Matthew Sutton's Painful Brown Bear Attack

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Welcome back to Scary Bear Attacks! Today’s episode takes us to a little known place called Veikoda Bay, Kodiak Island, Alaska. The bay protrudes almost 20 miles into the island and is surrounded by steep, brushy banks. About 10 miles to east is the small town of Port Lions and about twenty miles past that is the town of Kodiak. To say this area is remote is an understatement given it is only accessible by float plane or boat. The altitude here varies about tops out at around 3000 feet high with rolling brush covered hills comprising the remaining territory.
This area has been the site of several episodes on our channel. In Woman’s by only about thirty miles to the east, we talked about a home invasion by a giant brown bear, and on Sally Island, only ten miles to the west, we talked about a sleuth of brown bears attacking a hunter. Each of those episodes are exciting, but you can tell me if they are more exciting than this one.
People have beed meddling with animals on Kodiak for some time now. They introduced Sitka Deer, Roosevelt Elk, Mountain Goats and a handful of smaller animals which have all thrived and sustained their populations here. People also introduced animals here that didn’t thrive. Moose, Dall Sheep, marten, mink and raccoons have all had their swipe at success on Kodiak, only to find their species to have disappeared after introduction.
It is almost like Kodiak Island has a mind of its own, and decides which species are acceptable here, and which species will have difficulty surviving. The jury still seems to be out on whether it will accept human beings on the island, or not.
Matthew Sutton grew up on a dairy farm in Pennsylvania and was a lifelong hunter. After graduating from high school he immediately joined the Air Force and was stationed in Alaska just before he found his beautiful wife Holly. Together they built a family with 5 angelic girls. It wasn’t too long before Sutton and his growing family were transferred to Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, Montana and away from the wilderness of Alaska.
While he was in Alaska Sutton had befriended many people, but he was closest with the Bush family. They enjoyed many of the same pursuits, like hunting and fishing. The father of the Bush clan was Bill and he enjoyed Sutton’s company so much that the two would plan a hunting trip together each year.
By the year 2008 Sutton was 31 years old and worked his way up to Tech Sergeant for 341st Operations Group and was in charge of supply. The love of his life was still Holly and his little girls, but hunting was his favorite hobby.
He stole away for antelope hunting trips in Montana, and to hunt sheep near Tok. But, nothing compared to Alaska in Sutton’s mind. He always found his way back up there and steadily began to think of a life there after his service.
Bill Bush was still one of Sutton’s close friends and companions on hunting trips in the last frontier. By now, Bush was 60 years old and had taken on the role of coordinator of the hunting trips with Sutton. He knew all the hunting spots and places they could camp and hunt. Bill had come up to Alaska in the 80’s to find work as a carpenter, and the state never left him, so he never left it.
In 2008, Bush and Sutton had planned a blacktail deer hunt on Kodiak Island for the last week of October. Bush rented a cabin they planned to stay in, dedicating the first week to deer hunting, and the second to hunting brown bear. He even set up their transportation with Dean Andrew’s, of Andrew’s Airways, piloting a Dehaviland Beaver equipped with pontoons for water landings.
On Thursday, October 26th, 2008 the plane transporting the hunters touched down in Viekoda Bay and taxied up to the dock. Sutton and Bush carried backpacks and duffle bags full of food and gear the 150 yards up the hill to the single room cabin they would be staying in for the week. Oh, they had their bullets, rifles, their knives and licenses, they even had a lower power VHF radio that they would use to contact passing planes whenever needed. Noticeably absent from their gear was an air horn, bear spray and a strong communication device, like a satellite phone.
Now, don’t fault the hunters for only having hunting rifles for their protection. Run-ins with the giant brown bears on Kodiak Island are very rare and maulings are even more rare. Generally, the bears avoid human contact like the plague, so having a reduced expectation of a confrontation is fairly typical of deer hunters here.

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