Must be a bait station for bear?

[jackmaster]

I would just leave it alone and forget about it, if someone is baiting a bear so what. That's just my opinion, i think its a stupid law that doesn't make anysense.  People that bait generally get the big boars and don't usually end up shooting sows with cubs by mistake. I would just walk away.....

Just because you don't agree with a particular law, doesn't make a good reason to break it.
It's also a darn shame the amount of trash left in the woods by bear baiters.

not all baiters were slobs sako, i consider myself an expert when it comes to baiting, have done it my whole life, it was sad when we lost that privelage, i have always left the woods cleaner than i found it, as for trophy hunt not to many people have the passion for hunting as he does, like me sometimes what we think doesnt always come out right on a computer, from the looks of that bait station it probably belongs to  a timber company, and baiting is the most humane way to take a bear, i once ran into a bow hunter who shot a bear, he thought it was the biggest bear he ever saw, well i helped him find it, it turned out to be a brand new cub maybe 20 pounds, now had he been huntn over a bait, maybe that wouldnt have happened.

[cohoho]

Something I prided myself in also was a cleaner area than when I started.  The barrel and chains were the only objects not consumable and they had to be out of the woods by the end of the season.  In a couple areas I baited it was required you gave GPS coordinates and trust me AK Troopers would visit.  They would check everything from if there was fish remnants in the barrel, registration cards, to site clean up after wards.  The law up there was restrictive to the point of even contaminated dirt (grease) had to be removed at the end of the season.  Several areas required a mandatory Bear Baiting class in order to define the rules a bit further.  Again - it was a law that had to be followed in order to participate in the activity. 

[KopperBuck]

Really poked the hive and walked away - lol I've ran into a couple about 15-20 minutes from my house. Oh ya, they were in ID... My guess here. But we'll never know... 

[Bofire]

I lean towards a legal feeding station put out to keep the bears from peeling BUT it does not look like the ones I have seen before. The ones I saw fed pellets like Ralph Flowers said and they threw out a few every little while, not just a barrel of food with a hole in it.
Carl

[dscubame]

Really poked the hive and walked away - lol I've ran into a couple about 15-20 minutes from my house. Oh ya, they were in ID... My guess here. But we'll never know... 

I haven't walked anywhere Kopperbuck.  Figured it was a bait station just wanted to confirm.  I don't know anymore more so I have not had any comments on all the speculation, actually not all that concerned with all the rest.  Whoever it was also cut up the forest pretty good clearing the area and piling up brush / limbs and essentially cutting a clearing in the woods. 

[trophyhunt]

Something I prided myself in also was a cleaner area than when I started.  The barrel and chains were the only objects not consumable and they had to be out of the woods by the end of the season.  In a couple areas I baited it was required you gave GPS coordinates and trust me AK Troopers would visit.  They would check everything from if there was fish remnants in the barrel, registration cards, to site clean up after wards.  The law up there was restrictive to the point of even contaminated dirt (grease) had to be removed at the end of the season.  Several areas required a mandatory Bear Baiting class in order to define the rules a bit further.  Again - it was a law that had to be followed in order to participate in the activity.

It is all good, I 100% agree that it should be legalised again and a bait class is a great idea.  And the state should do a better job informing the voters if it ever does come up again. I personally changed one lady's mind at work (tree hugger to boot) when I had a chance to talk to her about it. Take care.

[rebal69972]

if the state would give someone that's knowledgeable a chance to talk about it i think it would change alot of minds. last year was my first time hunting bears and i almost shot the biggest bear i had ever saw. oh yeah it was the first time i ever saw 1, but something didn't seem right about it so i took a quick pic and left it be i showed a few guys the pic and they said it might have went 75 lbs just a cub thankfully i let it go. setting there i would have swore i was looking at a 150 lbs bear. i think being able to bait them would keep cubs from being killed from young and inexperienced hunters would at least give us a chance to see them alittle better and learn how to judge them.

[KopperBuck]

Really poked the hive and walked away - lol I've ran into a couple about 15-20 minutes from my house. Oh ya, they were in ID... My guess here. But we'll never know... 

I haven't walked anywhere Kopperbuck.  Figured it was a bait station just wanted to confirm.  I don't know anymore more so I have not had any comments on all the speculation, actually not all that concerned with all the rest.  Whoever it was also cut up the forest pretty good clearing the area and piling up brush / limbs and essentially cutting a clearing in the woods.

Good deal. Just tired of negative speculation. I thought it was bird house at first 

[DBHAWTHORNE]

All I can tell ya is to just do not go near one .. one time we were bow hunting and a buddy had apples out for deer and someone saw them and called the warden and long and behold as they went to check it their happened to be a bear on it .. they waited for him to come to the stand and ask him if he was baiting bear .. he said no but after they checked him they told him if you shoot the bear your be hunting illegal ... once the tree huggers hear of instances like this it will be the end of baiting deer too !!!!

When it comes to our freedom to bait deer it's not just the tree huggers we need to worry about but also fellow hunters who stand ready to give up our rights.

[iRem]

Oh man, I was wondering where I left that barrel!!

[Ripper]

I think most of us hunters are passionate about our ideas. This thread could have gotten real ugly. I'm glad everyone settled down and united again. We all have to stay united to keep the rights we do have. Job well done guys. I've rumors of the bait/hound law being overturned, but nothing concrete. With bears in schoolyards and housing developments on the news almost everyday, I'd something would be done!

[frostman]

Nice tag line Ripper. One of the best Priest tunes. Best heard live on "Unleashed in the East".

Nobody is stating the obvious here regarding outlawing baiting and hound hunting (as we all know, the most effective means of control over wild carnivorous animals); this state has been under liberal democrat rule for over 30 f*%*&%ing years. Liberlaism is a mental disorder and must be stopped VERY SOON! Right is wrong and wrong is right with these insane liberal's

[brew]

not trying to get real technical but it you look at RCW 77.15.245 it talks about baiting bears.  The language it uses talks about "harass" and "persue", not only to hunt, - and if you look at those definitions i wouldn't want to be there trying to explain to a judge my reasonings for putting out any kind of attractant even if it was to only photograph bears.  On a side note of just how convoluted our game regs are I am a hunter education instructor and part of our class is to have a local Game Warden come in and talk to the students about the hunting regulations.  I won't name any names but last year two officers showed up to one class and the discussion turned to a "loaded" firearm.  One of the officers actually said that he would write you a ticket for a loaded firearm if you had attached to your rifle one of those neopreme sleeves that fit around the stock of your gun that held extra rounds.  they both got into a big argument so it just shows that the laws are severely subject to interpretation.  I'm not trying to say whats right or wrong just remember that someone out there is judging your actions.

[KopperBuck]

I call bullchit. Names or quit stirring the pot. Garbage post.

[huntnfmly]

Nice tag line Ripper. One of the best Priest tunes. Best heard live on "Unleashed in the East".

:yeah:in fact i got to get that song on my phone