| If you are looking for the hunting experience of | | | | becoming extinct. Their only major threat is |
| your life, bear hunting is the thrill for you. Whether | | | | poaching. Legal hunting - that is hunting with a |
| it is brown bear, grizzly bear, or black bear, bear | | | | licence - regulates the number of bears able to be |
| hunting is a dangerous yet thrilling experience that | | | | harvested, which is extremely important to |
| excites most hunters. If grizzly bear hunting is | | | | preserve the number of bears in the wild. Before |
| what tickles your fancy, travel to Alaska and hunt | | | | you go bear hunting, make sure you have the |
| in the Management Unit 9. Grizzly bears dominate | | | | proper equipment to make your hunt successful. |
| Unit 9. They dominate Unit 21 in Alaska, too. | | | | Your hunting rifle must be a 30 calibre or higher |
| Grizzly bears are considered one of the most | | | | and the barrel must be channel glass bedded. The |
| dangerous, unpredictable bears in the world, so | | | | best rifle to use is one that shoots consistently in |
| considerable care is required when hunting these | | | | all types of weather. Outfitters will also tell you |
| types of bears. It has been noted that Grizzly | | | | that you are responsible for your own gear - the |
| bears and brown bears are interchangeable. | | | | ammo, sleeping bags, personal items, and your |
| Outfitters and guides will dispute this belief as | | | | firearms permit. Make sure you carry that permit |
| they encounter bears - both grizzly and brown - | | | | with you at all times when hunting. Alcohol is |
| in their day-to-day life. Those that travel on the | | | | permitted in camp, but only in moderation. |
| shore line while bear hunting will experience more | | | | Excessive drinking and firearms are a dangerous |
| brown bears. Those bear hunting more in the | | | | combination. Food banks are the recipients of |
| interior will come across more grizzlies. Grizzlies | | | | harvested game animals. As a bear is a huge |
| are also smaller than brown bears, but genetically, | | | | animal, you would not be able to go through that |
| they are the same. Brown bear hunting is as | | | | much meat on your own, so outfitters, who are |
| dangerous as hunting grizzlies. Brown bears are | | | | required by law to salvage the meat, donate it. |
| physically larger because they live in a more | | | | You can take some bear meat home, if you wish. |
| temperate climate and their diet is high protein, | | | | Learn the tagging system of the area you plan on |
| high fat salmon. They are also distinguished by | | | | hunting in. Knowing this information will allow you |
| their coloring, which can be anywhere from blonde | | | | to hunt other kinds of wild game - pending that |
| to brown, and even black. Black bears, smaller | | | | you have the right permit to do so - while bear |
| than other bears, are not in any danger of | | | | hunting. |