This has become an annual event here in Iceland ! Local hunters are assisting the police in finding and killing the Bear.

http://grapevine.is/Home/ReadA...ted-In-North-Iceland

Looks like I have to move to Iceland and become a local hunter

Its a fantastic country to hunt in.
They have a lottery for Reindeer culling because there are more hunters than quarry.
And with only one Polar Bear, I'd expect there to be a lot of hunters wanting to bag it.

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Originally posted by Trapper Dave:
Its a fantastic country to hunt in.

there are more hunters than quarry.

I don't understand.....if the first sentence is true, I can't see how the second could be also.

Because you can hunt birds galore and seals.

I have a friend of mine that was stationed there when Keflavik was a US Navy base.

I was supposed to be stationed there, but the gal I was supposed to releive extended and I never got to go.

Anyway he killed several hundred seals a year, and was paid a bounty on them.

He said the bird shooting for geese and puffins was out of this world.

I hope the picture shows what a fantastic country it is to hunt in. There is only one surfaced road around the outside, when you go inland, you go in convoy and look after each other.

Dave , what is that , a two headed reindeer ??

All this world whining about endangered polar bears and those Icelanders blow them away immediately. I wonder what the bear in the photo is eating ? It seems very large , perhaps a beluga ?

Maybe they were too slow to jump out of the way and got stuck in the radiator like flies?

So, what would they do with a tranquilized bear, as one person suggested.

Grizz

http://www.icelandreview.com/i...314&ew_0_a_id=391549

They're so rare in Iceland that the Icelanders don't know what they look like !