Florida Bear Hunt to Harvest Very Small Number of Bears

AmmoLand ^ | October 14, 2025 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Florida is permitting a bear hunt from December 6 to December 28, 2025. The hunt administrators will issue a meager 187 permits for bears, based on a lottery system. A chance to obtain a bear permit will cost $5. There is no limit to the number of chances that can be submitted per person. If someone with $5 million wanted to submit a million lottery chances, they could do so.  However, only one win can be used to obtain a permit per person. If a person submits 100 chances and wins five, only one permit will be allowed to that person. From pnj.com:

Here’s the catch: Regardless of how many entries a person wins, they are only entitled to receive one non-transferable permit.

Lottery winners will be notified and allowed to purchase a bear hunting permit, which will cost Florida residents $100 and out-of-state residents $300. No more than 10% of permits can be issued to non-residents from outside the state.

The number of permits has been reduced to 172, from the proposed 187. The number is based on a premise of “if all the bear hunters killed fertile female bears, the harvest would not reduce the bear population.  From orlandoweekly.com:

 After saying last month that it would issue 187 permits, the commission has reduced that number to 172, according to its website. A commission spokeswoman didn’t give an explanation for the decrease.

About 160,000 entries have been submitted, and most have been claimed. About two dozen are yet to be awarded. At least 39 of about 150 awarded permits went to people who specifically entered the lottery to prevent hunters from obtaining a permit.

From orlandosentinal.com:

At least 39 permit-winners are unlikely to hunt because they entered the lottery to reduce the chances that bonafide hunters

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[larrytown]

on a discussion board for republicans where I’d like to think common sense would prevail

Learned something today. Political bias is no guarantor of wisdom.

[SunkenCiv]

Great, now I’ve got that “Bear Necessities” song going through my head.

[GenXPolymath]

Bear meat and especially it’s fat is delicious too. Bear fat makes the best pie crusts and pastries only goose fat comes close and it’s not as mild or neutral in flavor. The pioneers knew this to be the case it was one of the more common fats used in those times.

Sous vide is your friend it kills trichinosis 160F is instant death for that parasite 30 min at 140 is also pasteurization temp if one wanted medium vs well done.