Hunter poses with enormous, 1,000lbs Kodiak Island bear in Alaska and reveals how he fought off the 'charging' beast

A huntsman has described really he gunned down a charging brownish carnivore pinch a handgun conscionable seconds earlier it mauled his party.

Tyce Erickson was stalking bears connected Kodiak Island successful Alaska successful May, hoping to container 1 pinch his front from adjacent range.

On nan second-to-last time of nan two-week hunt successful distant wilderness, he yet spotted a carnivore he could sneak up connected and kill.

The father-of-four crept up connected nan 1,000-pound bear, hoping to get a changeable from 30 feet away, but spooked it arsenic he attack and it retreated.

Not wanting to time off nan costly hunt empty-handed, he borrowed his hunting partner's firearm and changeable astatine nan carnivore from 50 feet - but missed.

His 2nd changeable hit, but nan carnivore vanished from position and he wasn't judge whether he took it down, truthful nan hunting statement moved astir to spot it.

The carnivore was not wherever they expected it to beryllium lying, truthful it was still live and stepping distant leaving a humor way that they followed.

After search nan carnivore for astir 2 miles, nan carnivore decided it had capable and it charged down nan broadside of a elevation astatine its pursuers.

'Suddenly you perceive this [noise for illustration a bear's howl] and this carnivore conscionable erupts retired of nan alder [trees] correct astatine Ryan, our guide,' he told nan Back Country Hunting podcast.

Erickson was astir 10 feet down Ryan and watched arsenic he fired astatine and deed nan charging carnivore successful nan chest, but grounded to extremity its advance.

'He pulls his firearm retired conscionable successful clip arsenic nan bear's astir 20 feet from him, coming correct astatine him. Boom and he shoots... and erstwhile he steps back, his limb gets stuck and he falls onto his backmost and he yells, "Help, help,"' he said.

Erickson didn't person a clear changeable past Ryan pinch his 10mm Smith & Wesson M&P 2.0, truthful he crawled done bushes until he could get to Ryan's broadside - conscionable arsenic nan carnivore resumed its charge.

'I sewage to his side... astatine this constituent he's only astir 12 feet disconnected my tube and pulled retired my handgun and conscionable unloaded connected him,' he said.

'I didn't really person clip to get nervous... it was getting existent correct now, conscionable successful that 2nd [I was thinking] I'm redeeming Ryan's life. I changeable 3 times... and by nan 3rd shot, it ended up taking him down.

'It's rolling down nan elevation and hits nan alders, and it was for illustration we killed nan dragon that was destroying nan village, we were cheering, it was an adrenaline rush.' 

Ryan poked nan carnivore to make judge it was dormant and it growled and raised its head, truthful he changeable it again done nan enarthrosis to decorativeness it off.

Erickson said nan adjunct guideline was truthful acold distant that nan cheering sounded for illustration screaming and together pinch truthful galore shots he thought 'someone conscionable died.'

'I didn't want to person that experience, but it made [the hunt] exciting,' he said.

'You ne'er for illustration to spot an animal suffer but I'm gladsome we were capable to get him and retrieve nan animal and person those experiences that we get to show kids and our families and friends.'

Erickson said astatine slightest 2 of his handgun shots deed nan carnivore successful nan backmost and neck, and his firearm changeable that first wounded it deed nan backmost of its knee.

Hunting carnivore is ineligible connected Kodiak Island, arsenic controlling nan antheral carnivore organization prevents them from sidesplitting excessively galore cubs truthful they tin mate pinch nan females.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game issues only 4 carnivore licenses a twelvemonth successful nan area they were hunting, each of which is very expensive.