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So, those that filled tags in Mass. must've been a cheatin'?
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I'm watching this canned bear hunt on Outdoor Channel. They basically fill up a drum with twinkies and when the bear has his head buried in the drum they blow him away from a protected tree stand.
I have no problem hunting bears or any other game, but this just seems a little lame to me. It doesn't strike me as hunting. It seems to me that if you are going after something that magnificent you ought to at least get on his level.
I'm not criticizing, just wondering if I'm out to lunch on this.
Most of them that are succussfull do cheat. Many of them do continue to bait.
Or they are lucky enough to know a farmer that has problem bears trashing their corn fields. Thing is with corn fed bears you can walk right up to them and shoot em. The corn ferments in their bellies and they get hammered off of it. That is why they become so destructive in the cornfields. They roll around dragging all the stalks down to them and tear up huge swaths of the fields in each "feeding".
Just face it, Mass is f***ed up! I applaud you on your efforts and methods, just dont plan on me betting on your success anytime soon.
I don't want to check this but I do believe that most of the bears taken in Mass are taken
during the deer season by deer hunters stumbling upon them, or vice versa, in the woods.
Most bears are taken in the September segment; however, some good-sized males have been taken in November.
I agree.