You guys seen this where Fred wanted to use poison pods?

I knew that Fred Bear pushed the pods, but I am not aware that he used them.

What’s you all’s take in pods?


“We all know that the late great Fred Bear was a highly accomplished bowmaker and bowhunter. What is not generally realised, however, is that he was extremely unhappy with the effectiveness of the bow as a hunting weapon, specifically its performance on whitetail deer, the preferred quarry of the North American sportsman. Bear estimated that one animal was severely wounded and lost for every one that was recovered, thus unknowingly echoing the track record of the African Bushmen. As he saw it, that was just not good enough. And the larger the animal, the worse the problems became. Fred Bear shot four bears with his bow, but only recovered one. A gut-shot polar bear drowned. A gut-shot brown bear disappeared. Another brown bear was maimed but got away. These animals weighed heavily on his conscience.
Bear tried to remedy the situation by developing the Bear Razorhead for tipping his arrows. While the results were encouraging, they were not heartening enough. So in the early 1960s he turned to poison, specifically SCC (Succinylcholine chloride or Scoline), a muscle relaxant that in the correct dosage is a very effective tranquilliser. In an overdose, it kills. It comes in the form of a white powder and is placed inside a rubber tube or pod that slips over the arrow just behind the arrowhead. When the arrow strikes home, the rubber is folded back inside the wound, thus exposing the deadly powder to the wound area.
The effects of SCC (depending on dosage and arrow placement) seem to be along the lines that would result from French-kissing a mamba. It kind of takes your breath away, leaving you all choked up, but not for long. Depending on whom you listen to, death is either rapid and painless, or slow and agonising, but it most certainly involves not being able to breathe any more. The effects of the drug wear off rapidly, to the extent that enthusiastic CPR would be an effective antidote in the case of arrow wounds that would have been non-fatal in the absence of poison. It does not appear to make the meat of the victim inedible.
To distance Bear Archery from any political fall-out that could have occurred, Fred Bear used a certain Dr Herrington as a front man for the idea, while publicly suggesting that the archery fraternity keep an open mind on the subject. Even so, the outcry against the concept by the various archery organisations was so extensive that Bear Archery nearly went under as a result of the ensuing boycott. In the end, Fred Bear had to withdraw himself from the discussion in order to save his business. He continued, however, to believe firmly that the use of SCC would make the bow and arrow a better weapon and hence a more ethically supportable hunting tool. His great fear was that if the general public ever found out how ineffective the bow and arrow really was when not used in combination with a potent poison, the ensuing outcry would result in bowhunting being banned altogether." “