some people can really piss me off

[topher]

Put up another stand 20ft from his overlooking his bait.

Y not just hunt from his stand?

[fishermccann]

The key words I see are " his" stand and "my" bear.

[greatwhite]

The key words I would use is the other hunter in unethical and lazy. He might be legal but that is all.

I stopped telling most new comers to hunting where there was crown land and where the borders of private are specificaly because of people with this type of attitude. I get many PM's asking if I would show peope where to hunt and park cars. I now turn them down. Specifically because of attitudes like yours.

The key words I see are " his" stand and "my" bear.

[fishermccann]

I have public land 200yds across from my dock. A hunter has baited bear there for a few years. He has shot 2 bears in 3 years. We can smell his barrel and watch vultures and crows circle over it daily. We do not walk the dog on that "public land" because of not wanting to ruin his set-up and the # of coyotes present. We have talked and he is OK about me using "his" area ,after he has gotten "his" bear. By the way he travels 50 miles to set up a couple of hundred yards from my front door. I do respect the work that he has put in , but I just wish he had done it a little further away.

[werner.reiche]

There's lots of crown land out there. Going where another hunter has setup goes beyond being rude, unethical and lazy - it gets borderline close with violating the "interfering with a hunt" law.

[fishermccann]

How close is too close? I can walk to this crown land, everyone else has to drive a distance to get there. If I started a bait 1 mile away, would that be far enough or would it still be "his" bear I am after?

[sawbill]

Get into the outfitting business and you'll soon get an eyeopener on the ethics of the local hunters.


All I could to do was hunt that bait soon as the season opened and take a bear before the other guy hunted his stand.
Then leave telltale signs that a bear had been taken.

[sawbill]

How close is too close? If I started a bait 1 mile away, would that be far enough or would it still be "his" bear I am after?

I guess you could say that the distance you choose would be directly proportional to depth of your own ethics.

[Greenhorn]

It happened to me on private property.Almost caught him one day. I'd move to another spot. I will not hunt near anybody.

[fishy steve]

I have public land 200yds across from my dock. A hunter has baited bear there for a few years. He has shot 2 bears in 3 years. We can smell his barrel and watch vultures and crows circle over it daily. We do not walk the dog on that "public land" because of not wanting to ruin his set-up and the # of coyotes present. We have talked and he is OK about me using "his" area ,after he has gotten "his" bear. By the way he travels 50 miles to set up a couple of hundred yards from my front door. I do respect the work that he has put in , but I just wish he had done it a little further away.

i wouldnt set up near a house thats a bit disrepectful in my books as well... bringing bears into a persons yard... where i am other than a few private parcels of land it is litterally miles of crown land all the way down to the northern boundary of alqonquin park... more atv trails than u could explore in a lifetime and this guy has to set up right beside me lol