ORIGINAL: Elkcrazy8
Blasting bears eh, well you don't know much about me then, I do it with sticks.
Successful hunting in all facets deals with exploiting an animals weeknesses. For whitetail hunters there is the rut, exploitation of the animals need to propogate. Hunting fields or crops ,taking advantage of the animals need to eat. Sitting water holes in the desert waiting for the antelope to water, using the need for water. Calling gobblers in the spring and using decoys, again using the need to breed and again, exploiting the animals weekness. Sitting a mule deer migration route, thus exploiting the animals needs to escape heavy winter snows.
Using the animals weeknesses and understanding them is a direct way of becoming a successful hunter. if you ever get a chance, I would suggest sitting in a ground blind having nothing but a sheet of fabric between you and a hungry boar at 5 feet.
Even if one were to spot and stalk bears, I would bet that you will be concentrating on areas with a food source being used by the bears, again exploiting another weekness. I have done the spot and stalk on bears with my bow before and have had good success at that method, but I refrain from helping those who start out by calling me and fellow hunters lame by using other methods.
Trash is not allowed on a bait site and mine are VERY clean. The doughnuts arent bad eating either!!!!
I dont see a real connection between calling in deer in the rut and leaving barrells of molassas outside for weeks for bears to gorge them elves on. We call this baiting here in Iowa. I think it is about as unethical as it gets, I could shoot 10 deer a day if I put out a corn feeder and blasted them as they came down to feed on it.
Once again, I dont need to participate in this "sport" to form an opinion. I have an opinion on the Iraq war as well as an opinion about the Vietnam war, I fought in neither of them.
Bears are dangerous, I appreciaite that.
You need to be quiet while they are coming in, mabye camo, de-scent, good shooting. All theessential of most hunts, but I still cannot recognize thisbaiting of bear auctual hunting.
If you make your living as a guide or outfitter doing this, good luck to you. It seems like good money to me. As the recent posts said, they dont use auctual trash, Im sorry for that misstatement by me.
Just because I dont support bear baiting with molassas dosent mean I dont support hunting. Ive said three times within this post to go ahead and do it if it makes you happy and it is within your legal limits.
Where Ilive, and within my circle of friends,baiting is not only illegal and unethical, but embarassing if others find out you are doing it.
I have watched thison UTube, true, a lot of people use this site for information as well as entertainment. You can findsome clips of autcual hunting as people call in deer, coyotes, and other creatures. The reason why I posted on baiting bears is that I searched hunting and came up with a guy shooting a bear from 12 yds with a bow. It made me sick.