Alaskan Hunters Kill Attacking Brown Bear

A 400-pound brown bear attacked and seriously injured a hunter in Alaska. Tyler Johnson, 32, and his father, Chris Johnson, were hunting black bears on the Kenai Peninsula, south of Anchorage, on August 17 when the brown bear attacked, according to nbcnews.com. Tyler and his father both opened fire on the bear with handguns, ultimately killing it, but not before Tyler was seriously injured by the mauling. He says he accidentally shot himself in the leg during the attack as well, with one of the bullets he fired at the bear entering and exiting his leg right above the knee.

"It was the hardest tackle I ever took," he said in a video shared by Inside Edition. Chris Johnson, who’s an Alaskan state trooper, wrapped his son's leg in a makeshift tourniquet and signaled for help using his satellite service. A helicopter came to the rescue and transported him to an Anchorage hospital. Tyler says that his father saved his life.

"I know how fast you can bleed out. I put a tourniquet below his knee below his knee to control the bleeding," Chris says.

Alaska State Troopers spokesman Tim DeSpainn said the mauling occurred in a remote area off the Resurrection Pass trail. The circumstances that led to it were not known.