Yea he's the poster child for Fwp as a bad guy. He loves checking bears in now
Nothing like getting hooked up to a polygraph machine when being questioned
Oh, yea, thanks LB for getting me started on this one! Apparently when you are on the, "your an azzhole for killing a grizzly bear" list at FWP. They feel they should put you through an OJ simpson trial when you check your next black bear.
I will go ahead and tell you how this went down since i'm on a roll with it
I show up to check my 2010 bear at FWP. Guy in front of me throws his bear hide up on the counter. Its a sow. Guy does his check and is out the door in 5 min. I put my bear up there, again a sow. I'm recognized by the check guy as the grizzly bear killer. Next thing i know, they are bringing in the biologist to give her opinion since the first guy thinks there was a possibility of a cub being with the sow. (hence greenhorns photoshop version of the photo
) She evaluated it and said it was very unlikely there was a cub with the bear. They wrenched and wrenched on all the teets and ended up getting a drop of milk out of one of them. She said that the very nature of not being rubbed up around the nips and dryed up milk production, that the sow likely had kicked any cubs she may have had off 6 to 8 weeks prior. Next thing I know, head honcho warden shows up and looks at the bear and says "how long did you watch this bear before you shot it". Told him, at least 20 minutes. Plus over an hour to finally cross the canyon to get to it. He says " 20 minutes is not even close to enough time to determine whether a sow has a cub or not" You need to watch every bear for at least 40 minutes to determine there are no cubs around
Then proceeded to tell me I'm not experienced enough to be hunting bears, and asked if this was my first bear other than the grizzly bear I shot.....Just being a complete azzwagon. In fact, he said he knows for sure the sow i shot had cubs with it, and now they are gonna likely die. I really couldn't believe i was hearing this crap. In fact i told him we could hike up there and look. He asked where it was and apparently, when I told him, it was too far of a hike because he said that it wasn't going to be necessary but that he KNOWS for sure there were cubs with it. Then proceeded to tell me the exact opposite analysis for the bear as what the biologist just got finished giving before he got in there. Trying to keep my cool before blowing up, i asked him the very thing the biologist said to us, "do you think that its not likely the bear had kicked its cubs off weeks ago". His exact response to me was this "Yea, its likely, and its also just as likely that aliens flew down here in a UFO and abducted the cubs too".........This pretty much had me ready to punch him in the face so i told him to finish his check on the bear, nothing was wrong and i would be on my way. He then wanted to see all the meat. I said, no problem, its in the truck, but funny how the guy in front of me never had to go through this circus. They were just doing anything they could to try and get me for doing something wrong. His last statement was, " well i can't write you a ticket for anything illegal, but i know this bear had cubs with it............you should have seen the biologist, you could tell she was like WTF, i just got through telling these guys the exact opposite of what you said. I didn't want to throw her under the bus but if I get harassed like this again, everybody is going under the bus
My buddy that was with me was appalled at the way i was treated, all because of the whole grizzly bear thing..........
Even when you follow all the rules, they still try to make you feel like a criminal, thats the part that pisses me off the most with the griz thing.........
Makes a guy second guess what the right thing to do is..........
