Spring LEH's are out in BC !!

Gonna go to the area this week end with the quad and start glassing the slide areas and touch bases with some of the farmers with calfs and go from there my brother inlaw does taxidermy and all my hunting gear is ready so i'm good in that area. I know the area pretty good and theres good access to alot of it just hope all the time at the gym and going out snow shoeing pays pays off when the terrain starts going vertical lol.
 
medvedqc said:
not in BC but we do eat grizzly meat.

why not?
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I always figured no one really ate grizzly bear meat.
I've never given it much thought tho I know that in Alaska , brown bear is often consumed. Can't see much difference really I guess.
Not much of a purposeful bear hunter myself but was given some awefully tasty black bear cherizo sausage and a couple hams that were mighty fine eating. Enjoyed em enuff that I might just look for one for my freezer this year.

For those lucky enuff to harvest a grizz this year, let us know how it is and how you prepared it pleez ;)
 
Tuffcity said:
...not only filling them but actually utilizing the opportunity by buying a tag and going hunting!

RC
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Success rate on actually tagging a Grizzly after being drawn is in the small single digits percent wise and declining, the outfitters are in the polar opposite end of the percent scale at filling tags. I can actually understand the ministry's frustration in this one to a degree, so many apply for LEHs and get drawn, then realise they cannot get the time off, how far away it is, you need permission you didn't anticipate (Van Isle elk for example), need a boat, yada yada yada. The OP is NOT this guy clearly, but I do wish those guys would simply refrain from entering. I've been drawn twice, one bear down, turned down a sow at the last minute the time I struck out. That's another note, it can be damn hard to differentiate a big barren sow and a healthy mid sized boar, especially in scrub brush.
 
There is a Member's Bill - M 208 Wildlife Amendment Act, 2015 - in the current BC Legislative Assembly. The Bill received First Reading March 2nd and if it passes through the House and receives Royal Assent it will become law in BC to retrieve all the meat from all big game animals including Grizzly Bears and ensure it reaches the hunter's home. (This also include Black and Grizzly bears taken by foreign hunters using guides.) The only animals exempted from this requirement are cougar, wolf, lynx, bobcat and wolverine.

https://www.leg.bc.ca/40th4th/1st_read/m208-1.htm

MR. ANDREW WEAVER

BILL M 208 – 2015
WILDLIFE AMENDMENT ACT, 2015
Explanatory Note
HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

The Wildlife Act [RSBC 1996] Chapter 488. The Act is amended by:

Section 35 of the Act is amended by striking out section 35 (1) to (2) and substituting

Retrieval of wildlife killed
35 (1) In this section, "dwelling place" does not include a temporary or seasonal camp.

(2) A person commits an offence if the person hunts wildlife and kills or injures that wildlife and fails to make every reasonable effort to
(a) retrieve the wildlife, and if it is alive to kill it and include it in his or her bag limit, and
(b) remove the edible portions of the carcass of game to the person's normal dwelling place directly or through to a meatcutter or the owner or operator of a cold storage plant, unless exempted by regulation.
The Wildlife Act General Regulation is amended by striking out Section 12.02 (1) to (3) and substituting

Food use
12.02 (1) For the purpose of section 35 (2) (b) of the Act, "edible portions" with respect to big game, excluding, cougar, wolf, lynx, bobcat and wolverine, means the edible portions of the four quarters and the loins of the animal.

(2) For the purpose of section 35 (2) (b) of the Act, "edible portions" with respect to game birds means the edible portions of both breasts of the bird.
(3) Despite subsections (1) and (2), "edible portions" do not include meat that has been damaged and made inedible by the method of taking.

Explanatory Note
This Bill amends the Wildlife Act and Wildlife Act General Regulation to ensure that edible portions of animals killed in BC are taken to a person's residence.
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'Boo said:
There is a Member's Bill - M 208 Wildlife Amendment Act, 2015 - in the current BC Legislative Assembly. The Bill received First Reading March 2nd and if it passes through the House and receives Royal Assent it will become law in BC to retrieve all the meat from all big game animals including Grizzly Bears and ensure it reaches the hunter's home. (This also include Black and Grizzly bears taken by foreign hunters using guides.) The only animals exempted from this requirement are cougar, wolf, lynx, bobcat and wolverine.

https://www.leg.bc.ca/40th4th/1st_read/m208-1.htm
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This is a good law. I appreciate it.
All meat is edible. Bring it home! If you don't eat it, share it. Don't give anti hunting folks excuse to deprive us the hunting opportunity
With this law, grizzly hunting can last long. It is a good thing.
 
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