bearkilr
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- Nowhere, ......just past the middle
I've heard of people picking blueberries and just eating eating them.
First spring bear
- Thread starter vagrantonwalkabout
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I've heard of people picking blueberries and just eating eating them.
A lot of people really enjoy the setting up and baiting (especially the older guys), it’s like it’s own little hobby. Guys mix up their own concoctions, make candy licks, modify barrels. It also allows you a much better chance of examining the bears via camera or in person, and often a better shot opportunity. I’d bet the recovery rate is much higher, especially among new hunters.
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- Location
- Blaster land, Okanagan BC
I want the choice to be able to do it, mainly in the fall but I would rather make that call than have some politician or city dweller make it for me.
While I don't like being told what to do by politicians, I also shudder at thinking what places like East and West Harrison, or Postil Lake would look like by the end of October if bear baiting was legal.
fack me we agree on something.......
I also agree with conor_90's comment
Bear food is generally abundant here in BC and if you know a bit about bears and thier needs they are not hard to find.
I don't really hunt bears..... I always buy the tag every year but whenever one is in my sights , something internal stops me from pulling the trigger...... it's a wierd thing I struggle with.
I've killed a few bears but there was always a circumstance involved that led to the decision to kill the bear before it became a problem. Fortunately all within legal huntig seasons and tagged appropriately.
I can understand the principle of baiting bears from a "trophy" hunting perspective as the bait site would allow a hunter to let all but the desired size and color of animal pass by. I use the trophy hunting term loosely so don't anyone jump on me. I have zero issue with those who choose to harvest the animals they desire by antler size, skull size, horn size.... whatever.
The trick is to find natural bait sites.... like berry crops and other abundant foods that are often concentrated in certain areas of certain regions throughout the season.
Those are my thoughts on it but I also understand the other side of the argument. Unfortunately I don't see the practice as an issue I would vote on either way. I'm in the middle but not on the fence hehe. Bear food is abundant in BC..... find what they need at that time of year and you will find bears. Baiting will reduce a lot of legwork but legwork is good for you and gets you intimately familiar with your hunting area.
- Location
- Blaster land, Okanagan BC
A bunch of apples or fruit rotting into the ground?
I used to have a hunting spot on family acreage down the way that I’d bait deer late season (last two weeks of Nov) in a last ditch shot at cutting a wt buck tag, I would put out free ground apples and flakes of alfalfa for the deer. One year a black bear found it, not only did it eat all the apples but there wasn’t a deer in sight after it showed up, in my area any fruit will do as that’s generally what the bears are after normally. If baiting bears was legal, I wouldn’t need any barrels of corn pops or dog food or anything else that they seem to use out east. Plenty of leftover apples, plums etc etc on peoples fruit trees. Our old house had a crabapple tree that was so full that even after we picked and processed all we could use and friends and family picked their fill, I always had 4-5 five gallon pails to put out for deer.
If you look for the dark spot around the 1 o’clock position that’s me lol
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MountainBound
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- Red Deer Alberta
