Anti-Hunters Will Attempt to Sabotage Florida’s Bear Hunt With This Dirty Tactic
BY Herschel Smith
13 hours, 14 minutes ago
As Florida moves forward with plans to reinstate a regulated black bear hunt for the first time since 2015, opponents of the hunt from around the world are mobilizing an unconventional tactic — applying for the lottery hunt en masse. If these anti-hunters draw a tag, they’ll hold onto it, effectively preventing a legal, well-intended bear hunter from drawing. Their goal is to flood the lottery and, theoretically, reduce the number of bears harvested.
“Never in my life did I think I’d be a hunter,” Chuck O’Neal, president of Speak Up Wekiva, a grassroots organization dedicated to protecting the Wekiva River and its watershed, told Naples Daily News. “Now that we have a constitutional right to hunt, I might as well take advantage of that.”
The obvious answer for these idiots is to restrict tags to people who had a hunting license the previous year.
On June 9, 2025 at 7:23 am, Latigo Morgan said:
Use a point system like Arizona does. Every year, you accumulate so many more points for failed draws. Those points are supposed to give you an advantage in future draws. It’s not perfect by a long shot.
I’d also require new hunters to have to take a Hunter’s Safety Course before they can even apply for a bear tag. Make the course pass/fail and use it to weed out obvious activists.