Back home, in the U.P. I have an uncle who is a taxidermist, and VERY seldom does a bear come in that is over 300 pounds without some lead in it somewhere. Where feeding is prevalant, and just about everyone has a deer camp back in the woods with a corn pile under the spotlight to see what's around, the bears are a constant target of people taking shots at them, mostly in the guts so they will run off and die, instead of right in the corn pile. As for poaching a doe, not sure of the point!