Big Game hunting in Grizzly country

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Somewhat akin to strolling in downtown Edmonton after dark.

Albeit, your grizzly encounter while hunting allows you to be appropriately armed.
 
You’ll find the more time people actually spend in proximity grizzlies, the less alarmist they are about them. It’s the guys who are lucky to have fleeting interactions with them in the wild that are the most wound up about them. That shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, but for whatever reason it often is.
 
The amount of people working, hunting, fishing and all in drizzly country who still draw breath would suggest like lots of risks, its relatively minor if you know what you're doing and mitigate it. Would love to see them .
 
Ardent said:
You’ll find the more time people actually spend in proximity grizzlies, the less alarmist they are about them. It’s the guys who are lucky to have fleeting interactions with them in the wild that are the most wound up about them. That shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, but for whatever reason it often is.
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very valid point. I can see that point being true just based of my limited experiences
 
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Joel said:
The amount of people working, hunting, fishing and all in drizzly country who still draw breath would suggest like lots of risks, its relatively minor if you know what you're doing and mitigate it. Would love to see them .
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I see them a couple times a season at work plus lots of fresh sign of them digging etc, always fun to see them around. They usually don’t show any interest in us if they see us, it’s not something I worry about. I definitely pay attention for them and any other large wildlife, awareness and avoidance are big parts of reducing interactions/encounters.

Lots of black bears and the odd moose depending on where we’re working.
 
I've hunted in their backyard for a longtime and yet to date have ever only seen a sow with 2 cubs on 2 diff occasions and once what I thought a small boar .
Have crossed many tracks and dumps .
I am comfortable but respect them for sure . and on my mind
Still wanna hear from areas where this is not the case ,
do you miss it
the diff in a hunting situation that grizz are there ? do you believe it adds to the hunt and experience
 
Spruster said:
the diff in a hunting situation that grizz are there ? do you believe it adds to the hunt and experience
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I think it does, me and my 11 year old daughter camped at the same location in northern BC (Edziza park) for 10 nights. fishing daily and eating lots, having a cut up goat at camp and knowing you weren't on the top of the food chain, really made you think about your actions and how they could effect you later, it can kept you on your toes. I wasn't scared but it was on my mind and we were cautious. it added to the trip I believe.

coming from Nova Scotia I find it adds excitement knowing there are things bigger and bader then you in the bush.
 
Evanguy said:
I think it does, me and my 11 year old daughter camped at the same location in northern BC (Edziza park) for 10 nights. fishing daily and eating lots, having a cut up goat at camp and knowing you weren't on the top of the food chain, really made you think about your actions and how they could effect you later, it can kept you on your toes. I wasn't scared but it was on my mind and we were cautious. it added to the trip I believe.

coming from Nova Scotia I find it adds excitement knowing there are things bigger and bader then you in the bush.
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bang on , good post and honest
 
Spruster said:
I've hunted in their backyard for a longtime and yet to date have ever only seen a sow with 2 cubs on 2 diff occasions and once what I thought a small boar .
Have crossed many tracks and dumps .
I am comfortable but respect them for sure . and on my mind
Still wanna hear from areas where this is not the case ,
do you miss it
the diff in a hunting situation that grizz are there ? do you believe it adds to the hunt and experience
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Come on. I’ve hunted in their and my backyard my entire life and have seen more Grizzlies than that in a single season. I also hunt in my backyard every year where I know there won’t be any Grizzlies. I don’t need to know they are in the area to make a hunt any better or more exciting. This has gone from silly to down right stupid.
 
I’ll rarely agree with Spruster in public. But yes, having grizzlies out there makes a place more wild and gives us all the tingle, even if it’s largely unfounded as any statistically increased risk. Most posters on CGN have never seen a Grizzly in the wild, some have seen hundreds, a few have hunted them.

None here have been eaten by one yet in my 19 years on the forum despite two decades of worry of the best chambering and firearm for them. Just the fact we always get back to this talk shows their allure and mystery, which applies to all apex predators and large carnivores with perceived attitude.

The old gun ads would have looked a lot lamer with a 300lb black bear on flat ground. I made a living selling the tingle to Americans who’d already seen theirs to go locally extinct, they’d travel and pay big money to go find it again. It’s a thing, and I’ll rue the day it’s less and less common to encounter.

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Up here everywhere is grizzly country, my back yard included, I do think about them of course but never make it my primary thought or else nobody would get out of there house!!
And I have a really good friend and her baby daughter that have been killed a few years ago, they were like family to us! An other guy I know got killed too maybe 10 years ago! But life goes on!
 
 
Who is worried about driving his car/truck down the highway?

Statistically speaking you are more likely to die of a car accident then being mauled by a grizzly!

But we drive on the highway anyway ... and without a second thought ....
 
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Who is worried about driving his car/truck down the highway?

Statistically speaking you are more likely to die of a car accident then being mauled by a grizzly!

But we drive on the highway anyway ... and without a second thought ....
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I assure you that I am always aware of the threats posed by other Motorists and the other hazards of the road.
 
MiG25 said:
I know people who have been mauled by bears, I don't know anyone that died of "Covid".

I especially like this one, 4 maulings in 12 days.

https://globalnews.ca/news/2218631/grizzly-attack-near-sparwood-fourth-in-b-c-in-ten-days/
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Well if you don't know anyone, I guess no one did :) That's exactly how statistics work!

But I'd like to figure out the percentage of people who spend time in bear country who are mauled vs people who have died of covid and I bet its close lol. After all, hundreds of thousands of people have come out just fine, despite the handful that didn't.

If this is to be believed, 21 fatalities in Canada between 1970 and 2018. Not a bad nearly 50 year stretch eh?

https://grizzlybearfoundation.com/b... there have been,while field dressing a moose.

Seems to roughly concur with the list of fatal bear attacks here on Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_bear_attacks_in_North_America

Pretty good collection of stats and sources here, showing that out of the quite low numbers of bear incidents, 70% of em are black bears.

https://ocanada.fyi/how-rare-are-be...here are only,followed by Alberta and Ontario.

Maybe Grizzlies are more likely to severely injure or kill, sure. But the odds that it happens are miniscule. I'd love seeing the stats on people who spend time outdoors around bears vs covid lol.
 
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