Nanuq(polar bear) hunt ...

Good stuff, thanks for the post.
I remember reading about Catwork's polar bear hunt a few years ago also. Very exciting also.
 
PICTURES are in the PHOTO SECTION of this site. Now I'm waiting on the HTO to tell me whether or not I got a Umingmak(muskox) tag for this year ... man I hope so!

Otokiak
Rankin Inlet, NU
CANADA

p.s. thanks for all the nice comments my fellow CGNer's! :D
 
HTO(hunters and trappers Org) have you fill out an application ... there are 14 Umingmak tags ... they have a meeting and grab somebody who isn't on the HTO board and they draw the names from a bag ... until all names are drawn in order and numbered accordingly. I'm not sure what our time limit will be for Umingmak but I think it's 2 weeks ... unlike the polar bear hunt which was 2 days. Thanks again my fellow CGNer's,

Otokiak
Rankin Inlet, NU
CANADA
 
Good story thanks, and congrats.

One question, how do bears catch and kill a beluga? or would they be eating something found dead?

"we then noticed a beluga whale head also so who knows how long they had been feeding in this area."

Good luck on the Muskox.

Puma
 
Puma, I'm not sure on the beluga whale head we found ... we were all asking ourselves WTF when we saw it ... Either the bears killed it or it was there before them dead ... not sure?! Thanks again my fellow CGNer's for the comments. Cheers,

Otokiak
Rankin Inlet, NU
CANADA
 
Puma said:
Good story thanks, and congrats.

One question, how do bears catch and kill a beluga? or would they be eating something found dead?

"we then noticed a beluga whale head also so who knows how long they had been feeding in this area."

Good luck on the Muskox.

Puma
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Years ago I saw photos in a National Geographic of a Beluga that had been killed by polar bears. It had become caught in shallow water and broken ice and apparently the bears had been able to kill it.
 
Well this is an old post but thought I'd RE-VIVE it as finally somebody in the gov't listened to hunters up north and finally they did a study on polar bear populations ... which I said all along was not down and they were never close to being endangered ... thank christ somebody listened ... We used to only get 2 tags for our community and 8 for the region I believe it was ... I just heard today our region is getting 20 tags ... YES!!!!! I'm waiting on hearing how many tags get allocated to Rankin Inlet ... I'll be putting my name in the bloody hat for sure! Cheers my fellow CGNers' ... ;)

Otokiak
Rankin Inlet, NU
CANADA
 
I've spent quite a few years in the High Arctic, Resolute Bay & Sachs Harbour. Never seemed to be a lack of polar bears. Bear tags were always few and far between with very limited availablilty to the Hunting & Trappers Associations.

RC
 
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