Tim Brent posted images of his kills to Twitter

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We put an awesome stalk on him

Tim Brent, a former professional ice hockey player, posted images of the deceased bear and described on Twitter exactly how he killed the beast.

He wrote: “We put an awesome stalk on him but he spotted us at about 75 yards.

“Instead of taking off he turned and came right at us.

"It was very easy to tell this boar owned the valley we were hunting in and wasn’t scared of anything.” [sic]

He turned the shooting into another game with his fans, inviting his 23,000 followers to guess which animals he had killed on his trip to the Yukon territory in Canada.

The 34-year-old’s posts were met with outrage.

Many condemned his actions with a number of celebrities hitting out at the keen hunter.