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hunting club
Posted by spiksniper on Sunday, August 22, 2010 (21:09:04) (11 reads)
if you are looking to join a hunting club join LA VERENDRYE GAME & FISH for only 20$ a person or 25 $ for a family of 4 under the age of 18 located 70 Stevenson road winnipeg manitoba . hope to get more members.
for more info call 633-5967
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youth hunting
Posted by spiksniper on Sunday, August 22, 2010 (21:08:49) (8 reads)
for the 2010 hunting season there will be a program that lets youth go go hunting 1 week before muzzeloader opens to everyone this program is saposto get more youth into the sport of hunting youth hunters will still need to have there hunters safety and a deer license.this is a awsome way to keep the sport and i think every one shuld take advantage of it.
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Manitobans mark first Provincial Hunting Day
Posted by WpgJim on Sunday, September 27, 2009 (14:59:01) (13 reads)
WINNIPEG - Manitobans celebrated Provincial Hunting Day today in Whittier Park by learning about wildlife conservation and how to cook wild game.
Earlier this week, the province proclaimed the fourth Saturday in September as Provincial Hunting Day. They day is meant to celebrate the role hunting plays in wildlife management and conservation.
Hunting season is now underway across the province. This year, Manitobans will be able to hunt big game on Sundays, and the requirements for youth hunting mentors have been simplified.
For more information on hunting season dates and bag limits, visit www.gov.mb.ca/conservation.
Source: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/breakingnews/Manitobans-mark-first-Provincial-Hunting-Day-61937797.html
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Bear shot in Selkirk
Posted by WpgJim on Friday, September 25, 2009 (18:08:54) (13 reads)
Discovered animal destroyed after public safety deemed at risk
By Mark T. Buss
A 300-pound male black bear was shot and killed within Selkirk city limits early Wednesday morning as the public’s safety was deemed at risk.
Selkirk RCMP Const. David Obirek said the time of day, the proximity to area schools and the options available to officials forced the hand of Conservation officers to kill the animal and dispose of the carcass.
“It is unfortunate but in a heavily populated area like this the only option was to destroy the bear,” Obirek said.
At 9 a.m. Wednesday morning, Mounties and Conservation officers converged on the 400-block of Sinclair Avenue following a report of a bear sighting.
Wilf Huebsch at 401 Sinclair said he received a call from a family member letting him know of the situation. He said he went to his back door to look in the yard only to see the bear sleeping approximately 50 feet away.
Huebsch noted the wild animal had no fear of him – not a good sign in a residential area, he said.
“I opened the door and there he was,” Huebsch said. “He wasn't acared of me at all. He looked at me and put his head back down.”
He said it wasn’t long after Conservation officials showed up and made the decision to kill the animal.
Huebsch – himself a retired RCMP officer and former St. Andrews emergency co-ordinator – said authorities made the right decision. He said if they tried to tranquilize the animal, the bear could have bolted and caused untold damage.
“We’re half a block from the elementary school, we’re a block from the high school, people are walking to work ... you don’t know what would have happened if he started to run,” Huebsch said. “The response was quick and I have no complaints.”
The incident involving the bear actually began 10 hours earlier. Officials attended reports of a bear milling about in the 400-block of Nelson Avenue around 11 p.m. Tuesday night. The animal was reported to have crossed back and forth across the roadway from yard to yard.
Obirek said once on the scene, officials chased the animal south. Watching it jump fences and plow through backyards, authorities lost sight of the animal behind the Sunova Credit Union on Main Street. They continued the search but to no avail.
Obirek said discussions with Huebsch’s neighbours after the animal was put down led them to believe the three or four-year old large bear was rooting through garbage and gardens in the area as well as feasting on fruit trees through the night.
The animal's carcass was taken to a landfill for dispossal.
Wednesday’s incident raises the fall bear report count to over 60 with one month to go. Last year, 41 reports were forwarded overall.
Some area residents believe bears have become more brazen as they continue to forage for food following a poor summer for berries and other items.
Conservation officials say homeowners have a role to play in limiting bear sightings by managing their properties so bears aren’t attracted to them. Garbage and food should be secured in a manner that doesn’t allow odours to escape and attractants like compost piles and beehives should be covered.
Bird feeders and garbage are reportedly responsible for 70 per cent of calls.
Source: http://www.selkirkjournal.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1763794
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Bow hunter uses arrow to fight off grizzly
Posted by WpgJim on Thursday, September 17, 2009 (15:18:46) (117 reads)
By Kelly Sinoski, Vancouver Sun
Rory Chapple was hunting for elk near the Kechika River in northern B.C. when he says he came face-to-face with a grizzly.
Photograph by: Handout, Vancouver Sun
An arrow intended for an elk instead saved a veteran bow hunter’s life when a grizzly attacked him last week in northern B.C.
Rory Chapple, an autobody worker from Fort. St. John, was on an annual elk hunting trip with four buddies near the remote Kechika River when he left camp in search of elk at about 6:30 a.m. on Sept. 8.
He was alone because his buddies didn’t want to hunt in the rain. Armed with his bow and quiver, he was ambling up a hill when he heard something huffing behind him.
Turning around, he found himself face-to-face with a growling grizzly sow and three yearling cubs.
“I’d walked about 100 yards before she came out of the bush and charged me,” Chapple, 39, said. “I couldn’t outrun her and I had nowhere to hide. It was a losing battle so all I could do was holler and scream at her.”
As she charged toward him, the screaming Chapple began backing up but his heel hooked on a root and he tripped.
The bear lunged and Chapple grabbed the only tool he had — an arrow from his quiver — and stuck it in her throat. He didn’t have time to load the bow.
“My first reaction was to save my ass. It’s ‘what can I do to survive this.’” Chapple said. “She landed on top of me, pushed my head into the ground and stepped on my right leg, ripping my pants.”
As the bear turned away, the arrow pushed deeper into her throat but she eventually managed to dislodge it and fled with her cubs into the willows.
That’s when the shock hit, Chapple said, and he was “hunched over like a bowl of jelly” when his buddies found him.
“I was close enough to camp so they could hear me screaming,” he said. “You realize it’s a matter of life and death here and all I had to defend myself was a bow and arrow.
“It could have definitely been worse.”
The hunters searched for the bear but there was no sign of her or her cubs in the area.
Chapple, a father of two girls, said this is the first time in seven years that he has seen a bear near the Kechika River, which is in a remote part of B.C.
To get to the camp, he and his buddies drove for eight hours up the Alaska Highway and then took a boat for another 3.5 hours on the river. The group returned home two days later, with Chapple relatively unscathed.
Chapple, who is president of the Fort St. John archery club, said he plans to return to the Kechika River next year and has already bought a can of bear spray.
The arrow that saved him, he said, will be kept safe in a glass case.
Source: http://www.timescolonist.com/technology/hunter+uses+arrow+fight+grizzly/2001599/story.html
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