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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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May 25, 2017 - 12:24pm PT
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Hunting bear with a bow is pretty hard core. I'd suspect he was hunting for something else, and encountered the bear?
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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May 25, 2017 - 12:44pm PT
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I was 100% for the bear.
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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May 25, 2017 - 12:47pm PT
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I'm not even clear what he would have been hunting with that bow. Looked like a normal recurve, not a compound, and more of a target tip, not a broadhead. Maybe birds?
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jonnyrig
climber
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May 25, 2017 - 01:07pm PT
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So what, just the fact that he's a hunter makes him as#@&%e enough that y'all root for the bear? Enlightened are we, eh?
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monolith
climber
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May 25, 2017 - 01:17pm PT
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What other info do you need?
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dee ee
Mountain climber
Of THIS World (Planet Earth)
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May 25, 2017 - 01:20pm PT
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Go git 'im!!
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jonnyrig
climber
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May 25, 2017 - 01:23pm PT
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Well, I'm just sort of wondering how deep your personal hypocrisy runs. That would be helpful additional information.
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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May 25, 2017 - 01:23pm PT
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He's a First Nations hunter. It's not clear exactly what he was hunting on this outing, but if you look at his Youtube channel, he does hunt bear with a bow sometimes, for food.
He writes, "I sat in my tree stand for an hour and was given a chance to harvest this nice young bear.
peperettes and summer sausage, burger for my fam jam."
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl7goxaw9ftnddOAKe-DI-w
VVV - ok, let me rephrase that - traditional hunter. His ancestors lived on the land, before most of ours arrived on this continent.
I'm not defending him. Am merely pointing out what is possibly part of his perspective, having lived in rural Canada, and witnessed some of the tragedies of displacement of First Nations culture and traditions.
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monolith
climber
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May 25, 2017 - 01:32pm PT
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Hunting for food is a most ridiculous excuse as there are far better sources for that. He's out there for sport, and documenting it with his GoPro for his buds.
It'll be fair when a bear can enter a grocery store and eat shoppers.
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F
climber
away from the ground
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May 25, 2017 - 01:57pm PT
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+2 style points for hunting with a bow.
-5 for rocking a Go-Bro.
-2 for not taking the shot.
I chased a sow and 2 cubs out of my yard at 5:00 am this morning with a hand full of rocks in my flip flops. No Facebrat documentation though so it didn't happen.
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monolith
climber
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May 25, 2017 - 01:59pm PT
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That's funny, Tami. He'll probably spend more calories hunting for his 'food' then he'll actually get. All he has to do is pile in a few bags of rice into his pickup when he goes into town for gas and he's good to go.
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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May 25, 2017 - 02:08pm PT
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just to be clear, he's not a hunter, he's a harvester
EDIT: yes Studly, that's my point, he talks about "harvesting", as if that somehow changes the obvious
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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May 25, 2017 - 02:36pm PT
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Just to be clear, he's trying to kill, making him not a harvester, but a hunter.
As you sow, thus shall you reap. He got off lucky.
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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May 25, 2017 - 02:51pm PT
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Score one for the bears. I wish all hunters had the balls of this man and didn't use elephant guns to slaughter these magnificent creatures.
I'd be happy to read about far more 'bear mauls hunter' stories ;)
+1
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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May 25, 2017 - 03:05pm PT
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Well, I'm just sort of wondering how deep your personal hypocrisy runs.
Well, all of you that aren't vegetarians have some hypocrisy imo. Flesh-food is completely unnecessary and is a VAST waste of water and arable land, yet you're all for the relentless slaughter of untold millions of cows and other creatures just because you like their flavor.
You apparently think something like, "Cows, good; bears, bad." Flagrant speciesism.
And the practice of eating cattle also greatly contributes to the mowing down of rain forests, which in turn greatly contributes to global warming.
So, how much cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy are YOU good for?
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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May 25, 2017 - 03:37pm PT
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Obviously everyone is good with a LOT of hypocrisy! I was rooting for the hunter. I have no problem with anyone out there with a bow trying to provide some food for themselves and their families. I'd kill and eat the wild critters in my suburban back yard but squirrel, skunk, coon and possum don't taste very good! So I go to the market to buy my proteins like everyone else on this forum.
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monolith
climber
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May 25, 2017 - 04:02pm PT
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enjoy your Big Mac Monolith.
I don't eat any animal products, Hocking, but thanks anyway.
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monolith
climber
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May 25, 2017 - 04:07pm PT
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