Poll: shoot the biggest bear, or just the boar?

[jackelope]

I look at it as the boar would be covering multiple sows making multiple babies per year. Kill one boar and eliminate the potential for multiple breedings. Maybe I'm off.

[Oh Mah]

This would be true as the range for each boar is spread out but that sow will travel just as well as the boar to get bread.

[grundy53]

I look at it as the boar would be covering multiple sows making multiple babies per year. Kill one boar and eliminate the potential for multiple breedings. Maybe I'm off.

The sow is going to get bred. You couldn't kill enough boars. The only way a sow doesn't get bred is if she is dead. Plus then you are taking out any future offspring too.

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[BULLBLASTER]

I look at it as the boar would be covering multiple sows making multiple babies per year. Kill one boar and eliminate the potential for multiple breedings. Maybe I'm off.

The sow is going to get bred. You couldn't kill enough boars. The only way a sow doesn't get bred is if she is dead. Plus then you are taking out any future offspring too.

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I really dont care what bear i kill. First one my scope lands on. Hopefully the smaller one because its cheaper to tan the smaller ones.

[High Climber]

I voted the bigger “female” but would shoot the bigger bear period unless I liked the color of the slightly smaller one... but ultimately I wouldn’t be able to tell which one was which unless he was mounting her 

[ghosthunter]

I look at it as the boar would be covering multiple sows making multiple babies per year. Kill one boar and eliminate the potential for multiple breedings. Maybe I'm off.

That could be. But most sows will have two sometimes three. In ten years she could birth three times which means 6-9 cubs.

[lewy]

When you cant bait or hound hunt, sex id'ing a bear is even tougher, so if you wack a sow without cubs oh well it happens. That being said I personally would kill the boar unless its a dink.

[pashok23]

I wonder if a hot and bothered boar would leave a downed sow?  Might be a awkward situation?

Found 2 bears during mating season( they were doing some stuff) back in 2014, shot female and by the time i got to her male was eating her. Took me couple hours to take her from him. It was my first bear. Crazy experience

[hunter399]

When you cant bait or hound hunt, sex id'ing a bear is even tougher, so if you wack a sow without cubs oh well it happens. That being said I personally would kill the boar unless its a dink.

Total agree
No cubs,it's getin lead sandwich.

[jackelope]

I look at it as the boar would be covering multiple sows making multiple babies per year. Kill one boar and eliminate the potential for multiple breedings. Maybe I'm off.

That could be. But most sows will have two sometimes three. In ten years she could birth three times which means 6-9 cubs.

But the boar could cover 6-9 sows in a spring making 6-18 cubs per year. I mean they don’t just breed one sow and call it a rut, right?

[mountainman]

I look at it as the boar would be covering multiple sows making multiple babies per year. Kill one boar and eliminate the potential for multiple breedings. Maybe I'm off.

That could be. But most sows will have two sometimes three. In ten years she could birth three times which means 6-9 cubs.

But the boar could cover 6-9 sows in a spring making 6-18 cubs per year. I mean they don’t just breed one sow and call it a rut, right?

If we are using Washington State as an example, with densities what they are, sow will be bred eventually by another boar.

[Stein]

I'm not the smartest guy in the world but I have wondered how we complain about the numbers of predators but shooting female bears is taboo.  Personally, I would shoot either sex wherever it was legal.

[grundy53]

I look at it as the boar would be covering multiple sows making multiple babies per year. Kill one boar and eliminate the potential for multiple breedings. Maybe I'm off.

That could be. But most sows will have two sometimes three. In ten years she could birth three times which means 6-9 cubs.

But the boar could cover 6-9 sows in a spring making 6-18 cubs per year. I mean they don’t just breed one sow and call it a rut, right?

Think of it this way. When a state wants to reduce the population what kind of tags do they issue more of? When they want to protect a population what kind of tags do they reduce? Females are the baby makers. You kill a male another male takes his place. Doesn't really change anything. You kill a female and it's guaranteed she won't have any more offspring.

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[trophyhunt]

I look at it as the boar would be covering multiple sows making multiple babies per year. Kill one boar and eliminate the potential for multiple breedings. Maybe I'm off.

That could be. But most sows will have two sometimes three. In ten years she could birth three times which means 6-9 cubs.

But the boar could cover 6-9 sows in a spring making 6-18 cubs per year. I mean they don’t just breed one sow and call it a rut, right?

Think of it this way. When a state wants to reduce the population what kind of tags do they issue more of? When they want to protect a population what kind of tags do they reduce? Females are the baby makers. You kill a male another male takes his place. Doesn't really change anything. You kill a female and it's guaranteed she won't have any more offspring.

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well, can’t argue that at all!

[sagemd]

Shot the first bear you can and hope it's a female.
Shot two more females this fall.