KillerFord1977
SAINT
$100,000 + buys some good firearms or a NFA full auto stamp. Think I’ll take that over a Brown Bear, thanks
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Hellcat
But I bet the guys that come up there and spent that kind of money already own dozens of nice guns plus NFA stuff to boot. Some people have more money than good sense or so I've heard.$100,000 + buys some good firearms or a NFA full auto stamp. Think I’ll take that over a Brown Bear, thanks
KillerFord1977
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Kodiak Cowboy
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I sure as heck wouldn't pay 100,000 to hunt anything let alone 10'000 but some people just gotta have a huge house, 20 expensive cars, a million dollar gun collection, and a room full of animal heads from all over the world to show people and say "hey look all this s**t. It's a testament to my success and I'm rich" In my opinion the measurement of success is different for every man. I'm definitely not rich but this countries economy is based on free market capitalisam. Anyone can become wealthy with money. It just all depends how bad you want it! At least for now anyways. Hopefully the citizens of this country don't slowly all become socialist and our economy become communistic! Anyway, material things are meaningless to me. You want all this stuff. Be my guest it's America and you get out of life in this country wut you put into it. I don't buy s**t I don't need. Except a few guns. We'll actually I need all my gun's and I need more guns, and chain saws and dirt bikes and fishing rods and all that other stuff! 
Material items make life more comfortable for most people. I can get by with way less than what have if I had to no doubt about it! We as Americans are spoiled!
Well, honey do's are done for the day. About three hours of shooting lite left. Over cast and a little rain. Wish it was a full moon with snow on the ground. I could hunt all night! Alaska is so awesome! I'm hitting the field in pursuit of that bear now boys. Shoot fun, shoot safe, and shoot straight!
Material items make life more comfortable for most people. I can get by with way less than what have if I had to no doubt about it! We as Americans are spoiled!Well, honey do's are done for the day. About three hours of shooting lite left. Over cast and a little rain. Wish it was a full moon with snow on the ground. I could hunt all night!
Alaska is so awesome! I'm hitting the field in pursuit of that bear now boys. Shoot fun, shoot safe, and shoot straight!
Kodiak Cowboy
Custom
Some of these guys spend thousands and thousands on a hunt, bring thier ten thousand dollar rifles and a pair of 70 dollar rubber boots! At the end of day two on a ten day hunt their feet and ankles are done in! I love looking at those rich folk and say "all that money on a hunt and you go cheap on one of your most important pieces of gear! You don't do this much do you!" Boy that really gets under their skin I'll tell ya!
KillerFord1977
SAINT
To some people, $10k is like us spending $100.I sure as heck wouldn't pay 100,000 to hunt anything let alone 10'000 but some people just gotta have a huge house, 20 expensive cars, a million dollar gun collection, and a room full of animal heads from all over the world to show people and say "hey look all this s**t. It's a testament to my success and I'm rich" In my opinion the measurement of success is different for every man. I'm definitely not rich but this countries economy is based on free market capitalisam. Anyone can become wealthy with money. It just all depends how bad you want it! At least for now anyways. Hopefully the citizens of this country don't slowly all become socialist and our economy become communistic! Anyway, material things are meaningless to me. You want all this stuff. Be my guest it's America and you get out of life in this country wut you put into it. I don't buy s**t I don't need. Except a few guns. We'll actually I need all my gun's and I need more guns, and chain saws and dirt bikes and fishing rods and all that other stuff!
Well, honey do's are done for the day. About three hours of shooting lite left. Over cast and a little rain. Wish it was a full moon with snow on the ground. I could hunt all night!
Just think, someone bought Twitter, just because
Kodiak Cowboy
Custom
Absolutely agreed. You just capitalized on one of the points I was trying to make. Money is no issue at all for some people! Anyway...To some people, $10k is like us spending $100.
Just think, someone bought Twitter, just because
Rainy and windy this evening wasn't to nice out making bear hunting miserable! Bears don't really mind foul weather but I do. I've spent enough time in the cold wind and rain to last as life time and I ain't done yet. Hard to get close to a bear or call one in with the wind swirling around, but I gave it hell this evening anyway.
