Foolproof hunting schemes

[Four Seasons]

4 hours ago, Doc said:

The example that I gave above of the deer being trained to come the sound of the feeder was a Texas hunt. And still would never consider hunting semi-domesticated deer that have been trained to take the hunt out of hunting. It's just not my style regardless of circumstances. I just don't like hunting animals that have been conditioned or programmed by man to eliminate the "hunt" in hunting. It just is not my thing.

Another thing that I will not be involved in is the kinds of hunts that are known as "Canned Hunts". The idea of resting the gun on the wires of a fence and shooting an animal that is standing there feeding from a grain bin is kind of the same as hunting in a slaughter house. No it is not the same as a high fence hunt that has thousands of acres for the critters to evade you in. I am talking about real true canned hunt operations. Just another limit that I put on my hunting.

 

Not sure about any canned hunt thing but I can say the people that hunt the deep forests of Canada and the thick nasty crap in Texas where everything wants to stick you, prick you, sting you or kill you don’t have much of a choice. You could sit for weeks without seeing an animal. No difference in bear hunting over a baited trash can. You go try to just sit in the woods somewhere trying to pin down the travel paths of a shooter bruin.  A fella better like beef and chicken and won’t have to worry about going thru much ammo. 

[Doc]

4 hours ago, Four Seasons said:

Not sure about any canned hunt thing but I can say the people that hunt the deep forests of Canada and the thick nasty crap in Texas where everything wants to stick you, prick you, sting you or kill you don’t have much of a choice. You could sit for weeks without seeing an animal. No difference in bear hunting over a baited trash can. You go try to just sit in the woods somewhere trying to pin down the travel paths of a shooter bruin.  A fella better like beef and chicken and won’t have to worry about going thru much ammo. 

The Indians supported a whole society in such lands without feeders and without training their prey to offer themselves up for killing.

As far as baited bear hunting, I have never done that either, for the same reasons. I do not condition the animals that I hunt to avail themselves to make up for my shortfalls in hunting skills. There is a show on every week that shows people of the north country doing spot & stalk hunting of black bears. I think it is called something like "Life below zero" or something like that. I have never seen any of them resort to baiting.

I also have seen videos of Fred Bear, and Tred Barta both successfully still-hunt grizzleys with recurve bows no less. No bait involved there in those hunts. Now that's something I will never do, but for a whole different reason.....lol. 

[Daveboone]

I love reading classic books from the 1800s from the pioneers....If I recall the title correctly, 44 years of a life of a Hunter...the biography of a gentleman originally from New Jersey if I recall correctly, but moves inland over time...He tells of the deer and bear hunts of the time (he was a market hunter) particularly in the fall, where game gathered especially in the chestnut forests to feast. He describes bears literalyt juts rolling on the ground, dragging themselves from one area to another to feast, ,and it was common to shoot multiple bears and deer from a stand (a stand meaning where the hunter chose to shoot from after a stalk). Certainly the native population also took advantage of the same opportunities.  Just the same also, the indians took advantage of salmon/ trout/ sucker/pike /eel runs that occured over known areas, to stock their larders.