CANADA: Polar Bear Hunt Nunavut Canada

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Please have patient with me. I struggle with the technical side of making these posts. I I had the most amazing combination Hunt for Polar Bear and walrus this past August. At the very top of Hudson Bay hunting out of the town of Coral Harbor by boat with the Inuits was a fantastic experience! I’m a 100 ton Coast Guard captain myself and have spent my life guiding Hunting and Fishing including thirty years or more in Alaska so I always knew I would be enjoy hunting in the Arctic by boat! My opportunity came this past summer and it was everything I hoped it would be and more!

Congratulations. Waiting on “the rest of the story “

That is an incredibly old bear.
Congratulations on your success.
You just keep typing at whatever pace you can manage.

Looking forward to the rest of the story.
Bruce

Hunting and fishing with the native people was awesome and I spent a full two weeks with them participating in their hunting and gathering lifestyle after I harvested my walrus and polar bear!

Can you share the outfitter? Looks like a fun hunt/experience

I lived with the Inuits; eating whale, seal, arctic char, polar bear; walrus, wild berries and bird eggs gathered in the wild! I was an Inuit for a couple of weeks! What a privilege to live their lifestyle for a period of time!

That was quite an adventure, congrats

Looks like a great experience, congratulations.
Curious to hear about the Walrus hunting.

Following along, great animals

Congrats. I assume the bone in front is his tally wacker bone ?

Awesome hunt for sure. The weather looks severe clear, sun burn kinda weather. What did you shoot the bear with? I think if you had one of those small, old fashion bottles of Coke, that would have made for a great photo with your bear. (like the TV commercials).

Fantastic Jerry!

that's flippin fantastic!

Great trip. Huge bear, nice walleyruss. Nice rainbow too, look like char (brookies) on the rocks (and this one by a local.

What an amazing experience! Congratulations! Did you have an outfitter?

awesome, fantastic, congratulations , I nominate you for Africa hunting ,HUNT of the year, even if it aint Africa. Waiting on the story, did you shoot him in the mouth or was he in a fight previous? Caliber?
lastly are these now import legal?

I watched an old old home movie many years ago, made into a vhs, of a guy shooting a polar bear with an militay rifle, FMJ shot it 17 times and it was still on 4 feet swaying but alive.

375 Ruger Fan said:

Awesome hunt for sure. The weather looks severe clear, sun burn kinda weather. What did you shoot the bear with? I think if you had one of those small, old fashion bottles of Coke, that would have made for a great photo with your bear. (like the TV commercials).

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Thanks for your interest in my Hunt! I’m out in Salt Lake at this moment, setting up for the western sports expo, which opens Thursday morning…
You ask about the gun that I used… believe it or not. I shot the Polar Bear with a 300 short mag. I shot the walrus with the same caliber…. I was using horny Outfitter series ammo I believe 165 grains.
You know the crazy thing is I never intended to use a short mag on anything but now I’ve killed a 9‘4“ Kodiak brown bear a giant bison, a balloon and Crockett antelope a polar bear and a walrus and two bone and Crockett Rocky Mountain goats all with the same “ pip squeak” round! I say that tongue in cheek; but I always was a belted Magnum kind of guy… favoring .30 calibers for North American game. Savage supplied me a new model lightweight hunter rifle and leupold a VX-5 rifle scope one year when I had the governor’s tag for gust in Alaska. It’s a long story that suffice it to say I never did produce that magazine article. That was the focus of this endeavor. But since then I’ve been on a mission to shoot some big animals with that “ little rifle” and someday I intend to have a magazine an article published with just what an awesome job it does on big animals surprisingly! I talked to Craig Boddington and Larry Wieshune about getting an article published along these lines and they said that it was very difficult these days to get an adventure type article published. They both said that the editors of these magazines go more for the deer and turkey type articles and not the “outlandish adventure type articles” that in their words “most people will never get to do those hunts”! Well, if you knew me, I would’ve been the least likely person to ever get to hunt lions elephants, bongos, and polar bears bit low and behold with passion and heart and perseverance, and determination even somebody is low a pay grade as me has gotten to do all these things, I feel so blessed!

cwpayton said:

awesome, fantastic, congratulations , I nominate you for Africa hunting ,HUNT of the year, even if it aint Africa. Waiting on the story, did you shoot him in the mouth or was he in a fight previous? Caliber?
lastly are these now import legal?

I watched an old old home movie many years ago, made into a vhs, of a guy shooting a polar bear with an militay rifle, FMJ shot it 17 times and it was still on 4 feet swaying but alive.

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Thank you so much for the kind words! You know I find out that these hunters are what you make of them! I know two other gentlemen that went on this hunt and they didn’t have a good hunt at all! When I got there, I could tell that I needed to take charge and point the ship in the right direction! Being that I’m a Boat, captain myself and a guy in an Outfitter and a passionate an outdoorsman I could see the writing on the wall and it wasn’t gonna end pretty if I didn’t do something. Show with a positive attitude and a smile I coerced and guided the ship if you will no pun intended and man that I have a tremendous Hunt! Then when I got my Bear and they said well now you can change your plane and go home. I said no way I’m staying here and we’re gonna do all the things that you do is fall as subsistence hunting and fishing and camping and so forth and Man did I have a great time! I think there’s a lesson there if you go into a Hunt with a positive attitude and treat the people well. Tell them about your dreams and your desires and many times they’ll rise to the occasion if you know what I mean! On the other hand if you go into a Hunt telling them that the equipment is no good. The food is no good. The hotels too expensive yada yada yada often times the guide our outfitter will just shut down on you early. Figuring you can’t be pleased! I’ve been on both sides of this as the guy and the client and so it’s kinda easy for me to see how to make the best of these hunts.

Oh yeah, thanks for noticing the broken jaw! Yes, what story there is to tell! We saw two big mature male bears on a carcass of a beluga whale on the beach from out in the boat about a half mile offshore..
We made the stock from about a mile away after landing the boat and when we came up over the sand dune or gravel dune, we were right on top of the bears! They were in a horrible fight, bear hugging each other and rolling, and they ended up in the water, and the one grabbed the other one by the jaw and broke part of his jaw is tooth out right wall I was looking through the scope…
You’re right I need to flush this story out and tell it boy it’s kind of long, but I’ll just use this as a teaser. If you don’t mind, it was an amazing adventure.
No, they aren’t in portable at this time, but with Trump in office, we hope that they will be become portable… back in July. I believe it was there were some committee meetings in Washington DC about what changes could possibly be made to the endangered species act…. Right now under the current marine mammals act which I think was around 1972 or 73 they’re not importable.
I have hopes that that will change! I’ve spoken to Craig Boddington and Larry Wieshune and others about this and basically what they say is we have the best chance we’ve ever had with the current administration to get something done. We’ll just have to see.