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Bassbob
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I don't begrudge anyone spending their money on whatever they want to. What I don't care for is trophy hunters. I'm not talking about mounting that Boone and Crockett white tail you finally successfully tracked and shot with your bow, I mean shooting animals you aren't going to eat because it makes you feel like a big shot. If you kill a hippo, a rhino, a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, a zebra, etc.. you are a d-bag.
We have a lot of coyotes around us here. And bald eagles, river herons, red tails, beaver, otters, turtles, owls, bobcat occasional brown bears. It's magnificent living where I live. In this state there basically is no end to coyote season except briefly when they mate I suppose and there is no limit. I know a few guys who spend most of their free time accumulating dogs and trackers and gear and go down to the boot heel every weekend and "Roll dogs". Sure it's legal and here you are teaching your boy what a great time it is. Dude also goes to canada to bear hunt, Texas to rattlesnake hunt, etc.. He just likes to kill
. That ain't hunting, that's killing and I think it's F'ed up.
I have pictures of a coyote standing in my driveway. Somewhere in the back of my mind I am dreading the day when it starts becoming a problem. Coyotes killing neighborhood dogs and pets. Because then I will have to kill one. And I don't want to.
We have a lot of coyotes around us here. And bald eagles, river herons, red tails, beaver, otters, turtles, owls, bobcat occasional brown bears. It's magnificent living where I live. In this state there basically is no end to coyote season except briefly when they mate I suppose and there is no limit. I know a few guys who spend most of their free time accumulating dogs and trackers and gear and go down to the boot heel every weekend and "Roll dogs". Sure it's legal and here you are teaching your boy what a great time it is. Dude also goes to canada to bear hunt, Texas to rattlesnake hunt, etc.. He just likes to kill
. That ain't hunting, that's killing and I think it's F'ed up. I have pictures of a coyote standing in my driveway. Somewhere in the back of my mind I am dreading the day when it starts becoming a problem. Coyotes killing neighborhood dogs and pets. Because then I will have to kill one. And I don't want to.
javbike
Hellcat
Totally agreeI don't begrudge anyone spending their money on whatever they want to. What I don't care for is trophy hunters. I'm not talking about mounting that Boone and Crockett white tail you finally successfully tracked and shot with your bow, I mean shooting animals you aren't going to eat because it makes you feel like a big shot. If you kill a hippo, a rhino, a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, a zebra, etc.. you are a d-bag.
We have a lot of coyotes around us here. And bald eagles, river herons, red tails, beaver, otters, turtles, owls, bobcat occasional brown bears. It's magnificent living where I live. In this state there basically is no end to coyote season except briefly when they mate I suppose and there is no limit. I know a few guys who spend most of their free time accumulating dogs and trackers and gear and go down to the boot heel every weekend and "Roll dogs". Sure it's legal and here you are teaching your boy what a great time it is. Dude also goes to canada to bear hunt, Texas to rattlesnake hunt, etc.. He just likes to kill
I have pictures of a coyote standing in my driveway. Somewhere in the back of my mind I am dreading the day when it starts becoming a problem. Coyotes killing neighborhood dogs and pets. Because then I will have to kill one. And I don't want to.
Kodiak Cowboy
Custom
Absolutely Agreed. I dont kill anything I don't eat. With the exception of one troublesome bear in my life. Unfortunately I may have to kill another unless things change in a better direction and the bear decides to leave the area of our community, but when a bear comes back the the scene after running away from an encounter with a child. That's getting to brave as far as I'm concerned as well as others in my community. I also shoot squirrels that I don't eat. However they are an incredible nusance making nests and spruce cone stashes in attics, sheds, other buildings and anywhere else they can find to p**s me offI don't begrudge anyone spending their money on whatever they want to. What I don't care for is trophy hunters. I'm not talking about mounting that Boone and Crockett white tail you finally successfully tracked and shot with your bow, I mean shooting animals you aren't going to eat because it makes you feel like a big shot. If you kill a hippo, a rhino, a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, a zebra, etc.. you are a d-bag.
We have a lot of coyotes around us here. And bald eagles, river herons, red tails, beaver, otters, turtles, owls, bobcat occasional brown bears. It's magnificent living where I live. In this state there basically is no end to coyote season except briefly when they mate I suppose and there is no limit. I know a few guys who spend most of their free time accumulating dogs and trackers and gear and go down to the boot heel every weekend and "Roll dogs". Sure it's legal and here you are teaching your boy what a great time it is. Dude also goes to canada to bear hunt, Texas to rattlesnake hunt, etc.. He just likes to kill
I have pictures of a coyote standing in my driveway. Somewhere in the back of my mind I am dreading the day when it starts becoming a problem. Coyotes killing neighborhood dogs and pets. Because then I will have to kill one. And I don't want to.
