Hunter season has opened in Finland. No, that's not a typo. Hunter season is where the bears get a chance to bag a hunter.
Together with two hunting buddies, the man was tracking a brown bear he had just wounded with a bullet in a thick forest in Kiite, in eastern Finland near the Russian border, when the bear released its anger on the shooter.
The animal escaped another round of heavy-calibre fire and the jaws of the man's hunting dog before turning on the hunter.
The bear bit the man in the arm and clawed his neck, head and back before the two other men succeeded in scaring off the animal and shooting it dead.
The hunter suffered only minor wounds, the head of the local hunting federation Hannu Tahvanainen told AFP.
The bear didn't have a proper hunter permit anyway. He forgot to get the correct stamp.
