Three years ago this May, the Nugent went on a black bear hunt in Southeast Alaska. It was filmed for Nugent's TV show Spirit of the Wild. He sat at a bait station and waited for a bear to show up. One did. He shot an arrow at the bear. The arrow hit the bear but it did not kill it and the bear ran off. The bear escaped its encounter with Nugent. Four days later, another bear was not so lucky. Nugent shot it, and killed it. Hunters regularly miss animals. Animals are sometimes wounded instead of killed. Ethical hunters track down the animals that they wound and put them out of their misery. Nugent did not.