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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: jbeaumont21 on May 22, 2018, 01:10:42 PM

Title: Interior Dept. moves to allow Alaska bear hunting with doughnuts, bacon
Post by: jbeaumont21 on May 22, 2018, 01:10:42 PM: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/interior-dept-moves-allow-alaska-bear-hunting-doughnuts-bacon-n876306
Title: Re: Interior Dept. moves to allow Alaska bear hunting with doughnuts, bacon
Post by: nitroelk on May 23, 2018, 10:43:57 AM: boy, that news release wasn't biased at all
Title: Re: Interior Dept. moves to allow Alaska bear hunting with doughnuts, bacon
Post by: bearpaw on May 23, 2018, 11:01:04 AM: fake news doing what it does best
Title: Re: Interior Dept. moves to allow Alaska bear hunting with doughnuts, bacon
Post by: Skyvalhunter on May 23, 2018, 11:44:18 AM: Wish I were able to post a comment to the editor on this one
Title: Re: Interior Dept. moves to allow Alaska bear hunting with doughnuts, bacon
Post by: Stein on May 23, 2018, 02:34:25 PM: I want to see the gun that shoots donuts.

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Title: Re: Interior Dept. moves to allow Alaska bear hunting with doughnuts, bacon
Post by: smithkl42 on May 24, 2018, 03:44:36 PM: Still, what's up with the "shooting bears in their dens"? That's hardly fair chase, is it?
Title: Re: Interior Dept. moves to allow Alaska bear hunting with doughnuts, bacon
Post by: pianoman9701 on May 24, 2018, 04:43:56 PM: This is dangerous. Using doughnuts and bacon could create a bycatch situation with AK State troopers. I think it's unwise!
Title: Re: Interior Dept. moves to allow Alaska bear hunting with doughnuts, bacon
Post by: Lucky1 on May 24, 2018, 04:44:59 PM: Quote from: smithkl42 on May 24, 2018, 03:44:36 PM
Still, what's up with the "shooting bears in their dens"? That's hardly fair chase, is it?
If it’s legal and is one of the game departments management tools, why do you care how the animal is killed. I would guess that it is as “humane” as any other method. :tup:
If it doesn’t fit within your definition of fair chase, then by all means don’t do it!
Title: Re: Interior Dept. moves to allow Alaska bear hunting with doughnuts, bacon
Post by: Humptulips on May 24, 2018, 04:52:26 PM: Quote from: smithkl42 on May 24, 2018, 03:44:36 PM
Still, what's up with the "shooting bears in their dens"? That's hardly fair chase, is it?

It is a historic aboriginal method of harvest. Maybe not fair chase but in a subsistence harvest fair chase kind of goes by the wayside. On the other hand the person that crawls in a bear den has pretty big cajones, IMO. :chuckle: