polar-grizz

[capt. apathy]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12738644/

Wild find: Half grizzly, half polar bear
Hunter bags what expert 'never thought would happen' in wild
 Hunter Jim Martell, left, and others pose with the bear he shot on Banks Island in Canada's Northwest Territory. DNA tests later showed the bear had a polar bear for a mother and a grizzly bear for a father.
 

[Curval]

A hunter paid $50,000 to kill polar bears?  I'll pay the same to shoot him...how about them apples?

[Thud]

Hey, a bear!
....
Let's kill it.

Morons

[lasersailor184]

And there is one less bear in the world.

I'm going to have a drink in celebration.


Now only if we can get started on the sharks...

[Furball]

****ing idiots.

[Bluedog]

I gotta agree, wtf good could possibly come from killing such a unique creature?

I'm all for hunting, shooting etc, but if it aint on a range or a battlefield, or menacing society somehow, eat what you shoot, or let it walk away intact.

Now, if he had of taken that thing down with a knife or his bare hands, I would be impressed, but any moron can drop anything with a high powered rifle.

[Nilsen]

handsomehunkes

too bad the bear didnt get a bite of them first.

id love to see if they still had that grin on their faces if they met the bear face to face without their bang bangs.

[lasersailor184]

Now, if he had of taken that thing down with a knife or his bare hands, I would be impressed, but any moron can drop anything with a high powered rifle.

And any moron can have access to an Internet Message Board.  That still doesn't mean you know your bellybutton from a hole in the ground.




You people are forgetting that this creature is a mixture of two of the most aggressive CARNIVORES known to man.

[Nilsen]

no bear kills for fun lasersailor

if that makes it the most aggressive one then we are ok

[Curval]

Originally posted by lasersailor184
You people are forgetting that this creature is a mixture of two of the most aggressive CARNIVORES known to man.

This is just about the most MORONIC statement I've read on this BBS.

[Toad]

Don't approve of hunting?

(I suspect they had no idea it was a rare hybrid when the shot was taken. They were probably hunting polar bears and this one looks like a polar bear. Not that really has any bearing on the right/wrong of hunting.)

Let me guess... you guys complaing are wearing leather shoes and belts and are probably eating meat sometime today?

[AlGorithm]

Under other circumstances, I could be opposed to hunting polar bears. But since global warming is melting their habitat, pruning the population is probably the humane thing to do.

Two remarkable points here are that they may have un-naturally snuffed out a genetic variation that could have lead to a more adapted wild bear species (i.e., a polar bear that eats salmon when seals are rare), and that the usually conservative pro-hunting crowd may now claim global warming as an excuse to hunt.

[Curval]

Toad, I have no issues with hunting for food.  I have issues with hunting for the pure joy of killing and for trophy purposes.

[Toad]

Do you know for certain that Martell did not take the meat for food?

Btw, I hunt pheasant primarily because I enjoy the challenges it presents; the food value is just an added bonus. I could, obviously, buy bland chicken at the supermarket to fill the larder.

So am I some terrible thrill-killing monster?

[Curval]

He paid $50,000 to shoot bears for food?

I not 100% sure...but I'm willing to bet on it.  You?