772lbs Black bear
12-09-2013, 05:10 PM
#21
Typical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Buffalo, WY
Posts: 992
We have so many "in town" deer around here in the winter that the cops shoot them with their .223s and the meat goes to the feed the hungry programs. It's widely publicized that you shouldn't feed them but people do anyway. The deer attract cougars and the same morons who feed the deer wonder where their poodle went when it disappears from the back yard.
I don't think feeding wildlife has ever had a good outcome.
I don't think feeding wildlife has ever had a good outcome.
12-09-2013, 05:57 PM
#23
Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 68
The guy who fed him said he found the bear as a cub and basically raised him, though the bear was an "outside" bear, free to come and go as he pleased. He has pictures of himself cuddling with it and said the bear enjoyed sweet things.
Lots of controversy around that bear. People were complaining that the bear was his "pet" and the hunter knew that and shot it anyways. In my opinion, a bear is not a domestic animal. Its not a pet. Its a bear and its fair game. The man should have never been feeding it and the authorities actually cited him for it.
The bear was not skittish of people, which was proven by the photographs of the man hugging and cuddling it. The bear certainly seemed comfortable in the presence of humans.
Lots of controversy around that bear. People were complaining that the bear was his "pet" and the hunter knew that and shot it anyways. In my opinion, a bear is not a domestic animal. Its not a pet. Its a bear and its fair game. The man should have never been feeding it and the authorities actually cited him for it.
The bear was not skittish of people, which was proven by the photographs of the man hugging and cuddling it. The bear certainly seemed comfortable in the presence of humans.
12-10-2013, 02:26 AM
#26
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Audubon & Red Rock, Penna.
Posts: 4,472
If we are going to assign blame (for a legally harvested game animal), it should rest firmly on the man who fed the bear. You can't assign restrictions to hunters on state hunting land on which bears classify as game animals and which are pets. Maybe the guy should have kept his bear on a leash!!! 
On another note, this bear had a lip tattoo that indicated he was trapped as a nuisance bear in NEW JERSEY!!! So, this bear that the guy "raised from a cub" had no problems ranging 50+ miles, swimming across the Delaware River, crossing state lines, etc... He was a wide-ranging bear and could have been shot anywhere.
On another note, this bear had a lip tattoo that indicated he was trapped as a nuisance bear in NEW JERSEY!!! So, this bear that the guy "raised from a cub" had no problems ranging 50+ miles, swimming across the Delaware River, crossing state lines, etc... He was a wide-ranging bear and could have been shot anywhere.
12-10-2013, 05:41 AM
#28
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Audubon & Red Rock, Penna.
Posts: 4,472
Does the Boone and Crockett club exclude large hand fed animals from listing in the record book
12-10-2013, 06:25 AM
#29
Typical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Buffalo, WY
Posts: 992
If B&C recognizes the former as a legitimate fair chase trophy their credibility in my eyes is zero.
12-10-2013, 06:47 AM
#30
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Colorado
Posts: 9,557
If we are going to assign blame (for a legally harvested game animal), it should rest firmly on the man who fed the bear. You can't assign restrictions to hunters on state hunting land on which bears classify as game animals and which are pets. Maybe the guy should have kept his bear on a leash!!!
Who do you think i've been blaming all this time?
However, if the hunter knew about this animal being a pet. He gets a Twinkie up his butt too.
Ask me if I care what you think?