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Those are really some quality bears. Very nice stuff!

Syncerus............. thanks! That is what we aim for. We hunt in one of the very best places in North America for big black bears, and there are lots of black bears. We want our hunters to kill big bears........... not just any old bear.

Hope you have a great Christmas!

Cheers!

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finally have the new website up and running:

www.canadianblackbearhunt.com

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Only 3 hunts left for 2014 now.

Kelly

Are all hunts gun only? Got to go to BC this past May and got a nice chocolate colored one about 5 and a half feet

Hi Roby712............ we are set up to handle rifle, archery and muzzleloader hunters. It varies from year to year, but we usually have several muzzleloader hunters every year and some years half of our hunters are using archery equipment. Our stands are set up for our hunters based on what they plan to use.

If you check out our website we go into detail about the use of rifle, muzzleloaders and archery equipment on our hunts. Our clients take record book bears every year.

Congrats on your BC bear. I took my first colored bear many years ago in the Okanagan area of south-central BC.

My wifes first colored bear was a 600+ pound chocolate boar she took here where we operate in Manitoba. We take bears well over 7 feet every year.

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I want to do a bear hunt eventually. What's the reasoning behind fall and spring hunts? Won't sows have young cubs with them in the spring?

Yes some sows have young cubs during the spring hunts, however it is very easy to avoid shooting them. Firstly it is illegal to shoot a cub or a sow with cubs. Secondly, we as outfitters do not want sows shot.......... we concentrate on taking big boars.

I have never had a hunter shoot a sow with cubs in 35+ years of guiding bear hunters. I won't spend a great deal of time going into it here, but we spend a lot of time teaching our hunters how to avoid shooting sows and how to identify a big boar from a small one.

Lastly, a big deal is made in some jurisdictions about sows with cubs getting shot on spring hunts. This is completely a smoke screen and plays right into the hands of anti-hunters. Sows with new cubs still have those cubs with them in the fall, they are a bit bigger but they are still with the sow and not legal to shoot. All four western provinces in Canada have both spring and fall seasons. Statistically there are very few instances of sows with cubs being shot by mistake.

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did you host hunters from China?

No, I have never had any hunters from China............. not in 35+ years of guiding. US, Europe, South America, OZ, NZ, but never China. Maybe that will change one day if I get any serious enquiries from Chinese hunters.

I'm guessing lynx meant to ask "Do you host hunters from China?".

Anyway, I'm still trying to understand the rationale behind fall and spring bear hunts. I read up some on bears and apparently the sows keep their cubs with them for over a year. So my new question is why do they ONLY have fall and spring seasons? Why aren't they hunted winter and summer, too? Okay, I'm guessing in the winter they're hibernating, but why not summer hunting?

postoak, yes I have talked to Lynx via a PM. I know he is interested in bear hunting but not really sure exactly what he wants beyond that.

As for the bear hunting. Yes winter hibernating in the colder areas.

Summer............ varies as blackies are from Mexico to the barren grounds in the Arctic and coast to coast, but they have to change coats and summer is not a good time for the 'rug' aspect of bears. They are going to rub in late spring early summer and then start getting their new coat and it is fall before they have nice coats again........ that could be August in Alaska or October way south.

Also, unless there is some reason to keep hunting them, I think most people feel that game animals deserve a bit of a break too........ don't you? The other issue would be establishing how long seasons need to be open to achieve whatever the annual allowable harvest is. Not an issue in some places, but most certainly is in others.

Just for interests sake, where I live and guide black bears really begin to shut down by the beginning of October as they get ready to den. In some of the states they are still hunting black bears and have their seasons in November and December.

In the spring season where I outfit the season opens in late April, best time to hunt is in May and it closes in early June. Further north the best hunting is in june and some seasons close the end of June/beginning of July.

Ah, see how ignorant about them I am -- I didn't know they changed coats.