Ryan Beierman says he was struggling to fight off the animal 'when I saw a flash from the muzzle of Owen's rifle'.
A 12-year-old boy has shot dead a black bear that was mauling his father during a hunting trip in the US. Owen Beierman leapt into action and used his rifle to kill the animal - and may well have saved his dad's life. 'Owen was a hero. He shot that bear and killed it on top of me,' Ryan Beierman, 43, told the Minnesota Star Tribune.
'I started pistol-whipping him and it felt like I was striking a brick wall. I tried hitting him between the ear and mouth with a blunt edge of the pistol.' The bear then went for his head. 'All I could see were his claws and teeth,' he told the newspaper. 'I lifted my right arm to block him. I remember the first bite. I heard a crunch. The bear was still attacking. He wasn't going to leave me.
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