Two hunters were stopped on a road recently by a momma grizzly bear that approached their truck and towered over them as they watched in awe.
“We were about to go on a deer hunt, but then saw the grizzly,” Justin Giesbrecht, who was with his father Ray, told For The Win Outdoors.
Giesbrecht captured the footage Oct. 31 near Edson in west-central Alberta, Canada. (Warning: The footage contains a profane word.)
It shows the massive bear approaching with three cubs, and reveals the hunters’ reactions as the bear stands on her hind legs, seemingly doubling in size.
“Oh … my gosh!” Giesbrecht says, in apparent disbelief.
“Did you get a picture?” Ray asks, nonchalantly.
Finally, momma bear lowers her stance, turns, and leads her cubs into the woods.
The footage was uploaded to YouTube on Monday by Viral Hog, which quotes Giesbrecht as saying, “We left the area out of respect for the grizzly family.”
Clearly, any subsequent deer hunt would have proved anticlimactic.
–Image courtesy of Viral Hog via Justin Giesbrecht