collapse

Advertisement


Author Topic: Florida Bear Hunt  (Read 2724 times)

Offline RB

  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jun 2011
  • Posts: 3067
  • Location: Arlington, washington
Florida Bear Hunt
« on: September 23, 2025, 08:58:20 PM »
Found this on Facebook tonight  :)

An anti-hunting group says it put $185,000 into purchasing Florida Bear Hunting applications and tags to prevent hunters from being picked. 🐻
Florida approved to reinstate black bear hunting back in May. It’s the first time black bear hunting has been legal in a decade, first reported by Outdoor Life. 🐻
There are only 172 tags available for the bear season. There were 163,459 applications, according to Outdoor Life report. The anti-hunting group spent enough money to purchase 37,000 applications in an attempt to prevent sportsman from life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in the outdoors. 🐻
The anti group may have won a small battle in keeping hunters from being picked, but they donated a lot of money to ensure we have a future in Florida bear hunting. Resources will be put into bears, bears will flourish and more tags will be given out. Funding the future of hunting and the outdoors! That’s their logic? 😂
On behalf of all sportsmen and women, thank you for your donation! 😂
IAFF #3728

Offline Barodir393

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Pilgrim
  • *
  • Join Date: May 2023
  • Posts: 12
  • Location: SW WA
Re: Florida Bear Hunt
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2025, 08:08:48 AM »
If anti hunters want to do the same buying tags in WA we might get back spring bear.  :chuckle:

Thats a nice donation to Florida Fish and Game.

Offline kodiak06

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Apr 2014
  • Posts: 582
  • FLY USCG
    • https://www.facebook.com/groups/1083351106194408/
Re: Florida Bear Hunt
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2026, 08:02:25 AM »
They were paying 2k for people not to fill tags. I'd take their money lol

Offline nwwanderer

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+3)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Sep 2010
  • Posts: 4828
Re: Florida Bear Hunt
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2026, 03:10:23 PM »
Simple, just issue more tags to reach objective and let them pay!!!

Offline brokentrail

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+7)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2016
  • Posts: 667
  • Location: Graham, WA
Re: Florida Bear Hunt
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2026, 05:55:00 PM »
They were paying 2k for people not to fill tags. I'd take their money lol

On principal alone, I wouldn't. 

Offline kodiak06

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Apr 2014
  • Posts: 582
  • FLY USCG
    • https://www.facebook.com/groups/1083351106194408/
Re: Florida Bear Hunt
« Reply #5 on: Today at 07:43:19 AM »
UPDATE: I posted on a FB page to see if the group offering $2,000 to people willing to not shoot a bear on their tag would do the same for my Oregon tag and received ZERO offers. I did get called a lot of cool names though :)

 


* Advertisement

* Recent Topics

Canadian Invasion by HighCountryBC
[Today at 08:30:04 AM]


Idaho Selway A pack out camps by Mtnwalker
[Today at 08:18:54 AM]


bc style down rigger rod by Crunchy
[Today at 08:11:09 AM]


Big game season proposals by B4noon
[Today at 07:58:09 AM]


Florida Bear Hunt by kodiak06
[Today at 07:43:19 AM]


Dorsal skinned beaver by Rnartillery
[Today at 03:44:23 AM]


Ruger Single Six, extra cylinders,.22 and .22 winmag by cdriver
[Yesterday at 08:40:22 PM]


Washington Euro mounting Plaque*free give away for youth hunter* by millerwheeler
[Yesterday at 07:14:59 PM]


Most effective electronic calls for coyotes? by furbearer365
[Yesterday at 07:14:13 PM]


Pulsar Telos XL50 LRF ForSale by Thermal Predator Control
[Yesterday at 06:14:58 PM]


Mineral Lake 2011 by Kingofthemountain83
[Yesterday at 05:39:41 PM]


Report Wolf Sightings Here - Hunting-Washington Wolf Count 158+ by BIGDOG253
[Yesterday at 03:42:32 PM]


Idaho Panhandle B Elk 30 by TeacherMan
[Yesterday at 01:14:59 PM]


Wild Turkey Federation Snohomish County Event by seaduckhunter
[Yesterday at 12:49:17 PM]


Idaho Non-Res draw results by Big6bull
[Yesterday at 12:44:21 PM]


Idaho deer 2026. Let’s go!! by Turner89
[Yesterday at 12:35:11 PM]


Black and tans by Machias
[Yesterday at 10:26:46 AM]

SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2026, SimplePortal