Hunting Bears [Hardcover]

Kathy Etling (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2003

For most hunters in North America, taking a bear is incidental to hunting deer. For others, however, challenging a big bruin on its own turf is the purpose of their hunt and may become an obsession. Whether it involves hunting the wary black bear in Maine over bait, chasing a clever black bear trying to avoid a pack of hounds in the Rocky Mountains, sneaking up with a bow on a huge grizzly, placing the crosshairs on a massive brown bear as it exits an ice-cold Alaskan stream, or enduring bitterly cold temperatures and inhospitable hunting conditions while hunting the hunter—the great white polar bear—bear hunting is an adventure only for those of strong heart and mind.

In Etling’s latest book, Hunting Bears: The Most Dangerous Game, she covers all aspects of bear hunting and all species of bears to hunt—black, grizzly, brown, and polar—from North America to Russia. She has omitted no tactic, strategy, or bear behavior and includes interviews with many of the nation’s most successful bear hunters as well. Between the covers of this book is information that most bear hunters would take a lifetime to amass.

If hunting any of the bears found in North America or the world is your dream, you'll want to add HUNTING BEARS: THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME to your outdoor library. It will provide you hours of first-rate reading and will inspire you to bag your trophy bruin. It contains hard-core, useful information that you can put to the test the next time you’re afield stalking the most challenging and dangerous game found in North America today.

Editorial Reviews

Book Description

Hunting Bears covers all aspects of bear hunting for all species of bear - black, grizzly, brown, and polar - in North America. Includes information on baiting tactics, spot and stalk strategies, hunting with hounds, and bear behavior. Also covered are do-it-yourself hunts, fly-in hunts, and how to prepare your bear for the taxidermist. Includes over 90 black-and-white photographs.

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For most hunters in North America, taking a bear is incidental to hunting deer. For others, however, challenging a big bruin on its own turf is the purpose of their hunt and may become an obsession. Whether it involves hunting the wary black bear in Maine over bait, chasing a clever black bear trying to avoid a pack of hounds in the Rocky Mountains, sneaking up with a bow on a huge grizzly, placing the crosshairs on a massive brown bear as it exits an ice-cold Alaskan stream, or enduring bitterly cold temperatures and inhospitable hunting conditions while hunting the hunter—the great white polar bear—bear hunting is an adventure only for those of strong heart and mind.

In Etling’s latest book, HUNTING BEARS: THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME, she covers all aspects of bear hunting and all species of bears to hunt—black, grizzly, brown, and polar—from North America to Russia. She has omitted no tactic, strategy, or bear behavior and includes interviews with many of the nation’s most successful bear hunters as well. Between the covers of this book is information that most bear hunters would take a lifetime to amass.

If hunting any of the bears found in North America or the world is your dream, you'll want to add HUNTING BEARS: THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME to your outdoor library. It will provide you hours of first-rate reading and will inspire you to bag your trophy bruin. It contains hard-core, useful information that you can put to the test the next time you’re afield stalking the most challenging and dangerous game found in North America today.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Woods N' Water Inc. (June 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0972280413
• ISBN-13: 978-0972280419
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #746,064 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Cut and paste job, September 24, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Hunting Bears (Hardcover)

I just have doubts about a book which claims to be a comprehensive guide to bear hunting written by a hunter who has never, EVER hunted bear... I mean why don't I write the book, I'm no expert, but at least I've been bear hunting a couple of times. While I'm at it I'll write the "comprehensive guide to Safari hunting for lions" or even Tigers!!! Who cares if I haven't hunted them (or ever will in the case of tigers) I can write a book about it.

The only thing redeming abou the book is that much of it is a cut and past excepts from other bear hunting books and articles by other writers, covered with a bad intro like, Dr. Ken Nordburg says .... That information is good and solid, but why do you need this book to say it? I mean why don't I just buy the other books. Needless to say I returned it...

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Deceptive advertising and poor hunting guide, April 4, 2008

By 

B. Dixon (Fox, Alaska) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hunting Bears: Black, Brown, Grizzly and Polar Bears (Outdoorsman's Edge) (Paperback)

The back of the book has a picture of the author in full hunting garb and statements that imply that she's hunted down her prey all over the continent ...then buried in the fine print of the Acknowledgments section, she admits that she has NEVER hunted or killed a bear of any kind. This book is sold on false pretenses ...a lie.

Some of the information in the book is useful if you are interested in bears. ALL of the hunting information is garbage and too high level to be of any use ...what do you expect from someone who only wore boots for the picture? I read only the sections that might have something to do with the kind of hunting that I DO and then dumped it in the trash ...along with a vow to never purchase anything from the "Outdoorsman's Edge" series again (what "edge"? Jeez.)

Go buy Black Bear Hunting ...Expert Strategies for Success by Gary Lewis if you want a book written by a REAL hunter, not some closet greeny.

Brian

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and Comprehensive!, December 11, 2003

By 

James Erickson (Sumner, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hunting Bears (Hardcover)

Etling knows large predators, that much is certain. I've read her two-volume work "Bear Attacks" and also "Cougar Attacks: Encounters of the Worst Kind." She is an excellent researcher and has left no stone unturned in order to find the best information for the bear hunter and then to report it in the fewest words possible. In other words, she cuts through the crap.

Her sources are extraordinary, too. From reading her books on bear and cougar attacks it's clear that she has gleaned her information from every notable large predator biologist in North America, as well as famous bear hunters like Warren Parker, the former leader of SCI.

From biology to evolutionary behaviors to tactics, reading sign, choosing the right gun or bow, hiring an outfitter, hunting from a float plane, skinning your trophy, and preparing it for the table, Etling's covered it all, and yet the book sells for a reasonable price.

I've hunted bears all over the world and I know I was impressed. Reading Etling's book just makes me want to book yet another bear hunt.