Why is a harvest ticket required for a black bear but not for a griz? I would think it should be the other way around.
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Dave's examples are excellent. Make sure you read what's required in the GMU and in some cases sub-GMU you are hunting. Some require black bear harest tickets and some do not. Some require grizzly/brown bear harvest tickets and some do not. It has to do with the vbear populations and predator control.
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Originally posted by Ryan J View PostI didn't think there was a paper "tag" or harvest ticket for brown bear, just the locking Big Game Tag for $25. And then the free (for residents) black bear harvest tickets. Am I off?Now left only to be a turd in the forrest and the circle will be complete.Use me as I have used you
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Not true. We quit baiting in Unit 13 because there were too many browns on the bait. The black bears were constantly being run off and chased as a food source.
We are such a large state, the biologists just have to do what ever they can to help control numbers of species with the limited funding that they have for population data in our harsh terrain.
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Quick question about the brown furries
I went black bear hunting, but I ran into a grizz. It was a big (huge), beautiful, wild creature in every sense of all three words. It was eating on a moose that I assume it killed. Well, it's bear season and so I started thinking to myself about actually shooting this bear. I had a rest on a log and a 75-yard broadside shot. I was looking at him through the scope -thinking I could probably kill him DRT if I shot him in the eyeball, but otherwise I might have to go into the bushes. This isn't just some L48 opinion of bear size - it was a large one. So finally my better judgement won and I eased on down the ridge and left him alone with his moose.
I have been scouring the archives and I just want a bit of fresh information. Assuming I can kill it, what am I supposed to do with a huge dead bear that might or might not taste good? I've always been of the mindset that the meat was the trophy, so I can't figure out why I'd want to shoot a grizz - unless I'm misinformed about the quality of the meat.
It was mostly the thought of a truck-full of stinky grizz meat that kept me from getting him, but the part about going into the bushes after a wounded bear was definitely part of it.Passing up shots on mergansers since 1992.
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Originally posted by SkinnyD View PostI went black bear hunting, but I ran into a grizz. It was a big (huge), beautiful, wild creature in every sense of all three words. It was eating on a moose that I assume it killed. Well, it's bear season and so I started thinking to myself about actually shooting this bear. I had a rest on a log and a 75-yard broadside shot. I was looking at him through the scope -thinking I could probably kill him DRT if I shot him in the eyeball, but otherwise I might have to go into the bushes. This isn't just some L48 opinion of bear size - it was a large one. So finally my better judgement won and I eased on down the ridge and left him alone with his moose.
I have been scouring the archives and I just want a bit of fresh information. Assuming I can kill it, what am I supposed to do with a huge dead bear that might or might not taste good? I've always been of the mindset that the meat was the trophy, so I can't figure out why I'd want to shoot a grizz - unless I'm misinformed about the quality of the meat.
It was mostly the thought of a truck-full of stinky grizz meat that kept me from getting him, but the part about going into the bushes after a wounded bear was definitely part of it.
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You do not legally have to salvage grizzly/brown bear meat, onlyl skull and hide. However, I took a interior grizzly two yers ago in the fall that was grazing on blueberries. I had heard the same thing about the meat so we took the backstraps to try it. It was great and even my 16 year old daughter liked it. If the bear wasn't rubbed, and I had the tag if needed, then I might have taken the shot. However, going in the bush alone after a wounded grizzly is not to be taken lightly. Good choice.
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Originally posted by SkinnyD View PostI would add that I had a 30-06 and 180s, so the eyeball was the only conceivable DRT shot. I'm also fairly certain that there is a meat salvage requirement up here right now.
Page 29 of the regulations......
Except in the Brown Bear Subsistence Areas, you are not required to keep the meat of a brown/griz- zly bear. If you take a brown/grizzly bear in any of these subsistence areas under a registration permit for subsistence purposes, you are required to sal- vage all meat for human consumption; salvage of the hide or skull is optional.
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Thank you Mr. Steve, that's good information. What does it cost to tan a bear hide? I am not into shooting things just for the sake of proving they will die when a bullet goes through their lungs - except coyotes... I'd shoot every one of those I saw, if I were to ever see one.Passing up shots on mergansers since 1992.
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Originally posted by SkinnyD View PostThank you Mr. Steve, that's good information. What does it cost to tan a bear hide? I am not into shooting things just for the sake of proving they will die when a bullet goes through their lungs - except coyotes... I'd shoot every one of those I saw, if I were to ever see one.
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