EPISODE 159: To Spear, Or Not To Spear with Sarah & Josh Bowmar; Perception Is Reality

Gritty Podcast

Brian Call

Outdoor, Sports & Recreation

4.4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2016

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Gritty Bowmen we talk to our friends, Sarah and Josh Bowmar of Bowmarfitness. As many of you know, josh killed a bear with a spear in May. He made a video of his hunt and the video caused a public outcry. It is legal to hunt bears in Alberta Canada with a spear. Due to the public outcry, the Alberta government launched a formal investigation into the Bowmars and their spear-hunt and determined that this hunt was completely legal and the investigation has been closed. Sarah Bowmar was partnered with Under Armour at the time of the hunt. Under Armour dropped Sarah in the wake of the media backlash and issued a formal PR statement that they do not condone spear hunting and that Josh was reckless. In this podcast we talk to Josh about the spear hunt. We learn about his motives and qualifications for spear hunting. We get his take on the Under Armour deal.

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0:00.0	It gives people an understanding of something that on the outside they have this perceived
0:09.0	notion of it.
0:10.0	They think that, you know, hunters are all just cruel people that like to herd animals
0:14.4	and then they get deeper into it and they realize, oh, well, this is probably the best
0:18.2	way to do it.
0:19.2	I did this whole series of posts of the hierarchy of dead animals on Instagram, on social media,
0:24.6	so I had like a picture of chicken.
0:26.4	No one cares.
0:27.4	Like a chicken.
0:28.4	A picture of chicken, a picture of fish like cut up fish, no one cares.
0:32.8	A picture of an actual fish.
0:34.4	Still, no one seems to give a picture of a dead turkey.
0:38.2	No one seemed to care.
0:39.2	It seemed like a, but then I showed bear meat.
0:41.2	And I said, I showed some bear meat.
0:43.2	It was just in a bag.
0:44.2	What about that?
0:45.2	And I'm like, now we're getting weird, right?
0:47.2	Well, it's just meat.
0:48.2	But it says bear on it.
0:49.2	It says bear meat.
0:50.2	But if I showed an actual bear, like he's, we posted some pictures of actually taking me
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