Hunting Grizzly Bear with a Spear

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..a badger and a knitting needle to start with.
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That ol' badger would come out of his burrow and stick that knitting needle in you where the sun don't shine!
ROTFLMAO, that does bring a funny picture to mind.

This whole idea of hunting anything meaner than a cottontail with a spear is a little much.
 
There are reasons why our ancestors had such a short life expectancy. I would hazard a wild guess that spear hunting huge carnivores all by his oneself is a major contribution to why great-great-great-great-great-great- x 10 Grandad only lived to the ripe old age of 27. :eek: Even then, he killed 'em by using deadfall traps, pits, cliffs, and with more than a few of his biggest, toughest cave-mates along as backup.

Fortunately, we have gun powder. And longer life expectancy.

So, in the spirit of expanding the human experience, I triple-dog dare ya.
 
I'm thinking a Pike would be way better then a spear.

Tease him into charging, then set the butt in the ground and let him impale himself about 10-15 feet away from you!!

rc
 
Read the book "El Tigre". It is about Jaguar hunting with spears in South America. The hunters ran with their dog for sometimes hours at a time. Soo you might need to get in shape first.
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I periodically use a spear for feral pigs when I hunt with dogs.

A large boar or even sow (180#) will take a long time to die while you have that spear in its vitals and it is not a friendly creature during that time. This is even with a good heart stick. The boar especially turn tusk at you right off.

Typically a crossbar at the base of he spear is what keeps the pig from getting at me.

A bear 8-10 times that size would snap that spear and very quickly end your life.
 
You could start by going to Scottish Highlands. There are places there where you get a hunting knife and a scramsaxe against wild, never domesticated cattle. The cattle get just about as many hunters as hunters get cattle. Should be a great warm up for Grizzly kebabs.
The only two guides for brown bears I ever met used 375 H&H double barrel or lever 45-70 Marlins to keep thier undergunned overly optimistc clients alive.

blindhari
 
Hmm. that first pic got cut off to the right.. it says grizzly bear
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Neat historic pics. What I liked about them, aside from the simple documentation aspect, was the fact that in the second image, the spear appears to be at least 10 feet long. I don't think you want any carbine length little thrusting spear. You want a full blown big-boy hunting spear, something you can sink well into the charging bear and still have it not be able to reach you!

I think I would put a 'stop' mid shaft to keep him from just charging through the spear to you as you hold it. I suggest this because it is what I would do because I can't run fast.

Probably be a good idea to "work your way up".

Say.......a badger and a knitting needle to start with.
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He's goin' to lose a finger...
 
I'm thinking a Pike would be way better then a spear.

Tease him into charging, then set the butt in the ground and let him impale himself about 10-15 feet away from you!!
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This is how the California indians did it, or so I read, and they hunted in groups. Also, native people hunted to survive, not so much out of sport. Once they got guns, its not like they went back to their bows and spears.
 
Russians hunt bears all the time with rogatina. Fedor Emelianenko's younger brother Alexander has slain a bear. Apparently he used a traditional fork like staff to pin the bears head and then killed it with a knife. Maybe Russians are just harder than Americans wouldn't surprise me at all.
 
Eskimos hunted polar bear with lances 10-12 feet in length. The bear
was lured into an "V" shaped by the pack ice (another Eskimo was the
bait)the bait Eskimo climbed out the end while his bud came in behind
the bear and rammed said lance through the rectum to the heart.
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Hmm, let's examine the cost/benefit ratio of this activity:

Success = Bragging Rights, and 1 dead grizzly bear which could have been obtained by far easier means.

Failure = Really bad news, a grieving widow, former friends who make fun of you at every high school reunion, etc.

I honestly cannot understand why anyone would seriously consider such an activity. But then, I'm just an Olde Fahrt with a limited imagination — who hopes to live to be an even Older Fahrt.
 
der Teufel, some folks really like the adrenalin rush which comes from dangerous activity. Hunting dangerous game, driving race cars, even military combat.

FWIW, the fastest speed at Bonneville, the other day, was 422 mph. And one guy spun his 2,500hp Plymouth Barracuda at 277 mph. Adrenalin--fun, if you live through it.
 
The preview of Yukon Men last night for the next episode showed the two lads poking their heads into and worming their way into a grizzly den. They alluded that they were succesful/took the bear.. probably with a rifle though. anyway, hope I catch that one
 
Many many years ago when I was much younger and guided in NW Wyoming, Grizzlies were still legal to hunt.
Hunts were always over bait, we wanted good one shot kills.
No one wanted to have to go looking for a wounded bear.
We didn't like bear hunts anyway, they were a PIA.
 
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