Spear hunting is not my cup of tea but I know one or two guys who do it. It’s an effective way to take down big game. It’s a bit like dropping a piano on a cat to kill it; kinda messy but effective. It’s also insanely risky. Most game animals bigger than a small deer can kill you. I’ve seen video of a mid sized white tail buck picking up a grown man in its antlers and tossing him like he was nothing more than a rag doll just because he got too close. In this part of the world people die literally every year because of bear and cougar encounters. We don’t go anywhere outside of the regional district for a hike or camping trip without a shotgun. That’s part of living in the north. So to get that close to a bear with nothing but a spear and to try and kill it before it knows you’re there and rips you a new butt hole is a bit on the self destructive side in my opinion. But to each his own. Unless of course you’re an SJW in which case – no one is allowed to colour outside the lines. Ever.
The NDP are now legislating based on social media outrage coming from social justice warriors, this time listening to the violent anti-hunting crowd.
An American hunter named Josh Bowmar hired an Alberta hunting guide to take him on a bear hunt in Northern Alberta, near Swan Hills. But this wasn’t a normal bear hunt. Bowmar used a spear to kill his black bear and recorded the whole thing for his youtube channel, Bowmar Bowhunting.
Social justice warriors caught wind of his ‘man versus beast’ victory and went into full freak out mode, sending death threats that prompted Bowmar to take the video down.
As we know, reality and SJW’s are strangers. Watch as I try to shed the light on some facts and extinguish the fire of feelings burning around this story.
The NDP are now changing the laws in the province because of this one hunt but not based on facts. They’re doing it because the NDP just can’t resist their left wing instinct to goose step with their social justice brethren.
If an angry ignorant left wing mob is all it takes to get laws made in this province, we all need to be very, very worried.
Can you still spear-hunt the SJWs?
“It’s also insanely risky. Most game animals bigger than a small deer can kill you. I’ve seen video of a mid sized white tail buck picking up a grown man in its antlers and tossing him like he was nothing more than a rag doll just because he got too close. In this part of the world people die literally every year because of bear and cougar encounters”.
Bullshit…. cough…. bullshit…..
This douche bag was roundly criticized the world over for his “kill” AS HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN!!!!
He was hunting over a trash barrel throwing a spear with a goddamned camera attached to it. He no more had respect for the animal he killed than I have for pissing on walls in a gas station.
Love guys like you. You like to hunt but are ready to throw anyone under the bus that doesn’t conform to your version of how things should look.
Baiting bears in the north is a common practice that’s been around as long as we have. It’s done where the bush is thick and the terrain is flat and where traditional hunting methods such as spot and stalk are not viable. It is absolutely no different that hunting deer over a crop of some kind. Both are artificially placed there by man and both attract game as a food source.
Up close and personal any critter can cause you pain (or worse). Most guys who get the horn or hoof get it because they have drenched themselves in deer piss during the rut and are hunting from a ground blind with pointy sticks instead of rifles that go boom where you can clobber “100 deer” or more from safer distances.
While I would agree that your method seems the most sensible to me to each his own. If you think the left is just interested in picking on guys with sticks and bows then think again. The correct response to these asswipes is “Go fuck yourself”. Hunters and gun owners who squabble amongst themselves over shit like this need their heads examined.
As for the guys motives or his perceived “connection” with the critters he kills – that’s something he will have to sort out for himself over time and in the great ever after. It ain’t for me or anyone else to assume or judge. I can tell you this – I don’t ‘need’ to hunt to eat. But I’m fucking well going to keep doing it because I like to and it’s nobody’s business but mine why I do.
Btw – My 30.06 has about 100 deer kills, at no time was I ever in danger of being man-antlered. Humane kills. I am grateful to the animal and they deserve at least that respect.
How do you post pics on this cocksucker? I’ve got some Alaska pictures, you know the big scary where bears and shit lives.
There are hunters and there are cocksuckers that hunt bait and trash. This man / weasel is no hunter.
Indians hunted bear and other game animals with spears.
He should self identify as an Indian and claim the right to hunt by his traditional cultural methods to claim his identity.
Works for the Eskimo’s
Hey. I self-identify as a Huey door gunner. I can hunt anything I want with a minigun from the air, and it’s all legal!
If they run then they are VC. If they stand still they are well disciplined VC.
Hunting and youtube, not the best combination. Hunting most animals over bait isn’t considered sporting. I’ve often wondered why black bears are an exception to that rule. Leopards also. As for that idiot being in danger, i’m sure the guide had a 12 gauge. Don’t believe me, go on you tube, there are some guys bow hunting black bears over bait, and the bear gets a little sporty and gets a chestful of double ought buck.
star,
About 50% of the guys I know who bowhunt carry shotguns. It’s a lot like carrying bear spray in your back pack. It’s there to make you feel good. A bear moves so fast when it’s pissed that the odds of shooting it from bow or spear hunting distances (a few yards) if it decides it’s going to kill you are slim to zero. If you have a buddy backing you up better pray his reaction time is faster than yogi’s and that he doesn’t shoot you in the process.
The way I combat this problem is by not bow hunting. I prefer to keep everything I own on my body securely attached and in its proper place. But hey – it’s not my nuts they’re playing with so go wild…
I’m cool with hunting. The youtube thing i don’t get. It’s asking for trouble. Remember when we were kids, they should had a show called American Sportsman on the weekend. They offed everything on that show. Nobody thought twice about it
I don’t have an issue with spear hunting. I do have a problem with people who bait bears and other game in. That’s not hunting.
IS – sorry but it’s semantics. I don’t use man made baits because I hunt mostly in the mountains – it simply isn’t practical. But what is the difference between sitting over a pea crop (man made), a natural mineral lick (where we kill most of our moose) a spread of decoys or a barrel of rotting fish? All are game attractants and all improve our odds of success. None of them are a guarantee. Should it be illegal for me to know what food source mule deer eat in the alpine in Sept and to sit over it waiting for them to make their rounds? Because that’s exactly what I do. Food is bait to critters. Naturally occurring or otherwise. The difference between them is an issue of individual ethics – not law. It is one to be sorted out by individuals making choices that suit them best and not in the legislature.
I’ve never hunted by any of the methods you describe. Neither has my father. It does come down to personal ethics. My survival is not predicated on a successful hunt otherwise I might consider it. I don’t flip people shit for it (except my brother who baits bears) but I don’t agree with it.
FM,
I’ll concede to your points, however I do not approve. I’m just a big fucking asshole. That being acknowledged way back when in my younger days I dated a wildlife biologist gal who studied black bears in the foothills and low country of SC.
The number 1 bait she caught the most bears with – Glazed Doughnuts.
I’m with Francis on this one. Either your free or your not. If some faggot is making laws that stop you from doing something then your not free.