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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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.
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
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!
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.
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!
But without proper hunters and conservationists, poachers will hunt these beautiful beasts to extinction. Thank you hunters for maintaining and upholding great conservation!
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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!
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
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
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.
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
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I met Fred Bear once at a bow hunters convention and was awe struck. He was in his 70s and had a hand shake like a vice.
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 !
Fred Bear is the ultimate bow hunting expert . I can see why Ted Nugent admirers him so much & even wrote a song about this amazing man Fred Bear .
+Mark Anderson that and ted nugent and fred bear were close friends and actually hunted together when ted was little if I remember correctly
Dillon Flannery ikr I wish I could have just met him more or less hunt with him he was a great man
He had a lot
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Money to be able to hunt how he did
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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.
i know im asking randomly but does anyone know of a tool to log back into an Instagram account..?
I stupidly forgot my account password. I love any tips you can offer me.
@Devon Abraham Instablaster ;)
Most guides hate bow hunters for DG to much can go wrong.
Blah,blah, They all need a backup
Remember watching these on American sportsman when I was a kid. Turned out to be a great inspiration. Grizzly, mule deer,polar beer.
With Fred's build, he doesnt look like someone who could draw a 65# with ease. He makes it look so effortless!
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.
And without a quick release. Tough hands.
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.
What A Legendary Hunter Fred 🐻 bear was. We miss you Fred. How ever we have Tim Wells to Idolize now days. Cheers
Tim who ? 😂
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
Always been big fan of Fred Bear and Howard Hill too! Shot nothing but Fred Bear Recurve Bows for over 50 years. I totally rejected compound bows.
Mr BEAR .Awsome hand eyes coordination.and selfcontroling calm delivery.every time.
the father of bow hunting a hero in my book!!
😚
growing up in a hunting family in michigan, i was bound to hear of thia legend of a man, fred bear is the KING of bow hunting
I grew up watching Fred Bear on the Wide World of Sports. Shooting those old recurve bows and cedar arrows, a lot harder than modern bow hunting.
But you still want to give it a try? Am i correct?
20 times more rewarding when you take a game animal.
Incredible footage especially considering the era and equipment used! Super!
love this old school stuff
Malcolm Douglas has some great Aussie one's too
What a legend!!!! I'm 55 in not to many moons I'm going bow hunting with Mr Bear baby!
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!
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.
It was a pleasure to watch this program,brings back so many memories.
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!
Modern archery hunters. I am sure ancient people who had to rely on hunting every day to survive were better.
@@kyledexheimer6548no shit..
This is real hunting no stands no cameras true hunting much respect
No cameras ??
@@H43339 No trail cameras.
I still have my bear Kodak recurve bow that I bought in 1960.
What a great piece of history to own
A true Skilled bowhunter!! absolutely amazing!! the raw footage was incredible!
I hope Fred is bowhunting up above.Love watching him hunt.
Yea along with my papa and his hounds.
That's heavenly.
The guy driving sounds like Popeye hahaha
Totally what I was thinking, lol
Or a wizard of oz munchkin😂
I've read his book he was a commercial ivory hunter before he started ph ing
But without proper hunters and conservationists, poachers will hunt these beautiful beasts to extinction. Thank you hunters for maintaining and upholding great conservation!
Exactly!
Old school awesome video of a legendary man
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
Reminds me of my dad. He was a master with a recurve bow.
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.
Amazing! Fred was the ultimate bow hunter.
Truly an inspiration to us Archers.
My first bow bought by my dad was a cub recurve and man at 8 years old I reaked havick on the squirrel in my neighborhood.
Fred Bear always made good videos and good hunting info too.
Like the left handed shot, canted bow, all instinctive....nice
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.
thats awsome im looking at buyin a 70lb bear bow when i get strong enough to easily shoot my 60lber.
Thanks for posting! Never get bored watchin it
Amazing video! Thanks for uploading! Changed my opinion on dangerous game bow hunting.
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
The good old days.
