Russian Brown Bears

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And one more thing about statistics by hunters. When we compare countries, which allow trophy hunting, those countries naturally have statistics of big animals shot, when comparing to countries, which won´t allow trophy hunting. In Finland and I think, that in other Scandinavian countries too hunting is based on bear populations. So hunters aren´t allowed to go there and try to find biggest possible bears. They have certain area with certain number, that how many bears they are allowed to shoot, what sex and minimum age. Sometimes there can be some big ones, sometimes not. So if there are bears in hunting statistics, those are biased to certain direction, there is no other possibility when in some area people can and will seek for biggest possible and in some other area they just have to shoot whatever they happen to find that time.

It´s good to discuss about these issues, I´m not sure how many people really stop to think these things or are aware. Reply