Opinion piece on the Spring Bear hunt

[Gilroy]

Name one animal that is hunted that someone doesn’t think is their favourite and shouldn’t be hunted. If we follow your logic we wouldn’t hunt anything

The one off lion was beat to death and since it was a one off not worth talking about

I firmly believe there is nothing wrong with harvesting a renewable resource if the population can support it. Whether that be a trapper taking a muskrat or someone taking an elephant or giraffe. There is no difference other than to the people who want to have regulations based on emotions

And again if that was the case there would be no hunting fishing or trapping. So be careful what you wish for

What I wish for is your values as a hunter not imply its my values as a hunter,what you might kill may not be what I would kill.

[Gilroy]

Yes it is your option. As for an honest one, well it's mine that it's not.

Exactly.

[Gilroy]

You have no clue on what you’re talking about
Go get yourself educated on the subject “”Bear Hunting””
Or on hunting in general
Then come back here and we can have a civil conversation

Not real sure if I would consider you that well educated on bear hunting if you need to ask advice on where to locate a bear bait site.

https://www.oodmag.com/community/sho...it-restriction

[Snowwalker]

The perception with the general public is that a giraffe is not a game animal,is found only on one continent and the meat is considered game meat. Having not hunted in Africa,I do not know if they walk on foot in blistering heat or if the animal is spotted from the air,tracked with 4x,s
and then some overweight hunter from Texas who cannot walk 5 yards gets out of the truck and kills the giraffe,do you? Taking a fawn the size of a dog and less than a year old does upset anti hunters,what is your point.

Most hunting in Africa, and every part of the world is done on foot. As is done when hunting any game, scouting is done for habitat and sign. Animals are tracked and approached on foot.

[Snowwalker]

Exactly.

So you agree that you are not expressing an Honest option.

Is that from lack of knowledge on the subject, or some moral defect?

[onelessarrow]

'I also know that bear hunting is for most hunters a “sport” and not a primary or necessary food-gathering activity.'

Well hunters also know that newspaper articles on hunting is for most journalist an anti-hunting production and not a primary or necessary fact gathering activity.

The level of ignorance in this author is appalling. Every point he makes can be disputed with actual facts.

The climb in nuisance bear complaints did not occur because of poor berry crops as the ministry claimed. The contrary evidence was the astronomical climb in nuisance complaints during the Spring and Summer, outside of the berry crop season. https://www.ofah.org/2004/06/number-...r-calls-soars/
Note the date on this article and the number of complaints to date, keeping in mind that the number of nuisance complaints before the spring bear hunt cancellation was around 500 calls per year. The last numbers I saw on complaints were over 20+ thousand a year around the time of the reintroduction.
The Ministry's excuse was horseshyte then and still is now. The media report it without question and that allows people to put hunters in their nice little box so they can character assassinate us. Kind of like the above posts.

[FishHog]

what you might kill may not be what I would kill.

absolutely agree, and vice versa. We are free to make that choice.

My issue is when others think that because they wouldn't kill one species that nobody should. That is a very slippery slope. I'm 99.999% sure I will never kill a giraffe, but I sure don't begrudge someone who does if they do so following the game laws of that country.

[Gilroy]

Most hunting in Africa, and every part of the world is done on foot. As is done when hunting any game, scouting is done for habitat and sign. Animals are tracked and approached on foot.

Pretty inaccurate statement,there are numerous ways to hunt involving numerous modes of transport.

[Gilroy]

So you agree that you are not expressing an Honest option.

Is that from lack of knowledge on the subject, or some moral defect?

Its my opinion and its your opinion if my opinion is honest or not.Confused yet.

[Gilroy]

absolutely agree, and vice versa. We are free to make that choice.

My issue is when others think that because they wouldn't kill one species that nobody should. That is a very slippery slope. I'm 99.999% sure I will never kill a giraffe, but I sure don't begrudge someone who does if they do so following the game laws of that country.

Well I never stated that,I simply stated killing a giraffe is not for me.

Following game laws is great but does not always end great for us hunters.Look at all the species of animals almost extinct that had game laws protecting them.We have had game laws protecting Moose but look at the sorry state of affairs the population is in.