Bear bait is out
- Thread starter bigmeadow
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O.K. just some food for thought, I don't want to argue anything with anyone. Strictly my point of view. Baiting Bears is bull. If B.C. had a baiting only rule there's no way I'd hunt Bears. I realise most of Canada hunts this way but I just can't see any satasfaction shooting a Bear from a tree stand when his head is stuck in a barrel. It's Bear shooting, nothing to do with hunting. I know this will piss some off but that's exactly how I feel when I read the baiting/hunting stories. Flame all you want I won't respond just felt it had to be said.
Have you been to northern Saskatchewan around Hudson Bay? The bush there (provincial forrest) is thick. You hunt trees, cut blocks, mountain sides. You can see for a reasonable distance in the forrest as you walk. In northern Sask, if there isn't a trail there, you're not walking thru. You may be able to belly crawl, but it tends to give hunters the willies when you come to a steaming pile of bear poop, and you didn't see or hear anything (because your movements are too loud). There are other ways to hunt bears in Sask. Lots use wack shacks that look like firewatch towers overlooking or adjoining oats fields, but that can be tricky too. You can't see cubs in 4' high mature oats...you can stumble across a full grown boar without notice. Had a buddy step on a black bear while deer hunting (he was up on a beaver house trying to get a look). It's thick, and the bears are abundant, so it's also preditor control to keep numbers in check. Another buddy shot a black south of Hudson Bay. His hunting partner stood watch while buddy skinned the bear out. His hunting partner was trying to keep an eye on a half dozen blacks that came to the sound of the rifle.
It's a different hunting environment. Requires different strategies and methods.
Have a good one.
Nope, that's wrong.
The only BIOG GAME in BC you cannot bait is bears. Both types.
Wolves, cougar, coyotes, bobcats, deer, moose, elk, sheep, goats- You can bait them all.
You aren't allowed to FEED dangerous wildlife, that is a law that has been enforced once or twice.
Baiting bears seems like so much work. I'm glad I live in BC where there are so many black bears and the terrain is such that we can easily spot and stalk. If I had to go to the trouble of hauling bait, setting up a bait stand, and sitting in one place for hours, I'd probably not hunt bears!
Too much work and too much sitting in one spot.
that being said, I've got nothing against baiting and I might try it out if it were legal and i wanted to create extra work for myself!
Pathfinder
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If it was legal here, I would only bait an area that I had already seen a huge bear in...
That's what Im doing. Hopefully this guy will still be around this year.
Here's how we rig beaver carcasses in a 5 gallon pail about 7' up.It started to snow sideways after we got done replenishing our baits this afternoon......Harold......ignore the lineman spurs I'm wearing it helps climbing trees!
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DOn't shoot grizzlies on salmon spawning streams, don't shoot black bears in berry patches...the list goes on...
Hunt the way YOU want to. No need to worry about what the other guy is doing as long as it is legal. There are plenty of bears for everyone....
Here in Nova Scotia it's the only way they let you hunt Bears , when i ask if i could sit on a power line close to a wild cherry orchard it was a no, we have to register our bear bait station via map that clearly shows Game warden where you are and they will come and check and you better be that registered site cause if your caught wondering around away from your registered bait site your hunt is over and you will be looking at a judge.
So i don't hunt them , but i am one of very few who still trap them .
but i don't see anything wrong with my friends hunting them over a bait it's just not my way .
Did I touch a nerve there nice guy?
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I don't hunt over crops either, that's also shooting as opposed to hunting. You guys do what you want. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, I hope the anties don't get ahold of a bunch of vidios of Bears beening shot with their heads stuck in a barrel. Suzuki could have a field day with that.
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Suzuki is Canada's answer to Joseph Goebels..........A propaganda spouting ,gum flapping ,self righteous zealot.Like Farely Mowatt ,the natives called him Hardly Knowit after his Never Cry Wolf book................hunting isn't about killing,it's about been out there........you don't get it at all........................because I can kill something doesn't mean I will....................Harold
redneck243
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Sounds like those leef lickin' hippies in B.C. are really getting to you MTM. You have stated your opinion, that is fine, now give it a rest. You do your thing, let us bear baiters do ours.
