Bowmar Fitness Owner Baits Black Bear, Then Spears Him
A video published on YouTube showing Ohio fitness company owner Josh Bowmar spear hunting a black bear in Alberta, Canada has caused a public outcry. The video, published in June on the YouTube account of Bowmar, has since been deleted but can be viewed above.
The video is about 13-minutes long and shows Bowmar, a college javelin champion, spear hunting a black back measuring 7-feet. The bear was lured to a location with bait placed in barrels. When he gets to about 40 feet away from the massive bear, he launches a spear at the animal. When the spear hits, Bowmar celebrates, saying, “He’s going down. I drilled him perfect. That was the longest throw I thought I could ever make… I just did something I don’t think anybody in the entire world has ever done and that was spear a bear on the ground on film. And I smoked him.”
Bowmar returns to retrieve the bloody carcass the next morning with John and Jenn Rivet, owners of the Swan Hills, Edmonton based “Livinthedreamproductions” that provides a reality television-like hunting guide experience for hunters.
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