Teenage Sisters Hunting Champs

[CaptainCrunch]

[goaliegirl]

Originally Posted by MJK

Communities fill their bear quotas here every year. Also, polar bears are not on the endangered list. Polar bear meat is eaten in the north.

Anything else you want to know or be corrected on?

I also live nUnavut and my wife is an Inuk, I pretty sure I know what the norm is.

Just because you can hunt something does not necessarily mean you should. Polar bears are a threatened species, verging on endangered. By hunting something you don't actually need to eat you are contributing to the problem. Last I heard Inuit people also eat seal(not threatened) fish(also not threatened) and caribou(again not threatened), there is zero reason to hunt polar bear other than tradition in doing so.

Anyway back to the topic, those girls are idiots who think a gun gives them power. I hope they both get into a hunting accident and get their hands shot off.

[Cain]

And tradition isn't ever a good reason to continue doing something if that is all you can cite. It is basically the same as "well we've always done so, I guess we should just continue."

Didn't we just have a thread about bull fighting and how that should be done away with? Traditions be damned.

If you truly need to do something to survive, go nuts and I won't criticize you. If it is "just because" then well...I sure as heck will.

(Post not directed at anyone in particular, my knowledge on inuit needs is not up to date so I won't venture there.)

[Huntingwhale]

The 2 teenage sister champs. Tappity tap tap!!

[Bertuzzied]

^Yup. They are going to hell.

[MJK]

I value everyone's argument here and I understand where everyone is coming from. However, hunting polar bear for the Inuit is not just tradition; they eat the meat and use the fur for clothing.

These are facts.

There is also an ongoing debate between 'southern' scientists and elders who have lived in the north a lot longer than white people have been on this continent. The elders argue that the polar bear is not endangered at all. But is in fact doing very well in the north.

[frinkprof]

I keep reading the title of this thread as:

Teenage Sisters Humping Champs

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by frinkprof

I keep reading the title of this thread as:

Teenage Sisters Humping Champs

I actually read it that way originally too.

[mikey_the_redneck]

I like the idea of shooting game for food ........but all these bear killings I hear about make me angry. They are beautiful magestic creatures imo..

Screw you Dess....

[Calgaryborn]

Originally Posted by MJK

I value everyone's argument here and I understand where everyone is coming from. However, hunting polar bear for the Inuit is not just tradition; they eat the meat and use the fur for clothing.

These are facts.

There is also an ongoing debate between 'southern' scientists and elders who have lived in the north a lot longer than white people have been on this continent. The elders argue that the polar bear is not endangered at all. But is in fact doing very well in the north.

Actually the population is very stable or increasing in most areas. There are a few regions which are showing a decline but, not anything that is significant. The reason why Alaska(actually the American Federal government) considers the Polar bear an endangered species and there is pressure to do the same in Canada is the shrinking ice caps. Some reason that less ice means less seals which will mean starving Polar bears. Of course if that happens in the future(it isn't effecting populations now) the amount of bears harvested today won't mean squat. If anything it will just save some from slow starvation. But of course their motivation really isn't conservation. It is the abolution of hunting.

[DropIt]

Guns are weak.

Let me take them with me and I will have a couple of Beavers trapped by nightfall.

[Rerun]

Not to get into the whole trophy hunting debate, but personally I think it was pretty ballsy of a 15 year old girl to hunt and shoot a grizzly... particularly one that size. A full grown grizzly can go up to 1000 lbs and its a pure killing machine. Nothing in North America compares to it.

Not sure if anyone here has ever hunted in grizzly territory but I have and sometimes the experience gets pretty tense. You never know when you may be passing close by some thick cover and a grizzly might charge out of it from nowhere and be on top of you before you know it. Plus, if you do shoot a grizzly, you better make sure you take it down with the first shot. Nothings worse than a pissed off wounded grizzly.

[Heavy Jack]

So would not want to sleep in that room. Disgusting waste of life and to see him standing there like its the best thing on earth is extremely sad. Would rather watch the animals interact.

[corporatejay]

Originally Posted by Heavy Jack

So would not want to sleep in that room. Disgusting waste of life and to see him standing there like its the best thing on earth is extremely sad. Would rather watch the animals interact.

I take it you're vegetarian?

[HotHotHeat]

I would punch that girl in the face for killing an amazing animal like that.

Non-Hunter.

[Regulator75]

Bizarro bump.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by henriksedin33

I didn't think we had grizzlies on the island though, let alone ones that big.

I'm surprised too. A few years ago, there was one spotted and captured just outside of Victoria and it was pretty big news at the time because they aren't supposed to be there, according to the biologist in the story. Although he did say that they can swim great distances.

OT, but probably one of the coolest things I have ever seen personally was a grizzly bear and black bear squaring off about to fight. I was in a helicoptor flying somewhere around Takla Lake in Northern BC and we were right at the side of a mountain near the top when the pilot pointed it out. We flew closer and both bears were standing on their hind legs - the grizzly was obviously towering over the black bear, but the black bear was standing his ground. We got too close and both bears ran off in opposite directions. I imagine that we probably saved the black bear's life.