50Cal Passes on Decent Bear

[addicted]

dang. he looks like a good'un too.

[50CalJim]

I have no doubt Bscman you know where that is. I don't think that Geography was Wea300's best subject in school. The only reason I didn't shoot that Bear was because I was 520 yds up hill from it in the rain & the damn fog & by the time I got closer it was gone.Basically I was fighting the fog it wouldn't give me a break.  But we did pull a different Bear out of their today though. I forgot how much fun Bear huntin was after the Bear is down.

[DeKuma]

SO where are the pics!!

[Ray]

Looks to me like thats where the bears are. The truth is there are more than a few places that look like that.

[50CalJim]

Read Westside Multi-color Bear Dekuma.

[DeKuma]

Yeah, I figured it out once I opened that thread that it was one and the same.
Great looking coat on that guy!  Congrats to you guys!

[HCDowns]

I agree, you didn't put the bee boxes there, if it makes you feel better, I would wait until it is away from the boxes just so you don't worry about it if you do get him.

[actionshooter]

I would go nuts if those were my boxes, we have used solar electric fences before and it seems to work. I wouldn't call that baiting even if I set the boxes myself. No one in thier right mind would use hives for bait,,, way to much money!! 

[Timberlineduke]

Hey guys......hate to be the barer of bad news.....but that would be (or could be, depending on the agent) baiting. I know a kid that was goose hunting with permission in a farmers field.....and two days before the kid got there....the farmer had to dump a load potatoes in the field to get his truck un-stuck.....well the kid shot some geese coming in to this pile of potatoes and got ticketed for baiting......he fought it in court and lost......$500...and no gun. These baiting laws are tricky.

[smdave]

What is the difference in that, then hunting in a corn field.

Dave

[Timberlineduke]

It was viewed by the court that a natural food source had been re-distributed and used as an unfair advantage by the hunter.....even though the hunter didn't have a thing to do with it........I don't agree with how the law was interperted.....I was just reporting it. How are we suppose to know these things with the regs they give us.......

[huntnphool]

I knew I had seen this area and bee boxes before on this site, it was in Wea300 post. Now we know whos boxes got trashed

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,10873.0.html

[dasbear]

You would have absolutly been in the right to shoot that bear in the "act of depredation"of crops or personal property. Right now you're going to have to watch your back because I'm sure there is one very ticked off bee keeper that would have been thanking you will now have to hunt you down and feed you the north end of his north bound boot.

dasbear

[DeKuma]

Like it was his fault the keeper did not secure his boxes?
That makes no sense Dasbear??

[Wea300mag]

I agree, that doesn't make much sense dasbear???