Okay, Jow Forums I plan to hunt and kill the NA's biggest natural predator, the grizzly bear. Here's my plan to do it:
At least three of us, well-trained and able-bodied men, are going to don full-plate armor and medieval weaponry (sword, spear, longbow, etc). We will bring a tracker (preferably equipped to help us record the event) to locate the bear, then, once we've located a singular, healthy bear, we'll engage the steps to killing it:
1. Wait until it begins looking for food. 2. Follow it, armor not fully equipped yet to aid in stealth (rattle rattle), until it finds food. 3. While it is distracted by the food source, we don our armor as quietly as possible. 4. Once equipped, it is time to begin the encounter with either a shot from an arrow or, if we can get close enough, a blow to the head to stun it. 5. While stunned, we plan to engage the bear tactically, avoiding it's strikes to the best of our ability and striking back when it turns to focus on one of us. 6. Repeat step 5 until the bear is dead or manages to flee. 7. If the bear manages to flee, we will use our superior stamina to follow it until we manage to surround it again. 8. Once surrounded, repeat step 6.
Tell me what you all think. I will answer any and all questions as best I can.
Or you could just shoot it with a rifle. Yeah, I think I'll go with the rifle.
Thomas Taylor
Rifles are undeniably better, but we all have a fascination with medieval weaponry and want to have a significant experience with it as well as the story and bragging rights that come with killing a bear with a sword/spear/etc.
Parker Scott
how about pikes? it would be a good idea to keep your distance as much as possible. weapons like a mace wont do much against their thick skull also, this would be much easier with bait/poison but thats illigal as hell. you could create a semi-mobile ballista and shoot it with that once its stopped to eat.
Jackson Phillips
youre going to get cracked open like a can of sardines. just buy a gun instead.
Jack Watson
Pikes sound like a good option, better than swords at least; I was planning on using one myself. We want to have some fun with this though, so I think a ballista is a little overkill.
As for the bait/poison thing, I considered that too, but it just seems unsportsmanlike. Plus the legality of that is an issue as well, especially if we do find someone willing and able to record three or four goons dressed in platemail fighting a goddamned grizzly.
Jack Roberts
this, people have hunted bears before guns, they all used spears/pikes, it is the only way to go if you are not using a gun.
Ryan Diaz
it's awesome to have an OP that replies i haven't been on Jow Forums in months because everytime im on here i want to buy another fun. what kind of armor are you and your friends going to dawn? even if it defeats a grizzlys claws if it gets your head it its jaws you're done for. would you consider scent masking? maybe put burlap strips and brush in your armor as camo for when you lay in wait.
>what kind of armor are you and your friends going to dawn? Steel platemail, like pic related but in all honesty it won't look anything like that because it will be custom made.
>even if it defeats a grizzlys claws if it gets your head it its jaws you're done for. Hence the tactical engagement (keeping distance and stiking only when an open strike presents itself) and likely use of pikes/spears/longbows.
>would you consider scent masking? Absolutely a great idea. We honestly will probably use all techniques modern bear hunting calls for, it's just the action that will be old-fashioned.
>maybe put burlap strips and brush in your armor as camo for when you lay in wait. I hadn't considered that, it sounds like a good idea. I'll mark it down.
Well when that happens you'll get to see it when it's inevitably posted on Jow Forums (I'll make sure it gets here somehow, I love this board).