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
He thought it did, but we know now a days it gets gunked up and just doesn't cut effectively while going through
@@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
Anyone else think the PH was really Popeye?
i know who your talking about,but what does PH stand for?
PH stands for Professional Hunter
Alan Wilke m
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 like how they all pet and admire the downed game. We’ve lost that these days :/
Every hunter I see does the same thing. Why do you make up little lies to tell?
Fred use to say, you can learn more about hunting with a bow in a day than you could in a lifetime hunting with a firearm.
The guide looks and sounds like one of the lolipop kids from Wizard of Oz
Lol that slow motion was like - - - jumping frame to frame 😂
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.
Johnsons ,375 m70 is a history of ita own ,that rifle have seen it all and then some.
Wally Johnson was famous. His book was entertaining and contains the funniest story ever!
Fantastic!
The Master!! Founder of modern day bow hunting. As the song says " Cleanse the Soul"
DAMN this guy had permission to just kill anything he wanted.. WOW. Youd never see a hunt like that again!!!!
Fred Bear was the very best
I can't see a Ph walking thru the bush smoking a pipe.
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.
You sure the hell never catch Fred Bear in a tree stand.
You gave me a quote i will use untill i pass. Thankyou!
He killed a tiger from a tree platform
Great video
Que buenas epocas que fueron esas muy buenas saludos de Bs As
Anybody know what year this was filmed?
I assume late 50’s early 60’s??
jayonez 13 1965 the short story was featured in danger by Ben east
Uncle Ted learned from the best!
Awesome hunt(s)!
Fred Bear ... Legendary Archer ! Great guy too . RIP Fred
To this day outfitters still feed the people this way
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!
Don't worry ,,slaves picked it up.
@@keithaustin5919 No body was slaves here, you ignorant but
I think he just dumped out the rest of his drink
Yea I think he dumped the liquid because he’s still holding it after
Even if he did it was paper and not plastic or Styrofoam
Anyone know what that "smokey looking stuff" was , coming off Fred's arrow when he shot the buffalo?
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.
bwfreel Im not positive but I think it is poison. Years ago hunters would use poison arrows similar to blow guns in Africa and Amazon
bwfreel Im not positive but I think it is poison. Years ago hunters would use poison arrows similar to blow guns in Africa and Amazon
+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.
Can someone tell me why Fred's arrow was smoking in flight or so it seemed?
I wonder how many grains those arrows were that Fred was using.
Me too
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
I still shoot an early edition Bear bow.
Subscribed to your history channel ,thank you for the priceless information
bad assery
The first jeremy wade 😎 cool guy
Damn fred are a beast.
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
Did you see Willey use his pipe to call that buffalo in.Old Willey started to foam out his mouth when that hot moma was dancing at the end.
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.
Does anyone know what year this was?
From memory it was around the early 1960’s, not sure though.
my first bow was a bear and to this day it still is....
Take me back.
Dammit Bwanna, You give me a woman's name! Maybe I not track for you no more!
How's come that jeep wasn't painted in zebra stripes??
If only money could have bought him happiness too.
How did Fred get Popeye as his PH?
It's actually Wally Johnson. There's a book about him called "the last ivory hunter" he is a fascinating individual that's for sure.
I love watching Popeye and this PH is the real life Popeye!! LOL!!
That's funny!😁😁😁
Wally Johnson is an absolute legend.
My next PH better sound like Popeye
You know what them 2 ‘ol boys was thinking! 😂😂😂
Awe look at that dude danc-O O MY GAWD 25:41
Hey I see obama a child in this video preparing the meat
So Popeye was real and not just a cartoon voice.
thats an awful lot of killing. And why would one wanna kill an elephant? I love my whitetail deer, but an elephant?
I shoot left handed and see fred did also
Cool shit
At 39:51 that thing is huge now
well lets do it too
Popeye owns slaves? What year was this video made?
When men were men.
he sounds like popeye
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.
That PH with the fake leopard hat band. Not sure I'd hunt with him
"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