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Originally posted by k911sc
no hunting is not the problem, the ability to see that this bear was a boo boo and no yogi is where the outrage lies. pull back on the shot for god's sake, and look for a bigger one.
size/age/gender should have matter in these cases.
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I agree with you on that, as I personally would not have taken the shot on this bear--but the wildlife honchos were actually encouraging the hunters to take ANY bear--the reason was 2-fold
First--they truly wanted to cull the population which translates into taking any animal--young, old, male, female, cub, etc.
Secondly--they were intially criticized by the tree-huggers when the announcement for the bear hunt(first one in MD in 50? years) was made--the critique was that it was not being done to control the population, but was being done as a "trophy hunt" just so hunters could bag the largest bears--taking one this size clearly shows that was not the case.
If this were my bear, I would have passed on the shot, but if I did take it, I would NOT mount it--would probably just keep the skin.