Ryan Beierman told The Minnesota Star Tribune the bear pierced its fangs into his forehead during the attack. He had to get 23 stitches.

A father-son hunting trip went awry in Wisconsin earlier this month when a black bear went on the attack, and the 12-year-old is now being hailed as a hero for saving his dad. The AP reports that 43-year-old Ryan Beierman was near the family's hunting cabin in "the thick western Wisconsin woods" on Sept.

Owen saved his father's life with a quick-witted heroic act, when a black bear suddenly struck in Wisconsin. However, there was more to it than that. Father and son were enjoying themselves on a hunting trip when a black bear weighing 90kg suddenly attacked the father.

Ryan Beierman was out hunting in western Wisconsin when he suddenly came face-to-face with the black bear he had been tracking through the dense forest.

Owen Beierman, 12, took aim at the bear as it pinned down his dad while they were on a legal hunting trip. "Owen was a hero," Ryan Beierman, 43, told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. "He shot that bear and killed it on top of me.