Comments on: Over 1,000 Florida Hunters Bag Permits For Bear Hunt

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 16:50:29 +0000

Mmm, bear meat! I hope the hunters kill as many as they are allowed to, but none just for fun, the meats & hides should be consumed not wasted. If a hunter is not going eat the meat & cure the skins for leather-like consumption, he/she should be required to donate them to some organization for the poor or needy.

Florida Wildlife has made exhaustive studies on the bear population & deemed this hunt necessary, so you treehuggers are wrong, & need to talk about something else that you know a little bit about.

By: billy

billy — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 12:57:25 +0000

Hey looks be real. People kill people for all sorts of reasons hate,greed,drugs,money and get to carry a legal/illegal weapon too. Do you see a bear killing bears for those reasons. Its not the bears to worry about these days…..yall.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 00:53:05 +0000

Well said Jim.For those that haven’t had bear meat you’re missing something good, so glad bear season has came back !

By: chris in Molino

chris in Molino — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 00:44:24 +0000

If the bears were plentiful, i would say go for it. But they are not. They are concentrated in a few small areas. No doubt some wealthy person or big shot at eglin had an opinion because they, or someone they know, had an unpleasant experience.
I am a hunter. Year round, my family eats meat that was caught or killed locally. Mostly fish, deer, hog, and crawdads, but sometimes a few others i’d rather not say. I know in my heart most people trying to kill a bear will be for pride, ego, attention, etc. Not meat.
State lands have been purchased and managed in a muti-state partnership specifically to provide the black bear an interstate (so to speak) for travel to and from the Mississippi River Delta to the Florida Panhandle. You’ll have to read but search Perdido River WMA/ Black Bear. They are specifically trying to reintroduce Black Bears to their natural habitat yet completely conflicting with the new rule. Do you really think they purchased thousands of acres so you could go to Filingim Landing or the Pipes ? Do you think Alabama purchased 18,000 acres for the same reason ?
What they should do is report to bear incidents and issue citations for attracting bears in the first place (eg; leaving trash out) . Please don’t tell me how your birdseed attracts bears. First, the birds aren’t going to starve if nobody in the world put seed out. Second, your desire to see birds at your feeder does not outweigh the bears necessity to live.
To the supporters of it, you just want to say you killed a bear. There are plenty of other plentiful creatures to get meat from. Besides, the bears apparently aren’t eating wild which was the reason for killing them. They’re eating trash, birdseed, dogfood, etc. So don’t try me with that bull, try lotto.

By: CW

CW — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 23:14:15 +0000

Folks in Appalachia seem to have no problem with their bear population, and they have way more than we do. I bet 99.9% of the people here have never even seen a black bear.

By: Trisha

Trisha — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 18:42:57 +0000

The problem I have is that THEY don’t even know what the bear population numbers are. They are guessing because of human to bear encounters. Here is an idea…….shoot the people who are feeding the bears! End of problem. Stop the scare tactics, these are not bears that are on the hunt for our children. Nor are they killing our livestock. You could put an all out hunting season on poison snakes, there are more of them and they harm more people. When my grandchildren go out to play in the yard I don’t say “watch out for bears”, I say “watch out for snakes”.

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 17:08:09 +0000

Anyone who participates in the shooting of a bear is weak human. I’d like to see that same person try to take on the bear without their gun.

By: haley

haley — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 16:56:35 +0000

Who, in this world eats bear meat? How disgusting. I don’t think that is the intent with this bear massacre thing. This is just wrong. Go get em rednecks…

By: lady hunter

lady hunter — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 16:29:38 +0000

@Linda – as a female hunter, if it were being offered closer to this area I would be getting one so it is not just “all the men that think they are tough”.

@Jim – you have it right. I would much rather eat meat that has been raised in the wild than purchase meat that has been raised in deplorable conditions.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 13:44:53 +0000

Ladies – Bears are hunted for meat. Shooting them provides a quick death. Bears are not endangered. As far as us invading their habitat, if you can get humans to stop breeding and spreading into Florida, I’m all for it.

The meat that you buy in the supermarket suffered far more than these few bears will. They are force fed, spend most of their lives standing in their own excrement in a tiny stall or in a packed feed lot, while being pumped full of antibiotics and hormones. The chicken that provided you with that succulent breast had it worse. Where is the rainbows-and-bunnies appeal for these animals?