ORIGINAL: Killer_Primate
I think people will justify using bait for many reason. My personal favorite is up in Canada where they shoot black bear over bait. Normally in the form of trash cans filled with apples. They claim that the bear are over populated and this is why they use this method. I couldn't disagree more. I'm pretty sure that unless you were to take the cold and hard approach of killing every bear that came by, you wouldn't and aren't accomplishing anything. In fact, I'm pretty sure that it's at least fairly well known that by providing an artificial food source to the bear, you'll most likely increase their numbers. So why do we keep feeding them? So that we can kill them with the smallest amount of effort. Is this hunting? I don't think so, but that's just me.
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It's pretty obvious from your statement that you have very little knowledge about bear hunting and bear populations.
Feeding them increases the population? Sure.
That's why with the disappearance of spring hunting in Ontario the bear populations have gotten out of control.
It gets sickening around here reading all the posts about hunters tearing down other hunters for their legal hunting methods. Plus the main reason why I and many others have gotten sick of posting.