Baiting bears near a dump . . .

grinrgrn said:
all the NB dumps are shut down....now we have "Regional Sanitary Landfills":jerkit:

Coach,I think you'll find there's already an outfitter or three with clients hunting that general area for heads and hides.....they don't hunt for meat and I wouldn't eat a bear from there neither.:puke:

Go up above your place instead,upriver,on the base,out the junction....anywhere but there for a clean bear.
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Grinr, I heard the guy that was out in Public Landing shut down. Any truth to that rumor? I have a friend in Browns Flat who said he might be able to set me up with a spot near there.
 
TheCoachZed said:
Grinr, I heard the guy that was out in Public Landing shut down. Any truth to that rumor? I have a friend in Browns Flat who said he might be able to set me up with a spot near there.
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I don't think Reg shut down unless it's just recently?He had 30+/- bear hunters last fall,but he's been looking to sell out/retire for a couple years now?BF would be a good bet but you shouldn't have to go that far,plenty a good country closer to home.Shoot me a PM if you need some ideas.
 
hmmm, my parents live relatively close to dump, and see a lot of bears passing through to go for lunch. But they will always stop and eat bird food/whatever, so I'd say baiting isnt a bad idea. Set up on a well worn path to the dump and you'll get a lot of selection in the bear, likely.

I just google earth'd where I shoot bears, and its 2.35 miles from the nearest dump. They taste perfectly fine, and hit a bait daily.
 
blasted_saber said:
I just google earth'd where I shoot bears, and its 2.35 miles from the nearest dump. They taste perfectly fine, and hit a bait daily.
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I'm kinda curious,how does industrial chemical waste and medical biohazards taste anyhow?Just fine??:confused:

You are what you eat....and so is a bear.Pretty damn good seagull hunting at the dump also if you're that hungry;)
 
grinrgrn said:
I'm kinda curious,how does industrial chemical waste and medical biohazards taste anyhow?Just fine??:confused:

You are what you eat....and so is a bear.Pretty damn good seagull hunting at the dump also if you're that hungry;)
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Bears have a huge range. Find me a bear in central ontario that hasnt eaten at a dump and be i'd very surprised.
 
And as for eating, I have tried a few spring bear now, and from those experiences i don't think i will ever eat spring bear, I will go for pest control/trophy for ranchers (they love you coming in and killing bear during calving/while calves are still young). I would only eat fall bear, I even hear that when you find them on grain like oats they taste alot like pork lol
 
"...how does industrial chemical waste and medical biohazards taste..." Go have a Big Mac.
Yogi will eat anything he can catch including carrion. Preferably an old, rotted, carcass. The delectable treats he finds in a dump isn't any worse than a rotted carcass.
"...an outfitter or three with clients hunting that general area for heads and hides.....they don't hunt for meat..." What do they do with the meat? Allowing game meat to be wasted is illegal in most places.
 
sunray said:
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Yogi will eat anything he can catch including carrion. Preferably an old, rotted, carcass. The delectable treats he finds in a dump isn't any worse than a rotted carcass.
"...an outfitter or three with clients hunting that general area for heads and hides.....they don't hunt for meat..." What do they do with the meat? Allowing game meat to be wasted is illegal in most places.
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I beg to differ.A dump bear tastes different from a salmon eating bear which tastes different again from a bear that makes a living from blueberries and apples.

As for wasting meat,in NB the hunter must register the entire carcass,head and hide at DNR within 48hrs of harvest.What one does with the meat after that is up to yourself,and I can tell you that a high percentage of 'merican hunters do not lug any bear meat back home from NB.They take the head and/or hide and dump the rest.Non-res hunters account for 75% of the NB black bear harvest.
 
sunray said:
"...how does industrial chemical waste and medical biohazards taste..." Go have a Big Mac.
Yogi will eat anything he can catch including carrion. Preferably an old, rotted, carcass. The delectable treats he finds in a dump isn't any worse than a rotted carcass.
"...an outfitter or three with clients hunting that general area for heads and hides.....they don't hunt for meat..." What do they do with the meat? Allowing game meat to be wasted is illegal in most places.
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Bears don't actually like really rotten meat. Years ago, when it used to be legal here to use livestock, I hauled whole dead cattle out to bait sites. After they got extremely decayed, they'd go for the oats and fryer grease and leave the carcass for the maggots. I've also often observed bears eating acorns in fall when a farmers dead, rotten cow is 100 yards away.

The only province I know of where you have to utilize black bear meat is BC, so it's actually not illegal in most places and isn't considered waste. Do you enjoy eating coyote and wolf? how about crow?

I'd wager a guess over 90% of those who shoot black bear don't eat the meat, resident or non-resident.

I'm not a big fan of bear meat, but prefer spring over fall bear. The fall meat is very fatty/greasy and often has a sweet taste. :puke:
 
Odd how them Yanks don't seem to have any trouble refrigerating heads/hides or getting export permits for same?Coolers fulla meat don't have the same chest thumping appeal and can't be hung on their NYC office walls.
 
Most NBers still regard bears as trash,even though all of the small local dumps where one could observe "dump bears" by the dozen on any given summer's eve have been de-commisioned and replaced by large regional landfills that in all honesty are not all that attractive to bears.There's now a few generations of truly wild bears in s.NB from the last 2 decades that have never eaten from a dump nor live anywhere near one.

Non-res hunters also have 4x the success rate of resident hunters,partly because of mandatory guide rule and partly because many NB "bear hunters" are actually deer and moose poachers hunting out of season or after deer tag is used.
 
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