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I might get a couple more days in. Hopefully I'll be at camp in Nh on the 6th. Deer opens the 9th so if I get there when I want to I'll have a couple days to look for a bear before deer opens. This is the one I got in 09.
POLAR BEAR HUNTING !!! correct me if i'm wrong but aren't they a protected species ?
not if you are going to russia to shoot them, and I am. also, it seems to me that the only place they are endangered is the USA. but if you go north of the artic circle, there are quite a few of them.
Location: Approximately 50 miles from Missoula MT/38 yrs full time after 4 yrs part time
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not if you are going to russia to shoot them, and I am. also, it seems to me that the only place they are endangered is the USA. but if you go north of the artic circle, there are quite a few of them.
......Hey monkey..............
sorry to break the bad news, ...but there is "no legal hunting" of Polar Bears this year in Russia.
Better check your sources........
AOL News and the Huffington Post have articles indicating: NO HUNTING of Polar Bears this year........and most likely next year as well.......so says Prime Minister Putin.....
I might get a couple more days in. Hopefully I'll be at camp in Nh on the 6th. Deer opens the 9th so if I get there when I want to I'll have a couple days to look for a bear before deer opens. This is the one I got in 09.
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Do people eat the bears?........The quality of black bear meat (or Grizzly for that matter) depends to a great degree on what time of the year it is taken and most importantly what it has been eating. Also how quickly the animal was field dressed, cooled down and processed. .......................What do they taste like?...........it all depends on how it has been cooked and seasoned.................... How do you drag such a heavy animal out through the woods and undergrowth?............In most cases the animal is usually skinned .......(so the hunter can end up having a ("rug or?")........on site and some of the desireable cuts of meat are removed at that time....at least that is what we (hunting friends & I) have done...............I have tasted (both Grizzly & Black Bear) ......the Grizzly (Kodiak) was taken in the fall and tasted "terrible"...it had been eating salmon all fall. ........The Black Bear had been eating berries & acorns and we soaked it in a BBQ sauce for 24 hours and then BBQ'd it.............It was OK, but I ate very little..........NOTE: "Trichinosis" can be introduced into the human system by consumption........I have only eaten bear meat twice as stated......IMO, not worth the health risk and "in my opinion" I'd rather take the same processing time, prep time and cooking time and ingredients on something I KNOW will be good.................like an "alphalfa grazing" Whitetail.
The very few times I've seen wild bears they seemed too....well....cute (Not a word I use often, but man they seemed it) to shoot. ......Cute?......"to each his own".....
........(2nd NOTE:">>......An interesting point of information: Twenty years ago when I got my Grizzly on Kodiak, we were informed by the F&G people that the 'gall bladder" out of an adult Grizzly (Kodiak) could bring up to "several thousand dollars" on the "black market" when sold to certain people from the Orient.............. HOWEVER such actions are both a "state & Federal" offense. And illegal trafficking in bear gall bladders (including Black Bear) has recently resulted in fines up to $3000/per gall bladder and (1) year in jail.................Just a little FWIW info
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