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Bears are a nuisance for the most part, there is a season for them in the fall but they aren't really popular. I'd personally like to extend an open invitation to any of our American friends who feel like killing something meaner than Bambi. My area is mostly just black bears (dump bears), a rare brown bear in there. Out west near the rockies and the far north western part of the country is Grizzly country and another 1000 miles north you're into the Polar bears, the nastiest of them all. The Aussie's I worked with always complained about all the poisonous snakes. You guys have one that carries enough venom to kill eight hundred sheep? Is that an exageration?

Although really rare and only in the sub-arctic areas we've got wolverines too, a fifty pound wolverine will back down a thousand pound bear. Picture the tazmanian devil on a good cycle of steroids, although they are completely different animals.
 
yeah, snakes are a pain, where i live (sub-tropical ) the taipan is the nasty bugger, very rare to survive taipan bite- their big buggers too. lots of browns and red belly blacks as well. snakes dont worry me- common sense youre alright. surfing with great whites- thats another story ! mate of mine lost leg halfway up calf when 16 on stradbroke island ( 10 kms off coast )- he still surfs, he kneeboards!
 
in NYC its pigeons (killed 1, wounded 2) but there not on the highway. what almost made me dump my bike in the city is hub caps! all the pot holes here make cars blow there caps but it was worst 10 years ago when there was less rims
 
Hwy Raptuous, we bear hunt here, some folks say "Bar" I say "Bear", but we use hounds. Just out of curiosity, how hard is it to get a permit for a Stateside fellow, and, what's the red tape like bringing in a long gun?
 
Hey Confederate.

I haven't looked into it but I do understand there is a ton of paperwork involved. It is possible because I've been to places like Metagami Quebec in December for the Caribou hunt and it's 90% American plates at all the hotels. Bringing a long gun in is possible but remember that anything that holds more than four rounds (total for high power rifles I think) is a restricted or even prohibited weapon. I think if you did a bit of research and plan well in advance there shouldn't be too much problem, American hunting tourism is big business up here.
 
On mythbusters they had a test to see what a truck re treed would do if it came off and hit...the analysis was it would decapitated you in a second...
 
If your definition of hunting is sitting with a cold beverage around seven in the evening watching a grain field and then choosing which bear to shoot then I guess we do to. Usually it's just to save some crops though so the dead bear gets run through with the hay fork on the tractor's front bucket and dumped farther out back for the other bears to feed on.


Here's a picture of five tearing up a land fill near where I working back in 2002. They're really endangered in Canada..
 
That looks like our deer hunting here. The wife said she was going to buy me a camo recliner to set in the yard in. I remember as a kid sitting in the swamp being eaten by skeeters waiting on a deer. Now I nearly trip over one everyday. Looks the same for you folks with bears.
 
We've got a ton of deer too, check these before and after pics from a cross province ride a girl I know took with some buddies. Also check this article from last weeks news.

Authorities hunting for bear that killed Quebec woman
Updated Sun. Jun. 1 2008 2:31 PM ET

The Canadian Press

MONTREAL -- Quebec conservation officers are on the hunt for a bear that killed a 70-year-old woman.

Provincial police say the victim's husband went looking for her Friday evening when she didn't return from a solo trip to a fishing hole at a camping area near La Sarre, about 600 kilometres northwest of Ottawa.

Police spokesman Gregory Gomez del Prado says the man, also around 70 years old, found his wife's body and spotted a bear nearby.

Gomez del Prado says the man called police, but when officers ran into the bear it seemed very aggressive.

He says it was also too dark for police to locate the body.

Police found the woman's body Saturday when they returned to the area with conservation officers.
 
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