Special Drop: Clay and Bear’s Alaskan Coast Black Bear Hunt | 12 in '26
Bear Grease
MeatEater
4.9 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Clay Newcomb gives behind the scenes details and answers viewer questions about the Alaska boat-based black bear hunt feature in the new film for the MeatEater “12 in ‘26” film series. Both Clay and Bear Newcomb hunt black bears along the Alaskan coast–Bear with a modern rifle and Clay with a primitive self bow.
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| 0:30.8 | at first light.com. This is Bear Newcom's first time to Alaska. |
| 0:38.3 | He's 19 years old. |
| 0:40.3 | I really think it's going to impact probably the rest of his life. |
| 0:44.3 | There's just some landscapes in the world that just seem to just grab you. |
| 0:50.3 | It's hard to describe. |
| 0:52.3 | This place is like exotic and wild and dangerous and beautiful and just has a whole different |
| 1:00.0 | vibe. |
| 1:01.0 | That's what's so incredible about planet Earth is you go different places and you bring something |
| 1:07.0 | home with you that's unique. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm really excited to see what bear brings home. |
| 1:14.6 | Hey, everybody. This is Clay Newcomb. And the clip that you just heard is from our film, |
| 1:20.8 | Southeast Alaska boat-based bears that's on the meat eater YouTube channel. And it was, |
| 1:26.7 | this film's about when me and my son, Bear John, went to Southeast Alaska, |
| 1:31.1 | last spring, 2025, and hunted with our friend and outfitter David Bennett's on his |
| 1:37.7 | big old crabbing boat and shrimp and boat, the sandpiper. |
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