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Bears in the woods, how tough to tell?
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<blockquote data-quote="X-man" data-source="post: 171017" data-attributes="member: 8416"><p>Living here in B.C. we run into this situation quite often. As simple as it may sound you just can't shoot until you are positive.</p><p>I think the biggest problem facing hunters in the lower 48 states is that a guy could hunt his entire life and never see a grizzly much less shoot one….Inexperience.</p><p></p><p>That said a grizzly is a completely different animal and hard to mistake in the wild. Pictures don't do a grizzly justice. While a bear in thick bush it might take a few seconds to identify that is not all there is to shooting a bear. A hunter needs to determine whether the bear in question is a sow with cubs or not. I have watched bears in thick bush for an hour or so before the cubs came into the open. If ever there was an argument for a methodical long range shot this is it.</p><p></p><p>In my mind shooting a black bear sow with cubs would be a disgrace…. Miss-shooting a grizzly is a moron manoeuvre that I hope carries as big a fine in the lower 48 as it does here in Canada.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="X-man, post: 171017, member: 8416"] Living here in B.C. we run into this situation quite often. As simple as it may sound you just can't shoot until you are positive. I think the biggest problem facing hunters in the lower 48 states is that a guy could hunt his entire life and never see a grizzly much less shoot one….Inexperience. That said a grizzly is a completely different animal and hard to mistake in the wild. Pictures don’t do a grizzly justice. While a bear in thick bush it might take a few seconds to identify that is not all there is to shooting a bear. A hunter needs to determine whether the bear in question is a sow with cubs or not. I have watched bears in thick bush for an hour or so before the cubs came into the open. If ever there was an argument for a methodical long range shot this is it. In my mind shooting a black bear sow with cubs would be a disgrace…. Miss-shooting a grizzly is a moron manoeuvre that I hope carries as big a fine in the lower 48 as it does here in Canada. [/QUOTE]
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