Fortunately, his hunting partner had an extra can of spray and gave it to Carmelo Silvestro before they parted ways — something he believes saved his life.
WATCH: The search continues for a grizzly that attacked a hunter near Madden, Alta. Carmelo Silvestro, is now sharing his harrowing story of survival. Sarah Offin brings us the exclusive interview.Just over a week after the hunting season opener for bow elk, Carmelo Silvestro is sharing his near-death experience after surviving a“The way she jumped and had her paws wide open and mouth wide open at me…. was just… something you see in a horror movie.
“They were large. I would probably put them at about 250 lbs each, just the cubs alone,” Silvestro recalled.They continued along the trail until, at about 20 yards away, they seemed to spook and started to run off. But the mother turned.“I watched her turn her head side to side and then probably when she was about 10 yards away, locked eyes with me and in that moment, I knew something was going to happen here.
What happened next would leave permanent scars, bites, bruises, broken ribs, even a broken scapula. But thanks, in part, to his partner’s bear spray, he survived. “I came home from the hospital on the second night and I stopped in the driveway,” recalled Gina Silvestro. “It was dark and I just started crying. I said, ‘I could be coming home to a very empty house.'”DNA tests have since confirmed the same mother grizzly was involved in an altercation that killed Calgary professor David Lertzman three years ago near the village of Waiparous, about 68 kilometres northwest of Calgary.
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