidden and i thought well if she comes by me
you're fucked i'm
fucked yeah and we were kind of on a what we would call a glass and tit which
is kind of a raised up
ridge and glass and she got at some point below us where we couldn't see her
what a terrifying idea
of a mad grizzly like a road raging grizzly you're like dude oh and then you
think that is it's like
someone just fucking fuck you and where do grizzlies live right the grizzlies
don't live by the urgent
care right right they live in places where if they whack you you're fucked you're
fucked unless your
friend knows how to break both your legs yeah you have to crawl to safety right
so you can so in the
examples of brett bond who we were just talking about his he saved his father's
father got his face
ripped off by grizzly bear he comes running down the hill with a 454 casual
shoots this bear bang bang bang
bang bang bang kills it it actually i was reading some of the his accounts of
the hunt he measured
five and a half feet from his bootstrap to where the bear died when he was
defending his father's
life his father had been attacked god how much did the bear weigh the bear is
now in glenbon who's 70
he's probably in his 80s now uh is in his living room he got it mounted full
standing mount and it's in
his living room i bet that bear weighed 800 plus pounds and again apologies for
getting that wrong
if that's the case but we got to wrap this up but before we wrap this up