Haven’t seen this posted yet. Awesome video. Wanted to get this up before jags obligatory “why I choot grizzly bears.”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzo2Ie7B7CI

Cool video. I’ve heard speculation that the elk had a broken or gimp leg prior to being pushed into the river. I really don’t know though.

Circle of life and schit.

Great vid. I think there was something wrong with that elk.

Yep.
Met the wrong bear.
Wrong time, wrong place.

No idea; certainly a good chance as he definitely was a herd bull and no doubt had been busy. Either way, just an amazing encounter to capture on video.

It didn't look like the elk was moving under full power.

Brutal. Mother Nature is a cruel Momma.

I don’t recall ever seeing a video of a grizzly taking down an elk. That it when right for the thoracic spine is interesting. The impact to the central nervous system combined with the weight of the bear was pretty dang effective.

Trump is the grizzly and Biden the elk. Lol

Damn. Much more difficult than the way we obtain our groceries.

It looked like he might of been limping in the water, but perhaps the video shooter wanted to obscure that since he shows a still shot of the elk running towards the water but omits the following video footage until he's already belly deep in the water. Neat vid but unless somehow that footage had something wrong with it, seems like he edited out a significant aspect of the event.

Maybe; but I suspect that more likely he was taking stills then switched to video once he realized what was going on. That wasn’t shot with an IPhone

Yep. The elk was definitely not motoring well.

The bear definitely knew what it was doing.

It’s clear that bull has a hind end injury (leg? spine?) His rump drops with each step just before the bear catches up with him.

Park Ranger on PA @ 4:40

"All right people let's move it along, I am talking to you Texas."

I seen some still pics on another forum from a bit later after the kill. It looked like the bear had dug a partial hole in the ground and maybe had ideas of cacheing the kill.

On another look, the bull has blood on his rump before the bear catches him.

Prior encounter?

Not taking anything away from the bear, but the elk wasn't moving at the speed a normal elk would have been.

Bears don't have restaurants or grocery stores, but they still have to eat.

Here's a screen capture of the still shot at the start of the video. I added the red arrow to what looks like an odd protrusion from his left hind leg.

If you watch the bull running in the water starting at about .15, he's limping.

Yep.

All that horn didn't do him a bit of good.

Compound fracture?

Yeah, that was interesting. Could not get his head low enough to use antlers effectively.

That bull was injured by another bull before the grizz found him, he probably wouldn’t of made it too long with all the predators around. I saw a bull bison that had broken his lower rear leg in a fight with another bison last years august And within 2 days the wolves finished him off. Injured animals don’t last long out there.

What a tough way to go.......just another day for Mother Nature!

Looked like it had a broken back leg from its crippled walk in the drink.

Still, another reason i choot bears. What if that woulda been someones broke leg kid out there.

I was tracking a bull elk track through a hemlock and fir forest on the Cascade elk hunt when I came across this bear. He had heard me cow calling and was waiting for me to step into view at 75 yards. Since I had a bear tag I whacked him. On my way over to where he was laying I nearly tripped over a buried 5x5 bull elk that this bear had killed, partially eaten, then buried. When I got to the bear I found he had a hole in his shoulder and one on his forehead, I assmed from the tussle with the bull elk. It was impressive.

My wife was in the park Friday the 18th and saw that bull dead along the river, with the bear above it in the background "waiting for traffic to clear." She obviously had just missed the entire drama.

Grizzlies are awesome, and the world would be a lesser place without them.

This reminds me why I don't mess with a Griz, unless I am packing my .50 Hawken.

Absolutely.

I ran into a grizzly over labor day at 25 yards. She was a smart bear and did an admirable "out of the country" run after I let her know I was behind her. And I definitely was not packing a Hawken, unless Hawken happens to make bear spray.

Good deal, but did it get to ride home in a yellow Avalanche?

You were almost a victim!!!

I'm thankful he was already full of elk meat! LOL.

For real though, this is the one that was waiting for me and could have gotten me if things had gone just a little differently. Buddy alerted me he was hunkered down waiting for me at the other end of a log.

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Called this one in and he would have been glad to find me, but it went another direction.

Nice griz.

Would be interested whether you know for sure if that's what happened?

I suggested on Facebook, after seeing the video there, that the elk could either have been injured in a fight with another bull (have seen that many times in Yellowstone this time of year) but since bulls tend to be pretty rut-dumb in late September, the bear may also have stalked and grabbed him, then gotten away just before the video.

That was my thought, John, based on the blood on the bull’s rump.

lol. Yeah, black bears aren't really in the same arena.

Same MO.....

Still capable of killing elk, and you.

To be fair a lot of older skilled grizz kill bull elk at will during the rut.

It's sorta their job, in a way.

Antered ungulates have 2 purposes in life.
1. to be admired in the wild.
2. to be eaten. They're the smorgasbord of the wild

The elk drowned.

3. To provide hunting opportunities
4. To be admired on the wall.

Nice bear.

I doubt it and I'll bet he didnt ass shoot it either.

And many are specialists in hunting up elk calves.

But they only eat the old and the sick ones. lol

Sweet video of one very hungry bear!

This one was sick. However, they also catch a lot of very healthy ones.

Likely COVID. The pandemic just keeps getting worse

Youtube has this dated a couple of weeks ago but it's apparently a number of years old. A friend of mine watched it the other day and he said he saw it some years ago. It's just been recycled.

Incorrect.

First thing I noticed - something wrong with the elk's rear legs.