Ive been into bows and bow hunting since i was a kid and still love it.. had an itch to take up traditional archery for a long time now so i finally acquired my first bear recurve.. a beautiful gem 1970 kodiak hunter 60 inch bow 53# ..i took right up to it and now im hooked on it like i knew i would be ..gonna practice hard this year and try taking my first traditional archery buck !!! Fred bear is a legend and he inspired me to pick up a recurve ..when i got one it HAD TO be a BEAR
I bow hunted whitetails for years with a compound bow, I did well. I used to shoot a Bear Montana Longbow too Let me tell you something, what you all saw here was beyond gangster ! Fred Bear harvested all 8 animals he shot at with only 1 arrow needed with a recurve bow, no sights, a 70 pound draw weight ? at running game too ! Lol, am I the only one that thinks Fred Bear is the King of Bowhunting ? Plus this guy halfway this this African game hunt and gets into a car accident and suffers a fractured rib and busted nose yet sucks it up and just continues on and keeps whacking each animal down with just a single arrow. It’s simply a ridiculous feat. Thats the single greatest hunting episode I’ve ever seen ! Fred Bear was a badass !
An interesting note is that most Game departments didn’t allow archery hunting for dangerous game and a majority of Professional Hunters at this time refused to guide clients because it wasn’t worth the extra danger to them. So Wally Johnson taking on Fred would have been an event.
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What a great film! Changed my opinion of big game hunting with the focus on harvesting and using the whole animal as well as giving the animal a fair chance.
Far too many ant hunters don’t realize that in Africa the meat of the animals is given to the locals as well as a large portion of the hunting fee. This gifting of meat and money helps prevent poaching and in reality saves way more animals than if there wasn’t any legal hunting
He was right handed till a farming accident when he was young. So he taught himself to shoot left handed. Which makes me think that is why he snap shot so perfect.
How things have changed in such a relatively short period of time. Game preserves are shrinking each year as more people populate the areas that had been wild since time began. I grew up during this time, and it's sad to see how things have changed so drastically.
Fred Bear (Recurve) and Howard Hill (Longbow) the best archery hunters ever! I believe Hill's tally is higher than Bear's, but he was also at it longer than Fred. Respect to both!
I had no idea that Fred hunted with Winston Spencer Churchill, as his Safari Guide! Man, that Churchill got around! Seriously though, Fred's abilities and his bravery in getting in 'close and personal' to large, deadly big-game really is the mark of a true man and a hunter of the highest order.
I remember reading Wally Johnson’s book 20 + years back. It was sad that as the independence revolution swept Africa and Mozambique, he was literally kicked out of the country and his citizenship stripped. I think he eventually got back in but lost the great majority of his life belongings. Very sad story for an African born man who helped so many including natives!
this is a really cool documentary,i recently bought a compound bow 70lb draw weight and i can draw it fairly easily,going to start practising as soon as i get my arrows in from cabelas.possibly start hunting once i am a really good shot.thanks for the upload! i subscribed.
Fred Bear is using a fishing reel it’s a Mitchell 300 reel. I’ve probably collected around 25 of them reels. I could tell what it was before or sound they make when they’re cranking
But without proper hunters and conservationists, poachers will hunt these beautiful beasts to extinction. Thank you hunters for maintaining and upholding great conservation!
bwfreel I'm a southpaw and shoot Bear bows since childhood. I have a 1959 Kodiak 60" @ 55 lbs and a TD Kodiak A handle # 1 limbs for a 56" bow @ 57 lbs. Best bows out there truly awesome way to hunt.
Them there Cape buffalo are very dangerous now. It’s like playing Russian Roulette. I’ve seen them on videos coming at the hunters and very easily going over what is between them and the hunters. It’d be like trying to stop a runaway train and no slowing down
It takes a fearless man to hunt dangerous game with a bow. Even with modern archery equipment the hunter has no room for error. A miss or poorly placed shot would be catastrophic considering how close the hunter must be for the bow to be effective.
I used to love the original 2 blade bear razor broadheads but I didn't know that way back then he had the replaceable bleeder blades , I thought that they were added many a year later , well there you go , a lot of people that have finished filing there broadheads use a steel or stone to remove the jagged metal but bear would leave them like that because it added to the damage it would do to the internals
@@wk9953 true , i always finish them of with a steel if they are 2 blade , past few years ive been using nothing but the magnus 2 blade and 3 blade snuffer ss 125grn , they come up razor sharp on a fine wet stone ... I'll be using these until they stop making them , they fly like field tips
I'll admit to not watching the entire video, but does anyone know when this was filmed? Couldn't have been much after this that Mozambique was not a great place to be due to the Bush Wars. Rhodesian SAS running around trying to save their country by striking targets in Mozambique.
I am pretty certain that this videos original title was "Mozambique game trails" and it was filmed during a 1964 hunt. Which would place it way before the bush wars.
At 13:17, see Wally throw his paper cup on the ground. LOL Just points out the attitude of the world back then. Trash was made to be thrown down wherever necessary. Sincerely, I love bowhunting and would have loved to have met Fred Bear. He was purported to be a warm, gracious man with an obvious talent for shooting a bow and growing a business!
Honey, would you please go outside and rake the dust? Sure, what should I do with the small rocks? Well, sweep them out of sight of our guests. Okay then.
Contrails of magic.Lol.I noticed that too.Maybe it is feather dry powder used to keep feathers from getting swamped in the rain?Wet feathers lay down and do not hold their shape.Just a thought.
+Alan Wilke you might be correct! Fred Bear was not opposed to the use of a poison "pod" Moines behind the broadhead. At least I remember reading that somewhere many years ago...
The PH sometimes had bow hunters put talcum powder on arrows to make a puff of powder when the arrow hits its target. We did this in SouthAfrica on the game farm I managed until recently.
Anybody watching this video for motivation during deer seaon like me?!? I feel like a candy-ass! These guys are stalking while smoking. I hunt with trail cams and scent blocker. Theyre going after 1-ton Cape freakin Buffalo which circle back and attack YOU when provoked! I hunt ghost like deer who run away and are still just the size of a fat middle school bully...and i do it from a tree stand! Lolol
The small blades around here we called them bleeder blades. I don’t see any of the Razorheads around here anymore and I lost the last one i had it went through the deer and who knows where it went coming out but it done exactly what it was supposed to do.
That’s funny shit professional hunter walking around on a bow hunt smoking a pipe with who knows what’s in it following a native his title should be different for sure
26:09 It baffles me that all wood tiles are the same length! Being a musical instrument it makes little sense. The shorter the wood, the higher the pitch and vice versa. IE a xylophone.
"His horns were 4 feet across" looked more like 2 feet max. These old Fred bear films are cool but the commentary always stretches the size of every animal