hello all..
after the pile of questions and requests.. i will start posting about my subsistance life here... I carry an Ipad mini with me everywhere I go due to its navigation GPS app's, and take pic's and very short videos for my family and such that wanna know what I am up to... i host the videos on a hosting site other then Youtube because Youtube has been removing many videos about reloading and such. Reloading is a huge thing to me due to the simple fact it is very hard to get ammo where I live. I host my videos on a place called GunStreamer. All Videos are around a min or less due to the simple fact that internet is super expensive here, so I count every Byte... soooo here we go..
lots of folks love hunting, and I hunt for food. i never kill something I dont eat as a personal rule, and most of the animals I hunt are young and small compared to what you see on TV hunting shows. I am a meat hunter. I hunt animals in the 2 - 3 year age class. mest quality is very important to me, so I am careful how I hunt, what I hunt, and when I hunt. our seasons are different then the lower 48 and our bag limits for our permits are also very different. we all have fishing seasons and hunting seasons like the lower 48, but we also have federal subsistance seasons and hunts that are many times in addition to the normal state hunting seasons and limits. For instance;
Each eligable member of the houshold where I live is allowed to harvest as food
6 deer
5 Black bears.
So if you have 3 licensed eligable hunters, that is a lot of hunting. Subsistance also allows proxy hunting for the very young or elders. if somebody is injured, or unable to hunt, then proxy hunting is available with a simple form to be filled out.
there are lots of members of our community that dont think like I do and take the larger animals considered trophy class, and that is thier right. i just dont and it doesnt work for me. i like to let the breeding population be. also the trophy class animals around here are hunted by out of area or out of state hunters. that brings valuable cash into our meger economy through the lodges and such, so I leave those animals to breeding and the few trophy hunters. Prince of Wales Island has huge black bears, and many of the biggest Black bears ever taken are from this island as there are no Brown bears on Prince of wales island, therefore no natural predators or competition for the local black bear populationwith the exception of our generous wolf population. and the population of bears here are about 3 per square mile, and that is a lot of bears. lots of fish, lots of berries, lots of mushrooms, lots of deer and few humans equals lots of bears.
ok.. enough back story.. in the next post, I will show some pics of bears I have taken this season, and some large brown bears I have taken pics of and that my friends have harvested. i dont hunt brown bears cuz to me they taste icky... but have no quoms about shooting one in a protection situation.
AG...