The caribou hunt was absurd
He killed three caribou with a spear? Uh huh. What did they do, just all run around in little circles instead of simply running away from him?
Caribou herds can run very fast reaching speeds of 50 miles per hour while migrating.
Most subspecies of caribou are migratory. They can travel up to 3000 miles each year in the search for better sources of food. Caribou is very fast animal. It can run 50 miles per hour, especially when trying to escape from the predators.That's about twice as fast as Usain Bolt. It is also only 5 MPH less than the speed limit on the U.S. interstate highways during the '80s. Him killing even one caribou with a spear (which he didn't even throw) would have been a miracle, unless it was sick or already injured, to say nothing of three.
It was about 30 seconds from the time he started running toward them and the time he speared the first one. At a 50 MPH running speed, they would be almost a half mile away in 30 seconds. And no, 2 people are not enough to "corner" a caribou herd, forcing them to keep running back and forth, considering there are hundreds of other directions they could go in which are not blocked by either person.
This grizzled old Eskimo hunter in 1949 only managed to get one caribou out of a herd of them, and he was using a rifle:
http://youtu.be/b-XP30aG8bE?t=13m55s
Too bad he didn't know about Barry Pepper's "charge 'em with a spear" trick, huh?
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