Kodiak Cowboy
Custom
I will also add that I do plan on going to Texas some day to go HellaHog-n! I can't think of a funner way to help exterminate an invasive ferrell species that creates huge amounts of damage to farm land and also destroy's whitetail habit. If I was to stack up ten or twenty hogs by the end of the day? Am I going to dress and butcher and eat them all? Probably not. But I'd definitely try to butcher a couple to bring back home some wild pork for the freezer. I dig on swine! Not sure about wild hog but it can't be bad table fare at all I wouldn't think!I don't begrudge anyone spending their money on whatever they want to. What I don't care for is trophy hunters. I'm not talking about mounting that Boone and Crockett white tail you finally successfully tracked and shot with your bow, I mean shooting animals you aren't going to eat because it makes you feel like a big shot. If you kill a hippo, a rhino, a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, a zebra, etc.. you are a d-bag.
We have a lot of coyotes around us here. And bald eagles, river herons, red tails, beaver, otters, turtles, owls, bobcat occasional brown bears. It's magnificent living where I live. In this state there basically is no end to coyote season except briefly when they mate I suppose and there is no limit. I know a few guys who spend most of their free time accumulating dogs and trackers and gear and go down to the boot heel every weekend and "Roll dogs". Sure it's legal and here you are teaching your boy what a great time it is. Dude also goes to canada to bear hunt, Texas to rattlesnake hunt, etc.. He just likes to kill
I have pictures of a coyote standing in my driveway. Somewhere in the back of my mind I am dreading the day when it starts becoming a problem. Coyotes killing neighborhood dogs and pets. Because then I will have to kill one. And I don't want to.
Kodiak Cowboy
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Yes I have run into him. A couple times while out deer hunting on a more remote part of the Island off the road system. I talked to him briefly about the marine weather. We were both traveIing in our skiffs from on beach landing to another and crossed paths. I can't remember his name but seemed to be a nice guy and hasn't let the fact that he was on reality TV go to his head like those Deadliest Catch Clowns! Man I hate that show. As a retired Crab Fisherman myself. I can honestly tell anyone that watches that show. Don't believe everything you see!!! I know most of those guys and have worked with a few of them over the years and they have really let being on that show go to their head. They really think they are frick'n movie stars! I don't even really like telling people down south I'm an Alaskan Fisherman because their first questions are. Are you a crab Fisherman!?!? Have you been on Deadliest Catch!?!? Do you know Sig Hansen!?!? I just smile and walk away. I don't even talk to my own family down south about it and they know I don't like to talk about it. It's all good though. It is what it is.
Bassbob
Emissary
These wild hogs are a nuisance and very destructive. Whether you eat them or not they need to be taken out. I am a conservationist not a preservationist. Deer populations need to be controlled, bear populations need to be controlled, coyote populations need to be controlled. I told the story about the guy I know who loves coyote killing, my issue isn't with him culling coyotes. Even with nearly unlimited hunting their numbers still manage to grow every year. They have to be culled. My issue is the enthusiasm with which he enjoys and teaches his 10 year old son to enjoy killing them. And running them down with dogs seems cruel to me. I must also point out that I am in no way advocating for any laws or rule changes or even attempting to get this guy I know to change his attitude. I am just saying it ain't for me and when people exhibit this lack of compassion it makes me think differently of them.
Kodiak Cowboy
Custom
Definitely makes sense because that can be said about a lot of wild game and even commercial raised live stock. A two year old corn finished steer is definitely better eating than an old Bull that's been siring calf's all his life.
