Posted on 05/22/2018 1:59:50 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
I doubt many KS farmers truly rely on big game to feed their families, but Alaskans do. So wolves decimating the local game animals is a big deal. You have to factor that into what’s “ethical”. I don’t know if hunting them in their dens is legal in AK (it may have been a non issue), but I do know they’ve tried just about everything else in some areas.
but they arent even done yet, today on the "news" I heard they are starting a revisionist history channel on TV.....just great.....I can see it now
I forgot about the logging roads. They do extended quite a ways north. Fisherman and poachers also use them. Some years ago we started a canoe trip from a lodge on a big body of water over a hundred miles from the nearest paved road. We set camp the first night at the portage on the big lake. Later that evening a bass boat pulls into the portage area and starts fishing. We are like WTF. The outfitter later said the logging roads reach that far north..
My son in law got a bear a couple years back in the Southern tier, NYS. My daughter didn't appreciate the new rug.
Gotta find the bear - rather than have it find you first......I don’t consider hunting a sport - no sane man will want to give the bear/boar/lion a sporting chance....
I never thought hunting with dogs should be banned, but sort of was against the idea. Until I met some hunters that hunted bears with their dogs. NE Washington State before the ban. Those guys were sure devoted to their dogs. After talking with them a bit it seemed like the hunt was more about the dogs than it ever was about the bear.
It’s been a long time, but I seem to remember they were worried what was going to become of the dogs. “These guys (the dogs) LOVE to hunt, I don’t know what they’ll do without it.”
And I don’t have to have bow-hunters “understand” me hunting with a rifle, and I don’t need to “understand” those guys hunting with their dogs. But it didn’t take much time hanging around them that I think I got a reasonable understanding of it.
I don’t think that that would work on black tails.
“They are going to murder Yogi and BooBoo!”
Bait them with some Pic-a-nic baskets.
For several years, with my son and I both harvesting a couple of deer each, my family of 5 didn’t spend more than $100 a year on meat...
Make that beef...not meat...We did buy chicken...
Why not? It works with every deer species that has a home range.
You objecters are ignoring one important word ...”ALASKA”...
Not your average bear.
You can’t see very far in a Blacktail’s home range. And I’ve seen hoof dents in the heads of dogs a lot bigger than beagles.
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