Bear Speared

The story is on CNN now.

http://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/...orig-vstan.cnn

At one time in Ontario,it was in the old regs that all big game had to openly displayed "for inspection". It may still be required in New York State because my BIL said he got a blast from the State Police for hauling their Deer home in the back of the truck where they said it was "concealed" and ordered them to leave the tail gate open. Different regs for different areas,I guess.

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Originally Posted by bellerivercrossbowhunter

Every hunter reacts differently when we kill an animal for food. I tend to keep it on the calm side & silently thank the animal for the organic protein it has provided to me & my family. I will never understand the woop-woop I just scored a touch-down reaction that you see on TV hunting shows. But hey we are all unique individuals...

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As you mentioned everyone reacts differently when harvesting an animal. I have friends that do the "touch-down" thing and others that barely break a smile. I do believe that some TV show hosts genuinely lose there minds when they harvest an animal.
For those of us that get "Wild TV" on cable watch North American Whitetail co-hosted by Stan Potts, if his reaction to a harvest is acting he missed his calling in Hollywood!
Sorry to get off topic

Well, in the end, this video has caused the cessation of Spear hunting there. Not sure how many people spear hunt, but one ill advised video has done a lot of harm. Rightly or wrongly is as we see it has little bearing. Score one for the Antis, and that really, is all that matters. Could he not have edited out some of the exuberance which paints us as " blood thirsty red necks", or the entrails?

There have been a handful of high profile incidents in the past two years. In each case, it's posting questionable material to social media that creates back lash. We end up doing the Antis work for them. Does anyone think this video will sway a little of the undecided or "I am ok with sustenance hunting" middle toward us. Or potentially push some a little further away.

I don't hide what I do, and post hunting material to Facebook when I get some. Doesn't mean I don't exercise some discretion when I do so. Just as I don't post pics of what my GF and I do behind closed doors. People don't need see it splashed on Social Media to know what occurs.

Until we learn to use it properly it has the power to blow up on us as well.

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Originally Posted by JBen

Well, in the end, this video has caused the cessation of Spear hunting there. Not sure how many people spear hunt, but one ill advised video has done a lot of harm. Rightly or wrongly is as we see it has little bearing. Score one for the Antis, and that really, is all that matters. Could he not have edited out some of the exuberance which paints us as " blood thirsty red necks", or the entrails?

There have been a handful of high profile incidents in the past two years. In each case, it's posting questionable material to social media that creates back lash. We end up doing the Antis work for them. Does anyone think this video will sway a little of the undecided or "I am ok with sustenance hunting" middle toward us. Or potentially push some a little further away.

I don't hide what I do, and post hunting material to Facebook when I get some. Doesn't mean I don't exercise some discretion when I do so. Just as I don't post pics of what my GF and I do behind closed doors. People don't need see it splashed on Social Media to know what occurs.

Until we learn to use it properly it has the power to blow up on us as well.

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You bring up some valid points! I have always suspected the anti's for baiting us into a fighting amongst us. In the future maybe we should not respond to the lure that smells like a skunk.............just sayin

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Originally Posted by huntnmachine

I have always suspected the anti's for baiting us into a fighting amongst us.

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It doesn't take an anti to get hunters to fight amongst themselves....this forum has many a good example of animosity toward each other.

Sad but true, point being is that no matter what is said against us or amongst us we need to have as thick of skin as the game we hunt

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Originally Posted by trimmer21

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My issue is NOT with the method he used to kill the Bear. It's with the decision to record,then publicize, a hunt that went horribly wrong by any standard of the ethics of a quick,clean kill that all of us,as hunters,aspire to,then,adding insult to injury by acting like an total immature a**hole after the fact like he'd done something heroic on the video. I think he needs a kick in the berries....more than once,for his appalling conduct...deliberately feeding the anti-hunting/animal rights rhetoric,to me,is just plain stupidity on a grand scale.

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Dead on, Trimmer21. I'm so weary of these fist-pumping rectums. It's the main reason I don't watch hunting shows on TV - I can't stand the childish "victory" scenes. Unfortunately, a lot of impressionable young hunters lap it up as if this is the way it is supposed to be. If I had pulled any of that kind of crap with my old man I would have got my arse booted over my ears.

It's a sad thing, this quest for recognition. At the root of it is pure selfishness; no thought at all about how his 15 seconds might affect other people. Give the guy a hero cookie.

That about sums it up Trimmer and Bigbear. We all know the adrenaline flows at the minute of the harvest but out of respect for the animal that video is way over the top. I worry about the backlash from even the non-hunters (which outnumber the antis by a lot). My wife was repulsed by the story and even more so by the video. It just isn't a very humane, efficient way to kill any animal for the average hunter. How many guys will try to trump this feat in some way? When other more efficient humane ways exist to kill a large animal why not utilize them out of respect for the animal? What's next a large sledge hammer as the ego junky is perched in a tree!

Found this video on another site..... not a bear kill but pretty cool if you ask me...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUuV...has_verified=1