BarnesX.308

I doubt it workl quite that way. We have bears that come around the house and eat from people's feeders. These same bears will take off like a bat out of hell if they sense a human in the woods. They are still wild and cunning.

Even in states that allow baiting, bears are still super-skittish and flee from any human scent or sound. I don't think they run up to any humans they see, especially when encountered in the woods.

This was also a crossbow kill. The bear would have been broadside, not coming right for him.

The guy who was doing the feeding was not a hunter. He was just a guy who liked to see bears. I believe he had several compaints from neighbors.

If that bear was not shot by a hunter, it would have eventually been killed by the game commission. I think it was trapped a couple times as a nuisance bear and relocated.

With all the hooplah surrounding that bear (it was all over the news), the game commission did a thorough investigation. Baiting is illegal in PA, so the hunters would have had to have been far away from the twinkie man and they would have also had to been away from the path the bear would have supposedly taken.

Muley Hunter

Not sure why you're making excuses for Twinkie man, and you have no idea how the bear acted after being fed.

All the bear has to do is hesitate for few seconds to get shot. I never said it was going to run up to every human it saw like a puppy.

Bullcamp82834

I suppose the taxidermist will shellack a Twinkie and shove it in the mouth of the finished mount just to add that touch of realism.

Muley Hunter

The moral of the story is..............Don't eat Twinkies. They give you a big dead head.

BarnesX.308

Are you guys speaking out against the hunter? Or the bonehead who was feeding them? If a non-hunting dummy feeds a bear, does that make him off-limits to hunters? If you are hunting on state game land, a 900lb bear walks by, you will pass him up because he may have been fed? There tons of bears that get fed by humans. Can't spare them all.

What do you think about Canada and states where they hunt over bait?

Muley Hunter

You don't want to know what I think of baiting.

I also never mentioned passing up on the bear. Although I might if I knew it's history.

We have a lot of deer that come into town here. They get fed by the dummies here. I can always tell the ones that have been fed when I run into them later in the mountains. They don't run. They just stand there staring at me. I would never shoot one. I don't need the meat that bad.

BarnesX.308

How do you shoot the deer that don't just stand there? Only take running shots?

Muley Hunter

Actually, half my shots are running shots. The ones that just stand there don't know i'm there.

The ones i'm talking about that are fed in town stand there while looking at me. No fear.

BarnesX.308

We don't have animals like that here. Even fed animals are scared of their own shadows where I hunt.

Muley Hunter

Mule deer are more curious than whitetails.