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Originally Posted by johnnyHunts (Post 3830393)

I was watching a show on one of the hunting/outdoor channels "Savage Outdoors." From Savage Arms. I like Accutrigger but I don't understand something. Sportsman Channel.

They were in Canada somewhere an there were about five or six of them. Briefly, they had set up barrels in the woods that appeared to have food in them, some kind of a attractant (illegal in my state from what I can read, Georgia.) Anyway, they waited for the bears to come eat and then two women shot some bears with a bow and later another guy with a Savage rifle.

My question. How is that hunting? Am I missing something? First, why are they using attractants? And why do they hunt the bears in the first place? Do they eat them? Does it thin the herd so bears don't starve like deer?

I can eat a deer and thin the population but I just didn't get the bear hunting on this show. It looks pointless and unsporting (if you can have such a thing killing animals.)

I know that sounds like trolling. Sorry. I was genuinely puzzled.

I am going out on a limb then and assume you have never hunted over a watering hole, food plot, feeder, scents, calls, hunted hogs over some kind of bait, used calls or E-callers to call in predators. Anything like that. Just gone in the woods and sat over a trail correct?

Also if you don't manage the predators what will? Mother nature? They don't have any predators besides their species or humans.

It is all hunting. Even the Indians did all of it. We have just found a way to make it more convenient when we are in the woods. Also how do you know they don't eat the bear or donate it? What about all the hunting shows that kill numerous deer every year and a lot of times it doesn't show them eating the animal. Do you KNOW they are eating the animal?

One reason to hunt over food is so you can pick your Bear. You can choose by age or gender.

Another reason is to reinforce the fear of man. The Bear that head for the deep woods when they get the slightest scent of man have little to worry about.

The main threats to apex predators is disease, the second is other apex predators. man usually gets the stupid ones. Keeping the numbers down limits the spread of disease. Limiting the numbers of apex predators is self preservation.

I personally find hunting over feeders to be distasteful and somewhat unfair. I spend a lot of time scouting my hunts, I usually have my Deer spotted months before season opens, sometimes years. Not everybody can afford to put the time and effort into hunting that I do.

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Originally Posted by johnnyHunts (Post 3830393)

Briefly, they had set up barrels in the woods that appeared to have food in them, some kind of a attractant (illegal in my state from what I can read, Georgia.) Anyway, they waited for the bears to come eat and then two women shot some bears with a bow and later another guy with a Savage rifle.

My question. How is that hunting? Am I missing something? First, why are they using attractants? And why do they hunt the bears in the first place? Do they eat them? Does it thin the herd so bears don't starve like deer?

I realize this is old. Never heard a hunter call bait, attractant. Regional.
But bears do need to be thinned out tool. Lots of them by me. They do taste good, depending on diet.

In heavily wooded parts of the world you can't stalk bears. It would be fun to go somewhere you could glass for awhile and then go stalk one.

Some hunters are against bait. But they will plant clover and apple trees, or hunt near acorns for deer. What is the difference? I have no acorns on my property or near me.

If you don't bait, you often looking for a food source. In areas with thick deer herds it isn't needed. For bear, while there are many, not enough to just wander around, and track.

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Originally Posted by Thyre (Post 4311833)

Are you guys ****ing stupid you say **** like, well Indians did it, or well Africans do it, are you ****ing retarded ok Indians don't do that anymore and they needed it, are any of you or anyone else who hunts bears starving, do any of you guys who hunt bears NEED to hunt them, **** no, you do it cause your cruel, what if bears got coordinated and hunted us, would you still support it?

ANTI ALERT!!!!

Thyre
How do you know that Indians don't currently hunt for bear?...The truth is you don't know that at all.

I fish but im not staving..How is that different than hunting?

I eat ice cream sometimes but i surely dont need it. So you believe if you don't need it, you shouldn't be eating it?

I don't hunt anything to be cruel. I hunt it because it taste good to me.

Some types of bears certainly will hunt you under certain conditions.

Oh and bye. I dont think you will be around much longer.

I reported his post.

Vegetarian is an old Indian word for Pizz poor hunter.:)

Funny, during the BSE scare here, a lot of people paying premium prices for wild game meat. It isn't illegal here to sell it.

It is an old post, and the guy only had 48 posts. If referring to the guy who started this thread.

So teacher, teacher, may be a bit late.

Thyre is now gone with the original anti.

Personally i have no desire to hunt bears or any predator for that matter. I only "hunt" predators when they become a problem or a danger. What others legally hunt and how they hunt it is none of my business.

Frankly, i find a slaughter house can be more cruel.

I'd love to hunt something more dangerous like grizzly. Maybe someday. $$$