Oh!!!!! the rattle is getting flung out the pram because people dont agree with you![]()
Jason
no, I am expressing my disbelief at an opinion I thought would be in the minority here on Bcuk.
Oh!!!!! the rattle is getting flung out the pram because people dont agree with you![]()
Jason
It is not OK that the bear got shot. This thread reads more like an NRA forum than a bushcraft one. Im gobsmacked that people have no issue with this.
I believe elk is edible.
You are missing my point by a square mile.
I shall try and be more succinct.
I do not think it was OK for the bear to die.
If the price to go elk hunting in bear territory is the occasional death of a bear then frankly lets not go elk hunting unless we really need the food.
Take only what you need. Leave only footprints.
can i ask -whats your views on the school party hiking in Norway ,that got attacked by the polar bear earlier this year ???![]()
..Yes I'm a hunter....but I'm also a coservasionist...
it was tragic, and from what I heard at the time avoidable.
Frankly I'm proud to be the apex predator and I'm not going to cede it to a bear.
It is not OK that the bear got shot. This thread reads more like an NRA forum than a bushcraft one...
Interesting to see the different perspectives around the world. Canada's bear population is something like half a million. Bears get shot all the time.
Most people's attitude here is '**** happens, skin it and butcher it.'
I don't think the difference is so much an issue of "Canada vs UK" or "US vs UK" or NZ vs UK." I think it's more to do with "Country vs City." There seem to be quite a few UK supporters for the hunters on the thread.
Brilliant - I live in and was brought up in the country, I go fishing as often as I can and enjoy it too. This whole farce started when I said it was a shame the bear had to die and folks took exception to it. Personally I think that sport hunting goes against the "take only what you need, leave only footprints" philosophy that I think embodies bushcraft.