Alaska: Heli hunting on Brownbears

[Sabre]

One man’s outrageous is another man’s bargain. The worst hunting or fishing client in the world is the one who can’t afford to be there.

You really think so? I have seen a lot of really great clients who barely scraped the money together to be on a hunt, and probably should have used the money more wisely for something else. And I have seen a lot of rich a**holes who were way worse clients and treated guides/PHs like sh*t.

I think what makes a client good or bad has way less to do with how much money they make and a lot more to do with how they were raised and their individual personality.

 

[GuttormG]

You haven't lived until you are 5 miles from the trailhead and your partner says that he had lunch covered. Then he pulls out a package of Fig Newtons and a piss warm can of Pepsi

Back when I was young, like 30kilos ago, we hunted cormorants. Usually by setting up a blind under or near places we observed them flying.
We also know that there was good place to hunt on some small islands some good distance from shore (about 10 miles out), out of reach for us having only 12-14 feet open boats with small outboards.
So we came up with a plan, we, 3 guys, wanted to get out there and hunt a few days. Work was distributed
I was to arrange transport (local fisherman, transport out on day 1, pickup/return day 4
Friend no 1 to arrange tent and camp stuff.
Friend no 2 to arrange provisions.

All set and of we went. Perfect conditions, not to nice weather, not to bad for us. The cormorants would been flying low and close.
Camp was set up, time for some food!
And what had this genius brought? Sliced bread and canned macrell. And some cheap mixed fruit juice.

More then 30years later this guy is still not trusted any task related to food or supplies.

 

[DieJager]

Also in the case of brown/grizzly bears shooting adult males likely helps the population to grow because they will kill cubs to breed with the female. I believe the cubs stay with mother at least two years.

You're right that the comparison is hard to make especially for the greater part of Europe maybe except the northern parts of Scandinavia.

Last part really hits the nail. Everybody seems to want an adult male. That is even counterproductive to reducing the population as your argument is. You need to shoot the cubs AND the females. In that order also of course, not shooting the mother first. Then you can also take out some of them males.

It is somewhat similar in lots of parts where I live western Europe where hunters do not want to shoot the females because otherwise there are less animals to hunt. But is primarily the basis for hunting to be allowed where I live. It is mostly that, to reduce the population and prevent human/animal conflicts. Like lots of traffic accidents. If we don't control the population, they will eventually take our hunting rights away because we do not do or jobs. Of course that is not the case I think in the US.