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Kodiak Evidence
Posted by Michael Strahan on Dec 07 2005
AKH45,
No problem at all on the Kodiak post. Of the half-dozen people I personally hang out with who hunt Kodiak (I don't), at least three of them have had this exact experience. In one case, two of my friends were hunting deer with one of the recreational cabins as a base. Things eventually came to a head when a bear actually came into camp and removed four deer from the meat pole. They recovered the meat (Dan actually went out there in his long underwear without a weapon, followed the drag marks to the dirt pile and dug it out). I believe this bear had been giving them trouble for the whole hunt. Another friend was hunting there with his brother and a brown bear actually followed them all the way to the beach as they packed their fresh-killed deer to the boat. The third case involves a friend who guides there on occasion, and he's indicated all manner of bear problems on deer hunts. Some years ago I spoke with a refuge biologist out that way and he indicated that the public-use cabins are particularly problematic and that bears DO, in fact, respond to deer hunters in the way I indicated.
I believe it depends on what part of Kodiak you're hunting.
-Mike
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