Well well, I'd love to see somebody in Northern Minnesota shoot a bear in a 1000 acres of woods without any source of bait! Chances are slim to none. Baiting for these bear is a necessity when bear hunting in a huge wooded area. Bear have been known to travel easily a 100 miles in a weeks time in the fall when looking for food. If the woods we hunted all had oaks full of acorns or fields full of corn or oats a person could then do it but otherwise your success rate I'm willing to bet in Northern Minnesota where there isn't much for corn fields and oaks would be in that 2% if your lucky. Minnesota would be so full of nussence (sp?) bear problems that the state of Minnesota would have to hire another 100 CO's to get to all the complaints! Minnesota's goal every year is to harvest 5000 bear. They usually avg about 3500 or so give or take. There are roughly 30,000 bear in Minnesota. I've been bear hunting 21 years, been involved with it all my life (30+ years) and if you couldn't bait in Minnesota there would be more problems then we could ever handle. Baiting deer and baiting bear shouldn't even be in the same sentence!