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Video: Hunter Lands a Throw on Bear in Intense Ground Spear Hunt

Video: Hunter Lands a Throw on Bear in Intense Ground Spear Hunt
By: Daniel Xu +
Posted: 6/7/16

No blind, no backup weapon, and from the ground. When it comes to spearhunting, those things are not exactly recommended, but Josh Bowmar decided to risk it all in this epic May 19 hunt in Alberta, Canada. At the time, he was hunting with his wife, Sarah, who had just harvested her own bear the day before. Josh, however, somehow got it in his mind to try his hand at spearhunting a bear without a backup—much to his guide’s dismay. Carrying only a custom-made spear with an attached GoPro, the hunter laid in wait until a massive bear came into sight. As you can see in the video below, the tension was palpable.
“No blind, no back up, about as primitive as you can get! This bear measured over 7 feet 1 inch from nose to tail, with his skull still in,” Josh wrote in the description of the video he uploaded to YouTube.
Josh is a fitness fanatic and co-owner of Bowmar Fitness. What’s more, he was a former javelin champion and had pinpoint accuracy. Yet all these things would have mattered little if the bear had noticed the hunter just a little too early, or if Josh missed and enraged the bear. At that distance, things would’ve have been dicey even if the sportsman had brought a backup gun with him. There are plenty of examples of what happens when a hunter underestimates a bear, and it usually isn’t pretty.
However, everything that could go right did go right in this case, and Josh manages to score a hard hit on the bear. You can watch the throw in action below:
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As my kid said'when you hunt something that can kill you,it makes it a bit more interesting'....I'm ok with it, he killed the bear, but if the bear killed HIM,would everybody been just as 'ok' with that?...

My friend in New Zealand hunts hogs with a knife, and you have to admit it kind of evens things up a bit

ps...will hunting with a spear satisfy the animal rights guys who are always on about 'high powered rifles'( what would they rather me use-a 'low powered rifle'?)
 
ratherbefishin said:
As my kid said'when you hunt something that can kill you,it makes it a bit more interesting'....I'm ok with it, he killed the bear, but if the bear killed HIM,would everybody been just as 'ok' with that?...

My friend in New Zealand hunts hogs with a knife, and you have to admit it kind of evens things up a bit

ps...will hunting with a spear satisfy the animal rights guys who are always on about 'high powered rifles'( what would they rather me use-a 'low powered rifle'?)
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If the hunter loses its part of the game. Its not dangerous if the bear/bull, snake, racecar, or mountain doesn't win once in a while.

Nothing will satisfy the anti-hunters. If you hunt non dangerous game you are a coward. If you hunt dangerous game with a rifle then you are egotistical, still taking too much advantage, compensating for a short ####, and have too much money so you're probably a thief as well. Probably secretly want to kill people.

If you hunt dangerous game with a primitive weapon you are egotistical, compensating, over-funded, crazy, and either inhumane or downright evil.

You cant win, because their process is not to be logical, its to be insulting.

You know whats worse? Its not hard to find other hunters who are quick to say most of the same things.
 
Dogleg said:
For some strange reason spear hunting is forbidden in Saskatchewan.
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Spear hunting in Saskatchewan....
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