Hope the Bear killed?

[student]

I wish some of these people had to put a face and name to their comments.

[Acemac]

I will admit that I do agree with this statment, but still dont care either way....

"Bear hunting is not hunting. It’s putting food out for weeks then one day gunning down the animal that is used to coming to get it.

[Ice Shack Baby]

Here's a good read that I found. What people are dealing with is called "The Bambi Effect" basically Hollywood making animals seem human.

http://patriaperspectives.blogspot.com/2008/04/bambi-effect.html

[ozzie]

I will admit that I do agree with this statment, but still dont care either way....

"Bear hunting is not hunting. It’s putting food out for weeks then one day gunning down the animal that is used to coming to get it.

go do it and I promise you won't feel the same way that it is just feeding a bear for a couple weeks and then killing it....they are smart and it is a lot of work to keep a bait site running and running succesfully!!! Ignorant way of thinking.....

[mnguy152]

Thing when I read the story in the fish wrap. That buddy boy Lynn called and Email the guy asking him/her if they shot Hope the bear. Doesn't that sound like hunter harassment?

[Ice Shack Baby]

+1

[jdime]

Thing when I read the story in the fish wrap. That buddy boy Lynn called and Email the guy asking him/her if they shot Hope the bear. Doesn't that sound like hunter harassment?

I think asking someone if they shot a bear is fine. This is America. harassment is beyond that.

That said, the people who "need closure" and "can't stop crying need to wake up. I am a liberal (sorry guys I was born this way) and I think the comments on the Lily Facebook page are a little creepy.

I have a problem with wasteful hunters. I have a problem with hunters who disrespect the animal they kill.

I think naming and humanizing a wild bear is silly and disrespectful.

[russ]

With regards to the original poster: I am bear hunter and have no problem with a hunter shooting the bear. These are game animals first and foremost. The state of MN does an adequate job of collecting data and determining what is best for the bear population. It would seem that these "research" bears would become accustomed to human contact so who really is at fault if these bears are shot? It's not the hunter.

[leech~~]

"Bear hunting is not hunting. It’s putting food out for weeks then one day gunning down the animal that is used to coming to get it.

Oh,Oh!

[creepworm]

Thing when I read the story in the fish wrap. That buddy boy Lynn called and Email the guy asking him/her if they shot Hope the bear. Doesn't that sound like hunter harassment?

I guess if these bears were my paycheck I would be asking about them as well.

[tracker x-2]

Just for kicks i looked at the face book page of LILY

Needless to say avoid this unless you want to vomit a little in your mouth.

[Dylan33]

I have a question for the bear hunters out there; Do you usually take any bear that you have a shot at(because you may not see another one all year), or do you usually wait to take a bigger/trophy caliber bear?

[ozzie]

I don't nor have I bear hunted but I know people that do and have studied up on bear hunting enough to give a pretty good perspective...to answer your question Dylan33 it matters as to what you are going for the same case as deer hunting or most other big game hunting....if you are going to fill a freezer and only a freezer then you will be open to what you will shoot but if you are out there for the trophy bear then you will wait and try to out smart that big boar. The thing with bear is they are very sneaky and smart so even though they are coming to a bait site most of the time they know when that bait is put out and if the person putting it out has left the woods or not. That is why hunters play games with the bear to try to get them into the bait site such as using less bait or go out with a buddy and bait and then only the buddy leaves the woods and the hunter stays to hopefully trick the bear.

[Dylan33]

That makes sense ozzie...the only reason I asked, is because one of the complaints out there is that this was a young, and small bear and that the hunter should not have taken a bear that young. So I wanted the perspective of someone who knows more about bear hunting.

I have no issues with the outcome of this story. Congrats to the hunter, hopefully he doesn't take too much heat from the tree hugger PETA types.

[leech~~]

That makes sense ozzie...the only reason I asked, is because one of the complaints out there is that this was a young, and small bear and that the hunter should not have taken a bear that young. So I wanted the perspective of someone who knows more about bear hunting.

I have no issues with the outcome of this story. Congrats to the hunter, hopefully he doesn't take too much heat from the tree hugger PETA types.

If you are a first time Bear hunter or are fairly new at it. It's sometimes hard to judge the size of a Bear when you have not seen many in your life to gauge the size with. So when that first Bear of a life time comes in and you are excited after thinking and dreaming of that moment for years that small Bear looks like the biggest thing you have ever seen in your life! It's not like they have a set of antlers on top of there heads to judge! So, some times small size Bears get harvested. Or GUNNED down as someone said!

[kevfish1]

Acemac- I suppose that hunting deer on an oak ridge or near a cornfield is not hunting either?? Deer feed on corn and acorns for weeks in theese locations then one day someone comes and shoots poor bambi???

I have named every deer in minnesota and will post the details of this on facebook every time one of you people shoot one of these deer I have named. Shame on those of you that shoot one of my deer buddies.

I plan on shooting a small young deer this year--shame on me. Tried to shoot "fred" the bear but wit no luck. I baited for weeks and spent hundreds of dollars and still no bear. I must be so stupid and dumb. How can i not get one after feeding them for weeks???

[knowsnothing]

[quote= Bear meat is not even that good.

This is a classic in that comment section. Bears dont even taste good? Apparently they've tried some?

[Steve Foss]

It's interesting. I've tuned into both sides of this debate since it started.

I read the comments on this forum and see how many are uninformed about animal rights, and scornful of them. And I read the comments on Facebook and other forums dedicated to the bears, and I see so much of the same scorn for and ignorance of hunting.

From where I sit, the people making the most noise on either side are a lot more alike than they are different.

And, to balance the scales, on both sides there are quite a good number of people who are actually thinking and expressing themselves carefully on the issue.

In the FWIW category (well, what I've said has all been in the FWIW category already), I'm just as unlikely to want to sit together and commune with nature alongside a shrill anti-hunter as I am to share a duck blind or a deer camp with a shrill pro-hunter. I like to do both quite a lot. But all that harshness hurts my ears.