I hunt and I don't think this guy was hunting, not really.
He lured a black bear into very, very close proximity with a bait station. The bear is distracted by chowing down on the bait and the guy throws his homemade spear. It hits the bear and the bear runs away.
I have three problems with this.
1. The bait station. Not much hunting with a bait station. He was just lying in wait.
But that's okay, I guess. I've sat in tree stands before. But I've never used musk or urine or bait traps. I set up a stand near a game trail and wait and hope.
2. Anyway, he hits the bear. The bear runs. Our brave "hunter" runs too, THE OTHER WAY! He says it was getting too dark to track the bear to see what happened to it. It could have been dangerous to follow it, he said
Hell, it wasn't too dark to throw the spear. He could have and should have tracked it. How long did it take the animal to bleed out, I wonder?
Some people here say the bear" ran 60 yards" and died, therefore it MUST have died quickly.
BS! No one knows how long it took to die. It may have run those last 60 yards, collapsed and bled for hours floppiing around with a spear sticking out of it before it died. No one knows BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T TRACK IT as they most certainly shòuld have.
The spear chucker was there, his wife who shot the video was there as well as the two owners of the hunting camp where the hunter and his wife were staying. Those owners specialize in bear hunts.
No one had a good hunting light? No one had a rifle to finish off the bear should that have proven necessary?
They went back the NEXT DAY, 20 hours later, to look for the bear. I hope they had a pleasant evening.
The wounded bear SHOULD HAVE BEEN TRACKED and finished off if it were still alive! That's my biggest problem with this so-called hunt.
3. The hunter is screaming and laughing hysterically, fist bumping and bragging in the video. But, tell me please, what the hell is he celebrating? His prey, the bear, was healthy enough to run away into the forest and disappear. Yeah sure, nice kill.
There's something a little off with this couple, the Bowmars.
There's a video on YouTube where the wife shoots a turkey in the neck with a bow.
She's in a turkey blind, uses a mechanical turkey complete with recorded female turkey mating calls to lure her prey in until it's just a few feet away.
Their video shows the turkey's head fly off (in regular time AND, for a nice added touch, slow motion). The video also shows the wife laughing her butt off for a long time after the hit.
Yep, great shot, clean, humane kill. But the kill didn't deserve all that outright, prolonged laughter. It's kinda creepy to watch.
Oh yeah, the husband shot the video. He too is convulsed with laughter.
These people give hunting and hunters an undeserved bad name.
When this hunter dies and goes to his personal hell, I bet it's full of angry black bears with spears sticking out of their sides and PO'd turkeys with razor blade beaks.