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Dangerous Hunts
May 24 2007
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Or is it the massive, swiping claws of the Arctic's most aggressive and efficient carnivore that tests hunter's nerves upon a polar bear's approach?
Or is it simply the extreme test of courage and patience that is needed to hunt in some of the world's most extreme and dangerous conditions that northern Canada's arctic can produce in a moment's notice?
If you ask any of Adventure Northwest's hunters who have experienced a winter or spring hunt in the Arctic, they'll likely tell you it doesn't matter what species you hunt – muskox, polar bear or arctic wolf – the Arctic, on any one day or during any one hunt, can put you on the edge, let alone pull a trigger or stretch a bow.
One hunter, Rob Jordal, describes his arctic hunt experience like this "the most harrowing item to mull over was the outside air temperatures that reached minus 50 Fahrenheit. The frozen Arctic Ocean didn't end and stretched a bright white nothingness for as far as the eye could see allowing the polar winds to create windchills that were almost inconceivable. Frost bite happening within minutes, snow blindness and, when the wind blew, white-out conditions produced the helpless feeling of not knowing when or if it was to end!"
