Dellwo was hunting with his brother outside of Choteau, Montana in poor weather when the two apparently woke up a bear. Only armed with a bow and arrow, Dellwo prepared to shoot the bear, but was knocked to the ground. The bear bit the man in the top and back of the head.

"He came back and bit my lower right leg and gave it a pretty good shake and threw me a ways," Dellwo told The Great Falls Tribune.

The bear attacked for a third time and Dellwo told the Great Falls Tribune that he recalled an article his Grandmother gave a long time ago: