MasterBlaster
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He would have loved to have seen you, too! Supper!!!
Hunting 2013
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He would have loved to have seen you, too! Supper!!!
Cold Logging
TreeHouser
Now remember that is an Interior Grizzly. The coastal brown bear get bigger skulls in some areas like the Peninsula, the Prince William Sound and the Kodiak group of islands.
But that's still a pretty huge bear.
But that's still a pretty huge bear.
woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
I wonder if being a larger animal, i.e. having survived for so long, is indicative to some degree of being smarter than others?
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
I'm sure he wasn't a dumb bear.
woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
They should capture and breed smart bears, introduce higher intelligence into the gene pool, then hunters would have bigger and more challenging game. On the other hand, maybe not such a good idea. 
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Or, only allow hunting then with spears.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Or Bowie knives. 
woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Really, if you could hunt and kill a Wooly Mammoth with clubs and spears, why not bears as well.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Damn straight. THAT'S real hunting!
Mick!
TreeHouser
Cold Logging
TreeHouser
The record keepers Boone+ Cricket, Pope and Young and SCI guage bear size on skull size. So a jug headed bear wins out. But thatdoesn't mean its THE biggest bear. I've been up close to 10' squared bears that didn't have as big a head as the one in the article. And I've seen bears in the 8 1/2' range that had heads that big. Its mostly genetics. Kodiak bears have big zygomatic arches which makes the length and width measurement come out higher than say a bear from Southeast Alaska that has a normal shaped head.
That is one thing I have against hunting.
This quest for shooting bigger animals than the other hunters.
It really screws with a population when the best part of the gene pool constantly gets mounted on somebody's wall.
Cold Logging
TreeHouser
Very true!!!!! Stig.
I like a good representation of the species combined with a good hunt but really I'm a meat hunter. Pure trophy hunters kinda gross me out. . I think they diminish hunting. With bears I'm more into problem animal control than trophy hunting.
I like a good representation of the species combined with a good hunt but really I'm a meat hunter. Pure trophy hunters kinda gross me out. . I think they diminish hunting. With bears I'm more into problem animal control than trophy hunting.
SouthSoundTree
Treehouser
Well made point, Stig. Supposedly the natives didn't take the big ones. Supposedly.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Why do we want the bears to be as big as possible???
Cold Logging
TreeHouser
With bears I don't think it's too important. . In Alaska bears kill a lot more bears than people do.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Awesome film!
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woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
It tends to bother me when the large multi membered crew fishing boats haul in the biggest of the remaining Giant Tuna, say a three hundred pound fish. They are really magnificent creatures. When some fellow up in a traditional port town in the north, brings one of those in by hand lining alone in his small boat, helped out with his creaky winch, then can pay his bills for most of a whole year, I don't mind it so bad. Plus that incredible sushi!
GASoline71
'cause chicks dig scars
You can't eat antlers or horns...
Gary
Gary
Limbrat
TreeHouser
Very true Gary but there's something in just about everyone, call it ego, drive, competitiveness or whatever, that wants to take the biggest critter or fish, climb the highest mountain, marry the best looking woman or whatever the case may be. I've never heard a guy say that his goal in life was to marry the ugliest girl in town!
