Ted Nugent Makes an Idjit of Himself Yet Again (Metlakatla: cost, legally)

[LittleJazzyP]

Oh, FFS. If there is anything to be learned from this entire debate, it should be this:

There are good hunters and bad ones. There are people who kill to eat, or hunt for pleasure while sharing the bounty, and there are people who kill just because they like it.

As with most arguments, the extremists on both sides of the argument are wrong. Those who condemn any and all hunters? Wrong. Those who think there are no creeps out there who want to kill just because they can, and get off on doing so? Wrong. Those who believe neither extreme exists? WRONGEST.

Yeah, that's a word. I made it up.

[LittleJazzyP]

Originally Posted by Metlakatla

Brown bear are primarily hunted for trophy; most people consider the meat to be inedible.

See, this...this I have issues with. If it cannot be eaten, why kill it? Use of the hide is not a very good reason, given the number of animals out there that can be used/consumed in their entirety. As for killing just to have a head mounted on the wall, sorry, I still think that is just kind of sick.

[Nephler]

I also grew up hunting with my dad, learned from him on how and when. I haven't hunted in years, mainly because I don't need to and have no desire to hunt for the sport, even if I would eat the meat. Simply, I don't need it, so I don't hunt it.
I do hunt with my camera though.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by Nephler

I also grew up hunting with my dad, learned from him on how and when. I haven't hunted in years, mainly because I don't need to and have no desire to hunt for the sport, even if I would eat the meat. Simply, I don't need it, so I don't hunt it.
I do hunt with my camera though.

Wildlife photographer, eh?

[Nephler]

Mostly off my back deck. We have a herd of around 50 deer in the woods next to us.

Out back...

[jambo101]

Originally Posted by Captain Crunch

In 1978, Nugent began a relationship with seventeen-year-old Hawaii native Pele Massa. Due to the age difference they could not marry so Nugent joined Massa's parents in signing documents to make himself her legal guardian

The Nuge is a lot of things but i cant blame him for having a thing for a 17yr old Pele Massa
Not sure what she saw in him..

[LittleJazzyP]

Money.

[Lunabell]

Originally Posted by Metlakatla

Brown bear are primarily hunted for trophy; most people consider the meat to be inedible.

I wonder if it is due to the lack of salmon in their diet, but some of the teachers do eat the brown bear they hunt here. My husband tried some earlier this year and liked it, as did our middle daughter. Up till then, we had always heard they were disgusting. They must taste different up here....or the people in my family have very strange palates, which is entirely possible.

[Metlakatla]

Originally Posted by Lunabell

I wonder if it is due to the lack of salmon in their diet, but some of the teachers do eat the brown bear they hunt here. My husband tried some earlier this year and liked it, as did our middle daughter. Up till then, we had always heard they were disgusting. They must taste different up here....or the people in my family have very strange palates, which is entirely possible.

I've heard the ones who don't primarily consume a salmon diet taste better.

I think most Natives hunted them for predator control and nuisance reasons rather than for food...

I can't recall the details, but I was reading somewhere a week or so ago about how grizzlies are being heavily poached in some areas because their gall bladders bring a high price on the Asian black market.

[wildchild_to]

Originally Posted by Metlakatla

Brown bear are primarily hunted for trophy; most people consider the meat to be inedible.

I know some on the interior like the meat, as they eat more berries, grass. I have read and talked to guys in SW AK that take the BB as they don't waste nothing, not even the meat, it is taken back to the village and used.