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Has anyone heard this story yet?

I'll did up a link or two but we need to sound of as hunters and boycott Under Armor

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.bu...nt-video-2016-8?client=ms-android-att-us

https://www.change.org/p/under-armo...-armour-to-quit-cowering-to-anti-hunters

I don't have anything Under Armor.

But it sounds like they were sponsoring a woman hunter and instead what they got was her husband getting teary-eyed and emotional over whacking a bear over bait with a thrown spear, problem being from my viewpoint he hit that bear pretty far back, and we don't know how far and how long it went before being found.

Brings up the question of just how consistently you can hit the kill zone of a startled bear with a thrown spear anyhow.

They sponsored a woman hunter, and she made 'em sorry they ever did so. Not a win for our side.

JMHO,

Birdwatcher

Why do the make camo clothing then? I guess they thought camo was a fashion wear.

It only went about 60 yards, and they didn't look for it until the next morning since it was near dark when he speared it.

I won't be buying any under armor. Fu ck those liberal bastards..

Ehh...they make good [bleep]. They got bad press from someone they didnt even sponsor, for doing something that was destined to garner bad press.

They made a business decision. Until they stop making good gear, I dont see an issue.

Suppose we could ask em.

A spokeswoman for Under Armour, the No. 2 U.S. sportswear maker, said while the company is "dedicated to the hunting community," spearing the bear may have been a step too far.

"The method used to harvest this animal was reckless and we do not condone it," said Danielle Daly in an email on Thursday evening.

I fail to see a problem with the tool he used.

tedthorn;
Good evening to you sir - very likely tomorrow for you already I see.

This story is making the rounds up here on this side of the medicine line as well and garnering a lot of attention as well as no small amount of debate.

For a good many years when we're teaching the ethics night in our provincial Hunter Safety course I've typically said that if the hunter is proficient enough with their chosen hunting tool to hit a standard paper plate - every time, no exceptions - then they're good to go to hunt with it.

There is of course the proviso of the tool being legal, so here in BC for instance no rimfires for big game, no FMJ bullets and such. I will note that I can't see in our province where a spear would be illegal to hunt with and I've personally not heard of anyone doing so.

To the best of my knowledge the spear was legal in Alberta.

That all taken into account, we started to talk about videoing hunts a couple years back and to think carefully about what they/we post online.

I'm likely being cynical here, but it strikes me in this instance if the chap would've sat down and lit some sage on fire while gazing into the smoke pensively and talking in hushed terms about the bear's spirit and how he was going to eat it there wouldn't be an issue and we'd not have ever heard of them.

That didn't happen though and here we are.

While I do defend all methods of legal hunting and won't tell anyone how they should celebrate their kills, one has to also see that some of these videos don't do any of us many favors - if any.

It's a brave new world that couldn't be more different from the days of "what happens on the mountain stays on the mountain" anyway.

Good luck in your hunts this fall Ted.

Dwayne

Somebody trying to make "good tv" screwing it up for the rest of us. In the real world, I would think a bear that is dead within 60 yards after being speared isn't a bad hit. In the tv world, nobody ever makes a bad shot and animals fall right over, without any blood. As far as Under Armor, I never had any of it. Can't say if it's good or bad. They have to appease the people paying for their stuff. Simple as that. I don't hold it against them.

Fahq Under Armor. I don't buy their overpriced and overrated garbage nor do I spend my money in socialist schittholes if i can help it.

Under what? Never heard of them. Lol.

It's getting to the point of asking what companies are not owed by liberal scum

I have already written UnderArmor, and informed them that they have just 'Zumboed" themselves.

complete and utter BS, once again.................

I prefer cotton.

More chinese crap sold by big box stores.

I pity those that have not figured that out by now.

A company which markets clothing would seem to me to represent free enterprise in all it's glory (you know, using cheap labor overseas to produce stuff they then sell at a big profit in North America and Europe) yet here, on this forum, they are now a bunch of socialists because they choose not to advertise in a way which they feel would be detrimental to their sales. In essence, it seems some here can talk a good "free enterprise" line but don't really like to see it in action. If I was running any company, I think I would want to steer away from Mr Spear Chucker too.
In the end, a lot of this comes down to perception. If a guy used a spear to defend himself against a bear, he would be regarded as a hero. If the same guy uses a speer to kill a baited bear just to show that he can, it doesn't play quite as well. If he then acts like a fool on video after the fact and posts his foolishness for all to see, I can't blame any company for deciding to stay far away from him. The whole celebratory dance business, especially when posted online, stikes me as someone calling out, "Hey! Look at me! I'm a dork!". Plainly, not everyone feels that way but the Under Armor people must think enough do that they don't want to be associated with it.
I once knew a woman who killed a moose with an axe as it was climbing up a steep bank out of the lake. Maybe she danced around shrieking with glee afterward and maybe it was only the fact that Go Pro didn't exist in 1955 that saved her from posting a video of her accomplishment. Different time and different circumstances I guess. GD

Hey Grey Dog,

You are too politically Correct.

While I don't see a thing wrong with killing a bear with a spear, I do think that there should be some discretion on the was we broadcast what we do. In other words....not every hunt needs to be put on TV. I used to be a fan of the hunting shows, and would watch them for hours. I guess I just tired of seeing average sized 8 point bucks being shot, and then some hunter having a teary-eyed fit over the kill, acting as though he had just killed a new world record. Also, I didn't like seeing some hunter, mostly bowhunters, make a bad hit, shot a buck in the guts, then go back and find him the next day....after the coyotes had found him first. I realize that those things happen in the real world all the time, and I've been on some hunts when similar situations occurred.....but, you don't brag about it, and you don't publicize it for the rest of the world to see.

How so?

Or are you running on "feelings" too?