Bassbob
Emissary
It's also partially because as I get older I am getting softer when it comes to wildlife and "Dumb" animals and less compassionate when it comes to people. I rarely eat beef anymore. I live next to a couple farms and often I hear cows that sound distressed and it bums me out. I see them getting loaded up and transported and it bums me out. The last 5 years I hunted deer I really didn't try. Some of the last deer I took, I did so in such a way that my father thought he got them. The sole reason for me even being out there with a gun was my father. It was the last few years he could do it and he loves it. I made my mind up 5 or 6 years ago that when he couldn't physically get out and hunt anymore I was done as well. The fact is the last 5 or 6 deer I killed I felt bad about. I eat a lot of venison. It is my main source of meat. But I don't have to kill it. My idiot son in law and all his redneck buddies hunt on a large "Farm" not too far from here and while I purposely do not know how they hunt, when they hunt or any other details, they always manage to have meat.
On the flip side, unless it's someone I not only know, but actually care about, I generally have no emotional attachment or feelings about people that die. I understand that when people don't deserve to die but they die anyway it's sad for someone and I can relate, but deep down I am mostly filled with ennui. There are far too many people on the planet and a not insignificant percentage of them really don't deserve to be.
On the flip side, unless it's someone I not only know, but actually care about, I generally have no emotional attachment or feelings about people that die. I understand that when people don't deserve to die but they die anyway it's sad for someone and I can relate, but deep down I am mostly filled with ennui. There are far too many people on the planet and a not insignificant percentage of them really don't deserve to be.
Kodiak Cowboy
Custom
Agreed! I highly disapprove or disagree on hunting Black Bear, Mt lion and some other animals with dogs! Not at all "fair chase hunting" in my opinion. Using dogs puts the hunter at a huge advantage over the animal. Therefore it no longer becomes "fair chase". Hunting an invasive ferrell species with dogs. Like dog hogg'n in Florida is different in my opinion. I agree with that because it's a non indigonous invasive species. Running any species with Dogs in Alaska is strictly forbidden and against the law! Disobedient dogs that people let run lose and end up running off to chase wild game get shot where I live. Might sound cruel because it's not the dogs fault. It's the owners fault, but what is nessasary to protect our wildlife resources must be done, and the ADF&G encourages it! Deer, Moose, Bear, and other wild animals don't need that kind of stress put on them! Especially in the middle of winter when they are half starved to death!
Kodiak Cowboy
Custom
The weather today is very wet with rain and pretty windy so I and a couple other neighbors are taking a day off from the bear persuit. The grass is starting to get greener by the day and other vegetation is starting to pop so this guys may have a chance of finding food and move on continuing his territorial roam. A mature Male Brown Bear can have a huge amount of territory. Walking huge loops of 50 miles or more. Sometimes in less than a week, and do this for his entire life. In the Summer. The more dominant Bears post up at their best fishing holes unless challenged and run off by a more dominant Alfa. And don't continue their roam until the salmon run is completely over.
The reason this young bear is hanging around here is because most the older bears that pass through don't spend a lot of time here looking for food because older bears are much smarter and really don't like being around people. Unless they are absolutely starving. This bear feels he has no compatition in finding food and smells it in our community and is on the verge of coming in for a closer look. It is still early spring here compared to down south. the hills and mountains are still brown and not a whole lot of life is yet present. Deer are still starving from their winter vast. Bears are starting to wake up from their winter sleep and are also hungry looking for food. On average young bears can be the most aggresive and uneducated when it comes to encounters with people.
I'm kinda glad it's raining hard and windy today. Gives me a chance to sit in my shop, clean a couple firearms, catch up on the latest and greatest gossip here on the forum, and hide from my squaw until I get caught and have another "honey do" list handed to me!
The reason this young bear is hanging around here is because most the older bears that pass through don't spend a lot of time here looking for food because older bears are much smarter and really don't like being around people. Unless they are absolutely starving. This bear feels he has no compatition in finding food and smells it in our community and is on the verge of coming in for a closer look. It is still early spring here compared to down south. the hills and mountains are still brown and not a whole lot of life is yet present. Deer are still starving from their winter vast. Bears are starting to wake up from their winter sleep and are also hungry looking for food. On average young bears can be the most aggresive and uneducated when it comes to encounters with people.
I'm kinda glad it's raining hard and windy today. Gives me a chance to sit in my shop, clean a couple firearms, catch up on the latest and greatest gossip here on the forum, and hide from my squaw until I get caught and have another "honey do" list handed to me!
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KillerFord1977
SAINT
Around 40-75lbs are perfect.
Big Boars= buzzard food . Nasty.
Famales in that 40-75lb are ideal