Polar Bear

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oldbillthundercheif

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The polar bear is the only large animal that I've always wanted to hunt, but never have. I need to bag one before the icecaps melt.

Where and when can you hunt them right now?
 
Since it has been announced earlier this month that they will probably be added to the endangered species list very soon you might never get the chance.

Which is fine with me. I am not anti-hunting but I am anti-trophy hunting.
 
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I imagine that hunts are booked up for awhile now that there is talk of putting them on the list. I cant remeber where I read it but I think you are looking at $25,000 - $50,000 to book a good hunt for polar bear, I could be wrong on this.
 
You'll have to hunt them outside the US (like Canada). There's no season on polar bears in Alaska.

You'll need paperwork to get the hide/skull back into the US.

If they get listed as threatened or endangered, forget it.
 
I've never been a horn hunter either, playboy, but I grew up watching super-8 footage of my father and several of his hunting buddies being charged by a very large polar bear. They started shooting when it was at least 300 yards out but it didn't drop until it was within spitting distance. An action-packed film, let me tell you.

We had to sell the rug when he died... ugh. I wish we didn't but pop had spent all of his money hunting Africa for a few decades and cash was short.

I have the skull, but would sure like to have a shot at my own.

I know my way around the ice and would be willing to drop some serious coin (not $50K, but I would throw some cash around). Are they hunted in scandanavia?
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You're looking at booking a 2008 hunt in Northwest Territories or Nunavut in Canada. You must use a guide and comply with our gun laws(no big deal). NO HANDGUNS WHATSOEVER. Have one in your possession at the border and you will be arrested and turned over to your Homeland Security.
http://www.cfc-cafc.gc.ca/factsheets/visitin_e.asp
A U.S. importable(Nunavut bears are not legal to import to the U.S. That's a U.S. rule, I think.)polar bear hunt cost $24,900Cdn, in 2005. Plus the costs of getting there, licences, accomodations and food while in town(Holman, Northwest Territories. About $300Cdn per day in cash. No credit cards), taxi fees from the airport($10 cash each way.) and the $750Cdn trophy fee. You're probably looking at 30 grand or more, Canadian.
http://www.nwtwildlife.com/hunting/polarbeartable.htm
http://www.andrewlakelodge.com/polarbear.htm
 
Out of curiosity, what is the largest polar bear taken in a hunt? I've heard about one taken by multiple hunters that weighed about 2200 lbs but i can't verify.
 
Fro, what I understand the world wide polar bear population is far from being endangered. It's the united states population that is supposedly going to be placed on the endangered species list. THere are only a few thousand that cross the alaska border and reside in the united states but worldwide they have a healthy population for bear. I remember an article on this in American Hunter. Basically if they put them on the list ANWR would be off limits for oil drilling and hunting.

Edit: I don't have a link, it was a long time ago
 
but I grew up watching super-8 footage of my father and several of his hunting buddies being charged by a very large polar bear. They started shooting when it was at least 300 yards out but it didn't drop until it was within spitting distance. An action-packed film, let me tell you.
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Wowsa...I'd sure like to see that. :eek: At Can$30K, I doubt I'll be polar bear hunting. If I have ever have that kind of extra jack, I'll be using it for an African hunt instead.
 
Fro, what I understand the world wide polar bear population is far from being endangered. It's the united states population that is supposedly going to be placed on the endangered species list. THere are only a few thousand that cross the alaska border and reside in the united states but worldwide they have a healthy population for bear. I remember an article on this in American Hunter. Basically if they put them on the list ANWR would be off limits for oil drilling and hunting.
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Nah I just read it in the news this week. The ice caps are melting faster than computer models predict, and in 2020-2050 there won't be any ice in the summer. So basically they'll become extinct because they can't hunt seals without ice. The usual cause thrown around is global warming.

So people are thinking of solutions to save the species. Putting them on the endangered species list doesn't really do much if all the ice is gone. But the U.S. is thinking of putting them on the threatened species list.
 
If the caps are melting wouldn't they just move north? And weather is not 100% prefictable. We might have a climitization change where it freezes up north and gets hot down south. It's happened before in the middle ages when vikings were roming the seas and mercantilism was booming. Then there was a massive freeze. Before people were sailing from iceland to greenland and they did not see any icecaps or snow. It was actually warmer then than it is now. Climate changes and everyone freaks. When the climate comes back down to normal everyone will hail it as the efforts everyone put into preventing global warming and the guys will get recognition for the next climate chrisis: Global Cooling!!! *da da daaaaaa* [/evil music]
 
If we had a few whopper volcanic events we could buy the icecaps some time...

Washington State, you need to take one for the team and blow the top of Rainier off with a small nuke. I want to hunt polar bear and it's going to take me a while to organize my finances. Pyroclastic flows and lahars are great for grilling weenies and learning to mudslide-surf.:D
 
Polar bears in the US don't need to be placed on the Endangered list. The Marine Mammal Protection Act already covers them.

The placing of polar bears in the Endangered list is postuing by the global warming weenies like Owl Gore and his eco-nazi mercenaries.
 
If the caps are melting wouldn't they just move north? And weather is not 100% prefictable. We might have a climitization change where it freezes up north and gets hot down south.[/evil music]
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They are saying all the ice has melted in the summer. There's no north to move to.

Anyway since they are saying 2050, some of us will live to see whether it is true or not.
 
Historically, ice ages are preceded by a brief warming period just exactly as we are experiencing now. Hard to say, but if it does go into an ice age, then the bears will thrive. Humans notsomuch. But right, when the ice flows/ice caps melt, that's less "land" for the bears to utilize to find food (primarily seals). In addition, they can easily overheat. In weather we would consider cool or cold (say, +40 deg F), polar bears can die of heat exhaustion moving around looking for food - that's just how well insulated they are.

On the other hand, if the warming continues to the point where the Greenland icecap melts, the oceans will get up to 20 feet higher, putting much of the world's coastal land mass underwater. Venice, Miami, and Boston for example, would become completely submerged.

If we had a few whopper volcanic events we could buy the icecaps some time...

Washington State, you need to take one for the team and blow the top of Rainier off with a small nuke. I want to hunt polar bear and it's going to take me a while to organize my finances. Pyroclastic flows and lahars are great for grilling weenies and learning to mudslide-surf
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Bwaahahaha! Now that's a novel idea there. I kinda like it. :)
 
There was a report recently about some icecaps increasing

So wait for them to come to you:D

I got no problem with hunting any animal that has the ability to kill/eat you

Polar Bears qualify
 
They are saying all the ice has melted in the summer. There's no north to move to.
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The arctic is not completely ice. There is quite a bit of land mass located under the layers of ice meaning that the bears can still move around. I'm not saying that the population will maintain the same healthy number it has now but they will be able to survive. It's like saying "In another 100 years the yellow breasted finflint will not have any habitat to live in so we are making it illegal to harvest feathers for flymaking." Or deer. In 800 years the deer will no longer have any habitat so to protect them we are putting them on the endangered list and you can't hunt them anymore.
 
The arctic is not completely ice. There is quite a bit of land mass located under the layers of ice meaning that the bears can still move around.
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Sorry I miswrote what I meant. What the news article said was when there's no ice, the polar bears can't catch seals, so they'll starve to death. Think they said they need the white ice as camouflage.
 
Camo is nice but the ice will not be completely gone so they will have somthing to hide in. i also think that the bears wait by holes in the ice to catch the seals when they come up for air.
 
... the news articles are saying there will be no ice in the summer in a few decades. That means completely gone in the summer. There is no hole when there is no ice.
 
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