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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: Ridgeratt on September 10, 2020, 01:40:43 PM

Title: Well fed bears. Just asking for a friend.
Post by: Ridgeratt on September 10, 2020, 01:40:43 PM: A lot of people in North Eastern Washington have been without power since Monday. Some of them don't have generators and have lost all the contents of their freezers. They are taking the stuff and dumping it in the woods.
So if you shoot a bear that is hanging around one of those piles are you an oppertunist. How would the baiting laws work on this?
Title: Re: Well fed bears. Just asking for a friend.
Post by: h20hunter on September 10, 2020, 01:42:13 PM: On paper, as you describe, it is illegal to hunt bears over bait.
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Post by: Bango skank on September 10, 2020, 01:45:36 PM: :yeah:

Doesnt matter that you didnt personally put it there. Im sure any game waden in the state would nail you to the wall.
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Post by: Buckmark on September 10, 2020, 01:47:28 PM: I thought most people in the NE had an old school bus buried that was a root cellar :chuckle:
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Post by: cb1989 on September 10, 2020, 01:48:58 PM: Sucks to lose a freezer full of food but hopefully they aren't dumping all the plastic and packaging along with the food. Though I suspect that's the case from the amount of plastic trash I find dumped along forest roads. Bad news for any animal that eats it, and just plain sh*tty
Title: Re: Well fed bears. Just asking for a friend.
Post by: Ridgeratt on September 10, 2020, 01:51:00 PM: Quote from: Buckmark on September 10, 2020, 01:47:28 PM
I thought most people in the NE had an old school bus buried that was a root cellar :chuckle:
No we pulled the motor and thats where we keep the coolers under the hood to keep the bears out.
I ended up loaning one of my generators to the neighbor. But another was busy trying to find one.

I'm guessing that this happened to quite a few people.
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Post by: Ghost Hunter on September 10, 2020, 02:27:13 PM: So, do I bring a freezer or extra generator?
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Post by: buckfvr on September 10, 2020, 02:32:31 PM: That would be the same people who dump all their garbage in the woods, never taking a thing to the land fill.
Title: Re: Well fed bears. Just asking for a friend.
Post by: Ridgeratt on September 10, 2020, 02:40:31 PM: If you had a couple to rent you could have paid for fuel.

Perhaps I should clarify my question. People went and dumped the contents of the freezer next to the road. You come wandering along and you see a bear. BANG now you have some work to do. But when you drive up to it you find a dump pile.

I wasn't advocating to sit and watch it.
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Post by: Ridgeratt on September 10, 2020, 08:27:22 PM: after 3 1/2 days got power restored around 10:30 am. Just lost it again and looks like maybe back around 5am.
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Post by: lewy on September 10, 2020, 08:44:05 PM: Buy a generator
Title: Re: Well fed bears. Just asking for a friend.
Post by: Ridgeratt on September 10, 2020, 09:11:58 PM: Quote from: lewy on September 10, 2020, 08:44:05 PM
Buy a generator

Have one running as I respond to this. Chief financial manager gave the green light for a whole house unit.
Watching the neighbors house flashlight waving all around. Went to check. They are OK. Just chasing down a frog.😂😂😂 apparently got in through the swamp cooler.

Is the reason for the flashlight
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Post by: dilleytech on September 15, 2020, 08:14:04 AM: I would get all the jars I could get my hands on and can some meat