Photo of legally hunted polar bear draws social media outrage, racist comments

Sadly herd shooting is normal by many. When a herd of 50 - 1000 or more just walk past even picking a single animal out is easy but when the bullet goes right through the first one,well it is pretty obvious what happens.
pounder
 
pounder said:
Sadly herd shooting is normal by many. When a herd of 50 - 1000 or more just walk past even picking a single animal out is easy but when the bullet goes right through the first one,well it is pretty obvious what happens.
pounder
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That sometimes happens. Other hunters are careful and deliberate.
I have been inside a large herd. I expect that buffalo hunting in the 1870s would have been similar.
 
Use every part of the kill. Sale of hide provides a great deal of money to the guide which is very welcome in that neck of the woods(barrens actually). Maybe more examples from around the world could help the SJWs sleep less at night.
 
Bare said:
Did he find a buyer. I wonder what that rug would cost. It would look great on my wall or floor
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I believe you could legally purchase a polar bear hide from Fur Harvesters Auction Inc. in north Bay Ontario. You have to compete with the Chinese buyers and be prepared to pay $12,000 or more.
 
tiriaq said:
.22-.250 might be the single most popular caribou hunting cartridge. You have to remember than few northern hunters and none of the game read magazines, and consequently don't know that .22-.250 doesn't work on big game.
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So popular that there is an exception in the Newfoundland & Labrador legislation to allow the use of .22 centerfire rifles for caribou in Labrador, whereas the same caliber would be illegal on the island.
 
Anyone that eats meat...any kind of meat; and negatively comments on hunters harvesting animals for food is a hypocrite and moron. Plant eaters - they need to keep their mouth shut as well. Not even gonna bother trying anytime more, because I know the CGN community is mostly on the same page with regards to this topic!
 
Turillo said:
Anyone that eats meat...any kind of meat; and negatively comments on hunters harvesting animals for food is a hypocrite and moron. Plant eaters - they need to keep their mouth shut as well. Not even gonna bother trying anytime more, because I know the CGN community is mostly on the same page with regards to this topic!
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The stupidity of some people is astonishing. Short, short story. Years ago I worked with a female co-worker that stated deer hunting was "murder". When I pointed out the fact she eats beef, chicken, etc, she replied that was different because cows & chickens are raised AND she didn't do the killing. Double face palm and major WTF?? Later when my boss (HER father) retired on a large parcel of rural land in the southern interior of BC, he invited me to hunt on the land. That is until she found out and convinced him that "Having bullets flying all over the place" would leave him libel "If someone got shot."

Needless to say, I never went deer hunting there. Then I found out last year there was a elk herd hanging around for about a week. Life is unfair.
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Turillo said:
Anyone that eats meat...any kind of meat; and negatively comments on hunters harvesting animals for food is a hypocrite and moron. Plant eaters - they need to keep their mouth shut as well. Not even gonna bother trying anytime more, because I know the CGN community is mostly on the same page with regards to this topic!
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Now this I disagree with. The world population cannot be sustained via hunting, agriculture is the only option. Hunting has to remain a niche sport by virtue of the fact that the game populations can't support everyone as hunters. Therefore just because they don't hunt, you can't call them morons. In a way, we're unsustainable anachronisms...

That said, some people stick their nose where it doesn't belong, regardless of what they eat or how they procure it...
 
Why are the 22 center fires so popular in the north? I can see why the 303 is as there is lots of surplus available, but the 22 centres leave me scratching my head. Some say for economic reasons but from what I see you can get a pack of 308 or 30/06 for the same price.
 
fishslinger said:
Why are the 22 center fires so popular in the north? I can see why the 303 is as there is lots of surplus available, but the 22 centres leave me scratching my head. Some say for economic reasons but from what I see you can get a pack of 308 or 30/06 for the same price.
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My guess is weight and maybe lack of recoil. Air freight cost money and a box of 22 CF is lighter that 30 calibre CF's. Plus if you are packing a sled, back backing etc, onces add up to pounds.
 
Thomas D'Arcy McGee said:
Hi, that is the first time I have heard the idiom "whale rifle" coined... you put a smile on my face with that one :d :d
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The guys I knew in the West were beluga hunters. They used the 30-30 as a rule. Aklavik NT was the first place I heard the term "whale rifle" used.

Grock-co said:
The question I always have is why would anyone go north, I have work a couple of construction jobs, north of Yellowknife, once in the summer where the flies are unbelievable and make been outside unbearable with out a net over your face. The second time was in late December other then the almost no sun light (not as exciting as one would thing), the constant -40"C and colder makes it so I never want to go back. As for the so called city of Yellowknife it is a dump and looks like a third world sh!t hole, not much pride in ownership for anything that I could see up there.
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Aside from the fact that I grew up in the "so called city of Yellowknife" where I could snowmobile to school and go anywhere I wanted on the thousands of square miles of Crown Land that were literally right out my back door, I went North because I was bored and didn't have anything better to do with my time. I made no less than $150K per year when I was up there, and as high as $181K plus paid trips out. Met my wife (that was luck) had some amazing experiences, met some great people and hunted things that would cost you an arm and a leg to do as a non-resident (Bison and Muskox...should have hunted Dall Sheep too...that was a dumb oversight). All in all, I went North for adventure...and I got it.
 
If you talk to people that live up north and ask why the word freedom is used a lot. Within reason you can do almost anything you want.It is more of a lifestyle than anything else. This is especially true when wilderness it minuets away.
pounder
 
BigUglyMan said:
The guys I knew in the West were beluga hunters. They used the 30-30 as a rule. Aklavik NT was the first place I heard the term "whale rifle" used.



Aside from the fact that I grew up in the "so called city of Yellowknife" where I could snowmobile to school and go anywhere I wanted on the thousands of square miles of Crown Land that were literally right out my back door, I went North because I was bored and didn't have anything better to do with my time. I made no less than $150K per year when I was up there, and as high as $181K plus paid trips out. Met my wife (that was luck) had some amazing experiences, met some great people and hunted things that would cost you an arm and a leg to do as a non-resident (Bison and Muskox...should have hunted Dall Sheep too...that was a dumb oversight). All in all, I went North for adventure...and I got it.
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Sounds like you did it right.
 
BigUglyMan said:
The guys I knew in the West were beluga hunters. They used the 30-30 as a rule. Aklavik NT was the first place I heard the term "whale rifle" used.



Aside from the fact that I grew up in the "so called city of Yellowknife" where I could snowmobile to school and go anywhere I wanted on the thousands of square miles of Crown Land that were literally right out my back door, I went North because I was bored and didn't have anything better to do with my time. I made no less than $150K per year when I was up there, and as high as $181K plus paid trips out. Met my wife (that was luck) had some amazing experiences, met some great people and hunted things that would cost you an arm and a leg to do as a non-resident (Bison and Muskox...should have hunted Dall Sheep too...that was a dumb oversight). All in all, I went North for adventure...and I got it.
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Dall still doable just need a post in YT ... but Pounder nailed it also. just because.

Phil
 
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